After rereading your post and given the context of the thread I realize you didn’t specifically say the cattle weren’t sapient

A fair point. I’ve given thought to the issue of catch points, as it’s often brought up with horned helmets. I could have the muzzle slope up more steeply toward the stop (the area between the eyes) so that there’s more head clearance. That might limit vision though since the visor would be further away from the eyes. Then again I could make the whole front of the helmet clear. Polymerite is transparent (though not colorless), and if it’s strong enough to serve as a shield against relativistic impacts than it should be able to serve as head protection.

Anyway, good food for thought.

(Apologies if this ends up a double post. I replied to this comment in my notifications and it just fell into the abyss. Lemmy is weird like that. I’ve sometimes seen things I’ve only posted once show up two or three times in a row, too)

Anyway, I love the idea of a sapient species having a closely related nonsapient species. Yinrih have nonsapient congeners called tree dwellers. Humans often compare them to chimps, and while their intelligence is about on par with chimps, tree dwellers look indistinguishable from yinrih, at least to humans. Yinrih traditionally consider themselves to be sapient tree dwellers, even though they are different species, and there is a faction of yinrih that wants to shed their sapience and join their cousins in irrationality.

How big are these tardigrades?

an autonomous parasol drone

I have hovering drone capsules used for an analog of man-portable weapons (handguns, rifles, automatic weapons, etc idk I’m not a gun guy but you get the idea) so I can see this as a possible use case for them as well. However, one of my criteria when designing something for this setting is don’t use a fancy high tech solution with multiple complex failure points when a simple solution works better, so your harness suggestion would work better.

However Yinrih society has an equivalent to the clueless Silicon Valley tech bro who gets gobs and gobs of VC funding from equally vapid rich people who think their over-engineered nonsense will be the next big thing *coughjuicerocough*, and a parasol drone is exactly the sort of stuff they’d come up with.^[1]

On the other hand, a quad-copter drone parasol could use the downwash from the rotors to cool the ears while staying aloft, so maybe the idea has merit after all.

Also, remote printing and monitoring are nice features, which would be a pity to lose.

I don’t see an easy way to accomplish this independent of Bambu’s servers, especially if you use the handy app on your phone.

Slightly harder: add exceptions for bambus servers in your routers firewall so that requests to that domain are blocked

I assigned a static IP address to my A1 mini in my router, and made a firewall rule preventing all traffic originating from that IP from going to the internet. The printer is also in LAN only mode, but I periodically have to reconnect it to Bambu studio which is annoying.

This is correct. I use “ASCII art” to refer mostly to fancy CLI welcome messages

Prey doesn’t mean defenseless. Lots of prey animals have gnarly defenses.

Anecdotally, I’ve heard it claimed that a large herbivore is more dangerous than a predator. No idea if that’s true, and I’m too lazy to verify it, but intuitively I’d think predators won’t spend more energy acquiring a meal than that meal provides, so if they’re full or don’t think you’re worth it they won’t go after you. But prey animals attack out of fear and are thus less predictable.

Reminds me of Jingle Cats

Thanks! I wrote this over a year ago. I’ve got a bunch of other stories, but I’m not sure of the quality of my writing. I’m a worldbuilder first, and the plot and characters serve the world, not the other way around, which is generally considered bad when writing fiction.

I personally enjoy reading amateur sci-fi. It’s fun seeing someone’s raw unfiltered imagination, even if the prose isn’t up to par.

The CBB is mostly for conlanging but has a sizeable worldbuilding/conworlding subforum. You don’t have to be a conlanger to enjoy it. I would definitely recommend especially if you’re nostalgic for the traditional forum experience. It’s absolutely a better format for long-lasting topics compared to Lemmy/Reddit, where threads get buried very quickly regardless of how active they are.

I miss those thin serif fonts that were all over tech magazines in the 80s and 90s

Thanks!

A lot of my worldbuilding is based on stupid memes from around 2009-2012.

I also just grab concepts I think are cool and try to make them unique.

I had to look up what a cat organ was.

I thought they were sold in the US now with some slight modifications to comply with the law? I know I’ve seen Kinder eggs in my local grocery store.

But yes, the ban is due to a perfectly sensible law having a bizarre edge case.

It’s also why king cakes don’t have the little baby figurines in them I believe.

On Lemmy you can see (and search) a list of all the activity from every instance federated to your home instance. Looking at Ibis, which a few posters have mentioned on this thread, it has a discover page with a list of federated instances and articles on those instances. The current format is hardly scalable, but it’s a start.

But, as I said before, the issue is less about discoverability and more about editing. Just like I can post in this thread even though I’m on a different instance, you can edit an article on one instance even though you’re on another. The alternative as used by Wikipedia, is to allow anyone, account or not, to edit. Requiring someone to have an account on a federated instance would mitigate a fair amount of spam and ease moderation.

In addition to discoverability, I’d say it provides a happy medium between letting every rando with an IP address edit a page and requiring account creation. Part of the point of the fediverse is to have (almost) everything in one place under a single account while still keeping things decentralized.

I wouldn’t doubt it, though MW seems hard to manage.

This looks interesting.

Seems like it’s still early days yet, but are there plans to add things like namespaces and categories?