Correct. Division of money into currency units is entirely arbitrary, there are many currencies where a thousand units is a wildly different amount from a thousand US dollars or euros or similar-valued units.

Yes and there already is also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G20

No, I didn’t.

Yes, you did, because people can look for those exact images - possibly with AI assistance nowadays…

Even if I did, what are you going to do with that information?

Me, nothing, someone else, who knows…

It already does, it’s called inflation.

Also are you talking about physical money, or bank accounts, or what…?

If they had come back at a different time, then why do the clouds align when I move back and forth?

wdym “clouds” on overcast days?

Also you do realize you’ve doxed your home address with this…

ha ha

Do LLMs do that? That sounds more like dictionary use without thinking.

I remember not long ago seeing an image of handwritten homework where the student answered “as a large language model …”.

If I delete this post, will it be completely removed across all instances that synchronized it?

It will send out a message to relevant servers that it should be deleted. There is no guarantee that they will comply with that message. If your post has been copied to hundreds or thousands of other servers, there is no guarantee that they will all receive or understand that message. Some may even be actively malicious, for example because they are controlled by exactly the people you want to hide from!

I remember once deleting a comment (on this account) a few seconds after posting it. After that, I kept getting upvotes for it! I found out that that was happening because one very popular instance had for some reason not deleted the comment, so its users had no idea that it was supposed to be gone.

Is a deleted post traceable in any way?

Everything on the public Internet is. Anyone can set up a bot that just scrapes and archives everything on the Internet that it can find; and governments certainly have the resources to do so!

Is it kept in a log or a database on ferdiverse instances?

Potentially.

With governments across the globe increasingly surveiling us online and scrutinizing everything we say, I’m starting to think I should plainly delete any account that has personally identifiable information like my real name and photo. I initially thought it would be easier to connect with family and friends, but now I’m growing increasingly worried about how this can be used against me.

Posting things on the public Internet, especially under one’s real name, inherently comes with that risk. Always has.

I certainly hope so. I hope eventually federated discussion groups become the default way for the general public to communicate about any topic that interests them.

But with how governments around the world are going after the Internet, especially the parts of it that aren’t profitable… I just hope some good parts of it survive at all. :(

The question is confusing, what exactly do you mean by “directly from online”? Just click a button in a web browser and it will install the entire distro? If so, pretty sure the answer is no; if you imagine something else, please clarify.

Because there’s no good reason to do that that justifies the cost and effort.

Hard forks are generally fairly rare, e.g. you could ask the same about the Linux kernel…

which is however not a fork, either hard or soft, of anything

When western governments don’t give a fuck about human rights anymore, they have no standing to criticize China over it.

I would expand this idea further… since all governments occasionally violate human rights, they shouldn’t be very much in the business of calling out human rights violations by other governments. That should mainly be the role of citizens or private organizations, not governments.

The etymology is that a “datum” (the plural of which is data) is something that is “given”.

So data is information that has been given.

In computers, data (information) is stored in bits (zeroes and ones). Eight bits are a byte, a billion bytes are a gigabyte, so the plan you describe allows you to download (or transmit overall?) 2*8*1000000000 = 16000000000 ones or zeroes that are used to encode data for computers (which they will decode into text, images, videos, whatever).

Just get up early enough? You can eat breakfast during a train or bus ride if you choose food suitable for that…

In fact I generally eat breakfast only on workdays, not usually weekends, because I don’t need any energy in the morning yet when I’m not working.

I am only really familiar with those owned by Aylo as well as XNXX and XVideos. Are there good reasons to use any others? If so which ones?

It’s the same for me honestly. Reading fiction isn’t enjoyable for me most of the time, though reading nonfiction (ie learning about the world) absolutely is.

I remember this being somewhat different in my childhood, and my hypothesis is that the fact we got somewhat uninteresting fiction reading assignments in school killed my interest in it.

It’s not screens vs books because I have tried reading fiction on my phone or tablet too, no difference.

It is a computer. Computer is a very general term.

Maybe not in English? Plenty of people are named Groß in the German speaking world.