Herbstluft

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by Herbstluft 4y ago
This simply isn't true anymore. It was the case in the past, but nowadays you can no longer avoid Twitter shoving low quality rage- and clickbait content down your throat. These past months my Twitter timeline contained almost as much
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
Since last week every person on Twitter whose content I came to appreciate moved over to Mastodon. Science, tech and gamedev/art people are absolutely leaving for Mastodon. The only part of my follows left on Twitter now are the people
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
As a european it is always weird to catch glimpses of the stick shift vs. automatic topic. Not because I can't imagine what it's like to not have the ability to drive stick, but because it seems like some kind of heated, ideologic
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
XKCD 538 comes to mind: https://xkcd.com/538/
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
Twitter dying before the end of 2022 was not on my bingo card.
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
Same here. Interaction quality is roughly 100 times higher if I go by follower count Twitter vs. Mastodon.
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
Congratulations! Love the way sourcehut does things so far.
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
Wow that linked request is really something. Requesting/Suggesting the change of license is one thing. But this is just another example of a blatant lack of respect towards open source devs and maintainers. The misinformed GPL hatred d
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
This is so sad to see.
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
I agree that the way those tech interviews are designed makes them more of a marathon that tests determination. Doesn't change that the prestige of having it on your resume will cause many other companies to blindly hire you.
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
"Web3 is more of a vibe" is always the answer one eventually arrives at when asking proper questions about web3. Also a lot of goals that rely on artificially created problems to gain the ability of presenting solutions to those p
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
The logic you are presenting really overestimates the (important) daily work of the vast majority of people in math and programming. It also overestimates the actual work and results these prodigies will eventually arrive at. Very skilled m
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
I believe the rise of AI art has shown, more than anything, that many of us here in our tech bubble have no idea what professional artists actually do . I don't doubt that ai art will have a significant impact but come on....the job i
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
Please read things before you accuse. To quote the beginning of the post: This project demonstrates how OpenSea administrators can take any tokens minted on the OpenSea Shared Storefront. This is a previously-undocumented backdoor.
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
> I also don't need to follow toxic people on Twitter I mean that is true in a sense, because Twitter invests a lot of work to bring the toxicity to you whether you want it or not.
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
Make Twitter premium ad free and bundle with that the feature to curate my timeline as I see fit (no "suggestions", chronological by default). Do this and I will gladly pay ~$5 a month for Twitter. But $8 for a blue checkmark and
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
> I don’t think his proposal was pro-Russia as much as it was anti-more-dead-people. I believe this topic has been discussed more than enough since February, by people with way more expertise than Musk. Ukraine has made it very clear tha
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
> horrific companies A workplace can actively kill humans and still treat its employees very good. You are mixing very different factors together here. Prestige, to name another example, is very important to a lot of people. Having &quot
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
Twitter is weird like that sometimes (often?). My account was created ~2009, I read a lot, but don't post very often. A while ago between 15 and 20 shady accounts started following me. Twitter immediately froze my account before I cold
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
It is possible to claim the official title of CEO and still have others actually perform the tasks traditionally associated with the role.
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
In my opinion the well has been poisoned. I do pay for services for which trustworthy providers exist (mail, vps, git, small software, indie game studios). I also put 50 dollars a month aside to donate to various open source projects I en
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try.
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
Until not that long ago I was a pretty happy Twitter user. I curated my follows (keeping them between 150 and 200), only followed people posting interesting , creative , or scientific things. When anyone started tweeting or retweeting l
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
Always worth mentioning is TIC-80 [1], another fantasy console/computer. Which is open source [2]. [1]: https://tic80.com/ [2]: https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
I'm in the same boat, I've used Zig to go through AoC 2021, liked it. I know some C, as in worked through K&R years ago, but I possess little practical experience. Any recommendations for resources/books to learn knowledg
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
> Just like you don't own anything digital True. But blockchain tech changes absolutely nothing about that in the realm of games and media, having a flag in a decentralized database does not protect me from a (game) server owner b
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The difference is that projects like Tor were certainly not created with any devious purpose in mind. Arguments and use cases for anonymity are very easy to come up with. Blockchain related projects cause damage on two fronts: - They ar
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My comment is undoubtedly an oversimplification, there are tons of things to criticize Valve for. Microtransactions are a plague unleashed by them, for one. I was mostly trying to keep the comparison limited to the topic of cryptocurrencies
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
I'm not a Sourcehut user (yet), but the more I hear and read about it, the more it seems like the creators and owner(s) care. Glad to read this. The whole topic of cryptocurrencies and blockchain has become a good marker to identify co