“plural inside”

Multi-CPU systems be like.

Yeah but the traffic from scraping other instances is going to get noticed real quickly, whereas a small instance federating with everyone else isn’t really suspicious.

Yeah that’s true; real anonymity would be something like 4chan where users aren’t distinguishable. Here you can tell who people are, but not necessarily find out their real life identity.

It’s too small to bother with?

Dear CEO of antifa, I’m the CEO of the NSA. How do you pronounce “antifa”? We’ve been really struggling in our meetings. Best regards.

That is usually how males and females of a species are differentiated in general: males have the small gamete and females have the large one. (As you said, some individuals may not produce gametes so it only applies in general).

Of course humans are a lot more complicated. We have a concept of gender which doesn’t necessarily align with biological sex, and many people modify their sex characteristics to match their gender, so applying generalizations blindly gets you nowhere.

Yeah, my keyboard just straight up didn’t work when I got my laptop; thankfully the issue was already fixed in a newer kernel so I just had to update (using a USB keyboard, lol).

AFAIK yes, users from instance B can downvote the post, but the downvotes won’t federate to instance A, so only users on B and C will be able to see them.

Of course, public transit is far better. Unfortunately it’s often easier (especially in the US) to convince people to buy a different kind of car than it is to convince them to use public transit.

Even when powered by fossil fuel power plants, electric vehicles are still usually better in terms of CO2 emissions. Power plants benefit from scale, so they’re a lot more efficient than the tiny combustion engines in cars. Regenerative braking also saves a ton of energy when driving in the city.

Not sure what you’re doing to other people, but I don’t think I’ve ingested macroscopic quantities of anyone else’s skin cells since I was a young child who was a little too fond of biting. If you count individual cells it’s probably technically true that I inhale some occasionally, but that’s a bit misleading. I’m still constantly practicing self-cannibalism though!

Huh that’s really interesting, you’re right, and I learned a lot of new stuff about networking that I didn’t know before.

If you’re not on the same local network as the server and it’s not configured to be accessible from the general internet, you need some sort of proxy to access it.

Yeah this seems fine; if they’re proxying the stream through their server it’s using their bandwidth which costs them money. It doesn’t make sense for them to not charge for it.

I don’t quite remember whether it’s the rectangle with all the buttons you press or the TV with all the funny pictures on it, but one of those.

Teenager ≠ underage, 18 and 19 year olds exist. But thanks for your concern. :)

As a teenager who is relatively tech-savvy and on the fediverse, can confirm. I think it’s gotten to the point where even less technically inclined people can join fairly easily, but the more savvy are usually the first to flee from enshittifying platforms so we see a lot more of them here.

[Insert angry rant about Windows]

I can back that up; the drives I ordered were packaged in an antistatic bag, surrounded by an air filled cushion thing, in a hard cardboard box. (Assuming what I got was the “air pockets” it’s a plastic sleeve made of many pressurized sections that completely encloses the drive; definitely adequate IMO. I can dig up a pic if you want).

They’re not indistinguishable, downloading a video results in the same amount of data being transferred much more quickly. But your ISP couldn’t care less either way.