Seems some people think accuracy is limited. That’s not the case. From the article:

Immediate access to satellite measurements and navigation results is disabled when the receiver’s velocity is computed to be greater than 1000 knots, or its altitude is computed to be above 18,000 meters. The receiver continuously resets until the COCOM situation is cleared.

The limitations are enforced by the GPS receiver itself. You can buy “unlocked” GPS modules without these limitations, but they’re harder to get ahold of.

They raise the barrier of entry for creating spam accounts from “make a bunch of API calls” to “set up some kind of AI captcha solver/pay someone in India to do it for you.” It doesn’t stop spammers, but it makes it harder for them.

I’ve had a great experience here on fedia.io. It’s a smaller instance, and it is running Mbin instead of Lemmy, but everything federates over so you get the same content. Might feel a bit weird switching from Lemmy, but if you feel like it I’d recommend giving it a try. :)

We’re also defederated from Hexbear, lemmy.ml, and Lemmygrad if that’s a factor.

Nothing at all. That’s what captchas are for.

For the first problem, just use a throwaway email service (I like temp-mail.org) to make your account.

Fewer creeps here than on Reddit.

I promise, I’ll end up setting up a public instance that does not obey any deletions because of these madlads. Seriously, where is pushshift for lemmy?

Yeah this is a really good idea; I’ve been wanting to do it but haven’t had the time to configure everything. You’d need to hide which instance it actually is though, or other instances would just defederate from it. Maybe set up a website where you can plop in a post/comment URL and see the deleted contents.

I’ll get around to it one of these days…

Don’t use sketchy VPN apps, at all. The fact that they’re Chinese owned is irrelevant.

Do women need an app for this? Surely a piece of paper would work just as well, and have a 0% chance of selling your data.

Edit: Yeah I deserve that.

If emissions dropped to 0 tonight, we would be substantially better off than if we maintain our current trajectory. Doomerism helps nobody.

That seems like it would violate the law of entropy by turning a high entropy state (water vapor mixed into the air) into a lower entropy state (water in liquid form), but I’m probably just missing something.

You don’t need JS at all if you get a bit creative with the CSS.

Might be a bit of an unpopular opinion, but I don’t really see a problem with brain implants. I wouldn’t put anything in my brain in a thousand years, but if someone’s willing to accept the risks, why not? They have the potential to significantly improve quality of life for many people.

I can’t imagine this would be effective at all. Assuming it uses GPS, big datacenters could simply spoof the GPS signal, and consumers could block the GPU from receiving the signal (a fully metal PC case is almost a Faraday cage already).

Nice catch, doesn’t make it any better though.

Never, but I think that’s alright seeing as I don’t have one.

The problem is you’re using Bukkit.

Thanks for your guesses, everyone! The final dry weight turned out to be 817g.

Unfortunately you weren’t the closest (ended up being 817g and some people undercut you) but I will give you the award for most sensible calculation.

Congrats, you got it, ended up being 817g. I think the real winners are the people who actually did the calculations though. :)