A tale of Beowulf, Bairn of Ecgthew

aethling of the Geats, firey focus of fable.

Victories many, bought with bounty of blood.

Twin monsters, Grendel's mother and her child

in the Scylding's land, brought low by sin

Time's riverbed, flows fleetingly fast

Until old king Beowulf, Bairn of Ecgthew

starcross'd lord, dreaded day of his death

faced a dragon, and greatest of god's geats

slew it quickly, protecting his land.

Ancient tale, fable of forefathers

of ancient prose, dense deep and dire.

Modern readers, ancient knowledge gone

will struggle much, History held in the heorot

cannot help them, since a heorot they lack.

thus unendowed, no strength for sound struggle

Will then fail, no meaning to them.

Knowledge of the past, if that ye seek

so ye desire, long lost lore

read knowing well, a challenging battle

Hazy and difficult, to enlighten yourself

but expect not, golden rings from the lord

facing the challenge, of this ancient tale.

I saw it today when I was fixing my xmpp server...

I recall mqtt being a standard for getting measurements from iot devices?

So is it for sending data...or receiving... Both? Neither? Am I fundamentally misunderstanding what mqtt is?

I had checked the box and couldn't figure out why it thought I had 2 notifications when I had none showing, and eventually I realized a bot responded to my posts.

On one hand, after backlash from making Dylan Mulvaney a brand ambassador, Bud Light is down to 14th place from 1st place in sales. On the other, Mike Lindell is selling factory equipment because his company got canceled so bad after backing Trump.

You know, I'm pretty OK if companies just get tf out of politics. I don't want to have to think about what brand of pillow or running shoe or beer or whatever says about who I'd vote for in a general election. It's hard enough choosing the best product for the best price without adding an entire arbitrary dimension on top of that.

It really reminds me of a comment from Fight club. What does your sofa say about you as a person? Except now it's What does the brand of some fungible product say about you as a person?

True story here: the reason companies pretend to care about this stuff is that a 2015 study showed that 70% of millennials claimed they would be more likely to pay more for a brand that had supported causes, and in 2014, Pew research found that millennials were more liberal and less conservative – on social views, millennials were 60% to say their views became more liberal. Therefore, to court those buyers companies supported causes, and they supported liberal/left causes.

But you know what? 25 years ago the opposite was true, and the religious right was the dominant cultural force and they were the ones leaning on the scale to get companies to pretend they care about their causes.

But they're companies. They don't care about any political cause, it's just a marketing gimmick. Whoever you are and whatever you support, they'll use you until they think they can't make more money off of you then they'll dump you.

https://12ft.io/www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/agencies-are-carving-out-niche-socially-responsible-marketing-168592/

https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2014/03/2014-03-07_generations-report-version-for-web.pdf

Seems odd that if you win by 0.001% that's treated the same as if you win by 50%. "You barely won, here's the same mandate as someone who won soundly"

Probably a bad idea, but there's an idea in there that isn't dumb.

The Fediverse is a massive place with many different software platforms that have different goals but share their support of the ActivityPub protocol.

Twitter Clone

• mastodon
• pleroma
• soapbox

Youtube Clone

• peertube

Instagram Clone

• pixelfed

Facebook Clone -Friendica

Blogging Platforms

• writefreely
• wordpress

Book sites

• bookwyrm

Music sites

• funkwhale

and if you're really stretching the definition then perhaps chat services like matrix (though matrix doesn't use activitypub).

According to one of my favorite sources on the matter, https://the-federation.info/ the fediverse has about 2M active users.

The "threadiverse" consists mostly of the reddit clones. It includes lemmy and kbin, and in more limited extents lotide (It fits the bill but has challenges with federation) and parts of friendica as well as possibly a.gup.pe.

This is just a small taste of all the different projects out there. For a lot of people they might not like one thing but they might like others. Decentralization is strength on the fediverse.

https://lemmy.fbxl.net/c/homeschool

homeschool@lemmy.fbxl.net

Since I couldn't find any in a quick search, I created a homeschooling community on my instance since I want a place to post if I see anything particularly interesting.

Look, I'm no artist at the best of times....

It feels like simulations and simulacra; The song was written in nostalgia for a long gone game console, and today I'm listening with nostalgia to a song that's almost as old now as the game console was then.