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by CM30 3y ago
Not even the right answer much of the time, just information that sorta matches the right patterns as requested by the user. But LLMs say things in such an authorative, intelligent seeming way that it's indeed easy to forget they have
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by CM30 3y ago
The first item is also why it's good to be skeptical about things you learn on video sharing services like YouTube too. If you sound credible and present your ideas in a professional way, people will take them seriously regardless of h
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by CM30 3y ago
Yeah that's another issue. You're also dependent on the moderators on your instance being reasonable people and being fair to those using it. But sadly that's gonna be a problem with instances of any size. If Twitter or Faceb
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by CM30 3y ago
It's a problem with scale and incentives. At their scale, hiring people like Dang is not going to be particularly profitable, since you'd need thousands or tens of thousands of them to moderate the platform (and even then, it gets
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by CM30 3y ago
I guess it depends what you mean by decentralised here. For peer to peer networks, moderation is indeed difficult, since by definition no one singlehandedly controls what's shared there. On the other hand, federated services like Masto
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by CM30 3y ago
Depends on the site. Most of the time it's Firefox due to uBlock Origin and other useful extensions, but for certain sites like YouTube, it's Google Chrome. Every other browser I have installed is for testing purposes.
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by CM30 3y ago
Because it's fun? If I need a new website or app for whatever reason, I might as well learn a new tech stack and have some fun while doing so.
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by CM30 3y ago
He's right. The issue we have right now is that many people stick with Twitter/X because it's the most convenient way to keep in contact with the folks they know. This is harder to do on its successors, because they're s
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by CM30 3y ago
Eh, as someone who's used both I'd probably disagree with that. CSS is at least a hell of a lot easier to debug than assembly, depending on the device you're writing the code for. But it's a weird comparison anyway. The
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by CM30 3y ago
They definitely took notes from previous attempts to take down fan projects by releasing it anonymously when it was completely finished. In fact, it's kinda surprising just how well the creators kept it under the radar too; neither the
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by CM30 3y ago
It's quieter than it used to be. Lots of previously booming subreddits are seeing less activity, and it feels like posts get upvoted less than they used to as well. Also feel less... well, interest in using the site too. Just feels a l
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by CM30 3y ago
Of course, the visual reference can help clarify things that text alone can't explain. For example, take a simple task like 'fill in these fields in the config file'. For someone with software development experience, it'
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by CM30 3y ago
What surprises me most here is how little anyone knows about this project's development or the team behind it. The people working on the disassembly didn't know about it until today, people modding Zelda games didn't know abo
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by CM30 3y ago
Maybe not a way to 'beat' them per se, but I wonder if support could be a good differentiator for some companies here? Silicon Valley companies, especially the FAANG ones, treat customer support as an afterthought at best, with Go
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by CM30 3y ago
Seems like the biggest differences I've noticed were in the content and lack of spam prevention more than anything particularly technical or performance related. I used to get the odd spam message before, but now I get tagged in all ki
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by CM30 3y ago
At the end of the day, the big thing that killed it was that companies realised they didn't need a massive event in the middle of summer to advertise their games, and could run their own events year around. Stuff like Nintendo Directs,
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by CM30 3y ago
Twitter's basically a case study in how much you can screw up a business, platform or other aspect of society without people giving up on it. Every controversy, every bad change, every issue... they all lead to people saying "this
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by CM30 3y ago
I wonder how many more advertisers this will scare away? Alex Jones and Infowars have been demonetised or banned from just about every other social network on the internet, and it's in part because no one wants their products advertise
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by CM30 3y ago
What differentiates this from YT-DLP? The latter gets regular updates, and supports more things than the original tool does: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
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by CM30 3y ago
Eh, it doesn't seem that dead to me. I do see a decent number of posts from folks with the same interests there, as well as a fair few reactions on each of my own posts. It's about the same number as on BlueSky, and maybe about ha
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by CM30 3y ago
Finishing my video backlog entirely (aka videos I wrote scripts for/recorded footage for but haven't actually edited in any meaningful way), and making sure my game development project is finished within a somewhat reasonable time
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by CM30 3y ago
Yes all the time. I see people coming up with world changing inventions, becoming huge names in various fields and seemingly coding projects every week and feel like I'm not doing enough by comparison. But I suspect it probably stems f
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by CM30 3y ago
That's a good point. There's no obvious way to mark up a HTML list as being reversed in CSS alone, at least not without a bunch of Flexbox styles and stuff. So the likelihood that someone would use an unsemantic alternative for th
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by CM30 3y ago
Yep, 'guest blogging' has turned into a spam plague/avalanche, and 99% of the requests aren't even worth taking seriously. My advice is to ask them what the articles would be about, and if they're just the usual &#x
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by CM30 3y ago
Weirdly enough, my gaming website seemingly had an effect on getting me a few of my previous roles. For the most part that was because it showed I could code HTML/CSS/JavaScript when starting out all those years ago, but saying I
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by CM30 3y ago
The thing is, I've never really bumped into that stuff on the Fediverse myself. And it's not something that was super common on communities before social media too. You don't need a huge budget and moderation team to keep a p
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by CM30 3y ago
Maybe Musk shuts the site down because it's not making money anymore/he doesn't want to keep running it? I personally see that as the most likely cause of Twitter dying.
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by CM30 3y ago
Probably both, though I think it's probably easier nowadays simply because you don't technically need modern frameworks and build processes, and can create what would previously be complicated sites and apps with ease using modern
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by CM30 3y ago
Speaking of floats being used for layout, you could probably add the clearfix hack to this list too. That was an essential part of my CSS toolbox for years, and something that ended up being one of the first things added in every new projec
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by CM30 3y ago
Honestly, not really any of it. My only real subscriptions (web hosting and domain name registration) are done on a yearly basis, and the one site with software I pay for is renewed on a 'when it's needed' basis (since the fo

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