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Sal , to nostupidquestions in Why were so many people believers in the conspiracy that 9/11 was an inside job
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I don’t have much of an opinion on this topic, I haven’t really looked into it.

But as soon as I saw this image, the El Al Flight 1862 which crashed in the Bijlmer in Amsterdam in 1992 immediately came to mind. The shape of the hole is very similar!

https://www.kijkmagazine.nl/app/uploads/sites/3/2019/10/Bijlmerramp.jpg

This image shows the likely position of the Bijlmer plane during the crash:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Bijlmer_crash_impact_model.TIF/lossy-page1-1390px-Bijlmer_crash_impact_model.TIF.jpg

The image you posted of the Pentagon seems to me consistent with what I have seen of the Bijlmer accident, and so the shape of the hole and the absence of wings in the photo does not persuade me personally that no plane was involved.

Sal , to cat in [Meta] There seems to be a downvoting bot around here. Every thread and every single comment has at least one downvote. Is there any way to fix this?
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A botnet could have many unique accounts, and some could even appear like users. So I can’t rule it out. I also haven’t done a deeper dive into the accounts.

But when a post gets popular I would expect it to get at least a few downvotes, regardless of what it is.

Sal , to cat in [Meta] There seems to be a downvoting bot around here. Every thread and every single comment has at least one downvote. Is there any way to fix this?
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There is one account that has a single comment from 5 months ago that is downvoting most posts and comments. That one is very suspicious

Other than that… No other accounts are as obvious. A few do have some reoccurrences but most of those votes do seem organic on first inspection.

Sal , to cat in [Meta] There seems to be a downvoting bot around here. Every thread and every single comment has at least one downvote. Is there any way to fix this?
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Yes, you are right. If a mod wants I can send them the username and they can ban them from the community. I can see it as an admin from my instance but I can’t take action.

Sal , (edited ) to fediverse in 60% of Lemmy-instances blocks Threads.net
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I can tell you one benefit: Money. Most of my server’s costs come from storing federated content. Federating with threads would likely be expensive.

Sal , to asklemmy in what is your favorite lemmy instance?
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Yeah, I found out only after choosing that domain name… This TLD also gets penalized by the automatic e-mail spam detectors (like SpamAssassin). I wouldn’t pick the “.xyz” TLD if I were picking today 😅

Sal , to technology in Should AI images be copyrightable?
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Sure.

If I make my own AI image generator and create a nice image with it, or use some AI engine that gives me full ownership of the output, I can choose to share it online with whatever license I want to share it with. I don’t see why the regular copyright rules for digital images and photographs would not hold… If someone shares their AI creation online and wants others to share with attribution, or not share at all, what is wrong with that?

I can take a ton of photos of objects with my phone, upload them to Flickr, and they are all copyrighted. That doesn’t mean that other’s can simply take similar photos if they wish to do so. The same with AI. One can decide whether to share with attribution, pay someone to let them use it, or to generate the image themselves using AI. It does not seem like a problem to me.

Sal , to newcommunities in Shrooms - A place to discuss the growing, hunting, and the experience of magical fungi.
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Ah, actually, I responded thinking that you meant the /c/mycology community.

I’m not the creator/mod of the uncle_ben’s community, and the sidebar says “A community for the uncle ben’s mushroom growing technique.”, so I am actually not sure. I think it would be fine… Sorry!

Sal , to newcommunities in Shrooms - A place to discuss the growing, hunting, and the experience of magical fungi.
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Sure, what’s wrong with bird seed tech?

Sal , to newcommunities in Shrooms - A place to discuss the growing, hunting, and the experience of magical fungi.
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All fungi are magical ;)

The mycology community is more general in scope. Psychedelic mushrooms are not excluded, but there can be so much specialized discussion in that sub-category that is worth it having a more specialized community.

There is also the first community !uncle_bens dedicated to growing, but it is not very active.

Sal , to programmer_humor in Linux Best Practices
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I wiped all my data from a supercomputer by trying to ‘cd’ into a folder but making a typo and then running rm -rvf * from my home directory.

At least they kept backups… The system administrators were probably amused about who gets access

Sal , to asklemmy in As badly described as possible, what is your favorite video game?
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Nice to see he has had a graphics upgrade :p

https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/b352eefe-1e8c-486b-9abd-2c3309d3e9a8.jpeg

Sal , to asklemmy in Is there a list of instances that support free speech?
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I wouldn’t use this language myself because I am not ready to defend that it is reasonable to apply the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in this context.

I think that they might be referring to Article 1, and possibly 5.

If this is their interpretation, then calling someone a worthless piece of trash is also a violation. You are talking to another human being as if they have less dignity, and you are treating them in a cruel and degrading manner.

Sal , to asklemmy in Is there a list of instances that support free speech?
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For example I can go up to someone and insult them for all sorts of things - “you’re an ugly stupid worthless piece of trash” and that’s ok but I say “you’re a dirty [racial slur]” all of a sudden it’s different?

If it makes you feel any better, telling someone “you’re an ugly stupid worthless piece of trash” would get you banned from my instance too, so it is not so different.

Sal , to fediverse in App to schedule posts on Lemmy
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I would like to make a list at some point with several community integrations and ask my instance’s users whether they would like some of them installed into the instance. This application will definitely go on that list! I do need to take into consideration how many resources each of the apps consume, to make sure I don’t bloat my server. But this one seems quite light. Is it?

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