Pet_Ant

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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Threads is not a counter-argument because it's only working because it has Meta/FaceBook/Instagram and their existing network backing. It's not an unknown player simply offering a better mousetrap.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
The problem with modern capitalism is that it doesn't actually incentivise the production of value, but of monetization. News, _especially_ investigative journalism, produces value but is hard to have a moat around and monetise (this i
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Great quote from the tail end: > “While we're obviously aware that Reddit is a for-profit company, the recent weeks have made it very clear that Reddit is not a website that allows people to host communities for its members, but rat
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
At this point it seems like any victory will be phyrric. I feel like the leadership fails to realise that the value is the community and they are doing everything to alienate it. I mean they could gain control of MySpace if they wanted, but
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
I mean at that point can't you just tow a trailer running a diesel generator recharging your car?
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Sorry, but how do I use XQuery with HTML5? How do I use all my generic XML tools with HTML5? I'm sure equivalents exist, but why learn them just so I can drop a few tags? Can't even use xmlindent if I do that to prettify it. If I
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
...and this is why I still only do XHTML strict. I mean giving up predictability and the whole world of XML tools and libraries for these "benefits"... I really don't see the point.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
If you've never seen this video you owe it to your self to watch it. It really I think captures the essence of systems thinking.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
ByteDance (aka TikTok) but not Twitter?
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Fun Fact: Steve Yegge, famous blogger, is Head of Engineering there (or at least was recently) https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/introducing-steve-yegge
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Would you rather token changes? “Formerly Bob’s Burgers”?
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
I mean often “management changed” often means the company went out of business and someone bought it and is giving it a go themselves. This is a bit deceptive, but it’s really a new company often.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
I'm sure his family appreciated it. I think he'd be okay if you automated that but had to pay him the full salary anyway in perpetuity.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
For those who haven't heard of s6 before (like myself) here is the homepage: https://www.skarnet.org/software/s6/ and the repo: https://github.com/skarnet/s6
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
> That pretty much sounds like freeloading to me. I'll bite. The value in RHEL was supposed to be in the support. CentOS helped establish and maintain RHEL as the defacto standard that everyone targetted and prevent the development
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
I think the main thrust of all of this is to de-commodify Linux. To make RHEL really be in people's minds it's own operating system outside of Linux. It's hard to do when it's really just a ball of generic open source c
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Something I saw a longtime ago was hashing UUIDs into a RGB value and then colouring the background of the cell (at least when viewing in a DB IDE). That way you can quickly at a glance tell if it's worth going over character by charac
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Highlanders = górale ?
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
> a better standard in North America Is a global standard not better for everyone in the long run?
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Well it could be that the replacements are substandard, I mean otherwise they'd have to be a matched pair. And if you damaged one, who knows what shape the other one is in. But I'm willing to bet that at the lower end it's no
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
That is like saying an email provider with only 10 user accounts cannot be good. I mean there are concerns, but it's the connections that matter. ...that said I expect that the future is going to be much more based around whitelists be
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
I think a better model might be that there is one central raw feed, that is universal but that instances just prefilter it for you. That way you can have the raw sewage with spam, or you can view a sensitized version that filters for conten
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Yeah, I saw that and don’t mind them defederating. I don’t want to interact with those people… But I’m really glad it exists. I’m glad they have a space for themselves. Glad I can (hopefully) find a space for myself, and that we are no forc
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Yes, because the OSI doesn’t recognize it as such.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Honestly, isn't that fine ? It means that the community has control and not a singular company. Just important to never let any single instance get as big as a company.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Are you referring to OpenCL?
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
> Why should I work to benefit their service if they're hoarding the resulting data and not making it available to me or people like me in the future? This I believe is generally called "digital sharecropping" https:&#x2F
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Perhaps as an on-demand title. Add a foreword if he'd like, but yeah.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Well in fairness from reading the thread, it seems like it competes with some of their own pet projects. It also does have some real transition risks. That said, I don't see why Apple-style fat binaries can't solve those.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
So if it studies Orwell's 1984 we can convince it that 2 + 2 = 5 ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_%2B_2_%3D_5

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