Can 'o Beans — Into the Fediverse

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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Don’t take my opinions too seriously, I’m just referencing my Astronomy notes (of which come from a single semester of a single class). With that said, here’s my 2¢ guess:


    I think they’re trying to say that the last time the universe as a whole was 0°C, was probably before the formation of matter in the universe (I’ll guess the inflation era, just after the birth of the universe, somewhere 10^(-35 to -33) seconds).

    At this point in the universe, atoms cannot form (as the nuclear forces binding atoms are overwhelmed by the gravitational forces of all the energy in the Universe — you ever crush a cracker? It’d probably be like that). Perhaps even sub-atomic particles (protons, neutrons, etc.) can’t form. All that’s there is sub-sub-atomic particles (which we don’t know much about, from my understanding).

    So basically we (and the world, etc.) would be ripped apart at the sub-sub-atomic level by the immense forces (gravitational, etc. — remember, all of the matter/energy in the universe is being concentrated in a small place) of the early universe.

    So, it’s not that we would necessarily evaporate, nor that touching sub-sub-atomic matter would kill us, but more-so that we’d be crushed, at the sub-sub-atomic level, by the gravitational forces of the early universe. It’d probably be painless though, at least.


  • There’s a concept called Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (seemingly coined, in that form, in a Microsoft antitrust lawsuit). Here’s the Wikipedia page on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

    As I understand, people argue that Facebook/Meta, via Threads, will use this strategy in the long-term to either kill, or make effecitvely obsolete, the open technology behind Mastodon. If not that, then they could easily make the federation part of Threads buggy & unreliable, souring their users’ opinions on the “fediverse”.

    They don’t need to control anyone; they only need to host a majority of the userbase (by being the most popular federated site). And they’re not starting from a user count of 1 or 10, unlike a lot of Mastodon sites.

    Obviously, Mastodon & Lemmy, and the sites that run them, can keep chugging along just fine, but it’s argued that if Meta makes their federation implementation sub-par (or otherwise sabotages it), it’ll hurt the user-base growth of sites that use these projects (as people will see begin to see it as unreliable or what-not).

    Is it as doom and gloom as people make it seem? Idk, I haven’t had time to care.






  • I’ve got a 128GB in my 3DS and a 32GB in an Acekard2i that’s shared between the 3DS & DSLite.

    I don’t need either of those cards to be as big as they are, lol. Those cards had just happened to be big enough to fit my roms & not otherwise used in anything, so they’re what I used.

    I imagine an avid user could still easily get by with just a 32-64GB 3DS SD, and a 4-8GB SD for a NDS flashcard.

    Edit: Oh, and my GBA flashcart’s SD size is still somehow absurd for the amount of roms it has on it, while still only being 4GB in size.



  • So, I’ll start with my Biases: I’ve got a 3DS, DSLite, and only one GBA game lol.

    I don’t mind if this community shifts its focus more towards the DS family of handhelds, but I personally think we’ll have a healthier amount of activity if the scope is kept as it currently is (3DS & all prior.)

    I appreciate GB/C/A discussion, as I got into Nintendo handhelds with the DS, so Gameboy is kind of a blind-spot for me. I’m not strongly-held to my stance though; and I recognize your point with /c/[email protected].

    I like the megathread idea, as I like to see others’ collections and see what games I might not have heard/known about otherwise; and I can see how such posts might otherwise clutter the community without a megathread.

    Thanks for taking care of this community!