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I’m on my computer now, so I’ll type out some more detail if you’re interested. To reiterate, I’m just going off memory and it was two weeks ago so I could very well be making stuff up…

The pre-filled input box asked for each blocked instance to go on a new line, so:

lemmy.world  
lemmy.ml  
lemmygrad.ml  
hexbear.net  
lemmy.zip  
piefed.social  
etc...  

I deleted all of the defaults and that was it. I’ll put a screenshot of the settings page that’s available to admins below:

If I remember correctly, I was presented with a text box pre-populated with the list of bad guys. I just selected them all with Ctrl-A and hit delete.

A lot of folks think their decentralized internet forum of choice should be a free for all, but that’s not realistic.

Moderation and censorship are easy to get confused. Moderation includes reviewing content and sources for quality and safety, while censorship aims to control or manipulate a narrative. (general words taken from this page)

A PieFed instance defederating from a historically nasty fediverse server or 12 is just a form of moderation, and is up to whoever runs the server. The reason for blocking hexbear/lemmy.ml/lemmygrad could just be to cut down on the amount of manual moderation that’s required by having their stuff federate to your server – not trying to control a narrative or suppress any opinions – just historically lots of wrong, inaccurate, inflammatory stuff that adds to a moderator’s workload. Easier to avoid it.

Lemmy.ml removing comments and banning people for having opinions that differ from theirs is censorship, because 1) they are very consistent about it and 2) it drives their narrative.

I might propose instead a step in setup, or on demand, to select major instances to allow/deny federation from

This is exactly how it works. I started a PieFed instance and made the decision (during setup) to trim the defederation list down to none. Users can block on the account level.

That’s not at all what the above comment says.

It has to do with taking up screen space. “Advertising and headers take up …”. The title bar is sort of a header, so I posted how to remove it.

Right click up on the toolbar and select “Customize Toolbar”. Uncheck “Title Bar” to get ride of the text at the top of the screen.

Edit: apparently this stuck a nerve. This is a way to increase screen space, just like how someone recommended using verticle tabs.

If it’s just for charging, a USB-C port is just a different part. The charge controller and everything can stay “dumb” if it’s a low power device.

The USB-C spec is complicated and to take full advantage of it is expensive like you said, but I think just using a modern form factor isn’t expensive.

Yeah, that stinks.

Images in comments is planned for a future release (probably 1.3). It’s on version 1.1 right now.

Considering how young the project is I think it’s really good already. Room for improvement of course, but very good.

Finding the Center of Gravitas.

It’s recommended to not begin boarding until it’s finished, but one person moving around, gusts of wind, etc. don’t bother it.

I’ve been trying to think through how it would determine longitude based on rotation of the earth and I agree, that’s not really possible. I wonder what other tricks it uses to find the initial location.

This sounds pretty fancy.

Commercial aircraft get their location from multiple places including GPS, ground based facilities (VOR’s), IRS, etc. IRS is what I’m used to calling it, but it’s the same as INS, which is what this article is talking about.

It determines location by keeping track of rotation, acceleration, etc. It’s often called “dead reckoning” because it just gives the best guess, and you don’t know how accurate it is. There are multiple of these devices on each aircraft, and they compare their locations to the other sources and if one is drifting way further than the rest, it gets ignored. That’s a very basic explanation because how it really works is way above my knowledge level.

It’s very cool how these devices find their location, though. When you first boot the system up, it spends about 5 minutes measuring the rotation of the Earth. For this reason, you can’t reset it when in motion. Based on what it feels it can determine your exact location on the surface of the earth.