First thing I thought of when reading OP haha

Steven Seagull!!!

Read somewhere else that the engine in that plane lies really close to the ground, and the guy (maintenance worker on his first day) got suckered in. Can’t say if any of this is true but that’s what I read.

With that kind of propulsion politically available, I doubt finding workable combinations of mitigation strategies to interstellar medium hazards would be the showstopper. Especially not one to hold us back for time scales that oceans did. Getting humans interested in prioritizing projects like that, to me, is the real headscratcher.

We could put people on Alpha Centauri in 88 years with 50s technology like Project Orion. The really hard part is figuring out a way to make us use the technology we do have for things like that, instead of for bombing each other back to the stone age.

It was a lot later (1300s), but Ibn Battuta seems to have done just that. Guy leaves Morocco and just keeps going on and on, till he ends up in China. Though perhaps even more incredibly he actually does come all the way back. The historicity of his accounts is disputed and maybe only a part of it is true, but even if he only got as far as India, I still find it fascinating to imagine doing at that time.

Generale mi ne ŝatas realec-televido, sed ĉi tiun mi certe provos rigardi. Almenaŭ la unua epizodo…

I guess it is now

Sadly, that would have to be one huge island.

They didn’t specify box-sizing, so it will default to inner.

Some of the best instances are those focused on a subject. I especially like programming.dev, mander.xyz (science) and slrpnk.net (solar punk movement or “practical utopianism”).

This filter was very controversial, especially because at first it was hardcoded into Lemmy itself, and the devs initially were insistent in keeping it that way. Fortunately they eventually allowed it to be configurable by instance, which is a much more sensible approach. Especially considering other languages and even some english variants. And while most people like you and me appreciate the intent, many are still unsure if this is a good approach to fight the problem. It does seem hard to avoid a lot of silly false positives. I remember someone mentioning being really confused by this “Sremovedew Valley” mentioned everywhere, until they realized it was just Stardew Valley being mangled by the filter.

Lemmy has a slur filter regex. In case you’re curious, you can see an instance’s regex using this url (replacing the domain as needed):

https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/site

CTRL+F “slur_filter”

Touché!

More like 24. Low Earth Orbit is just hanging out in the porch. :)

For a serious game I’d recommend UnCiv, imho the best adaptation of Civ to the mobile form, even counting official games. Very frequently updated.

For casual games, I like:

Lona: like Snake from old feature phones, but with circular motions. You’ll understand it when you see it. Familiar and fresh gameplay at the same time. Difficult to master and keep beating your highest scores. Very addictive.

Vector Pinball: as it says on the tin, just an honest to dog, simple pinball. Many tables to choose from.

I’m also addicted to Poland can into space, which is a stupid game with bad gameplay, but fun nevertheless. :)

This one is hard to explain to people from the 2020s

If this was one of those 3D maps, there would be a a spike for Naples reaching into the skies

Oh, Jesus Christ!

A random deployment is certainly risky, but no riskier than a random apk. I’d argue the random deployment is less risky because it’s easier to inspect it in the browser and see what it’s doing with your password. But of course both are to avoid. Self-hosting or compiling your own clients if you can, official deployments or releases otherwise.

Sure. Both compiling your own apk or self-hosting are ideal. If you’re not doing either though, the web app is more easily inspectable.