But being accurate with the headline makes it less click baity. 😏 Honestly, this article is scant on details.

Data centers don’t usually have an “X-ray polarization detector for picking up brief cosmic phenomena.” Like you said, it seems more like a scientific tool than an actual “data center.”

They’ve certainly had to come up with some way to effectively radiate the heat into space. The article doesn’t mention it though. i presume it’s one of the main reasons for networking so many machines together?

12 of 2800 planned have been launched.

FYI: @[email protected] I figured out the problem and edited the OP to reflect that

I removed all my blocks completely. No change.

I also need to update my previous post to you because when I view the community while logged off from lemmy.ca, I can see all the recent posts.

It’s something specific to my account it seems…

From my phone browser via the webui:

When viewing while logged into Lemmy.ca, the second link (accessing the community from my instance) does NOT show any recent posts.

The first link takes me to the community at lemmy.world (not from my instance and logged out of Lemmy.world) and it shows all recent posts.

For this reason, I would say that it’s not synced. BUUUUTT…

If I go back to lemmy.ca, log out, log back in with my alt account… the two links you provided show all posts synced.

I think this is the kind of behavior that exists when you’ve been banned from a community 🤷🏽‍♂️, except I haven’t been banned.

I’m really confused.

Shucks. So itty bitty in Boost.

But good enough for me until lay get better integration. Weee!

So thaattttssss how! Thank you!

I seem to have a visceral reaction to advertisements. It’s very physical.

The short answer is that the Google Play version won’t actually block anything because it breaks their terms of service. So that version just tells you how many trackers and what the trackers are. I still use some of those apps and even respect them (e.g. AP News, AccuWeather), but it completely boggles my mind how they’ve loaded so many trackers into their applications… 🫤

Longer answer: To actually block trackers and ads, you need to use a third party source to download the app so that it’s fully functional. By providing the app that way, they don’t have to abide by Google Plays rules.

The link above is for the F-Droid “app store” version, which is one of the more well-known “stores.” I highly recommend F-Droid. They host free and open source (FOSS) applications. For most everything you use, there is a FOSS alternative which will be ad and tracker free.

https://f-droid.org/

Want a simple ad-free calculator, go there. Want to watch YouTube ad free, go there. Want to download an ad free Lemmy client, go there. Etc etc.

Hurrah for high quality FOSS software!

Yep. It’s becoming more and more common for folks to know that they can do it, but it certainly isn’t ubiquitous. It wasn’t that long ago when I caught my partner listening to music on YouTube with all the ads and I blew their mind away by installing NewPipe. They just had no idea.

Yep, that can work per device or per network. I’m a big fan of Tracker Control because it’s going to work on any network. It’s also highly customizable.

Fortunately, you can block all those ads on Android. Check out Tracker Control: https://f-droid.org/packages/net.kollnig.missioncontrol.fdroid

Because I’m not privileged enough to afford it without.

That’s absolutely unbelievable to me. I block ads on everything. I just can’t handle it. For the few ad-based services that I pay for, I mute it for every commercial. Seriously, I just can’t handle it.

But… clearly tons and tons and tons and tons and tons of people do watch them… which makes a massively lucrative business. I’ll just never understand it.

When I need something, I look it up and get it. If i don’t need something, I don’t want to hear about it in any way, shape, or form.

Ugh.

10 billion. 😖

I really really really don’t like where this is heading. Hell, I don’t like like where it already is. 😖

Who dis?

I’m not sure your comment accurately or fairly represents things.

Narcissism is genuine psychological disorder. Your comment doesn’t explain how he would be one of “the most narcissistic people.”

However, you genuinely made me curious about how many people have been contributing and by how much, so I looked it up on GitHub as you mentioned. There have been 159 contributors. The second most being 210 commits. Dan is the number one contributor at over 10,000 commits!

I can’t know his motivations, only what he shares publicly. I don’t follow PixelFed development closely. I don’t know why he’s trying to do so much at once. And I honestly thought Sup was short for Whatsup.

What I do know is what it’s like to slave for thousands of hours, writing millions of lines of code, trying to manage multiple projects with numerous hands in it, ridiculous deadlines, and with customers and users quick to criticize without truly understanding everything entailed in such projects.

Perhaps I’m honestly ignorant and he really is someone to loath. So far though, PixelFed has been a gem that connects me with a lot of beauty. I personally know loathsome humans. There’s plenty more in the news daily.

This Forbes article though? It’s doing something really good for the Fediverse. It’s highlighting the need for funding projects like these. And, yeah, it mentions Dan because he’s the one who got these projects of the ground and has done nearly all the bleeding and sweating for it.

I get the concerns and fears, but I’m not sure there is reason think we’re there yet.

I guess I’m just grateful.

(self censored)