Flip a coin every time you read an article whether you get quick and easy significant issues

Relativistic mass is not helpful to our everyday understanding of mass, it’s more helpful to discuss momentum, like the other commenter pointed out

Gravity isn’t a force, strictly speaking. Objects move along geodesics in spacetime (that’s basically a straight line along a curved surface), and gravity bends spacetime, and therefore also these geodesics, around massive objects. So you don’t actually get accelerated by gravity, that’s why you don’t feel anything during free fall. What we perceive as the force of gravity pushing us down, is the solid ground accelerating us upwards, when following the geodesic would have us fall instead.

So when the sun disappears, the geodesic that used to spiral around the sun suddenly straightens out, and the neutral movement, the new free fall, has the earth continuing in a straight line. You wouldn’t be able to feel that. What the other person said about tidal forces is true tho, it would likely cause worldwide tsunamis

The cavalry’s not coming. It’s just us.

Once upon a time, before the Nazi killing was reserved for online lobbies, Call of Duty had games take place in World War 2.

They come out swinging, huh

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Matrix is a federated system, kinda like Lemmy. If you just use an existing instance that you trust, it’s basically just another e2ee messenger. But many people host their own, and for that you need to a) have access to a server or VPS and b) have that server secured, i.e. configure firewalls, certificates, etc. It’s not super hard, but takes some technical knowledge. Your non-technical friends can just use your instance, tho.

The benefit is that you control your data, not some external provider. From a pure security standpoint, however, there’s not a lot of benefit over, say, Signal.

Of course, that’s the infrastructure aspect of security. Other things, like having strong and varied passwords, no biometric logins (or only with 2fa), not sharing personal information about yourself or friends online, those obviously everyone needs to follow.

What decade do you live in? It’s closer to 2-4x nowadays, and 2TB is nothing

In terms of increasing paranoia, but also obscurity:

Signal (easy, pretty secure messenger replacement)

Matrix (self-hosted, which means you control the data, but it requires good security practices on your end to be safe)

SimpleX (messenger without user IDs, makes it nigh impossible to trace who’s communicating with whom)

Briar (peer to peer messenger over Tor, Bluetooth, local WiFi, or physical drives)

A steam console will likely just be a Linux PC running SteamOS

No need to emulate

Your internal meetings constitute legitimate interests and will be shared with our 8 billion partners

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It’s not gonna make them more exposed than vanilla Firefox

Don’t you love it when people say random, illogical bullshit that sounds vaguely sciency and pretends to be deep?

To post from mastodon you just tag the community, as if it was a user

It didn’t suck exactly, time is just so much more prevalent than other units that switching to a new system was even more contentious. Current time is just as arbitrary (although maximizing for maximum number of prime factors is pretty nice, even if it doesn’t mesh nicely with other metric units)

Different situation, I’d say. You get a say how your own countries, cities, etc get named. No one is forced to accept it, but it’s a matter of international respect to do so.

You don’t get to rename a geographic feature. Much less one that’s outside your borders.

Don’t care too much about the supposed hardening, but it’s on FDroid and has UnifiedPush, so I use it over Signal

I would be

Chinese teenagers would be much more competent at running tech companies

Backups are, first and foremost, your responsibility. It’s unfortunately not realistic to expect someone to diagnose whether an issue is software-related or a hardware failure on any obscure DIY OS you might have installed. But as long as it’s possible to flash back the original firmware, warranty should still apply