I’ve seen a variety of people running stats dashboards of various sorts. Some spring up, others go down. A couple:

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats

https://piefed.fediverse.observer/stats

https://lestat.org/ doesn’t have all instances, but can be a useful dashboard for major instances.

EDIT: Lemmyverse.net walks the Threadiverse to update its index and gathers various interesting types of information:

https://lemmyverse.net/inspect

https://lemmyverse.net/inspect/version-chart

They also let you download their data, if you want to do your own analysis.

EDIT2: https://fedidb.com/

If you can use Termux, you can use the command-line lftp, which supports SFTP; I use this on Linux, so I’m familiar with it.

$ pkg install lftp
$ lftp sftp://foo.com

I also use rsync in Termux after being exasperated over the lack of a reasonable F-Droid graphical client for that.

I wound up using some non-open-source graphical SCP or SFTP client out of the Google Play Store using Aurora Store’s anonymous login at one point, which worked but wasn’t what I wanted to use.

But it’s not even overwhelming politics (though I can understand people being tired of politics, as a separate concern). I’m pretty sure that @LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net or @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com or a few other users I’ve run into could probably carry on a constructive discussion about left-wing politics. I occasionally see, on !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works, good-faith, well-meaning left-wing users who are actually trying to go talk about left-wing issues on lemmygrad.ml or lemmy.ml and are off trying to have a serious conversation. Usually auth-left-versus-non-auth-left, but that’s just what gets submitted to MeanwhileOnGrad, and I imagine that there is probably other conversation elsewhere. It’s just that the “capitalism bad” comments that I’m talking about aren’t from those users and don’t fall into that category. They’re just the largest source of low-effort comment stuff that I see.

Relative to Reddit, probably the number of users. More users means more posts, more comments, more expertise on various areas, and more niche communities that become viable.

Somewhere down the list:

• Extremely determined negativity. There are a lot of…I don’t know how to describe it. People who actively try to take the absolute, most utterly-pessimistic read on anything possible, to the point of having to make crazy assumptions to keep some kind of negative perspective on the thing. I don’t know if it’s people suffering from depression — which I understand can produce that effect — or doomerism or what, but it’s exasperating. I haven’t run into that sort of phenomenon, certainly not to anything like that degree, on other social media environments that I’ve used.

• The low-effort “capitalism bad” venting comments. I’m not really into far-left views, but that’s not what irks me. I’ve seen people on here who you can at least talk to about left-wing positions. Like, some random user who is interested in, I don’t know, adopting universal basic income and wants to talk about different proposals. But about 99% of the comments I see that contain the word “capitalism” don’t amount to that. They’re just venting. They aren’t constructive. They don’t reference any material. They aren’t proposing any improvement or ideas or anything. All they want to do is to vent. I mean, it’s like someone wanting to complain about their ex or how their sports team lost or something like that. And not only that, but a substantial percentage of those comments are complaining about something that has little to do with capitalism. Instead, it’s virtually anything to do with the political or economic world that they don’t like relative to some sort of idealized paradigm that they hold. You could use that “everything I don’t like is woke” meme about the right, swap “woke” and “capitalism”, and I swear, it’d apply to a lot of the comments. And I get that, yeah, one purpose of talking to people is to vent, and so you’d expect that occasionally when people talk to each other, sometimes they’re gonna vent. That’s human nature. But holy cow, as low-effort venting goes, the “capitalism bad” comments show up as a high proportion here.

  Occasionally I do talk about things, write larger comments about communal ownership. Like…okay, I know that on at least a couple of occasions, I’ve talked about the fact you’ve had communal ownership work at small scale, like families, say, or that there have been smaller organizations that have practiced communal ownership of property, and that maybe it’d be interesting to try working up in scale from smaller organizations to try and identify where any issues might crop up. And I have never had anyone actually respond with discussion when I do write something like that. No engagement. Like, it’s not as if people have some raging unmet desire to talk about any of that. They just want to complain.

  I don’t even see people who are writing “capitalism bad” comments engage in discussion with each other. Like, this isn’t Marx and a bunch of activists in a London cafe throwing around ideas with each other. It’s just one-off complaints, leaf comments in the thread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khamenei_family

Assuming that Mojtaba Khamenei meets with an untimely demise in the near future, apparently there are two other sons after this: Mostafa Khamenei and Masoud Khamenei.

Fair enough.

Going off:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/7f0896b7-0026-4651-8aef-d3a02f569927.png

And Trump’s still got almost three-quarters of his second term to go.

Number,Name,Assassination Attempts
7,Andrew Jackson,1
16,Abraham Lincoln,5
20,James A. Garfield,1
25,William McKinley,1
26,Theodore Roosevelt,1
27,William Howard Taft,2
31,Herbert Hoover,1
32,Franklin D. Roosevelt,1
33,Harry S. Truman,2
35,John F. Kennedy,2
37,Richard Nixon,2
38,Gerald Ford,3
40,Ronald Reagan,1
41,George H. W. Bush,1
42,Bill Clinton,5
43,George W. Bush,2
44,Barack Obama,13
45,Donald Trump,16
46,Joe Biden,2

if (!require("pacman")) install.packages("pacman")
  pacman::p_load(
              ggdark,
              ggplot2
          )

  df <- read.csv("assassination-attempts.csv")

  ggplot() +
      aes(x=Number, y=df$Assassination.Attempts) +
      dark_theme_light() +
      geom_col(data=df) +
      geom_text(aes(x=df$Number,label=df$Name,angle=90,y=.1,hjust=0)) +
      labs(x="Presidential Number", y="Number of Assassination Attempts")

  ggsave("assassination-attempts.png",
         plot=last_plot(),
         width=16,
         height=9,
         type="cairo-png",
         dpi="retina")

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I mean, it’s politicking.

There is a segment of the population that considers Trump to sound authentic, not pretentious, academic, or egg-heady. He sounds like the people they talk to.

What I’m less concerned about is Trump in particular doing it and more about it becoming the new norm. If politicians decide that it works, the world might see a lot more insults, dishonesty, and such.

My hope was “Trump leaves office, this gets toned down”. But…it might not. And it might spread to other places, if they find that it works in the US.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/09/democrats-tone-cursing-casual-trump/

Democrats try a new tone: Less scripted, more cursing, Trumpier insults

Party leaders are swearing more, recording more direct-to-camera videos and trying to project an authenticity many voters have come to associate with Trump.

There are gentler forms of this. For example, I remember an interview with a senior British translator (this was pre-Brexit) working at the European Commission who said that they’d made a conscious decision not to codify an “EU English”, because they were concerned about the political impact of European Union politicians sounding different from the public — more distant, elite. “Sound like the people who you want votes from” isn’t new. But…I’d hoped that we could keep a higher bar than something like Trump’s stuff.

But, well, we live in a new era in terms of media, where social media is how a lot of people communicate. It’s gonna have effects. Fifty years from now, I suppose we’ll see what norms have been established.

Do any of you expect that there’s going to be substantial drops in RAM prices within the next year?

I would not bet on prices dropping substantially in 2026. I don’t have the ability to first-hand assess the situation, but what I’ve seen from articles suggests that you’re most-likely looking at sometime in 2028 before memory prices start really coming down.

I am confident that memory prices will come down. From what I’ve read, it (normally) takes about 4-5 years to build a new factory from scratch. That’s probably an outer bound, since as long as memory manufacturers can get capital (which hasn’t been a problem; lots of companies want to give them money for memory), they can build out production.

Micron announced a second facility in Boise, Idaho in mid-2025, and said that it would start producing in 2027 (though from what I’ve read, it normally takes additional time to come up to scale).

https://boisedev.com/news/2025/06/12/micron-boise-second/

The company said production output is scheduled to start in 2027.

If you use that as as a baseline, maybe three-ish years if a company can build where they already have facilities.

What you might do is, if you have four DIMM slots and can live with just upgrading two, just upgrade two. Then in 2028 or whenever, upgrade the other two slots.

I’d also add that prices probably won’t get down quite as low as they were about a year or so back, because memory manufacturers were losing money then (well, unless cost of production drops, which does happen to some degree over time).

Also, there’s going to be a lot of pent-up demand by that time, so I’d guess that prices will more-likely come down slowly than quickly. A bunch of businesses will have extended their upgrade cycle, and they’re going to want new hardware. Various hardware devices that may be deferred (maybe the Steam Machine 2, for example) will start being manufactured. Individuals are going to want to do upgrades that they’ve been waiting in exasperation to do, just like you. So I’d expect prices to slowly walk down, with people willing to pay more getting an earlier spot in the line.

Are there scenarios where they come down quickly in 2026? Well…major wars/disasters/etc that cause demand to drop more than supply. If everyone in the AI industry decides that the future is down some path other than needing a lot of HBM (which I don’t think is going to happen in 2026, though maybe it’ll happen down the road). If investors by-and-large decide that AI providing major returns is all way, way out much further than expected, and that more research needs to be funded before memory purchases do, which I wouldn’t bet on. I can’t think of many ways in which demand for DRAM would suddenly unexpectedly collapse or supply suddenly unexpectedly explode.

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He just wants to appeal to the collection of people who do like that sort of thing being said.

I remember an incident a bit back where the White House Press Secretary said “your mom” to a journalist’s question, followed up by Trump’s communications director saying the same thing. Those are not people who are going to let that idly slip, much less at the same time — their full-time job is using speech to politically influence people.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/karoline-leavitt-trump-putin-meeting-budapest-b2847669.html

Trump announced Thursday that he will soon meet with Putin in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine. The choice has raised questions, because Putin is wanted by the International Criminal Court. However, Hungary appears unlikely to cooperate with the warrant and is in the process of leaving the court, the Associated Press reports.

When HuffPost asked the White House who chose the location for the meeting, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt replied, “Your mom did.” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung also followed up with, “Your mom,” the outlet reports.

It won’t be targeting the race in particular. They’ve been jamming GPS since the war in Ukraine kicked off, so all sorts of things near Russia have been having problems. I’ve seen a number of articles talking about problems that aircraft near the Baltic states had, for example.

millionaire communes

It’s not as exotic a status as it once was. About ten percent of America is composed of millionaires.

https://apnews.com/article/wealth-retirement-millionaire-stocks-homes-inflation-8bc8bf04552feac2625afd6752faa29e

Inflation, ballooning home values and a decades-long push into stock markets by average investors have lifted millions into millionairehood. A June report from Swiss bank UBS found about one-tenth of American adults are members of the seven-digit club, with 1,000 freshly minted millionaires added daily last year.

Neural net computation has predictable access patterns, so instead of using the thing as a random access memory with latency incurred by waiting for the bit you want to get around to you, I expect that you can load the memory appropriately such that you always have the appropriate bit showing up at the time you need it. I’d guess that it probably needs something like the ability to buffer a small amount of data to get and keep multiple fiber coils in synch due to thermal expansion.

The Hacker’s Jargon File has an anecdote about doing something akin to that with drum memory, “The Story of Mel”.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html

but there’s just far less of them.

Isn’t the reason that there are fewer of them because the gray squirrels showed up, were bigger and stronger and outcompeted them for territory? If the gray squirrel hadn’t been introduced, and assuming that the limiting factor was food, then I’d think that there’d be about as many red squirrels as there are gray squirrels in our timeline.

I’m assuming that the point is the bandwidth.

goes looking for HBM bandwidth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Bandwidth_Memory

It says that HBM 4, which came out one year ago, can do 2 TiB/s.

A little bit, but normally Token Ring didn’t just keep data running around in a circle on and on — Token Ring works more like a roundabout, where you enter at a given computer on the ring and then exit at another device. Without looking, I suspect that, like Internet Protocol packets, Token Ring probably had a TTL (time-to-live) field in its frames to keep a mis-addressed packet from forever running around in circles.

Also, I’m assuming that an implementation of Carmack’s idea would have only one…I don’t know the right term, might be “repeater”. You need to have some device to receive the data and then retransmit them to keep the signal strong and from spreading out. You wouldn’t want to have a ton of those, because otherwise it’d add cost. On Token Ring, you’d have a bunch of transceivers, to have a bunch of “exits”, since the whole point is to move data from one device to another.

Creating workable consumer-grade alternatives

I think that this is intended not to replace DIMMs in PCs, but to replace HBM for AI use. If you’re doing neural net computation, you have very predictable access patterns, so you can store your edge weights such that the desired data is showing up at just the right time.

Note that this is from last month, though I haven’t seen it submitted.