Giving them 5 years worth of posts, reposts, and likes from:

  Facebook, Instagram, X, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Reddit, Pinterest, Tumblr, Threads, WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, WeChat, QQ, Weibo, Douyin, Kuaishou, Line, KakaoTalk, Viber, Discord, Twitch, Mastodon, Bluesky, Truth Social, Parler, Gab, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Yandex Zen, Baidu Tieba, Xiaohongshu, Zhihu, Bilibili, NicoNico, Mixi, Cyworld, Nextdoor, Meetup, Medium, Substack, Patreon, Ko-fi, Buy Me a Coffee, DeviantArt, ArtStation, Behance, Dribbble, Flickr, 500px, Imgur, Giphy, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, Audiomack, ReverbNation, Last.fm, Spotify Community, Goodreads, Letterboxd, MyAnimeList, AniList, Stack Overflow, GitHub Discussions, ResearchGate, Academia.edu, SlideShare, Scribd, Quora, Ask.fm, CuriousCat, Yik Yak, BeReal, Clubhouse, Spaces, Kik, Houseparty, Marco Polo, Badoo, Tinder, Bumble, Grindr, OkCupid, Plenty of Fish, FetLife, Strava, Garmin Connect, Komoot, AllTrails, Untappd, Vivino, Steam Community, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, Roblox, Fortnite Creative, Second Life, IMVU ...

shouldn't take more than 800 years to check.

Even right now, about 400,000 people commute into Switzerland every day from neighboring countries to work, they can up that number easily.

...about 1% of the population will think that "Disco" is for 'Discovery'.

The programmers must be 17 or so.

I still can't get ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude to write a decent story or do an engineering design beyond basic complexity. They're all improving, but they're best thought of as brain-storming aids rather than actual development tools.

I just don't think many people want to watch an awards show where there's a bunch of angry people trying to push a political agenda. I mean, I support their right to free speech, and I've always felt like the games industry abused developers, but you're in the business of entertainment, and hearing people complain about their industry (an industry that I support with multiple game purchases per year) isn't what I'd call entertainment. At most I'd watch it to hear what the big games are, and maybe to see someone get some recognition for their hard work on a particularly well made title.

Social media has become a toxic dump. If you wouldn't allow children to play in waste effluent from a 1960s nuclear power plant, then you shouldn't allow them to play in the social media that's out there. Because, frankly, of the two, plutonium is safer.

I do, however, contend that this is a perfectly fixable problem. There is no reason why social media couldn't be safe. USENET was never this bad. Hell, Slashdot at its worst was never as bad as Facebook at its best. And Kuro5hin was miles better than X. Had a better name, too. The reason it's bad is that politicians get a lot of kickbacks from the companies and the advertisers, plus a lot of free exposure to millions. Politicians would do ANYTHING for publicity.

I would therefore contend that Australia is fixing the wrong problem. Brain-damaging material on Facebook doesn't magically become less brain-damaging because kids have to work harder to get brain damage. Nor are adults mystically immune. If you took the planet's IQ today and compared it to what it was in the early 1990s, I'm convinced the global average would have dropped 30 points. Australia is, however, at least acknowledging that a problem exists. They just haven't identified the right one. I'll give them participation points. The rest of the globe, not so much.

There's an interesting new idea where you can get some journals to pre-approve publication of your study by first submitting your plan... so you outline exactly how you are going to perform the experiment and analyze it. Then the journal pre-approves it, you perform the experiment/study, and they'll guarantee to publish your results (if you follow your plan) no matter the outcome. The idea is to fix the problem where journals only want to publish surprising results because they're more exciting, but the problem is that surprising results are also more likely to be wrong, and also to get cited.

The scientific community generally knows they have a serious problem, and they want to fix it, but in my opinion they're moving pretty slow. I don't know if they understand how much trust they're losing every time a story like this comes out. Ultimately it's good that these studies are being retracted, but the slow and painful way it's happening is just crushing trust in science as an institution. I'd like to see the scientific community take a stronger and faster approach to solving these problems.

To be fair, throughout history when countries didn't get along (which was most of the time) they solved it by throwing young men into meat grinders to achieve their aims. The idea after WWII was to stop using armed conflict to settle disputes and do it with monetary coercion. This was a much better deal for young military-age men the world over. The fact that Russia gave a big F U to the western world and its monetary policy, and started throwing young men into a meat grinder again, is a disheartening development. The fact that the US is now run by a guy who idolizes Putin and wants to use those same tactics, and throw away the international monetary system... that's a really scary development.

As the article mentioned, there are generally two ways that applications process data: either using patch processing or streaming data. For real-time data processing you generally use streaming data. In addition, in modern microservices architectures you generally use a messaging service between services to provide more reliability, scalability, and to more loosely couple the services.

For streaming data or messaging services, companies tend to either use a cloud service provider (CSP) native service like Google Cloud Pub/Sub or Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Queue Service (SQS). For companies that have their own data centers or want a uniform multi-cloud solution, they generally want a solution like Apache Kafka or a managed Kafka like Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka or Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK). Apache Kafka is faster than older solutions like RabbitMQ.

The streaming/messaging service is configured to meet the application requirements for message delivery like deliver once or deliver at least once, in order or out of order, dead letter queues, schema enforcement, etc. It allows for architectures with multiple publishers or multiple subscribers (e.g., fan-out architectures). It provides access controls, monitoring, and logging capabilities.

For companies that decide on managing their own Apache Kafka rather than paying a CSP to do it, they often want a commercial product with commercial support and that is what Confluent offers. Confluent also offers a Confluent Cloud service where it sounds like they deploy and manage Kafka in your AWS, Azure, or GCP environment as a cloud agnostic managed service (I am not familiar with that product).

"I has to be be your friend circles."

Yes, they kick over furniture, glasses and little kids, but at least they look good.

There is no expectation of privacy in public.

I think this is the point of cryptocurrencies. They want to be free of government interference. Sanctions are a form of government interference. It's working as intended.

"Could I shove this up my ass to provide power to my personal electronics?"

Yes, you can consider it as a solar panel for places where the sun doesn't shine.

Russia scrambling satellites to avoid getting hit by Ukrainian drones and missiles?

Yep - absolutely agree with you. Just because a devices is locally controllable and has opened up localhost:8080, that doesn't prevent it from also opening a connection to https://badthing.example:9999/ and uploading everything it can find to it. Concepts are orthogonal.