AJ007

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by AJ007 3y ago
Because of what Google did with Google Talk. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-netwo... XMPP is underrated. A lot of people are imagining Pidgen in 2011, but the protocol has been extended, the actively
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by AJ007 3y ago
The "e2e" concept that most are familiar with is basically fake: the provider is responsible for the client that does the encryption and decryption. Of course they can break it if forced. Software exploits are a separate matter an
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by AJ007 3y ago
One big flaw is that anyone, anything, anywhere can submit a DMCA request/"demand." If they had to be done in person at a US courthouse then there would be a record of exactly who made the false claim. As they are now, they a
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by AJ007 3y ago
You also end up with a growing group of individuals whose livelihood is tied to whatever the regulatory regime is. If you are paying people to write new laws and regulate things, they are going to write even more regulations. Whether or not
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by AJ007 3y ago
I had a lot of trouble with this in my early 20s. Everything I read was bullshit. There are two important distinctions: how you manage mediocre workers you didn't hire, and how you manage good workers. The former will require 98% of th
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by AJ007 3y ago
They could have done a deal with Microsoft, even for a fraction of the amount and been just fine. Google's ad business model is a cash fire hose. If they actually backed off development because of Google's money, then it's co
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by AJ007 3y ago
I think the future has to be feed ingestion that is 100% controlled by the user. To some extent we were there with RSS readers. I'm still able to retrieve Twitter feeds with an RSS reader. Everything comes together in one place, in ord
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by AJ007 3y ago
The big lesson to me has been for a platform to be open, there must be both third party clients and third party servers. A service that has only one backend server that no one else can run (looking at you Signal) isn't ok anymore. Even
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by AJ007 3y ago
The account portability is probably the biggest problem with the fediverse right now. I finally signed up for Mastodon despite reading little to nothing positive about it on hn. It was easy to use, and the signal to noise ratio was vastly i
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by AJ007 3y ago
Minimum wages serve a political purpose, but they also force automation on an economy. One can study various countries which had very cheap labor pre-1900, and see how far behind they got (e.g. China.) What would the global economy look lik
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by AJ007 3y ago
Endless EU Cookie modals that you have to always click through because you clear cookies.
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by AJ007 3y ago
I was considering trying a sleep tracker again last year and before that happened solved my sleep problems. The amount of things I tried back in my 20s when it all was trivially simple: I just need to get an adequate amount of strength trai
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by AJ007 3y ago
Is anyone using mutt/neomutt as their e-mail client on this?
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by AJ007 3y ago
I don't know where you are getting your numbers from, for 2023 their net income was $97b. At some point the tax stuff won't be possible, and it will be even less than that. Apple's gross profit was $169b, which excludes a lot
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by AJ007 3y ago
The level of claims accompanied by enthusiastic reception from a technically illiterate audience make it sound, smell, and sound like snake oil without much deep investigation. There is another alternative to the law. Provide your art for p
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by AJ007 3y ago
To where? A place no one sees them and they aren't scraped?
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by AJ007 3y ago
You don't need to/probably can't avoid the data brokers, you just have to inject enough noise in to their data to make it worthless. The data brokers are probably the most benign of all of the parties that expose you to secur
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by AJ007 3y ago
They are unknowns until they encounter them directly. As Apple and Microsoft receive their revenue growth from advertising and subscription services, they will all get worse and encountered more frequently by more users. I got a few 'w
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by AJ007 3y ago
The problem is avoiding "surveillance capitalism" or even generally "privacy" isn't a selling point for the mass market. Things which matter to people: - Do you like moderators in a foreign country being paid $2 an
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by AJ007 3y ago
That's not a good list because 3-8 are highly dependent on capitalism for their economies to function. They might have various levels of state control, but they are very much capitalism. Cuba and North Korea are much purer examples, th
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by AJ007 3y ago
I would suggest editing and reading the markdown files in other editors to make avoid getting "locked in." You certainly could create your own lock-in by making some unique workflow that requires a combination of plug-ins to funct
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by AJ007 3y ago
Joplin is a good open source option too, feels more like the original Evernote in terms of UI/UX https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/
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by AJ007 3y ago
Windows is dead. Most games can run on Linux fine ( https://www.protondb.com/ ), some even run better. After some problems with pop-ups I nuked my parent's Windows install and put Linux on the machine. They had no prob
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by AJ007 3y ago
You have to be careful with "renewables" because in many cases this includes things like ethanol and wood pellets. I've been following things fairly closely both from a broad range of sources (fossil fuels, green energy, nucl
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by AJ007 3y ago
I haven't looked at 4chan in ages, but my conclusion was trolling by smart people evolved in to ideas enthusiastically spread by dumb people. You can see evidence of this in the anti-vax community where the line between devious trollin
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by AJ007 3y ago
While acknowledging identity verification is problematic and bordering an unsolved problem, that really is a horrible precedent for someone to be required to own an electronic device that rapidly falls in to obsolescence to perform basic ac
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by AJ007 3y ago
The "moderation" line for e-mail has been drawn at spam/hacking/phishing. If the fediverse succeeds, then it will do the same. Servers that fail to police spam/hacking/phishing will be blocked, everything else
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by AJ007 3y ago
Even worse that the original blog post, because of this you may be dealing with a JPEG image, converted to WEBP, and then back to JPEG. And then maybe someone edited that JPEG and it got converted back to WEBP! A large chunk of the hn comme
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by AJ007 3y ago
You don't need a bunch of a100s. The models you can download and run locally on a consumer GPU or Apple Silicon will say whatever you tell them to. You won't be getting GPT-4 level output (with some exceptions), but it's clos
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by AJ007 3y ago
The financials of electric utilities don't make sense to me. Most of them (like PG&E) have been massively cash flow negative over the past 10-20 years. They issues shares and debt to, literally and figuratively, keep the lights on.

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