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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

It stands for Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory!

The black holes are so big and fast when they spiral in and merge that they literally create waves in spacetime which change the length of things by a tiny amount as they pass by us and LIGO is able to measure when the two arms of it change length by nanometers and that's where we got the signal.

There's also The Event Horizon Telescope which made radio images of the black hole at the center of our galaxy. We haven't been able to catch a merger with this though.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Black holes merge. It doesn't matter what size they are. It's not that the bigger one eats the smaller one they just merge.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There's different kinds of backups. For this you don't need off-site storage.

For this I set up zfs auto snapshotting which means when I delete stuff it isn't really deleted because a snapshot is still pointing at it until it rolls off the time window.

Both zfs and btrfs can do this but you do need to change the filesystem to use these which can be a lot of work.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

It's disappointing that they didn't hardcode it to 11/10

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (7 children)

As far as I know it was started by the original lemmy developers which made the software because they felt persecuted for their beliefs on normie social media. Lemmy just happened to be around when the reddit CEO decided to f up reddit so everyone started using it despite the creators not being well adjusted people.

Edit: just so I'm not misinforming here's what they said themselves about the origin https://lemmy.ml/post/70319

I don't get how extremist leftist content ends up attracting people who are against woke stuff in stardew really but over time I've gotten the vibe the ml and hexbear people are in general more combative and angry about things.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 4 weeks ago (26 children)

Make your own community on an instance that's not full of assholes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why not just host on v4 and v6 from home?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

LastPass said the exact same thing. I won't be a big target like they will though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I think the main thing for not messing it up is just make sure you keep it updated. Probably set up auto updates and auto backups.

[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Because when whatever company gets a data breach I don't want my data in the list.

With bitwarden If your server goes down then all your devices still have a local copy of your database you just can't add new passwords until the server is back up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I wish this would happen but it sounds like they thought ahead when they wrote the terms and the lawyers are gonna laugh all the way to the bank

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 month ago (22 children)

Why do they always send the poor?

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