Since coming to lemmy I will browse all vs local and top by day. There is a solid amount of AI generated porn that has many votes in a 24 hour period....
Even in its prime, Tumblr was never profitable. It was sold and resold to several companies who never had a clear vision for what to do with it, other than run ads to generate revenue. Its main draw was its users. For several years it was the social media platform for LGBTQ and fandoms, along with many niche interests....
What are cis and trans alternate types of? I don’t think it’s “gender identity” because wouldn’t that just be man, woman or nonbinary regardless of whether they’re cis or trans? Cis/trans just being a qualifier?...
Nope. They don’t even check your chromosomes when you’re born. There are also many possible genital configurations at birth. Odd that we don’t treat every one of those possibilities uniquely and instead force them to get surgery so the doctor can assign a gender to them. You’d think if it was all basic biology we would just have a unique gender for every one wouldn’t you?
There are also many, many more possible configurations of your chromosomes than half a dozen lol. You can also have XY and be assigned female at birth. And vice versa.
Your doctor is assigning you a gender. Thats what he’s doing. He calls you either a boy or a girl based on your genital configuration and then as I said in my previous comment that assigned gender goes on to affect every single aspect of your life for the rest of your life.
You don’t seem to know what we’re even talking about. Sex is not binary and is not enshrined in biology. If we wanted to talk about biology, if the point was biology, if the doctor assigning genders to babies primary concern was biology, then he would assign a unique gender to every single possible genital configuration at birth. All of them would be unique. Instead he’s assigning you a gender so that society can treat you a certain way. It’s that simple.
Buckle up, folks, because we’re diving back into the frontlines of Russian politics. And let me tell you, it’s wilder than a vodka-fueled bear wrestling match....
For the entirety of my writing life, Cormac McCarthy has been a mountain. Some of the novelists of my generation found the mountain beautiful; others found it oppressive. But virtually all of us, whatever our position or attitude, existed in its shade....
That does seem odd. It doesn’t have to be a “console” distro like ChimeraOS, but maybe an Arch derivative like Manjaro would have been more appropriate. (I don’t know many gaming-focused distros tbh)
"We won’t be collecting your saved passwords, passkeys, usernames, and any URLs associated with your items. Your private information is just that – private....
Yeah this is what I don’t get. They already hold your most precious secrets and now you don’t trust them with a telemetry system?! Seems an odd order of concerns to me.
I’m making my way through DS9 for the first time (almost finished with season two). For reference, I’ve seen TOG, TNG, all the new movies, Discovery, Lower Decks, and SNW. DS9 season one was a little slow to pick up, but my husband and I are loving season two. As always, Star Trek addresses a lot of hard hitting issues in...
I know I’ve already replied to you but I came across this short interview with the actress that played Dr.Crusher in TNG and why she was fired from the show then came back: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYsemEvV3-Y Oddly on point to what we’re talking about here.
So I am thinking about hosting a Futurama party for the new season premiere. I want to have Futurama theme food and drinks. First thing that comes to my head is Popplers (popcorn chicken or shrimp) and the Slurm recipe I found here https://www.theflavorbender.com/homemade-slurm-drink-futurama/. What other food/drink ideas do you...
Yes, I know that it still exist, and yes, decentralized currency which utilizes distributed, cryptographic validation is not actually a strictly bad idea, but…...
Who is surprised by this? She’s xenophobic and racist. This is the same “Law and Order” nonsense as in the USA. Look at who is the primary target of this legislation to get an idea of her real intentions.
Suella Braverman has said people who enter the UK illegally after crossing the Channel on small boats “possess values which are at odds with our country” as well as “heightened levels of criminality”.^1
She’s not wrong that the people coming over likely do have values which are at odds with hers and those in power: these people are coming over to better their lives, which is something those in power absolutely do not have as a goal.
Last year, the UK agreed to send tens of thousands of people more than 4,000 miles (6,400km) away to Rwanda as part of a 120-million-pound ($146m) deal.^3
Mind you, she’s also a hypocrite who definitely understands what she’s doing:
In her maiden speech, she recalled how her father, Christie Fernandes, had fled tensions in Kenya to seek a new life in the UK. “On a cold February morning in 1968, a young man, not yet 21, stepped off a plane at Heathrow airport, nervously folding away his one-way ticket from Kenya. He had no family, no friends and was clutching only his most valuable possession, his British passport. His homeland was in political turmoil,” she said.^4
How can you believe that her actions here are for the greater good, when she repeatedly proves she’s not able to do good things? How can you not believe that this is yet another angle in her policy push that disproportionately hurts the already disadvantaged.
These sorts of quasi-legal police stops are already used to enforce “pre-crime”: simply being caught with rope, or spray paint, or various other items is in itself enough to be detained and questioned for an extended period of time, if not charged. These are violations of rights, plain and simple, and yet instead of correcting them, people like Braverman are pushing to make them more defensible within the existing legal framework.
I subconsciously felt that this “lemmy.world” instance was for those with at least a smidgeon of programming knowledge. Otherwise the name just seems odd.
It seems so odd too because if I didn’t know better, I’d assume “Full or Top Grain” was lower quality than “Genuine Leather” just by how the phrases sound.
So Podman is an open source container engine like Docker—with “full”^1^ Docker compatibility. IMO Podman’s main benefit over Docker is security. But how is it more secure? Keep reading…...
Honestly, I had to use podman at work due to… issues.
Its close enough to docker, that most docker commands will work just fine. You can even alias docker as podman, and things will for the most part, just work.
HOWEVER, there are some big changes and difference. First- podmon creates a systemctl for your containers, for starting them. This- is different, and if you forget to tell it to create the service- then your containers won’t start.
My personal opinion after using it for a few years? I strongly prefer docker. It gives me very few issues. I have spent too much time troubleshooting odd things podman does.
I mean there's Reddit ofc, as well as Twitter in its entirety, Discord is implementing some dumb updates, there are issues with Tumblr as well as everything to do with Meta, and I'm sure there are plenty more (and I haven't even touched other digital media, for example the Sims). Why is it all happening in the span of about a...
This kind of slow degredation of services is quite normal, however, this time around the wider use of these degrading platforms is hitting harder. Even 5 years ago, most communities had an IRC rather than a discord, and most ran a forum, or a community forum, with other info being on a wiki.
These days a lot of content that used to sit on a forum now sits on twitter, or on reddit. Discord is the new IRC, and so on. These separate services were a lot less convenient, but more resilient.
Odds are, we might see similar smaller communities pop up again as things get worse in the larger ones. Folks are pinched for cash at the moment, and so free services like neocities might see a boom as fandoms abandon larger sites (again).
Odds are you can just send a “null” key instead of “.” And it will still work just as well without actually typing anything. I used to do the same thing to keep an application active at my old job. It was nice because even when it was active I could still use the computer like normal without stopping the script.
While it’s nice to know about electrons, up quarks, and down quarks, there are a lot of weird numbers to remember about them. Imagine how scientists felt, then, when they found out that there are more than a hundred more particles to learn the numbers for! It’s too complicated to memorize all that stuff, and it doesn’t explain anything. What we need are easy-to-remember patterns. That’s what The Standard Model gives us.
Elementary Fermions
We’ll start with the patterns for elementary fermions. Elementary fermions are the particles that are good for making stuff. We’ll worry about the other particles, the elementary bosons, later.
The standard model says that we can describe fermions using a mathematical idea called U(1)×SU(2)×SU(3). The “U(1)” part tells us that every fermion has a hypercharge, the “SU(2)” part tells us that every fermion has an isospin, and the “SU(3)” part tells us that every fermion has a color. So now you know why we were talking about hypercharge, isospin, and color. But what’s more interesting is that U(1)×SU(2)×SU(3) is a subgroup of SU(5),[^2] which is a fancy math way of saying that you can pick a fermion and know nearly everything about it by answering five yes/no questions. Here are the five questions:
It the fermion isospin up? (Worth +1 hypercharge and +1/2 isospin, which means +1 charge.)
It the fermion isospin down? (Worth +1 hypercharge and -1/2 isospin, which means no change in charge.)
It the fermion red? (Worth -2/3 hypercharge, which means -1/3 charge.)
It the fermion green? (Worth -2/3 hypercharge, which means -1/3 charge.)
It the fermion blue? (Worth -2/3 hypercharge, which means -1/3 charge.)
This is kind of like making a character in a video game; you answer the questions and see what it does to the particle’s stats. No matter how you answer, you will always get the stats for a real fermion.
For example, let’s say I design a particle that is isospin up but not down and has only the color red. My answers would be “yes”, “no”, “yes”, “no”, and “no”, or YNYNN when abbreviated. Then the particle’s hypercharge will be 1 - 2/3 = +1/3, its isospin will be +1/2, and its charge will be 1 - 1/3 = 2/3. That sounds exactly like a left-handed red up quark.
In fact, the answers to the five questions not only tell you stats, but also tell you other things:
A fermion is right-handed if the number of “yes” answers is odd. It is left-handed if the number of “yes” answers is even.
A fermion is matter if the number of “yes” answers to color questions is odd. It is antimatter if the number of “yes” answers to color questions is even.
A fermion is a lepton if the color questions all have the same answer. It is a quark if the color questions have different answers.
A lepton is a charged lepton if the “isospin up” question has a different answer than the color questions. It is a neutrino if the “isospin up” question and the color questions all have the same answers.
A lepton is white if it is matter and black if it is antimatter.
A quark is red, green, or blue if that is the only color with a “yes” answer. A quark is antired, antigreen, or antiblue if the opposite is the only color with a “no” answer.
The one thing these questions can’t easily tell you is how heavy the particle is. But you can sort-of tell by answering a sixth question:
Is the fermion first-generation (light and unlikely to fall apart), second generation (heavy and quick to fall apart), or third generation (extremely heavy and extremely quick to fall apart)?
Again, you can make any choice you want here and still be talking about a real particle.
Elementary Bosons (Force Carriers)
Now imagine an experiment: We smash together a left-handed red down quark (NYYNN, isospin=-1/2) and a left-handed electron neutrino (YNYYY, isospin=+1/2). Because they are both have nonzero isospin, the weak force can affect them. One way that could happen is that they switch isospin answers (the first two yes/no answers) with each other. That means that the quark changes to YNYNN, a left-handed red up quark, and the neutrino changes to NYYYY, a left-handed electron. But other outcomes never happen. Why?
One important rule is that when two particles affect each other using some force, the changes to one particle have to be balanced out by changes to the other. If one particle loses something, the other has to gain it. In The Standard Model, a something that can be lost or gained because of a force is called a force carrier or an elementary boson.
In the example, the quark lost its isospin downness (worth +1 hypercharge and -1/2 isospin) and gained isospin upness (worth +1 hypercharge and +1/2 isospin), so the neutrino had to gain isospin downness and lose isospin upness. Or, said another way, the quark gave away 1 isospin downness and -1 isospin upness to the neutrino through the weak force. That transfer, 1 isospin downness and -1 isospin upness together, is called the W⁻ boson, which is a force carrier for the weak force. And we can compute its stats by knowing what its changes are worth: (+1 hypercharge and -1/2 isospin) - (+1 hypercharge and +1/2 isospin) = (0 hypercharge and -1 isospin).
The give and take doesn’t have to be giving and taking question answers though. For instance, the electromagnetic force’s boson is a photon. When particles exchange photons, they transfer momentum and energy, not anything to do with their types.
In some cases, force carriers can also exist on their own, without obviously being part of a trade. For example, sometimes an electron in an atom loses momentum and energy by shooting a photon off into empty space. We call photons like that light.
Inside The Standard Model, these are the fundamental force carriers:
The B boson is the force carrier for hypercharge.
The W⁻, W⁰, and W⁺ bosons are the force carriers for isospin.
Eight gluons are force carriers for color. (There are different sets of eight gluons that you can pick to describe the effects of the strong force. Scientists don’t agree on which set of eight is the best one.)
The Higgs boson is unlike all the other force carriers. It follows unusual rules, and it makes other particles follow unusual rules. The only way to overcome those effects is with an insane amount of energy.
However, you won’t hear many people talking about the B boson or the W⁰ boson. The reason is that the Higgs boson messes up how they work, so we don’t see them on their own. Instead, we usually see them in special combinations:
The Z boson is the combination of a W⁰ boson minus half of a B boson, and
The photon is the combination of a W⁰ boson plus half of a B boson.
So the weak force’s force carriers are usually listed as the W⁻, Z, and W⁺ bosons, while the electromagnetic force’s force carrier is the photon. (Remember how the B boson goes with hypercharge, and the W⁰ boson goes with isospin? Since the photon is half of a B boson plus a W⁰ boson means, that’s where we get the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula from, the rule that electric charge is half a particle’s hypercharge plus its isospin.)
[^2]: For a while, scientists thought that SU(5) would be enough all by itself to describe fermions. Unfortunately, when they tried that, their computations said that protons can fall apart, which nobody has ever seen happen, so the scientists knew they were still missing something. They have ideas, but the search for the right something continues even today.
Am I the only one who finds AI generated porn odd
Since coming to lemmy I will browse all vs local and top by day. There is a solid amount of AI generated porn that has many votes in a 24 hour period....
Reddit’s decline will look more like Tumblr’s than Digg’s
Even in its prime, Tumblr was never profitable. It was sold and resold to several companies who never had a clear vision for what to do with it, other than run ads to generate revenue. Its main draw was its users. For several years it was the social media platform for LGBTQ and fandoms, along with many niche interests....
I'd like to discuss Horizon Burning Shores (kbin.social)
I just finished Horizon Burning Shores (I know, a bit late) and wanted to discuss it!...
"Cis" and "trans" are different types of a person's.... what?
What are cis and trans alternate types of? I don’t think it’s “gender identity” because wouldn’t that just be man, woman or nonbinary regardless of whether they’re cis or trans? Cis/trans just being a qualifier?...
Unleashing the Hounds: Wagner's Rebellion, Putin's Fumble, and Ukraine's Unwavering Spirit (apnews.com)
Buckle up, folks, because we’re diving back into the frontlines of Russian politics. And let me tell you, it’s wilder than a vodka-fueled bear wrestling match....
Appreciation: How Cormac McCarthy influenced a generation - Los Angeles Times (www.latimes.com)
For the entirety of my writing life, Cormac McCarthy has been a mountain. Some of the novelists of my generation found the mountain beautiful; others found it oppressive. But virtually all of us, whatever our position or attitude, existed in its shade....
How Mexican indigenous languages are surviving against the odds – new research (theconversation.com)
Windows 11 vs. Linux Gaming Performance On The ASUS ROG Ally (www.phoronix.com)
1password implementing privacy-preserving telemetry system (blog.1password.com)
"We won’t be collecting your saved passwords, passkeys, usernames, and any URLs associated with your items. Your private information is just that – private....
How Mexican indigenous languages are surviving against the odds – new research (theconversation.com)
Ukraine is winning — and it is changing (www.politico.eu)
List of popular Android Custom ROMs (www.geckoandfly.com)
Incomplete list of aftermarket custom roms.
As much as I appreciate all that (vintage) Star Trek was trying to do, handling of a lot of women's issues were problematic or nonexistent.
I’m making my way through DS9 for the first time (almost finished with season two). For reference, I’ve seen TOG, TNG, all the new movies, Discovery, Lower Decks, and SNW. DS9 season one was a little slow to pick up, but my husband and I are loving season two. As always, Star Trek addresses a lot of hard hitting issues in...
Futurama food (lemmy.world)
So I am thinking about hosting a Futurama party for the new season premiere. I want to have Futurama theme food and drinks. First thing that comes to my head is Popplers (popcorn chicken or shrimp) and the Slurm recipe I found here https://www.theflavorbender.com/homemade-slurm-drink-futurama/. What other food/drink ideas do you...
Is Crypto Finally Dead?
Yes, I know that it still exist, and yes, decentralized currency which utilizes distributed, cryptographic validation is not actually a strictly bad idea, but…...
UK Home Secretsry Suella Braverman encourages police chiefs to use stop and search powers more often to "seize dangerous weapons and prevent more knife crime attacks" (news.sky.com)
Does anyone else think lemmy.world is a reference to "hello world" and programming?
I subconsciously felt that this “lemmy.world” instance was for those with at least a smidgeon of programming knowledge. Otherwise the name just seems odd.
Dead Cells is getting an animated series from the makers of its wonderful trailers (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Odds of a silent protagonist?
YSK: The term "Genuine Leather", it is not to reassure you that their product is made of leather, rather its the name of the lowest grade of leather a company can use.
Why YSK: The term “Genuine Leather” is a marketing term to sell the lowest quality leather possible....
GitHub - jesseduffield/horcrux: Split your file into encrypted fragments so that you don't need to remember a passcode (github.com)
Saw this posted over here: sh.itjust.works/post/163355...
I personally dont but why do you think ppl care so much about being downvoted on internet chat forums?
Still learning the rules of this room by the way so bear with me
Podman is awesome—and totally frustrating
So Podman is an open source container engine like Docker—with “full”^1^ Docker compatibility. IMO Podman’s main benefit over Docker is security. But how is it more secure? Keep reading…...
Why does it feel like we're at a point where every social media + other digital media are making shitty decisions and falling apart?
I mean there's Reddit ofc, as well as Twitter in its entirety, Discord is implementing some dumb updates, there are issues with Tumblr as well as everything to do with Meta, and I'm sure there are plenty more (and I haven't even touched other digital media, for example the Sims). Why is it all happening in the span of about a...
[REPOST] You can't continue working from home because you go idle in chat too often
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ELI5: The standard model of quantum physics
What are the Particles and their categories?