i feel like this is a good place to mention the ship shipping ships

https://www.superyachtshipping.com/

searching for ‘phpbb <topic name>’ can usually bring up a few struggling to dead forums for niche communities which are being sadly absorbed into bigtech monoliths

this is absolutely true and good observations.

i especially appreciate your point about the full experience of the cliffhanger.

this episodic storytelling format is ingrained in us, possibly for a very long time, but at least since the printing press flourished and episodic publications became popular and the illiterate would gather round those who would read aloud the latest episodes as they came out.

then came radio and families would gather around the radio listen to the weekly shows and discuss the possible outcomes of the cliffhanger with their friends and workmates etc. it was already very well ingrained into our society and culture by the time we were experiencing it.

in some ways i do like not having to wait, but it certainly removes layers of the experience as you’ve articulated well.

a ridiculous number of arguments are because people misunderstand what they’re actually arguing over.

it’s crazy how helpful it can be to stop, and check what they meant before responding to it.

apart from the obvious benefits, it can also make a nice pause for everyone to calm just a little, and also shows you’re making an effort to understand which can be helpful too.

anywhere shit gets cliquey it gets toxic real fast - and that goes for ANY and ALL organisations.

safe-space concepts often inherently deals with an “us/them” dichotomy, which is unfortunately fertile ground for things getting cliquey.

it’s not that one must lead to the other, its just that the foundation is there so the risk is higher if it’s not managed properly.

this is why safe-spaces need to be protected from within and without. regardless of whether you’re in the clique or out of it, it hurts everyone in the end.

who?

where/how/what are you eating copper which permits you to taste it?

used to be. i think synthetic fibers have changed that alot

imo i wouldn’t overlook CERN too much due to apparent obscurity. that’s CERN as in WWW & LHC.

plus it’s specifically designed for hw, unlike most of the others which are more likely to lean sw centric?

if your hw is very sw-heavy you could even consider splitting the license types between firmware and hardware if it helps.

not saying what the right choice is for you, just the apparent obscurity i think isn’t such a big issue. but welcome correction.

ignoring the hate-brigade, lemmy users are probably a bit more tech savvy on average.

and i think many people who know how “AI” works under the hood are frustrated because, unlike most of it’s loud proponents, they have real-world understanding what it actually is.

and they’re tired of being told they “don’t get it”, by people who actually don’t get it. but instead they’re the ones being drowned out by the hype train.

and the thing fueling the hype train are dishonest greedy people, eager to over-extend the grift at the expense of responsible and well engineered “AI”.

but, and this is the real crux of it, keeping the amazing true potential of “AI” technology in the hands of the rich & powerful. rather than using it to liberate society.