BrenBarn

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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
> These were by far one of the most time intensive art assets to make for this project but I’m happy with the results. > This was another time intensive task but I’m happy with how they turned out. I kind of read past these comments (
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
That may be so, especially if you add a sort of "cultural separatism" (a la the hippies I mentioned). An odd thing I see recently too is people who seem to believe they're making various choices for educational reasons, but
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
I'm not even sure it was never a majority. I'm not even sure it's not a majority now. It's more that the system is not set up to be good, even if the majority wants it to be.
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
I think both can be true. The problem is that there are many people who believe as you do, but the system is set up in such way that those people are dissuaded from gaining power and influence, while the most machiavellian and amoral find
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
> In what environment are you, as an adult, forced to interact with everyone who happens to show up? Have you heard of customer service?
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
Religion is definitely a big motivator. My perception though is other motivations have been on the increase, especially since the pandemic. One other group attracted to homeschooling is the hippie-type who thinks school is some kind of di
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
The culture of constant updates is a cancer on the software world.
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
> The practical problem with this is that many large organizations have a security/infosec team that mandates a "zero CVE" posture for all software. The solution is to fire those teams.
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
Automated transaction download is the killer feature. Unfortunately it depends on banks providing a way to do it.
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
My understanding is that part of the problem is that many banks do not provide that kind of "direct connect" functionality anymore. Some used to provide OFX but no longer do. Also, financial regulations aimed at "open banki
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
What are the plans to improve the moderation experience for room admins who do not run their own server (of any kind)?
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
But you still need one "primary" device and it has to be a phone, right? That's different from Matrix where you can have arbitrary devices that are all on an equal footing.
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
I more or less agree. And I also agree with the other commenter who says this may mean e2ee will never become mainstream. I think a lot of e2ee enthusiasts don't realize that the overwhelmingly most important feature for a messaging
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
Can you use Signal across multiple devices?
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
> I can see slow and steady improvement. That is true, but what weakens my confidence is that the Element/Matrix team often doesn't present it that way. So much communication from them is about how it's amazing and great
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
It's kind of wild to me that they haven't prioritized this more. This issue has been open for almost exactly 6 years: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/565 . This one even longer:
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
The problem is that where politics bleeds into fact, you don't want even-handedness. A debate about vaccine requirements may be political, but when people start supporting their position with factual claims, I absolutely do not want e
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
This article is advice for individuals on how to resist the societal incentives to embrace insanity. But what I'm really interested in is advice for how to fix our society so it doesn't incentivize insanity.
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
The boy who cried "there's a wolf on both sides!"
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
This seems pretty close to my own view, although I'm not sure the secret power grab is about land and water so much as just getting into everyone's brains. What I'd add is that it's not just a front for consolidation of
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
I feel they underestimated what the MVP really is and started touting Matrix as great before it was really there, which has backfired and led to disappointment. They also went a bit too overboard on the overgeneralized idea of it being &qu
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
Very cool. I often wish for the ability to do something like this but with slightly friendlier GUI tools. In particular I long for a visual tool that has all the power and convenience of a spreadsheet, but supports other backends (like an
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
It is, but I think what the comment you're replying to is saying is that the world might be better if things didn't work that way.
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
Sup dawg, I heard you like down detectors.
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
That's true, but most of those can be cracked down on simply by saying that any undeclared wealth is forfeit. Also, the great proportion of most rich people's actual wealth is in forms that are easier to trace (e.g., shares of co
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
I'd say just in general people have become way more cavalier and oblivious as drivers. I frequently see people doing wild stuff like driving at night with no headlights, or driving for several blocks in a bike lane. Every single yell
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
Interestingly when I hear the author describe different kinds of "difficulty" I find myself thinking that some of those don't really seem like difficulty. For something like a book, I think the main thing that makes it seem
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
Good lord yes. No question.
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
I mean Matrix is also extensible.
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
> If all you're judging is the first-order impacts on a single business, you're missing the forest for the trees. The problem is our society is set up to give a lot of power and influence to businesses that are precisely intere

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