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  • Well, the cannon only needs to produce enough force to move a tiny cannon ball really fast.

    The 6 second interval is to match the in game fight sequences, implying that the enlarge spell would finish casting as it impacts the enemy ship. All of that momentum suddenly comes to a grinding halt as the weight suddenly changes and the cannon ball rips the enemy ship to shreds


  • Well, you’re here on Lemmy using the ActivityPub protocol. How’s the experience been? Does the filtering fit your needs?

    I realize you might be talking about the server side rather than for users, ie if you were gonna set up your own instance. In which case, what you’re referring to is called “federation/defederation.” My understanding is that you just have to go flip a switch on your backend to filter out a whole instance, a person, a community etc and nobody on your instance will see it anymore.



  • For whatever reason I’m struggling to remember how to properly explain the difference between push/pull protocols, but AP only moves data at a users request.

    This means that if I follow you on Mastodon, and you comment on a post by some other third party which I have no interaction with, it’s going to bring that comment to me and bring along any other related data. In this case, that means the post you commented on and all of the other comments and data related to that post.

    This cycle works constantly, so I get content from the other side of the world because I (in reality, my instance, not me in particular) interacts with a chain of instances to keep data flowing







  • Make no mistake, the career path has no bearing on this experience. It is ubiquitous in the workforce.

    At one point in my life I was pushing carts in a factory, and some times we’d have to prep the material. People refusing to learn any sort of efficient way to prep the material meant they if they walked over to a cart that needed to be prepped I would change my entire workflow to adapt to being down a person