Good to know, thanks!

Executives at these companies say the moves boost collaboration and productivity.

[x] Doubt

It doesn’t even need to be something serious like politics. Console wars, sports teams, or just a TV show that rubs some group the wrong way.

Certain dipshits do this with every post that mentions “AI,” which has been a problem when trying to discuss it in any form, including random machine learning topics, how to selfhost, compsci videos about how the algorithms work, etc etc etc.

lol props for admitting you work at BK, I worked at two on two different coasts back in the day. The east coast one was rated the worst BK in the state by internal metrics when I worked there.

People in ths thread and others think we are trying to rot brains of lemmys

I’ve always perceived this as both a very weak and insulting argument for defederation or whatever drama people wheel it out for. It was used a lot in various Mastodon defederation dramas.

Like, you (purveyor of said argument) really think your own homies are that weak-minded that mere exposure to right-wing posts will some how turn them into zombie rightoids? You think I’m that weak? And that’s the reason for defederating or bullying them or whatever? Fuck off.

lemmy.world is the lowest common denominator, fresh-off-reddit instance. people posting “this is the way” and bringing a glossary of logical fallacies to an adult conversation and thinking they’re clever.

I don’t participate in a single community hosted on that instance, and I feel it’s improved my experience. some instances block .world because it’s such a fountain of drivel. ymmv.

lol, I just came here for the first time to post a D4A video I just watched, good to see another one already in the scroll!

I had the same thought. They should have called it a “lonely black hole” or similar.

I sure hope most of those new chimney roosts aren’t being used for exhaust yet…

If you’d bothered to watch the video, you’d have noted that all the incidents in question involved batteries (4) or vehicles (1) being hauled in closed trailers, and that it was specifically about the issue of first responders being called to random trailer fires and having sub-optimal information that Li-ion batteries are involved.

Also, Li-ion battery fires are often harder to put out than liquid fuel fires, take more resources to manage, and have a vastly higher chance of reignition.

I’m very interested in electric vehicles and would love to own one (F150 Lightning house on wheels), but attempting to sugarcoat these facts will get people killed.

Interest increasing!

FWIW I’ve only noticed one or two instances where it was down for what seemed like a day or so, but I only ramped up my threadiverse use in maybe the past 6 weeks.

My guess is that whoever runs the instance doesn’t actually use it personally, so they don’t really notice when stuff breaks.

And yeah, the minimal defederation policy was a big selling point.

Hrm, I wonder if I can do that with Akkoma 🤔

I quit reddit quite a while ago now, but I noticed over the past ~18 months or so when I would go slumming and poke around, r/DrugNerds has been almost entirely taken over by posts about recreational & nootropic drugs. I have absolutely nothing against discussing those - I wait with bated breath for new kratom research, for instance - but I like learning about all kinds of drugs, and wanted a place to post links when I’m doing a little light pharma reading for funsies, so … now we have this community :)

Yeah, somebody eventually fixes stuff if people complain in !sdfpubnix@lemmy.sdf.org but never responds to any of the threads in there … weird.

I did just create a new community there today to scratch a personal itch, and there are a couple fairly active communities hosted there, so … guess we’ll see. SDF.org has been around since before HTTP was invented, so the organization isn’t going anywhere. I’m a little less sure about the Lemmy instance.

I haven’t written a lick of code in years, so I figure it might be good to start where I have some familiarity … and I would prefer Python over PHP in that case, those being my two best-known languages!

Wow, this is super cool to hear, thank you!

What’s interesting about this one is that they were trying to optimize binding at the site in the bacterial ribosome where florfenicol is known to bind, and indeed improved it, but in doing so appear to have stumbled upon an additional mode of action, by binding to a protein called arcB which is critical for aspects of arginine metabolism in many bacteria, arginine metabolism being very important for many normal cell functions. Arginine metabolism may play a role in maintenance of the bacterial cell membrane, and the bacteria did seem to be leaking their contents into the environment at a higher rate after application of the compound, among other effects.

My interpretation here, but the fact that this compound is active at both the same site as the compound it was based on, and an entirely different site which also happens to be critical to bacterial metabolism, makes it very interesting from a drug resistance perspective, because a given strain of bacteria would potentially need more adaptations to successfully resist the drug than to resist a drug which is only active at one site.

Useful info, thank you. Once in a great while I have outages of a week or a little more, usually because something breaks when I just can’t rally the resources to fix it right away. Ideally this would never happen on infrastructure used to run an instance, but my hope is that various fedi platforms will be resilient to downtime on the order of 7-14 days before they entirely give up. I think it would be helpful to small and/or broke instance operators, and I would like a fedi with lots of little instances. :)

Some downtime recently, and recurrent issues accepting media uploads. The Lemmy instance is a bit sickly and so far it’s been difficult for them to fix.