3cats-in-a-coat

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by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
Well, actually... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/reef-sharks-are-di... https://www.fishersci.com/us/en/scientific-products/publicat... https://www.science.org/
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
It is down. For many. I also get the "rate limit exceeded" errors, I'm not even a heavy user.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
I'd be curious to hear about some of those sites.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
He had committed to providing funding to them and was on the board. Being on the board is indeed the only form of control in a non-profit. He tried to pressure them to make him a CEO, they refused, so he said "no money then, go bankrup
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
He tried to pressure them in 2020 to make him a CEO. They refused, so he pulled promised funding when they were on the brink of bankruptcy. They made a deal with Microsoft instead. Then in 2022, they blew up and Elon's been spitting ve
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
Disables API, gets scraped, needs more servers, disables access without logins, gets millions of fake accounts, has to deal with the fake accounts, in the process deletes tons of real accounts, users pissed, scraping continues, server bills
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
Sending information into a country that violates its laws is not that different to violating its airspace. We live in a society where information is the highest value commodity and around which everything else revolves. Information controls
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
The choice is not between no change and drastic change, but selecting a rate of change that is appropriate. Things which do not change, die, as the only thing that is constant is change. Change or be changed.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
There's no trivial way to work around it. Without API and without web access, where are you going to read the tweets from? The only option left is unofficial API stubs, which essentially scrape the web requests, but those also will req
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
When people say "blockchains are a solution in search of a problem" they aren't kidding huh? We already have decentralized Twitter, it's called Mastodon (we have more of those as well).
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
So, how does it work without an API?
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
Man, I hope they try to ban users who haven't subscribed to Twitter Blue, as well.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
Nations should have better laws, but it's not up to a company in one country to decide what's a better law for another country. This makes no sense, and speaks of sense of supremacy and entitlement that can only come back to bite
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
* I mean "he can fire her"
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
That is an interesting take, but it'd require her to surprise Elon and quit before she can fire her. Because to him perception is very important, he's like a politician.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
Frankly, she's getting precisely what she bargained for. And her ideas as seen in FT are predictably out of place for Twitter. These people deserve each other and the results they'll achieve. For the record, Twitter is still losin
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
ORM isn't the anti-pattern, but rather the current way we do OOP. Object orientation is a pervasive, powerful paradigm, but our current approach only works for in-process, highly interlinked, synchronous objects. We need to move to OOP
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
> If you went to a software engineering design review meeting, proposing that several different kinds of objects representing everything from files, network sockets, to arbitrary devices should all use the interface above, you’d be laugh
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
I wouldn't sit here and claim Plan 9 was perfect, because if it was, we'd be using it. In particular, the issue is that you're reading raw stream of content on the way in and out of those file descriptors. This is akin to how
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
It is. I don't think people are well familiar with what Plan 9 calls "files". They're objects or resources, which also happen to be files. REST/OOP/Actors/Plan9 are very similar systems. And like it or not
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
When everything is a file, what is a "file" becomes flexible. In Plan 9, you send signals and messages to a file by writing to it. And read messages by reading from it. It's in essence no different than OOP or actor model or
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
You're describing entropy. Properties and values distribute in the space until we reach equilibrium. Making all languages mostly the same. Unfortunately this doesn't mean we've found the ultimate programming language. We simp
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
I love reading anecdotes like this. I'm split. On one hand, the human factor of being unmotivated to work from a basement or an unbranded office seems understandable. Yet it seems also so pretentious, and seems to justify the impressio
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
Open source is not a panacea, as evident by the graveyard of open source protocols and products like NNTP, IRC, phpBB, RSS, Diaspora, GNU social, Hubzilla and so on. The problem with open source is that it's indeed open, but due to dec