[–] 5 points 2 days ago

Or like anyone or anything that wakes you up when you're still sleeping.

Alarm clocks, crying infants, drill-seargent-esque family members who wake everyone up at 5am, early morning garbage trucks - all have succumbed to woke ideology.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 days ago

    I believe there are a few proposals of integrations of different open source review systems into OSM, but they haven't been finalized yet.

    Totally agree this is the number one thing missing from open source maps rn, and it should be top priority years ago.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago

    Some things that help me at least:

    • Only use bed for sleeping.
    • Don't use screens at least an hour before bed.
    • Keep phone out of arms reach when in bed. Ideally in another room (these devices weigh heavy on our psychology, and the further they are from us, the less distracting they are).
    • Leave blinds open at night so you wake up with the sun. Try to sync your body / circadian rhythm with your environment if possible.
    • Get lots of walks and outside time during the day. If you have a lot of energy, work out more during the day.
    • No coffee / intoxicants in the evening.
    • Drink lots of water.
    • Don't try to fix your sleep problems at night. Most of your remedies should be getting on the right foot the next day, and making habits of those.
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  • [–] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Left / Right bias is fine, as long as the site is credible.

    MBFC is literally just some guy's opinion blog, there's nothing credible about it. It has the appearance of neutrality on its cover, and 1 page in it comes out as staunchly pro-zionist.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    We need someone with some Marxist literacy to create a similar project and call it like something equally neutral sounding, like, "media bias credibility meter".

    I guess prolewiki already could handle this, but liberals are immediately turned off by the partisan pro-worker viewpoint, and are easily duped by anything that sounds neutral on its cover.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    There is a longer more complicated history around the term social democracy, but the short version is that beginning in the later 1800s, there arose two camps: reformist / pacifist / bourgeios socialists, and revolutionary ones. The reformist ones formed parties who, in every country they did so, ended up joining forces with capitalists to repress and put down the revolutionary ones. Every country has a long history of socdems doing this, as its been occurring since the 1800s when Marx and Engels noted this tendency.

    What about social democracy / democratic socialism / the Nordic model? Isn't Sweden socialist?

    Some more links:

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago* (1 child)

    Anarchism has had zero historical successes, and the 20th century showed that only national liberation struggles backed by proletarian states had any success at defeating capitalist empires.

    The USSR, Cuba, China, Vietnam, all defeated fascist / capitalist states not via dismantling or "decentralizing" power, but through centralizing it in the hands of workers capturing and holding state power. They all explicitly dismissed anarchism as being worthless for the uplifting of their people, and many times had to fight against anarchists who sided with the reactionaries, or advocated dismantling worker-power.

    The historical ignorance and arrogance of western anarchists is truly astounding. Name me a single historical success of anarchism in defeating capitalist-imperialism. The USSR defeated nazi germany, Cuba defeated the US. How many batallions did the anarchists field in those struggles that were some of the most important events in the 20th century?

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  • submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [M] to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml
     

    What's Changed

    Full Changelog: https://github.com/LemmyNet/jerboa/compare/0.0.87...0.0.88

     

    What is Lemmy?

    Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.

    Changes

    This release significantly reduces memory usage for the Lemmy backend. Metrics on production instances show a reduction up to 10 times. Here you can see the statistics from a few different instances. Read on for a technical explanation below. Note that the change only affects x86, there is no difference on ARM (e.g. Raspberry Pi), see here for details.

    lemmy.ml (overall RAM usage including OS, Docker, PostgreSQL etc):

    leminal.space (backend container only)

    lemmy.world (backend API containers)

    lemmy.world (backend federation and scheduled tasks)

    How was such a major improvement possible? Memory usage in languages like Rust or C is managed by a so-called memory allocator. It requests large chunks of RAM from the operating system, and provides smaller chunks when needed in the program. For example, every string (such as post titles or markdown text) require chunks of memory to store them. When processing the data is completed, the memory should be freed and released, or reused.

    Until version 0.19.19 Lemmy used the mimalloc memory allocator, which is supposedly better than the default glibc allocator. Yet a recent blog post points out that mimalloc does not play well with the tokio async runtime. It suggests to use jemalloc instead. Changing memory allocators is very simple in Rust, it only requires a single line of code. So we tried that, deployed the change on lemmy.ml and it immediately proved effective.

    Upgrade instructions

    There are no breaking changes with this release.

    Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker.

    If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat.

    Thanks to everyone

    We'd like to thank our many contributors and users of Lemmy for coding, translating, testing, and helping find and fix bugs. We're glad many people find it useful and enjoyable enough to contribute.

    Support development

    We (@dessalines and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for over five years. This is largely thanks to support from NLnet foundation, as well as donations from individual users.

    If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. A recurring donation is the best way to ensure that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive, and helps us grow our little developer co-op to support more full-time developers.

     

    This phenomenal paper from 1986 compares the quality of life (called in the article PQL, including indicators like health, life expectancy, daily per capita calories, infant mortality rate, etc), and finds that socialism outperforms capitalism in nearly all cases for comparisons of countries with similar ecomomic development.

    Abstract from jstor:

    This study compared capitalist and socialist countries in measures of the physical quality of life (PQL), taking into account the level of economic development. The World Bank was the principal source of statistical data, which pertained to 123 countries and approximately 97 percent of the world's population. PQL variables included (1) indicators of health, health services, demographic conditions, and nutrition (infant mortality rate, child death rate, life expectancy, crude death rate, crude birth rate, population per physician, population per nursing person, and daily per capita calorie supply); (2) measures of education (adult literacy rate, enrollment in secondary education, and enrollment in higher education); and (3) a composite PQL index. All PQL measures improved as economic development increased. In 30 of 36 comparisons between countries at similar levels of economic development, socialist countries showed more favorable PQL outcomes (p < .05 by two-tailed t-test). This work with the World Bank's raw data included cross-tabulations, analysis of variance, and regression techniques, which all confirmed the same conclusions. The data indicated that the socialist countries generally have achieved better PQL outcomes than the capitalist countries at equivalent levels of economic development.

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