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  • stoy@lemmy.ziptoFediverse@lemmy.mlEmissary is Whatever You Want It To Be
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    3 months ago

    The main issue I notes about this is that, if I wanted to set up I Lemmy system, I would go for Lemmy itself, not another tool that I then had to configure to work as Lemmy. Same goes for a microblogging service, I would set up a Mastodon service, not a service that needs to be configured into being Mastodon.

    As for it being used to develop mockups for new Fediverse experiences, I don’t think it will do that either, since if you are doing a mock-up, you are looking an not only how a possible new design would work, but also the backend, to get a sense of what is needed in terms of storage, compute and other software layers.

    A system this diverse will be very dificult to reduce the complexity and give a good idea of what kind of environment is needed for someone to invest.

    What it could do is serve as an inspiration tool for students, it could absolutely serve as a technical demonstrator of the ActivityPub as the teacher can build simple systems and show what parts of activity pub they use.

    I remain skeptical of the future of this type of system outside of the classroom environment, though I do wish the developers all the best





  • Back in 2006 BBC Horizon made a documentary about our fear of radiation, it explained three different types of models for calculating radiation danger.

    1. The Linear-No-Threshold model: All radiation is dangerous, even small ammounts, easy to calculate, and will absolutely keep us safe from radiation, but will limit what we can do with radiation.

    2. A linear model with a threshold: Untill a certain level, radiation is a non-issue. If this is the case, we could allow for more uses of nuclear technology with less need for heavy shielding, this is however very hard to implement as radiation exposure is a factor of both time and intensity which would vary for everyone.

    3. A linear model with a negative bend at the start, small ammounts of radiation is beneficial. The data from animals caught in the exclusion zone does seem to indicate that this is the case over generations, genes that reduce the risk of cancer have been found to be active in animals caught in the exclusion zone.

    Here is a link to the documentary: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7pqwo8





  • I have had an account on Deviantart for almost 20 years, and up untill last year I used to upload my photos to my gallery there.

    However over the years it has only gotten worse, it is slow, annoying and have had features removed that I wanted.

    So last year, I set up a simple menu system and started generating photo galleries in digiKam, and upload galleries there instead, and it is soo much more responsive.

    The menu I wrote is built in HTML and CSS, the galleries digiKam exports for me do use Javascript but only to aid in navigating the galleries with the arrow keys, so everything loads instantly.

    When I publish new galleries I do need to edit the HTML code in the menu (and one line in the gallery) but it is as easy as I can make it while still giving me some options.