Vänsterns poddar. Det bästa stället för att ha koll på vilka vänsterpoddar det finns och deras senaste sändningar är Mediakollen . Efter Mediakollen är Nyhetskartan också ett bra ställe.. Poddar kan följas via så kallade poddplattformar där de stora är Sveriges Radio, Acast, Podspace, Podplay, Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Libsyn, Podbean och Poddtoppen.
Just realized the moniker ‘Late stage capitalism’ is unusually optimistic and hopeful by leftist standards. It assumes we’re nearing the end of capitalism or that we’ll get something better or the sweet release of death.
Doubt this is capitalism’s final form
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Moody’s declassa il debito della Francia ad Aa3: «Le finanze pubbliche si indeboliranno»
Le finanze pubbliche, secondo l’agenzia di rating, «si indeboliranno sostanzialmente nei prossimi anni». Stabile però l’outlookRiccardo Sorrentino (Il Sole 24 ORE)
Commercial real estate maturity wall $950B in 2024, peaks in 2027
Commercial real estate maturity wall $950B in 2024, peaks in 2027
Rate hikes by the Federal Reserve and changes in post-pandemic behavior have put pressure on commercial real estate (CRE) borrowers needing to refinance loans coming due. The tally is nothing toS&P Global Market Intelligence
Extensions could provide borrowers some cover in the short-term as well as give lenders time to work out troubled credits and selectively prune their CRE portfolios through strategic sales in the secondary market.
Yeah that shit only works if you have enough assets to "prune" them and everyone else isn't going to be selling on the secondary market at the same time cause the primary market is going pop.
The random forest model, which estimates the life of each loan in years, had an r-squared of 0.65 and a mean-squared error of 53 years. Given that the test set was roughly 31,900 loans, we think a mean squared error of only 53 is a very favorable result
Bruh, that's not how this works. Whether or not 53 years of mean square error is acceptable depends entirely on how it affects your estimates for maturity. And that has to be calculated by propagating the error through the formulas until you get an error on credit. It's not a difficult calculation, I was literally taught this in high-school. And if you can use random forest modles then surely you can propagate the error.
The distributions of the actual and estimated data sets looked similar as well, another encouraging sign.
No it isn't. You are assuming that loans without maturity should have the same distribution on the time they are paid out as loans with maturity. Why would this be the case? If both types of loans had the same pay out date either way, then why would comercial actors take the one with no maturity?
Commercial real estate maturity wall $950B in 2024, peaks in 2027
Commercial real estate maturity wall $950B in 2024, peaks in 2027
Rate hikes by the Federal Reserve and changes in post-pandemic behavior have put pressure on commercial real estate (CRE) borrowers needing to refinance loans coming due. The tally is nothing toS&P Global Market Intelligence
A ‘doom loop’ of climate change and geopolitical instability is beginning
A ‘doom loop’ of climate change and geopolitical instability is beginning
Climate change is driving inflation and instability, which harms climate action. But it’s not too late to escape the doom loop.The Conversation
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I don't think it does virtual desktops with labwc still; but when it does, labwc is as good a replacement for xfwm as any, IMHO.
labwc can do virtual desktops; there's a desktop switcher, and the window switcher is aware of windows only in the current desktop -- but I can't figure out how to query window-per-desktop information programmatically otherwise. waybar, wlrctl, as well as xfce-panel don't seem to have access to that info either. Still waiting for accomodations with respect to some wayland extension, I suppose.
Polismordet i Göteborg 1923 ägde rum inne på Göteborgs detektivstation på Spannmålsgatan den 16 maj 1923 när detektivkonstapel Carl Olander sköts till döds i tjänsten.
Call for feedback on plan & proposed questions for Instance Census 2024
Hi everyone!
Last year lemmy.ca ran a census for our instance, and this year we wanted to solicit feedback ahead of time. Since other instances expressed interest in running similar censuses, having some agreed upon questions would make it easier to do comparisons. (previous: lemmy.ca results, lemmy.nz results).
Timeline wise, for our instance, we are thinking of gathering feedback for the rest of the month and then running the census early in the new year. We are open to adjusting when we run it, to align with other instances.
General areas of feedback:
Self Identification / Categorization
With some questions, it is difficult to have a predetermined list of options. Last year we included a free form entry option, and then created word clouds with the full list. However, that is not as insightful, and it takes a lot of time to process. For this year, do you prefer:
- A set of options + a free form option (same as last year)
- A set of options only
Please share if you know of a resource that has a good/inclusive set of options for the question types. Even if a free form option is included, a better set of options as a base will lead to better data.
For context, these were the questions where this happened:
- What is your ethnicity?
- How do you identify? (sexual orientation)
- What is your occupation / field of Work?
Data collection & Results
Last year we used Google forms for collection, and a spreadsheet for calculations and analysis. Visualization was done with google sheets, an open source word cloud generator (github link), and DataWrapper (link) for an interactive display on our website.
This year the plan is similar, although we’re interested to try chart.js for the visualizations. We had some issues with DataWrapper displays, and having the code be open source would make it easier for others to replicate. One consideration is data privacy (do we commit anonymized data to the repo, host it elsewhere and import it, etc.).
Sometime in the future, it might be nice to have a template and/or pipeline that everyone can use, for consistency and to minimize work. In the meantime, do you have any thoughts or recommendations?
Fun Question
Last year we asked about people's favourite dessert. It would be cool to do something similar this year. Do you have any suggestions for a fun question? Some ideas:
- Favourite comfort food
- Favourite fruit
- Favourite color (with a hex code input)
Proposed Questions
Where applicable, I’ve included changes from last year. Depending on the type of instance you run (ex. regional or not), you may want to skip, add, or modify questions.
Section 1: Where is everyone from?
Where are you from?
- Canada? (yes / no)
- If in Canada, which province or territory?
- If not, which continent?
What is the size of your community? (rural / urban / suburban / other)
- suburban and other are new options
In your opinion, what is the quality of your internet connection? (poor, reasonable, excellent)
What is your internet speed?
- new question inspired by lemmy.nz
- we may include a link to a speed test site for convenience, and have a free form entry
Section 2: Who are you?
What age range do you fall into? (0-9, 10-19, etc.)
Ethnicity? (options uncertain, see above)
Gender Identity? (Man, Woman, Non-binary person, Genderfluid)
- Optionally, we could include a free form entry 'other' option, and list the input in a separate list.
Are you someone with trans experience (yes / no)
How do you identify? (options uncertain, see above)
Disability Status (yes / no)
- New separate question inspired by lemmy.nz
Disability Status (free form entry)
- Last year we manually processed the text inputs and displayed them in a list. We're open to hearing suggestions on better ways to run this question!
Educational Background
- Last year we had multi-select, which didn't make sense. This year we can split it into a few questions:
- Are you currently in school? (yes / no)
- What are you studying? (single selection, see list below)
- Highest level of education completed (single selection, see list below)
- All past education (multi-select, see list below)
- List of options:
- No formal education
- Some secondary school (high school)
- Secondary school (high school) diploma
- GED
- Trade / technical / vocational training
- Some Post-secondary (college, university, CÉGEP)
- College diploma
- Associate degree
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree
- Professional degree (MD, JD, MBA, etc.)
- Doctorate (PhD, etc.)
- Other
Employment Status (full-time, part-time, self-employed, student, retired, unemployed, other)
- Last year we also got responses for 'homemaker', 'disabled', 'active duty military'. We could add these as options, or include a free form 'other' entry for them.
Field of Work (options uncertain, see above)
- This question was a free form entry last year, and it was very difficult to process. Having a solid list of options would be ideal in this case.
- We could include an 'other' option with a free form entry, with a note that any response will not be included in the main results and will be displayed as-is in a separate list.
Section 3: Instance Usage
How many {instance name} communities do you participate in? (0, 1-9, 10-19, 20+)
If you moderate any communities, how many? (number input)
- Last year this was a multi-select, but a number input would be more straightforward
What community do you want to see on {instance name}? (free form entry)
What existing community do you want to see more people using? (free form entry)
- This is a new question.
On average, how much time do you spend on Lemmy each day? (<1 hour, 1-2 hours, 2-3, 3-5, 5-8, 8-13, 13-21, 21+)
How often do you visit {instance name}? (multiple times a day, daily, weekly, monthly, rarely)
- This is a new question.
How do you access Lemmy most often? (desktop, mobile (including tablet), both about equally)
(including tablet)is a new additionboth about equallyis a new option
If you use desktop, what operating system do you use? (Windows, MacOS, Linux, I don't use desktop, other)
- New question
On desktop, which interfaces do you use? (default, Mlymym, Photon, Voyager, Alexandrite, I don't use desktop)
I don't use desktopis a new option, and will be separate from the 'skip this question' option
Is there another interface you would like us to add? (free form entry)
- New question
If you use mobile, what operating system do you use? (Android, iOS, I don't use mobile, other)
I don't use mobileandotherare new options
On mobile, how do you access Lemmy?
- We will include an updated list of apps, and a free form entry for any new ones
- We will include an option for
I don't use mobile,web browser, andother, in addition to theskip this questionoption
If you primarily access lemmy.ca through different Lemmy/Kbin instance, please list it below (optional) (free form entry)
What other decentralized / federated platforms do you use?
- Some potential options: none, Mbin, Kbin, PieFed, Mastodon, Bluesky, Pixelfed, Peertube, Loop, Bookwyrm, WriteFreely, Pleroma, Friendica, Misskey, Writefreely, + free form entry
Fun Question (yet to be determined)
Feedback (free form entry)
General Changes:
- All questions will have a 'skip this question' option
- Fewer random comments from me when reporting the results. I looked back at them afterwards and thought they might be a bit much.
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Cheers for tagging me, I'll have to go through my stuff from when we did it and see if I have any feedback.
Fewer random comments from me when reporting the results. I looked back at them afterwards and thought they might be a bit much.
The random comments were very helpful and influenced the questions we used on lemmy.nz. I also think it's good to understand how the data has been analysed to highlight potential biases. i.e. don't feel bad about your rambling or I'll feel bad about mine 😆
- @d1tt0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- @Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- @RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Yea we picked Google forms for convenience mostly. We want to switch to something better at some point. In my quick look around, there are a few self-hosted options that could work.
Maybe in the future we could collectively make a few templates with the selected questions for that year. That way instances can use whichever method they have the resources to run, but still get the same format of data afterwards
If your team does come across something better, I'd be interested in exploring further
Does it log IP addresses of respondents?
While the survey creator can't see any of those details, I imagine Google may be tracking things on their end.
I'd like to know what people use Lemmy for... Reading the news, scrolling through meme pictures or talking about hobbies...
If they subscribe to communities tailored to their interests or just watch the "All" feed.
And maybe moderation. If users have previous experience with moderation and whether they think their experience with that was negative or positive.
And I'm always interested to know if people still use computers. And maybe the operating system, to judge the amount of Linux nerds here.
I saw another comment suggesting various things that it would be fun to know about the community. These surveys aren't just a view into an instance, but the lemmy.ca and lemmy.nz surveys have been cited many times as they are some of the only info we have about Lemmy as a whole.
I was thinking we should have base questions, ones that we want to watch for changes over time. And then others that could be a snapshot insight that give us a glimpse into Lemmy with an understanding that people don't want to spend an hour filling in the survey so we can't ask everything.
I think the question list you have is a good set of base questions, and I don't think there are any you've suggested that shouldn't be asked each year. So I propose we pick a couple of extra questions. I think it would be nice for everyone to use the same questions and see differences across instances, but also using different ones per instance gives us wider insights. So I could be persuaded either way. The kind of things that @hendrik@palaver.p3x.de suggested, like whether people mostly use Subscribed, Local, or All feeds (mindful these might have different names in different apps/frontends). Or OS they use, etc. Just making sure it's only one or two questions so it's not putting people off doing the survey by making it too long.
Now to your question:
For self-identification, free text means people are more likely to write what they actually want instead of trying to push themselves into the box of listed options, even if there is an Other option. However, it's also a lot of work to group things, and things need to be grouped to make any decent result visualisation. Plus people should be allowed to group themselves instead of me doing it. So I suggest a predefined list with an Other free-text option.
I think this is the case for the other similar things you list as well. For ethnicity, for our survey we used the actual list from the NZ Stats department. It has been carefully refined over years, there's no reason to think we could do any better. But of course our list would not be very helpful for other countries, so for region-based instances, maybe something similar can be found from that region.
The disability question was quite tricky to work out how to put into a chart. People can have multiple, but then you don't really want them showing 10 times. I think I'd like to have a pre-defined list next time, with an Other free text option as well. Let people put themselves into their own categories instead of me trying to push them into groups.
For the fun question, what I like about Favourite Dessert is how groups of people are likely to tend towards certain answers, but different groups of people can tend towards quite different things (especially when it's regional). Favourite Comfort Food could be a good one, but it might be nice not to do food again. I'll let others suggest some things. I will note that I think this Fun question is different from the suggestion above to have snapshot questions to get insights into Lemmy. Having "What OS do you use" is a census question, "What is your favourite dessert" is a fun question. I think we should have both.
This is very detailed, thank you for your thoughts!
That makes sense to me, to organize the questions into
- base questions (used by everyone, repeated annually)
- a few questions (used by everyone, on a particular census)
- instance specific questions (up to each instance)
I'm going to be away for a few days, but I'll see about listing out these new questions and other changes. Maybe we can put them somewhere to make it easier to collaborate and track changes?
For self-identification, free text means people are more likely to write what they actually want instead of trying to push themselves into the box of listed options, even if there is an Other option. However, it's also a lot of work to group things, and things need to be grouped to make any decent result visualisation. Plus people should be allowed to group themselves instead of me doing it. So I suggest a predefined list with an Other free-text option.
That makes sense, I'm leaning towards doing that. I've also gotten some suggestions on where to get the lists from so that should work :)
I’m going to be away for a few days, but I’ll see about listing out these new questions and other changes. Maybe we can put them somewhere to make it easier to collaborate and track changes?
That sounds like a good idea. Any thoughts on where?
Whatever is easiest for people :)
Some options that come to mind:
- a markdown file on git / GitHub
- a shared Google Docs file
- back and forth comments on Lemmy?
I'm wondering if the git option is best? A public github repo is a bit more permanent, means it stays available into the future even if it stops getting maintained.
The main issue with that is the technical hurdle for contributing, but I don't see why people can't comment on this post or future ones with comments if they don't want to do a pull request.
I prefer that over the Google docs option, and Lemmy comments are good for discussion but I think we need an "official" place to point people to. We can still discuss on Lemmy before making updates.
That makes sense to me :) The people maintaining it can add in the Lemmy comments as needed
We have a GitHub organization for our instance, I'll see if I can make a public repo and copy in the comments of this post
Sounds good!
Perhaps take on board the comments on this post, draft up a proposed template on the repo, and then perhaps do a new post asking for feedback? Is it worth creating a community for those interested to follow if they want to discuss, ask questions, propose ideas, etc, or is that better done on the repo?
De kriminellas handel med HVB-hem. Kriminella driver många HVB-hem. Det är en lämplig miljö för rekrytering av unga som torpeder, dvs mördare. Det är också ett sätt att tjäna pengar och lura till sig pengar från det allmänna.
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Like having some portals or borders which lead to the next server
you don't need federation to do that though... the server could Just™ send a packet to the client to redirect it to another server. minecraft for example already has this functionality and nearly all "large" servers make use of it.
honestly all use cases people think of for federated (in the AP way) game servers just feel like an attempt to cram federation as a buzzword anywhere they can think of "because its the next best thing trust me", similar to many other bubbles (NFTs, AI)
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Genuine question? Yes Minecraft is closed source but the Java version can be decompiled and a lot has been reverse engineered.
There are a few open source Minecraft clones. The most popular is Luanti formerly mine test which is more like an engine. The most popular? Minecraft clone made with it is named VoxeLibre formerly mineclone 2.
Minecraft Bedrock is written in and compiled from C++ and is completely closed-source.
The original Java version is technically also closed-source, but Java bytecode is relatively easy to decompile to a high level and Mojang (and surprisingly, even Microsoft*) tend to look the other way when people do that.
It seems like this was written for the Java version, but I'm not completely sure whether it's simply a protocol conversion, in which case, the protocols are already well known, and converting it to work with Bedrock might not be too difficult.
Yes, there are open-source alternatives, but nowhere near as many people play those as play Minecraft, which is probably why that was the target platform and not one of the others.
*For now.
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To add to this, Minecraft ~~Java~~ Bedrock used to ship their code with all the debug symbols included, making modding easy. Although these were recently removed, much to the displeasure of the modding community. Everyone should throw a vote at this feedback issue to request them back, btw:
Though I prefer Vintage Story. It's not FOSS but has a readable source code and, in my opinion, more interesting gameplay.
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EXCELLENT 👏👏👏
Now make it so that players from other servers can interact in 3d
Huge list of engineering FOSS
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There’s a professor and his research group at university of Michigan that does compliant mechanisms that u could check out if they’ve got something. It was a while ago that I applied there so possible he moved but still worth a check.
I’ve never used freecad as I’ve always had access to a cad program thru either school or work. One option that’s not free is to join a maker space that has better cad programs or just torrent. But you’re definitely in need of FEA for the bistable part
Bluesky at a crossroads as users petition to ban Jesse Singal over anti-trans views, harassment | TechCrunch
Bluesky at a crossroads as users petition to ban Jesse Singal over anti-trans views, harassment | TechCrunch
Now with 25 million users, Bluesky is facing a test that will determine whether or not its platform will still be seen as a safe space and place of refugeSarah Perez (TechCrunch)
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How One Syrian Fought to the Death for a Free Internet
Alice Su - Sep 27, 2017
Basel Khartabil hoped the internet would lead to a flowering of freedom and openness in Syria. Then he was arrested and imprisoned by the Assad regime.
In 2003, when Jon Phillips was 24, he met someone who changed everything about how he perceived the world. At the time, Phillips was a graduate student in computer science and visual art at the University of California, San Diego. Rather than work for a big tech company, as most of his friends were doing, he wanted to use his computing skills to “build society and community.” So he turned to open software, collaborating with strangers every day on Internet Relay Chat, a platform that software developers use to chat in real time while working on projects together. One day, while he was on an IRC channel developing an open source clip art site, someone with the username Bassel popped up.
Bassel wrote a patch for the site, then went on to develop a software framework for a blog platform that he and Phillips called “Aiki,” which was also the name of Bassel’s pet turtle. Phillips had no idea who Bassel was, where he lived, or what he looked like, but they spent hours hacking together, and eventually Phillips picked up more details: Besides the pet turtle, he learned that his collaborator lived in Damascus and was of Palestinian and Syrian descent; he taught Phillips that the Arabic term inshallah, “God willing,” could also mean “no.” He would joke with Phillips while hacking, “Don’t say inshallah, dude, don’t hex it, inshallah means it’ll never happen!” Eventually, Phillips learned his full name: Bassel Khartabil, though he went by Bassel Safadi online, a reference to his Palestinian origins in the town of Safad.
Phillips and Khartabil met at a time of great optimism for “open culture” advocates like them. Both men became active in the Creative Commons, a movement dedicated to open source programming and a culture of sharing knowledge across the world. Khartabil saw the internet and connectedness in grand, almost utopian terms, and in November 2009, he and Phillips organized an event at the University of Damascus called Open Art and Technology. It was the first significant “free culture” event in Syria—and the first time Phillips and Khartabil met in person. They invited a variety of artists, including the Syrian sculptor Mustafa Ali. After a speech given by the CEO of Creative Commons, who had traveled from the United States to Damascus, the artists stood up one by one and pledged to put their art in the commons, licensed for sharing, open to all.
“It was cool, like, is this really happening?” Phillips says. “We were sitting there, like, Dude, yeah, we did this, man. This is our thing. This is the ultimate social hack.” For Khartabil, it was a highlight of his effort to bring more Syrian art, culture, and knowledge onto the internet; it was the web as a peaceful revolutionary force.
Six years later, Khartabil was dead. Syrian military intelligence arrested him in Damascus on March 15, 2012. He was interrogated, tortured, and imprisoned in the Saydnaya military prison and Adra prison, sometimes in solitary confinement. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention determined that Khartabil’s imprisonment violated international law and called for his release, to no avail. Then, in October 2015, he disappeared from Adra, without any government statement of his whereabouts. Friends and family started a #freebassel campaign, believing he was still alive somewhere. But on August 1, 2017, Khartabil’s wife, Noura Ghazi Safadi, who is a human rights lawyer, announced that his family had confirmed his death. “He was executed just days after he was taken from Adra prison in October 2015,” Ghazi Safadi wrote on Facebook. “I was the bride of the revolution because of you. And because of you I became a widow. This is a loss for Syria. This is loss for Palestine. This is my loss.”
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in reply to Jo Miran • • •For an in-depth look at modern globalized production and the split between rich exploiter nations and the working poor in the global south, I highly recommend John Smith - Imperialism in the 21st century.
Some good introductory essays before diving into that book:
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My intro Marxist reading list in case anyone wants it
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