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The universe is all matter, no antimatter because in the second after the big bang, all matter/antimatter mutually annihilated leaving *slightly* more matter.

But imagine there's a part of the universe (now outside our lightcone) with *slightly* more antimatter, so antimatter won.

Science fiction story concept: Rogue rocky planet, no star, life evolves anyway because it's close to the matter/antimatter dominance interface & half the sky is pure light from mutually annihilating distant galaxies

Protestation https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/22327914

Ik im preaching to the choir on here, but I do genuinely get the pushback from cloudbrained ppl that "we don't need #p2p data infra because Amazon is giving it to us for free rn, and if they stop the NIH would step in because they dont want to lose all the data"

Whelp, an enormous set of 12 databases of pathogen data just went poof when the funding dried up. The only way they are able to bring back a temporary static copy is because other foundations and universities stepped in, but aside from the death of the active databases, how long will that last?

P2P data infrastructure is not some radical pie in the sky Pipedream. It is the only means for making sustainable nonprofit repositories of scientific data. It's open data that's the pipedream without P2P.

Not only can it be done in a way thats compatible with existing cloud infrastructure, it would be strictly additive to its capacity, and in the case that funding dries up, can continue to exist as long as it is useful to the people affected, who can combine whatever storage and bandwidth resources they have.

The alternative of continuously needing to recreate databases, catastrophic loss, and eventually the NIH becoming totally beholden to paying increasing fractions of its tiny budget to AWS spells a grim, grim future for open data.

I've written about this before, and am working on it, but every time this happens my Cassandra complex grows greater: https://jon-e.net/infrastructure/#peer-to-peer-as-a-backbone

The db in question: https://veupathdb.org/

#VectorBase #VEUPathDB #OpenData #OpenScience

As a reminder, modern standards of "cleanliness" for households were developed during a period when the wife in a family was expected to stay home and take care of the household full-time.

So if you are a single, or if you are part of a family where _both_ spouses work full time, and you just seem to catch up with the household chores: Don't blame yourself! This is perfectly normal, and people and media telling you otherwise are putting pressure on you which is wholly unjustified.

Sure, households _should_ be cleaned now and then, but having them remain clean _all_ the time is an impossible standard in today's world for anyone who cannot afford outside domestic aid.

can a anthropomorphic garlic and a vampire truly be in a loving relationship

got my tar.gz

Today on #lorelore I’m introducing a metaphor I use to talk bout mental health: wasabi emotions vs habanero emotions.

As any fan of culinary pain can tell you, wasabi can be very painful but the pain subsides quickly. On the other hand, habaneros have a heat can take much, much longer to pass.

By analogy, wasabi emotions can be very powerful, but they’re fleeting, while habanero emotions linger long after the inciting event has passed. This applies to both good and bad feelings.

More soon…

as i've said before, the world relies on most people being trustworthy and good at heart. a completely trustless society is impossible. faith in other people usually not being out to get you is what makes the world go round. so this kind of event is very very bad, i guess

Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs Is a Bad Idea [because it's too cheap and simple to pull off, so there are millions of potential actors who could do it, and it's undetectable without destroying the device, so a Pandora's box has been opened] https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/turning-everyday-gadgets-into-bombs-is-a-bad-idea/

while I'm fov-posting

minecraft's highest available FOV setting isn't a number. when you turn the slider all the way up, instead of displaying a number, it changes to say "quake pro". i like to think it's poking a tiny bit of fun at you, in a lighthearted way. "ooh, mr. bigshot over here thinks they're playing quake haha". just a funny little joke

it's 110. cowards

The #Linux 6.12 pull request for #PREEMPT_RT is handed to Linus. Likely the first PR ever submitted in printed form. #kernel #LinuxKernel #Realtime

2/ It's done! 🥳

A few minutes ago #PREEMPT_RT (aka: #realtime support) support landed in #Linux mainline, as Linus honored the PR that Tglx handed him yesterday in person (see first toot in thread): https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/baeb9a7d8b60b021d907127509c44507539c15e5

Congrats and thx to everyone who was involved in this 20 year long journey!

#Kernel #LinuxKernel

I have been asked to find a Japanese anti-LLM expert to participate in a Japanese symposium on so-called “AI,” and I can’t find one. Internet searches turn up nothing but pro-LLM propaganda. I asked in a Japanese toot, with no luck, so now I ask on the off-chance that someone who reads English might know of a Japanese expert who could make the case against LLMs. Help! #LLM #AI @emilymbender Professor Bender, @timnitGebru Dr. Gebru, have you come across any Japanese scholars/experts writing critically about LLMs? Any help would be greatly appreciated. LLMs are being embraced with a shocking lack of criticism here in Japan.

americans be like "lets shoot the shit" and then get upset when I shotgun the toilet