🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@ThreeOneThreeChris Yea I know, its just what people call them . I dont like the term either

@bonifartius I dont trust people either, problem is I trust military, police, and government far far less than I trust your average citizen, so my lack of trust is part of why i support guns.

The other factor for me is I have never once been around a citizen with a gun who made me feel threatened because they had a gun in any way... meanwhile I've never once felt very safe around a cop carrying a gun, least of all when they have their hand on it ready to go.

@djsumdog

They are a really fun fun to shoot. I love how they are a light rifle, so they wont make your shoulder hurt or throw you back, but still pack a good punch and handle so well.

My armor piercing bullets (NATO 5.46) and magazines for my AR-15 just arrived in the mail. First time i mail ordered bullets. Gotta love Ameroca.

@morne You cant just join any instance though! Are you a STEM professional?

@lucifargundam

Since I've never seen a single report from them I cant say.

Based on their block list it is most likely because we dont censor our users access to fediverse content (you as a user can view al users on the fediverse and we wont censor that, though we do have rules about what you can post).It looks lie they are one of those servers I mentioned already that will block any server that doesnt employ the list of censorship targets they demand, which is likely everyone else on that block list. That is the list a lot of these "block everyone who doesnt block what we block" tends to have, though some more and some less and qoto is only rarely on it,

@FailForward @users

@AusOcean yea it was really impressive how he blended in the first few seconds

@AusOcean Here is a video I shot of an octopussy on one of my dives. I love how he shows off his racing striped when he swims.

https://youtu.be/CKvgCJpzJMY

@AusOcean Its the corperations, big-ocean, they have been pulling the wool over our eyes.

@AusOcean We all know they are called octopussies. Little known fact, they are a close cousin of the common house cat which is why we call cats "pussies" as well. An octopus is basically a cat without bones.

(Note, the above statements have not been checked for factual accuracy).

@johnabs Well we do have a strong STEM focus in the sense that if you arent a professional or student in stem you will not be allowed here, and we are very strict on it.. So we are strict on our STEM focus in terms of the people, just not in terms of what they can say or talk about :)

@realcaseyrollins

Glad I could help. I was one of the early pioneers in the space and its one of specializations.

@derek @original_fractalator@mstdn.io

@derek

While these are all legitimate questions to ask, and exemplify why truly distributed networks are a real challenge, they arent impossible to solve.

Generally with distributed networks the answer to most of this is "the data is stored with your peers when offline".

Somehow (depending on the protocol devised) there are multiple copies throughout the mesh of any data. The redundancy of this is high enough to garuntee the data persists and as nodes go down and redundancy is lost the other copies in the network replicate to keep the redundancy consistent.

When you come on line, presuming its a new client without a copy of your own data, it then finds your data in the network and reconstitutes it locally

@original_fractalator@mstdn.io @realcaseyrollins @Locksmith

@johnabs There is no "off topic" on this server. We are a STEM server in the sense that you need to be a STEM professional or student to have an account here. We do not, however, require you only post about STEM, nor do we encourage it.

Discussion about politics are welcome and feel free to make such posts as often as you'd like.

@original_fractalator@mstdn.io

PArtly correct, but two problems here.. 1) your leaving out that one is a subcategory of the other (distributed is a subset of decentralization, not seperate and distinct from it)... 2) your also mincing terms, or rather, Casey is. I'll try to explain.

First you have the terms for types of network topologies. This is, how the authority of nodes in a communication network are ordered. You have a few relevant types here:

* Star network: this is the type of topologies facebook or twitter employee a simple client-server architecture

* Tree network: this is what the fediverse is, but having only a 2-level tree, clients, servers, and then the servers are all on the same level.

* Mesh network - This is where every node has equal authority and the nodes interconnect and relay between each other with equal authority

Next you have the categories of centralization, these are similar except in this case each is a subset of the other. It mostly fits the diagram you described but has the subset nature I mention

* Centralized - We all know what this means

* Decentralized - Any network with any degree of decentralization, both tree networks and mesh networks are types of decentralized networks.

* Distributed - Any network where there is no centralizations of anykind. **all** distributed networks are decentralized networks, but **not all** decentralized networks are distributed. A mesh network, is both a decentralized and a distributed network, a tree network is a decentralized network but not a distributed one.

Lastly we have the protocols themselves, which often line up with the above categories but dont always:

* client-server - such protocols are almost always centralized and star-servers but do not need to be so. There is a clear distinction between a server in authority and a client. For example a database in a master-slave configuration where clients can connect to either a master or a slave would technically be decentralized despite being client server

* federated - A type of client-server architecure where the authority (federated servers) do not have central control, but clients yield to the authority of a specific server. So it appears centralized from the clients perspective, but is mesh from the servers perspective.

* peer-to-peer - in this architecture there is no sense of a server, the server functions and client functions are both servered by a peer

Its important to note here though that peer-to-peer does **not** always mean distributed, or mesh, though it often does. For example the Gnutella protocol is a peer-to-peer server but the peers negotiate for their right to serve as indexing node, as well as a seed node. As such Gnutella protocol is an example of peer-to-peer that operates in a non-distributed decentralized tree-like network

@derek @realcaseyrollins

@realcaseyrollins Peer to peer **is** decentralized, one of many types of decentralization.

I suspect what you meant to say was "federation" instead of "decentralization" (both federation and peer to peer are two categories under neat decentralization).

@snow @natse @snow_wintermute @scaria_law @dv8

I also only tagged the wrong snow by accident in my post. I meant the one at wintermute obviously, not the alt account. So the point is moot.

@wpo care to share their reasons and if possible the new and old one? I am just hearing of this now.