Found the physicist.

Removed by mod

MAM is unusual, but not really for any of the reasons you mentioned. Every private tracker I know of only allows a narrow list of desktop clients.

The expectation on private trackers is that you’re seeding 24/7 or as close to that as possible. Not that you just seed when your laptop lid happens to be open. If you want a cheap low-power seeding setup, get a Raspberry Pi or some other single-board computer and connect it to an external hard drive. Seeding from a smartphone, especially one you actually use day-to-day, is just not going to work and battery optimizations are only one reason why.

Yeah I know there’s ways to get voice calls and stuff, but the issue is that it’s not standardized in any way. As you said, you and everyone involved needs just the right client with just the right home server.

Matrix on the other hand finally managed to more or less solve this with Element Call. That’s not to say Matrix doesn’t have its own issues, it’s still not a complete Discord replacement either, but it is closer than XMPP and more likely to get there eventually.

Nothing as such, it just doesn’t really do what Discord does beyond the basic chat experience. Stuff like voice calls, screensharing etc. aren’t really there.

It also kinda lacks userbase, seeing that a lot of the open source federation enthusiast crowd has moved to Matrix.

Why XMPP instead of… pretty much anything else? Mostly asking because if you’re considering it as an alternative to Discord, I’m not sure you know what you’re getting into.

Humans generally have trouble thriving on diets that our closest primate relatives have no trouble with.

Fire turned us—a species capable of digesting raw meat and starchy tubers—into wusses who can only eat processed foods.

Casual sexual harassment humour. But I think if you look at his other comics you’ll have your answer:

• https://www.csectioncomics.com/comics/deadly-virus
• https://www.csectioncomics.com/comics/coronavirus-vs-alien-invasion
• https://www.csectioncomics.com/comics/rapunzel

Oh look, it’s the unfunny nu-boomer comic by renowned Israeli cartoonist Idan Schneider.

You’d have to kill 10,000 people to become a billionaire this way. Obvious fact perhaps, but it’s easy to forget how unnecessarily much a billion dollars is.

I’ll be honest that first screenshot is not a very flattering representation of the game’s graphics.

I don’t know if RunUO is still being updated, but ServUO, a fork, is still being developed. Our shard runs on POL, which somehow is also still in somewhat active development.

I’ve been adminning/developing for a small UO private shard for a few years now. It’s such a great platform for MORPGs, with only one M and heavy emphasis on the RP (our shard has a strict no-OOC policy).

Sadly the engine is very obviously 30 years old and it’s such a pain to develop for, even given all the community tooling that has pretty much reversed everything about it. Even though I love what’s built on it and have lots of ideas, implementing those ideas with all the technical limitations kinda sucks. One day I’m definitely going to make my own standalone spiritual successor. Yeah I know, add it to the pile, but this one would be different!

I’m all for not cutting the eyes off of shrimp for no particularly good reason, but I just want to devil’s advocate the argument for the complex internal lives of shrimp used here:

Researchers discovered that when shrimps are subjected to ESA, they try to escape it. They also flick their tails and rub their eye area. When the wounds are covered or medicine is given, the shrimps calm down. This suggests that the ablation caused them pain and distress.

Ants seek to escape the heat of the magnifying glass, flies seek to escape the flyswatter, most plants show signs of stress after being damaged and many plants are capable of sensing and learning, and even single-celled slime molds are capable of learning simple behaviours. This is not evidence of complicated sentience, this is something most non-microbial (and some microbial) life on the planet does.

Shrimp are ocean bugs with such a small number of neurons (less than 1 million) that we would probably be capable of simulating them on a present-day computer. As far as animals go, they’re pretty far down the sentience ladder. If you’ve ever killed a cockroach, that was an animal more complicated than most species of shrimp.

It’s kinda like how pizza is a vegetable.

In the EU, meat has to come from domestic ungulates, poultry, lagomorphs or wild game, otherwise it’s not meat: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319971198_How_meat_is_defined_in_the_European_Union_and_in_Germany

It’s not meat it’s fish!

Cleverbot’s trick was that it made humans respond to one another, it’s actually kind of similar to this. The difference is that Cleverbot stored the responses and whenever a query was made it picked the closest stored match.

Back in my day this was called Cleverbot.

You would need each generation to have kids in their 30s and 40s to be a boomer with a gen alpha grandkid.

This is pretty much exactly the case in my social circle. The boomers had millenial kids and the millenial kids either don’t yet have kids or their kids are under 10.