Ferret7446

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by Ferret7446 4y ago
It seems like it should be trivial to extend the Mastodon protocol and software to support following other instances. Is that not so, or why has that not been done?
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by Ferret7446 4y ago
You can't beat physics. Sure, you can design things so that key facilities and services can be reached on foot, but you simply can't provide the same facilities that could be reached in a car radius vs walking radius.
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by Ferret7446 4y ago
>But it's important to call out that the user experience most people care about has almost nothing to do with whether or not software is open/hackable. For software developers I think that's a damn shame. Craftsmen have a
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by Ferret7446 4y ago
You may not be aware of just how much money the mobile market is worth. Nintendo's entire annual revenue for recent years is around 12-15 billion. The single mobile game Genshin Impact made 2 billion in one year. Tencent, which owns
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by Ferret7446 4y ago
Privileged ports can be grabbed by a designated service and then handed off to an application. The application itself does not have to start as root. I believe systemd does this. The point is to prevent a literal nobody user on the system
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by Ferret7446 4y ago
> Bitcoin needs time to transfer Regarding this, to clear up a common misconception, regular debit/checking takes at least one day to clear (US ACH), usually 2-3 business days, while Bitcoin transactions are validated within 1-2 hou
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by Ferret7446 4y ago
This is exactly a case of "do no evil". Hosting "those" kinds of materials is evil, as decided by society/government. Who gets to decide what's evil? Be careful what you wish for.
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by Ferret7446 4y ago
This is true for all passwords due to pigeonhole principle.
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by Ferret7446 4y ago
A clear standard for one. Last I checked, RSS did not have one clear standard, nor do most implementations abide by that standard. Atom on the other hand is great.
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by Ferret7446 4y ago
To be generous, if we're talking coding specifically, 4-5 years is a reasonable cap in my opinion. Coding is not the same thing as software engineering or systems/architecture design or technical leadership or... All of those thi
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by Ferret7446 4y ago
As a serious emacs user, this looks like a stripped down version of emacs. There's no reason to use this if you're already using emacs. Its UI even looks like emacs, with the modeline and minibuffer.
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by Ferret7446 4y ago
The spam email and phone calls I get are nearly 100% scam.
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by Ferret7446 4y ago
Do we even have an established definition for blockchain? My understanding is that a blockchain is just a data structure. Saying there aren't that many uses for blockchains is like saying there aren't that many uses for tries or
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by Ferret7446 4y ago
The government can blacklist all they want, they can't prevent you from transferring your assets to someone else. They can't freeze ETH like they can freeze your bank accounts or traditional capital assets. That's what decent
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by Ferret7446 4y ago
Fungibility is a subjective concept. Most users consider BTC to be fungible just as most people consider paper bills to be fungible, but that doesn't stop people from collecting bills with specific serial numbers or bills signed by a
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by Ferret7446 4y ago
Ethereum is designed as blockchain based computation and not as a commodity first, so it doesn't make much sense to use a different address per transaction. You would need a single address/wallet to fund whatever program you&#x27
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by Ferret7446 4y ago
Anyone can drop anything in your bank account, are you anxious about that?
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by Ferret7446 4y ago
This isn't a problem with cashless, since cryptocurrency solves this exact problem. It's unfortunate that many critics are uninformed and don't understand this.
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by Ferret7446 4y ago
Not really, because the revenue comes from ads not users. Twitter makes profit from ad buyers thinking they are reaching many users. The "revenue per user was higher" you mention is actually "cost per ad impression" an
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by Ferret7446 4y ago
Entitled? Kind of? The thing is, RSS reader clients are pretty much a solved problem, and they aren't particularly resource intensive. You can run your own FreshRSS instance for example for free ( https://www.felesatra.moe