KoftaBob

> Couple of hours to get to the airport

Since when does it take a couple of hours to get to the airport for the average traveler? That would only be the case for someone who lives in a very rural area far away from the nearest major airport.

> arriving to the airport three to four hours in advance

3 hours is what's recommended for international flights, but even then thats a conservative recommendation to be safe. "3 to 4 hours" is quite excessive.

> a couple of hours to get from the airport to wherever you actually want to be.

Again, the average traveler is not traveling for a couple of hours to get from their destination airport to their final destination. I can't find the stats, but if I had to guess, the majority of travelers final destination is within an hour of the airport they land at.

I definitely agree with you that all of these aspects of air travel need to be made much more efficient, but inflating these times just paints an inaccurate picture of the travel time benefits that supersonic travel brings.

Most lightweight one I've found so far: https://photoview.github.io/

> The emperors however, when Byzantium was established did not, as they came from latin speaking Roman elites

What the Emperor's ethnic/cultural background is, and what the general populace spoke are two different things.

If we want to use that analogy, then let's look at the Ottoman sultans. The first few Ottoman sultans were primarily of Central Asian Turkic ethnic makeup, however every one of them had a policy of having children with women who were Christians of either Greek, Circassian, Balkans/Caucus, and later Polish backgrounds.

That means that very quickly, the average Ottoman sultan was almost entirely a blend of Greek/Balkan/Circassian and a very small percentage actually of Turkic ethnic makeup. Does that mean that the Ottoman empire for most of its existence was a Greco-Caucasian Empire, rather than a Turkish one?

> For the biggest differences: by the time of Basil II they were speaking Greek instead of Latin

As far as I understand it, the lingua franca of the Eastern Roman Empire never “changed” to Greek, it was always Greek in the first place.

“During the earlier Pax Romana period, the western parts of the empire became increasingly Latinised, while the eastern parts largely retained their preexisting Hellenistic culture, creating a dichotomy between the Greek East and Latin West.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire

Now that individual posts can be viewed without logging in, is there a way to view/load a feed without authentication?

I'm working on a client and there's a specific scenario where I want to be able to show a feed like "Top 20 - Past 3 Hours" before a user has logged in to their Bluesky account.

and it's not going super well for them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Integrated_Circuit_Indus...

> Move the manufacturing to a near-shore and friendly country (ie: Mexico or Puerto Rico)

Puerto Rico isn't a foreign country, it's a territory of the United States. Regardless of that, semiconductor fabrication is one of, if not THE most complex form of manufacturing.

It's not enough to simply build a fab in Mexico, the supply chain of materials and highly skilled labor that runs these fabs needs to exist there too. That's not to say that it can't exist somewhere like Mexico, but currently it doesn't and it would take longer to build up.

So while moving it to Mexico would remove the geopolitical risk problem, putting it there instead of the US would only give the advantage of cheaper labor but at the cost of taking much much longer to ramp up.

Why do you doubt they'll accomplish their goal of removing dependency on foreign chip makers?

Well for your use case of distributing your own music, Bitmagnet wouldn't be necessary.

What a DHT crawler like Bitmagnet does is the following:

1. Take a few initial "bootstrap" torrents and ping them to see which IP addresses are seeding that file 2. Ping those IP addresses and ask what other files/torrents they're seeding 3. Ping those torrents to see which IP addresses are seeding that torrent

Rinse repeat.

So to distribute your music to fans, you'd just want to put magnet links to your music on your site.

I get the feeling these anecdotes are (unsurprisingly) biased towards young SF tech crowds.

My own experiences of being in my early 30s, born and raised on Long Island and now living in Boston, my circle of friends, relatives, and coworkers from both areas are having kids all over the place.

When my wife first became pregnant last year, it was actually a bit difficult finding openings with OBGYN offices in the general Boston area.

"Rent-seeking is distinguished in theory from profit-seeking, in which entities seek to extract value by engaging in mutually beneficial transactions.[8] Profit-seeking in this sense is the creation of wealth, while rent-seeking is "profiteering" by using social institutions, such as the power of the state, to redistribute wealth among different groups without creating new wealth."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

Twine is my new favorite RSS Feed app, only thing missing is feed folders!

I think the commenter was implying that rather than putting it on the roof of people's homes, the focus should be on utility-scale solar power stations.

FYI the person you're replying to is the author of the post and a Bluesky dev

and it's your job to figure out how to entertain yourself, you're not entitled to get that entertainment from music for free.

> ponying up €10.99 is a huge ask.

I guess that would depend on how much music you listen to. If you listen very occasionally, then yeah €10.99 for unlimited streaming isn't worth it. In that case, you can just buy songs individually.

If the price for individual songs is also a "big ask" for you, then you simply don't think music is worth paying for.

This isn't a "pay what you want" model where someone creates a product and asks you to pay whatever you feel is appropriate, they're creating a product and setting an explicit price for it.

> pay off the VCs then don't go public?

The massive return on investment that VCs aim for comes from the public market valuing the VCs shares of the company much higher than what the VCs paid for it when they invested. How do you replicate that without going public?

Their revenue sources are more diverse than you think. Products that are either directlyfrom their portfolio, or from a company they have a large stake in

- Windows

- Office 365, which includes Teams, a product that has boomed in usage since 2020

- Xbox + Activision Blizzard

- Azure Cloud, the 2nd largest cloud computing platform

- Github, by far the largest version control platform for developers

- Linkedin, quickly becoming one of the largest platforms for hiring

- Bing search + their ad network

- OpenAI/ChatGPT

- Edge browser

- Surface line of laptops and tablets

> the fuselage of this plane isn't even made by Boeing, it's made by Spirit AeroSystems which also makes components for Airbus.

Why would a company with the resources of Boeing choose to contract out such an important part of their planes, rather than vertically integrate that?

Primary source of the announcement: https://news.alaskaair.com/alaska-airlines/operations/as-128...

> I don't get this mentality of "I like X, but I don't want to use X, so imma go turn Y into X"

You really don't understand why someone would prefer Mastodon because of its decentralized and open source nature, but would like to take some of the things they like about Twitter and include it in their Mastodon experience?

> Playing into people's FOMO

This implies that the only form of "algorithmic feed" is one where clickbait and inflammatory content is maximized.

An algorithmic feed can also mean something like a "for you" feed that tries to find you posts you'd find interesting based solely on your current follows, but from other accounts you're not following.

It can also mean a "what you missed" feed like the one Twitter used to have, that shows you the top posts from your follows since the last time you logged in. If someone doesn't open mastodon for a week because they were on vacation, it's not feasible for them to scroll through an entire weeks worth of posts to "catch up".

Understand that people have a wide variety of experiences they'd like to get out of social media, and that this whole mentality of "my idea of a social network is the most enlightened and correct one, and everyone else is stupid" just feeds into the stereotype of the socially inept engineer.

> Jews have an ancient and vicious hatred of Europeans.

I'm not going to bother with the antisemitic conspiracy theory nonsense, but this part I couldn't resist replying to.

It's very ironic for you to say this considering the origin of Ashkenazi Jews came about when a large number of Jewish men from Judea were forcibly exiled to Southern Europe by the Romans, and subsequently married pagan women from that region who converted to Judaism.

In other words, at least 50% of the average Ashkenazi Jew's ethnic makeup is Southern European (a few centuries later, some eastern european slavic was also added), and these are the people who have an ancient and vicious hatred of Europeans?

I'm seeing moderate housing price increases at best in Germany and Italy, and that's generally going to happen because of inflation in general. I don't see the evidence that declining demographics are directly causing housing in cities there to get more expensive.

Like another reply said, it's more likely that general movement from rural to urban is what's causing that, and that if their population growth was higher, those cities would've just gotten even more expensive than they're getting now.

Germany: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1150526/annual-house-pri... Italy: https://www.immobiliare.it/en/mercato-immobiliare/

Wouldn't it do the opposite? You end up with fewer people competing for housing over time.

For example, if we compare the average homes in the US vs Germany, which it would be reasonable to assume is occupied by those in the average income bracket of those countries:

- The square footage in the American homes is almost double that of German homes, and European homes in general: https://mises.org/power-market/americans-have-much-more-livi...

> you probably can't get much of this with the average (let alone median, which is usually the measure for this sort of thing) US income at all. - Housing expenditure as percentage of the household income is lower in the US than pretty much everywhere in Europe, meaning American housing is more affordable with respect to American salaries: https://cdn.mises.org/styles/max_full/s3/hsgexpend_0.png

- If we're talking cars, the same car will usually cost more in Germany than it does in the US, despite the US buyer having a higher income: (Transportation section) https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_resu...

But if the lifestyle involves a certain size home, certain cars, vacations, etc then it's much harder to attain with Germany's average income vs the US.

- When viewing a post by a user on a different instance than yours, Agora automatically loads your instance's version of the post so that you can like/boost/comment on it without having to manually switch it over to that version.

- You can log in to a Mastodon, Bluesky, or Nostr account on Agora and it'll pull in your following/followers list from that account, while still allowing you to view/interact with posts from the other 2 protocols using bridges behind the scenes.

- I've integrated those bridges into the search, so that if you search for a Bluesky handle like aoc.bsky.social or a nostr users hex code, it'll automatically know to use the bridges for those protocols and search for the bridged profile.

- When you follow a hashtag like #linux, it'll automatically follow the corresponding Lemmy community for that topic, so that you see posts from linux@lemmy.ml in your feed.

- This one's still a work in progress: when you first log in, Agora will show you suggested profiles for a variety of topics, and allow you to bulk or individually follow accounts per topic, to help with content discovery.

Yup it's a fork of Phanpy, which is an awesome web client for mastodon that I found to be a great starting point for the project.

That looks great! Is it open source?