Stuff that doesn't move. Like a terrestrial radio station, they have one big tower that broadcasts the station and it doesn't physically go anywhere. That's distinct from mobile radios like phones, CB radios, etc. which are always moving around all over the place and potentially causing interference. Fixed radio, you generally have a license for a specific geographic area and only you are allowed to use that band in that area. But then they can license it to somebody else at a distant location where it won't interfere.
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ICE requests Cornell student who sued Trump administration to ‘surrender’ to immigration authorities
Not that I'm aware of, but Lemmy-compatible fediverse server software like Mbin does calculate a Reputation score for all threadiverse users, including people from Lemmy. I went into a bit more detail about it in this comment. Mbin users can see Reputation scores for other fediverse users, but because this whole system is decentralized, it's only the score as known about by that server, so it's not a complete picture of the "real" score.
ICE requests Cornell student who sued Trump administration to ‘surrender’ to immigration authorities
You're probably somewhere in the high 600s, but I am estimating. I think the info exists in the backend, but Lemmy deliberately doesn't make it available anywhere because of the things it encourages--stealing and reposting content for karma farming, judging which people are worth talking to by how well they conform to the dominant opinions, etc. Admittedly, that second one is exactly what I used it for earlier, but -11,000 is a lot so I'm not too worried about it.
The scores used to be accessible via the API, so some Lemmy apps used to show them, but ultimately the feature was removed on the Lemmy end, i.e. Lemmy servers no longer provide that data to apps. I'm not aware of any way to see karma totals within the Lemmy interface today.
That said, the threadiverse is made up of more than just Lemmy: you can interact with Lemmy users and vice versa from other federated sites running Mbin, PieFed and eventually Sublinks when that software is ready. I'm not sure about the other two, but Mbin sites support a Reputation count which is the karma equivalent, so it is possible to see a user's Reputation from an Mbin server. Here's a link to your profile as viewed from kbin.earth, a popular Mbin server.
Boring technical "Well actually" stuff: The nature of federation means that the scores visible from remote servers are incomplete: what you're really seeing is the user's Reputation based on posts the remote server knows about. e.g. Somebody looking at your profile from kbin.earth will see your Reputation as 664, but somebody looking at you from fedia.io sees you with 609.
This probably means something pretty simple, like that you comment in more communities followed by kbin.earth users than fedia.io users, so the kbin.earth server has "seen" more of your posts in order to calculate a higher Reputation score. Alternatively, you might have one super unpopular post that fedia.io saw and kbin.earth didn't, which got -56 points. But the first guess is more likely, unless you know otherwise. :P
ICE requests Cornell student who sued Trump administration to ‘surrender’ to immigration authorities
I know Lemmy doesn't support karma scores for a reason, but in case it helps you decide which people you want to continue to hear from, the commenter you're replying to would have almost -11,000 (negative eleven thousand) karma, were Lemmy to support such a thing.
I kept searching and finally found an article which explains what was going on: What is the Barcode Conspiracy Theory? Explanation, Meaning, Definition - Bedeutung Online
Barcode conspiracy theorists believe that the barcode on food emits dangerous radiation when scanned at the checkout, and that people need to protect themselves from it. According to them, the radiation emitted not only degrades the quality of the food, but is also harmful to humans. According to the barcode theory, harmful vibrations are released during the scanning process, which are transmitted to the human body. With interference suppression, the harmful effect can supposedly be neutralised. The interference suppression is done in the simplest way: According to this, it is sufficient if the barcode is crossed out.
All right.
I'm new, can you explain what this means? Why did they have a line through the barcode? I found the official blog post from 2013 where they pledged to stop doing it, but it doesn't really explain why they were doing it in the first place.
German:
Die Diskussion in den letzten Wochen hat uns gezeigt, dass das Thema „Entstörung des EAN-Codes“ bei unseren Kunden sehr polarisiert.
Wir haben uns intensiv mit den Reaktionen dazu auseinandergesetzt und Informationen recherchiert. Unsere Entscheidung deshalb: Wir werden den Strich quer über den Barcode künftig nicht mehr auf die Etiketten drucken.
Wir schätzen die Rückmeldungen unserer Kunden sehr und setzen uns intensiv mit den Bedürfnissen auseinander. SONNENTOR steht für Freude und ein gutes Gefühl. Manchen unserer Kunden gibt ein Strich quer über den EAN-Code genau dieses gute Gefühl. 2007 haben wir deshalb den Strich auf den Etiketten eingeführt, ohne nähere Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema.
Aufgrund der vielen Reaktionen und unserer eigenen Einstellung haben wir uns nun bewusst gegen das „Entstören des EAN-Codes“ entschieden.
Die Umstellung wird sicherlich einige Zeit dauern. Innerhalb des nächsten Jahres sollten aber alle Produktetiketten ohne entstörten EAN-Code ausgeliefert werden.
English machine translation:
The discussion in recent weeks has shown us that the topic of “de-interference with the EAN code” is very polarizing among our customers.
We've carefully considered the reactions and researched information. Our decision has therefore been this: We will no longer print the line across the barcode on our labels.
We greatly value our customers' feedback and engage intensively with their needs. SONNENTOR stands for joy and a good feeling. For some of our customers, a line across the EAN code gives them exactly that good feeling. That's why we introduced the line on our labels in 2007, without further consideration of the topic.
Due to the many reactions and our own attitude, we have now consciously decided against “de-jamming the EAN code”.
The transition will certainly take some time. However, within the next year, all product labels should be delivered without a suppressed EAN code.
tl;dr:
SONNENTOR stands for joy and a good feeling. For some of our customers, a line across the EAN code gives them exactly that good feeling.
Huh?
I have similar feelings. I think different parts of the audience want different things out of the show. Of course I'm invested in the mysteries and want the answers to them, but my enjoyment isn't necessarily tied directly to those answers. Mostly I'm interested in the characters' arcs: things like Ms. Cobel, Mr. Milchick and Natalie's discomfort with Lumon, Mark S's developing sense of a self distinct from his outie, Helena Eagan's jealousy toward Helly R. Those are all elements of the show which are fascinating to me regardless of any underlying mysteries.
The writing is excellent as are everybody's performances. This show has some of the most expressive eye work in the game--the scenes between Milchick and Natalie are tours de force. I was never really a fan of Lost at all and I think part of that was that the focus was more often on the mysteries than the characters. Also, there's no way to say this politely, but Lost didn't have any performers on the level of Tramell Tillman, Patricia Arquette, Jon Turturro ... you get the point. I'm happy to be on the ride.
What gives you the impression that they don't have a timeline?
Finally, how long do you see this story continuing for?
We’ve talked about it, and we’re pretty sure that we know how long it’s going. We’re keeping that close to the chest still at this point, but we have a pretty good sense of it.
They don't have a timeline that they're sharing publicly, but it doesn't sound like they're just going to run out the clock until the show gets cancelled.
I don't think that's quite what the situation is. "Creator" is a tag you can set when uploading something to Archive.org. People have uploaded things that are tagged with BBC as the Creator, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are either from the BBC or got their approval.
Clicking on a couple of uploads at random from the above link, they don't seem to have obvious corporate names for their accounts. Not going to list any real uploaders because I'm not a snitch, but they have names in the realm of SherlockXWatsonLover1998, which probably indicates they're not official.
Probably a bit blasphemous to bring up BBC Sherlock in the Severance community, but:
Watson: Maybe he used the death of her daughter somehow?
Sherlock: That was ages ago, why would she still be upset?!
Watson: ...
Sherlock: Not good?
Watson: Bit not good, yeah.
People are different all over but two years doesn't seem unreasonable for somebody to still be upset about a loss of a pregnancy. Dr. Mauer has certainly identified it as a sore point for her, since he lied to Gemma about Mark having moved on and had a kid with somebody else, right before he got a chair to the head.
Additionally, we don't really know with any certainty how long it has been from Gemma's perspective given they've had her working as Ms. Casey and also testing for hours at a time in multiple rooms, possibly every day. Even when she gets to be her outie self, she's been in a prolonged traumatic situation of being kidnapped and experimented on, so she probably has limited opportunities to process her previous traumas.
He has on several occasions offered praise to the Trump Republican Party. He quote tweeted a post from Truth Social where Trump announced his nominee for Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice:
Great pick by
@realDonaldTrump. 10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned. People forget that the current antitrust actions against Big Tech were started under the first Trump admin.
When the response to this tweet was negative, the official Reddit account doubled-down:
Here is our official response, also available on the Mastodon post in the screenshot:
Corporate capture of Dems is real. In 2022, we campaigned extensively in the US for anti-trust legislation.
Two bills were ready, with bipartisan support. Chuck Schumer (who coincidentally has two daughters working as big tech lobbyists) refused to bring the bills for a vote.
At a 2024 event covering antitrust remedies, out of all the invited senators, just a single one showed up - JD Vance.
By working on the front lines of many policy issues, we have seen the shift between Dems and Republicans over the past decade first hand.
Dems had a choice between the progressive wing (Bernie Sanders, etc), versus corporate Dems, but in the end money won and constituents lost.
Until corporate Dems are thrown out, the reality is that Republicans are more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses.
This post was then deleted with Yen claiming it was a "miscommunication" and pledging that Proton would stop offering its political opinions.
That was an experiment somebody did on Twitch a few years back, although only with a single 32X. They posted their findings in this Twitter thread.
tl;dr: It works until it doesn't, each cart is adding some extra power draw and eventually there isn't enough juice for the whole stack.