Devasta

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by Devasta 3y ago
Reddit started charging huge money for API access. Thing is, reddits leadership are wildly incompetent and those APIs were relied upon by the mods to actually handle the vast oceans of posts that go on each day. Its left the mods with great
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by Devasta 3y ago
So if you go to, say, a friends birthday party you should first go round to each and every person there and ask them not to post any pictures with you on FB? People should be able to live their lives without a morass of deranged lunatics tr
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by Devasta 3y ago
Wading through each and every single thing a person has done in their lives to mock them is stalking, yes. Even if we pretend it isn't for a second it means that the person who is being followed is now forces to look at every interacti
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by Devasta 3y ago
The fix is simple: Lobby congress to ban everything except 1024 x 768 resolution screens.
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by Devasta 3y ago
I manage a team of reporting analysts who look at XSLT transforms all day. None of them have programming backgrounds and they have never found XML namespaces to be a problem.
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by Devasta 3y ago
If these are the sort of questions that are tripping you up, just use <foo>something</foo> for everything.
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by Devasta 3y ago
I'll use AI to puff out articles with nonsense so they get higher ranks, and then Google will use AI to shorten them again. The Dead Internet theory will soon be indisputable.
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by Devasta 3y ago
Not saying this is the case, but there was malware that would check to see if you had copied what looked to be a bitcoin account and replaced it with its own. https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/03/new-malware-high
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by Devasta 3y ago
Everyone who I have seen speak positively about ChatGPT and the like have all suggested applications that are just awful. It's going to be terrible in a few years time when you try to cancel a subscription or raise a complaint with a c
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by Devasta 3y ago
We're going around in circles, so this is the last post I'll do on the matter, but I hope you appreciate the irony of advocating for a bottom-up approach when you can't even convince the two people you've been speaking w
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by Devasta 3y ago
I'm convinced that if anything is going to reverse the migration to the cloud, it's Oxide. Is there anything in the works for using some of this in a homelab? Mainframes (unofficially) have Hercules, be good to see something simil
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by Devasta 3y ago
They weighted it because Facebook execs wanted engagement, and didn't care what that engagement was. A college friend reaching out after five years? Engagement. Your stacker finding you after years of evading them? Engagement. A daught
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by Devasta 3y ago
Facebook has armies of employees tweaking algorithms to determine what should and shouldn't be broadcasted, it's bizarre to suggest otherwise. At one stage they weighted angry responses to a post as being worth five times more tha
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by Devasta 3y ago
Excellent post.
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by Devasta 3y ago
It won't have escaped anyone's notice you declined to answer the question.
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by Devasta 3y ago
Question for you: Does Don Black, the owner of Stormfront.com, have any responsibility over what is published there by people other than himself?
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by Devasta 3y ago
So if a general orders an airstrike on a target, he has not gotten anyone killed?
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by Devasta 3y ago
Inventing the printer wouldn't make them responsible. Distributing things on their behalf would, as FB did.
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by Devasta 3y ago
FB is implicated in facilitating genocide in Myanmar due to its failing to moderate speech on its platforms.
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by Devasta 3y ago
Just an awful idea. Virtual desktops are a horrific user experience, no way would they be able to get an acceptable performance for games for example. Sure, there'll be boomers who don't notice the input lag, but people who aren&#
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by Devasta 3y ago
Its incredible to look back at the arguments against XML and XHTML and realise just how poorly thought out they were. Now, we've wasted the past few decades re-implementing everything that XML provided, but worse, and will spend the ne
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by Devasta 3y ago
Unironically, AGPL3 is the best license. Even if you don't believe in the principals of free software, it has a lot going for it: Unlike MIT, you get full access to GPL3 and Apache licensed software, no need to worry about relicensing
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by Devasta 3y ago
Most people have friends or hobbies for their in person human interactions.
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by Devasta 3y ago
Software quality has never mattered in web development. When the W3C tried to push XHTML web devs balked at the idea that they should understand markup languages and not have syntax errors. JS is installed on every machine, you don't n
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by Devasta 3y ago
With your view of the world, no one can campaign for any improvement in their conditions if there is someone who has it worse than them.
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by Devasta 3y ago
He is talking about the difference in difficulty of local vs remote, not the difficulty of managing full stop. And he is right, managing remotely is a minimal change. I've been managing and working with people remotely for years, as ha
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by Devasta 3y ago
The tech isn't the challenge with something like Reddit, even the comically inept Reddit leadership could figure it out after all. The difficult part is finding a few hundred mods willing to work for you for free, filtering all the fil
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by Devasta 3y ago
Agreed. Jira is great, but only if you have an angry tyrant at the helm managing it. Its too flexible, if you allow people do what they want they'll have no structure at all, and you end up with disasters like a bunch custom "prio
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by Devasta 3y ago
Yes they do! I manage a team of reporting analysts who have to maintain data feeds from our clients to brokers. They are from business and accounting backgrounds and use XSLT for it all. They don't need to worry about build steps or an
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by Devasta 3y ago
What surprises me most is that Twitter doesn't appear to have anything that allows you post ads only to Twitter Blue subscribers. They are a set of users comprised almost entirely of absolute morons who believe everything they read onl

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