Sadly they will just yell louder "It's photoshoped!"

Doesn't matter. You just swamp them with volume. The thing about mis/disinformation is that it moves to fill voids, not unlike gas rushing into a vacuum; falsehoods have a first mover advantage because it takes less time to make something up than to report it accurately. But if you're generating interesting content on the regular, conspiracy stuff gets sidelined.

A simpler example again than a rover would just be installing a camera on the Moon that points back at Earth and beaming a high-res whole planet image in real time. The lack of imagination in existing space projects is just deplorable. If you want a bigger science budget, a planetary selfie stick will pay off in spades. Flat earth people will dry up and blow away after a year of people being able to look at the planet they live on and see weather patterns, wildfires etc.

I might repeat what others said but since it's a "huge hobby project":

1) Break it into smaller chunks

2) Prioritize all those smaller chunks by impact, difficulty, and dependency

3) Break them again into smaller pieces based only on difficulty

4) Work based on priorities, get lower diff and high impact first

This way you will start to get a good feeling about your work/project.

Take breaks and make sure you don't burnout.

Good luck!

Well, sadly you will get banned because you dont bring $ into "the network".

Yes, what you say is true. However, all the people working on Meta and other companies have to pay for food, shelter, clothing, rent, transportation, insurance, etc.

Money might not be the most important thing in life, but it sure is in the top 5.

Just to close it after a few years? :D

Found those, seems to be well established +19y on the market - https://krystal.uk/

If we're living in a simulation then there's nothing we can do to "escape". But what if the simulators are long dead (extinct) and simulation continues to just run forever?

In "real reality" there is no forever, but in simulated reality they could turn up the clock speed and really let things last a very long time indeed.

Another thing simulated reality offers is afterlife, in any number of forms. If it turns out there is one (or more), I'll try to remember to attribute that to being in a sim.

If it's a sim, it's a damn "real thing". The illusion of what we might think it's real seems perfect, where still not sure how we can explain "time" that can be just a simple variable in that sim.

Out of my simple head, I'm a bit uncertain that nothing can past the speed of light. Maybe there's something else traveling at higher speed but we're unable to detect it.

This can be related to the thing you mention about "in simulated reality they could turn up the clock speed". Just rambling thoughts

Didn't know about this, nice to have so many papers regarding anonymity. Will be great if they start adding everything related to online privacy and so on. The project looks active so nice touch https://gitweb.torproject.org/anonbib.git

Very simple - you won't be able to tell the difference. Philip.K. Dick painted this future so well in his "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" novel.

Also a recurring theme in Ubik!

And Second Variety

And Total Recall (We Can Remember It for You Wholesale)

And The Father Thing

Shrdlu agrees.

Bring back:

1) Personal blogs 2) Blogroll 3) Web-rings and web-directories with manually curated links

I left all "social media platforms" 4 years ago, never look back, never miss anything important

I have as well, despite it being pretty expensive to maintain, updating my own sites is so much more of a "stable growth" feeling and far less stressful than working excessively on a massive social media site that might shutter overnight, limit me, or over-moderate me. I am quite sure that building and maintaining my own sites has cost me a lot less than what it would cost to keep promoting posts on social media.

Now if only wen hosting companies weren't seeking to increase pricing and upsell us all the time, we'd have something really epic! har.

You touched some true points here. Your site = Your rules. And it's not that hard to have a photo/video gallery for family/friends to see or even contribute.

Hosting prices are on the golden age, not see any issues here. But well, depends on each requirements.

Not really new but I'm all in self-hosting, decentralization, privacy and original web owned by individuals rather than big corp. I never manage to get drowned in any social media trends or platform.

I really like Zola https://www.getzola.org/

Love the looks of Zola, have you used it for a personal project yet?

Also, I'm a fan of the concept of decentralization, but I dislike how much it is now associated with the "crypto-bro" demo. Have you seen any projects capitalize on this new wave of decentralization while staying clear of the "Web3" side of the internet?

I use it (Zola) for my personal humble blog https://undeadalien.xyz Disclosure: It's in Romanian, no cookies, no JS, no trackers

Beaker Browser https://beakerbrowser.com/ seems dead, loved the concept but it's no longer updated

Now that you've asked, nope, didn't found anything with a clear future on the "Web3" side of the internet. Vast majority make use of crypto/blockchain and IMHO blockchain is anything but not decentralization.