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Retired navy SEAL, ultramaraton runner, former pull-ups world record holder with a traumatic past. A community of people inspired by him to defy the odds and savour the prize of good health, self-esteem, and inner silence.

https://lemm.ee/c/DavidGoggins /c/DavidGoggins@lemm.ee.com !DavidGoggins@lemm.ee.com

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Parliamo di donne e rapporti di potere, di eguaglianza ed ingiustizia, in modo pacifico e in italiano. Dalle donne per le donne, con una sfumatura radfem (femminismo radicale).

https://lemm.ee/c/Femminismo !Femminismo@lemm.ee.com /c/Femminismo@lemm.ee.com

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Discussion on the safety problem of aligning AI goals to human goals. Not affiliated with but inspired by r/ControlProblem.

https://lemm.ee/c/ControlProblem

!ControlProblem@lemm.ee.com /c/ControlProblem@lemm.ee.com

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Peaceful women only space, not affiliated with but inspired by r/fourthwavewomen and r/4bmovement.

https://lemm.ee/c/RadicalFeminism

/c/RadicalFeminism@lemm.ee.com !RadicalFeminism@lemm.ee.com

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I play a lot of windowed games on my PC as I watch less engaging content like TV I've seen, Youtube. Lately Balatro, Peglin, a racing game called art of rally, Mini Motorways. Interested to hear other people's preferences. I generally want something that runs well windowed because I use a third of my ultrawide to run the video, so no shooters or "big" games usually.

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Collapse discussion in Italian and from an Italian perspective.

Collapse is the simplification or fall of civilization on a global scale (if maybe at different times) that some expect to happen in our lifetimes due to the polycrisis (involving ecological, social, political, cultural, technological aspects)

https://lemm.ee/c/Collasso

/c/Collasso@lemm.ee.com !Collasso@lemm.ee.com

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I soldered the Schmidt trigger onto a BoB then bodged it onto the HMI board using 0.3mm bodge wire. The controller is an ESP32 and I was having trouble with the hardware interrupts because the RC debounce I was using was too slow. The Schmidt trigger gives me a nice, square signal which the controller interprets properly. The chip cost me a couple of bucks from Digikey.

Here's the best RC trace I could get.

and here's the trace with the Schmidt trigger (same scope settings.)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/32142037

XFX RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT pricing leaked

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Let me start by saying that I think that Fediverse communities with open registration are also really important. But the topic of this point is to grow Fediverse communities organically using invite codes.

Alright but... why?

While there are some remaining technical and convenience issues, one of the biggest hurdles preventing the Fediverse from growing is onboarding.

Personally I think that picking a server really shouldn't be any harder than picking a pair of socks to wear, but ultimately I think a big part of the problem is that we are offering new users a big list of options that they don't yet understand or care about, then asking them to arbitrarily pick one.

How is a new user supposed to know which server to join (or which ones to avoid) if they don't know anything about how the fediverse works?

Sure they could put in the time and effort to do some research or register for a bunch of different servers to get a feel for them. But many potential newcomers aren't going to do that. Instead, they're more likely going to just decide that the Fediverse is "too complicated" and return to their safe, centralized, familiar and established platforms, run by corporations and oligarchs.

Willy Wonka's Golden Ticket

I think one roundabout way to address this problem is somewhat counter-intuitive: the creation of more closed-off servers, in which users are occasionally given sharable invite codes to bring other new users into the fold.

By giving someone an invite code to a closed-registration fediverse community you are:

  • Instantly solving the server choice paralysis problem, by simply making the choice for them.
  • Giving people something that they are more likely to perceive as being valuable, they feel that they are part of an exclusive club.
  • Creating the possibility of exponential viral growth, as every existing user has the means to invite a number of other users. This also means that the average community member may take a more active role in growing their community, since if they want more people on their server the best way to do that is by giving out codes.

This is no small part of how Bluesky became popular, by having an extended invite-only beta period during which people could be found begging for invite codes else on the internet.

Basically, I think closed-off servers with viral invitation systems are potentially a powerful tool to help grow the Fediverse, and so it's something that Fediverse software should support.

What do you think?

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The contract, announced by the Space Systems Command Feb. 13, is for a mission dubbed Victus Sol that will utilize Firefly’s Alpha rocket. The launch is part of the Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS) program, which aims to demonstrate the Space Force’s capability to rapidly deploy satellites during national security emergencies.

Details about the payload, mission objectives, and launch timeline are not being disclosed, according to a Space Safari spokesperson. Space Safari, the New Mexico-based office managing the TacRS program, operates under the Space Systems Command.

“This mission will provide the operational capability to have a launch vehicle and space vehicle on standby while we continue to launch other commercial and government missions until we’re called up by the Space Force,” said Firefly CEO Jason Kim.

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This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/UpTheRiffLad on 2025-02-16 03:35:32+00:00.

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This is less a structured 'professional' essay and more just me unwinding by way of spitballing.

I hadn't really made the connections at the time, but after getting back into battletech to a degree (I was an enthusiastic young sprog. then when the clans got front and center I bailed because I just plain HATED the clans.)

I had long known that Earthsiege was a result of dynamix basically having an engine but either failing to secure or failing to keep the rights to produce licensed battletech/mechwarrior content.

Then recently I went re-reading some of the Starsiege/Tribes lore documents and... the whole thing struck me wit ha case of deja vu concerning Battletech. Sure fine there isn't Lostech as such, and there is no space-ATT/Comcast, but the whole thing feels very... inner sphere politics, with the Wilderzone/Tribes being perriphery states.

More to the point, given the timelines? It wouldn't surprise me if the guys punching up the documents for the Tribes part of the lore were DEEPLY unhappy with how cartoonishly DUMB the battletech clans are from a societal perspective and went 'No. That's stupid. These PEOPLE are stupid with their wholesale mockingly aping new age totamec animal nonsense and doing it BADLY.... All to justify a society that basically only functions because the writer said fuck you I want to jack off to how awesome the space wolves are because even when they lose they actually win.

Meanwhile the Tribes documentation and lroe basically have the tribes 'winning' in skermish fighting and then mostly because the Empire is too busy fighting for its life, and the things that hit the tribes were a 'here we need supplies, go ... see what you can scrounge' attack. I'm talking 'these guys literally exist because the better equipped better organized force can't be bothered' rather than 'these under equipped goons win because the narritive says so.'

And even then it isn't a total 'take that' at Battletech Clans. There's a sort of respect from the empire or at least those that have to share border space and attempts at taking the concept of power armor and going 'hey maybe we can do something with that' rather than 'look how stupid they are.'

Then you have the firetruce. Aka Space Olympics. See this is the kind of thing that I love because it isn't just martial wankery. It's if your family had someone that did well, you are expected to know that story and be able to tell it WELL to keep that history alive. These aren't all jacked up warrriors gene crafted for war. Theyre... people who largely want to do their own thing out in space and the guys in power armor are a very VANISHINGLY small percentage of the population.

I kinda wish actual books were written in the verse, because. Put bluntly. I find it more interesting than the clan wars, the word of blake, and the current il-clan era (where the f'ing clans, from space bumfuckistaan with overly streached supply lines... WON against the people and everything that outnumbers them about ... oh.... a thousand to one.)

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This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/nosleep by /u/CyclopianSloth on 2025-02-15 15:51:58+00:00.


I guess I should start at the beginning. Years ago I lost use of my eye. It just blew up and stopped working right. Sort of rolls to the side and only saw distorted images. Slowly, over time, the distorted images turned darker and darker. Recently my eye just winked out. Total darkness. I've always worn an eye patch. This morning I was standing in my yard in the blowing snow and I took the patch off to rub my eye. I fluttered the lid for a second and looked around and, this freaks me out, I saw it. Just it at first. Only one. In the blindness there was this glowing thing. It was big, like about as tall as my garage. It had these moving, waving tentacles, lots of them. Each tentacle had an eye. It was walking, slithering, maybe oozing around the corner of where I think my garage is. Those tentacles were looking everywhere. It had six legs, hands, paws? Not sure. It seemed to stand on four and two were holding something. Spindly, sharp and squishy looking all at once. It had hair, but it was dripping ooze, each foot hand thing had curled dirty claws. I didn't scream, oh I wanted to but didn't. My breath came in sharp and I did jump back. All those tentacle eyes whipped in my direction. Under those eyes I saw light blue foam begin to drip. Drool? I fumble, my hands are shaking and cold but I slip my patch back on as fast as I could. Then turned to look at the creature. Nothing. My good eye sees snow, garage, my house. In order to get to my house I have to go by the garage. There was nothing there, right? Just some dead eye phantom. Not some impossible thing. I ran past the garage, up my stairs, sliding, stumbling, in the door, locked it, then just shook. Composing myself, I poured a cup of coffee and took my winter coat off.

I should have let it go. Why didn't I just let it freaking go! I convinced myself it was some wacky fluke but I still walked over to the window. I had to see it wasn't there, right? So, I lifted up my patch and looked. There were tentacle pressed up against the glass! I counted 8, at least, they were squirming and waving in the wind. There was foamy blue dripping down the glass. Something caught my attention and I looked over to the street. There are more of them coming. So many more. Some with eight legs, some with two. Some with more fur, or scales, or extra tentacles. Each one a little different. Each one a walking, slithering sprinting nightmare!

I sat under my kitchen table with my tablet and my coffee for awhile.  Every curtain is closed tight. I was afraid to move, afraid to look again, afraid not to.

Eventually I crawled out from under the table and decided this must just be a fleeting burst of crazy. Impossible things certainly aren't possible, right. Deciding maybe I was just tired I got a snack and put some true crime on the telly to relax. A little snack, a little nap, I woke up feeling so much better. Maybe that was a dream? Sitting up from my nap I looked around. My patch had slipped off while I was sleeping. I didn't realize that when I opened my eyes. I scanned the room, just me. No monsters. See, just a silly nightmare.

I took my patch off, absently tightening the cord as I walked down the hall to the bathroom. Turns out when I closed all those curtains, I forgot one. I looked out. It wasn't just a nightmare. Most of the crowd had wandered, skittered,oozed away, but a few were still out there. They didn't see me see them and seemed to have lost interest in me. Just wandering around doing whatever it is monsters do for fun. It looked like they were gathering things. Soil samples, snow, an old rusty bit of fencing. Why? What are these things? Have they always been here? I have a blind friend who almost never leaves her house. Does she see them? Or maybe, I'm just crazy?

Sooner or later I'm going to have to go outside. I slipped my patch back on but not before I noticed a slight glow, a slight movement, from the other room. I think one of them may be in the house but honestly I'm afraid to look. Maybe if it doesn't think I've seen it, I'm safe? This is freaking me out. I have to know. Just one quick peek, what can that hurt?

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39201507

Rush crushed Rochester tonight!

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