Seirdy

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by Seirdy 5y ago
(Am author) Google's FLoC cohorts are determiend by browsing history. If your page is excluded thereby giving other pages a higher weight, it doesn't necessarily reduce the bits of entropy in a user's fingerprint. Cohorts wil
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by Seirdy 5y ago
The best part of the IndieWeb is that you don't have to go "all-in" on day 1. I have a static JS-free site with a self-hosted Webmention receiver ( https://seirdy.one); Hugo pulls in the JSON-encoded Webmentions du
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Two projects that do this with nearly identical output: - https://github.com/eafer/rdrview - https://github.com/go-shiori/go-readability Pipe the filtered HTML output into your favorite textual we
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Scroll down to the "thread overview". There you can see the thread summarized in a tree layout, which makes more sense since asynchronous discussion isn't typically linear. The current message in the tree is highlighted with
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Yes. Content consumers being "lost customers" is a problem if your business model requires them to do something that they are incentivized to avoid doing. Overlapping options for content creators (many of which do or do not apply
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Those apply only to non-organic results (instant answers, zero-click info). Organic results are proxied from Bing (or sometimes Yandex) verbatim. DuckDuckGo's crawlers only fetch icons and scrape data for some of their instant answers.
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Laws exist ideally to limit freedoms whose exercise comes with externalities that end up reducing the freedom for others. These range from freedoms to cause harm to others (steal, assault, enslave), to freedoms to sell food without disclosi
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by Seirdy 5y ago
> "clients" and "can" - it's not mandated by the spec, therefore, "Gemini" does not do it. Prohibiting clients from loading inline images is not mandated by the spec either, so Gemini doesn't preve
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by Seirdy 5y ago
I typically see software from the perspective of software freedom. When a user downloads a web page from my server, I can temporarily record that an anonymous user made a request because I'm only logging what the software I'm runn
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by Seirdy 5y ago
That's kind of the point. The purpose of MIT/BSD is to enable nonfree derivative works; the purpose of the AGPL is to only allow free derivatives. AGPL maximizes freedom by prohibiting further restriction of it; it's a local
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by Seirdy 5y ago
> Gemini doesn't allow for embedding images in web pages - which makes it vastly inferior to the web for any kind of interesting documents. This statement is incorrect. Gemini clients can absolutely display inline images. The differ
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by Seirdy 6y ago
I mean, that sounds like more of a feature than a bug. You shouldn't know exactly what people are doing on your site (too invasive), but this approach gives you a rough idea of which requests are being made. I personally find it to sti
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by Seirdy 6y ago
> This reads like the web dev equivalent of "don't dress inappropriately". What's easier? Reworking half your front-end to meet some vague criteria and half-guessed heuristics of Google's as tagger and praying no
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by Seirdy 6y ago
I addressed concerns about cohort calculation in the sections "What explicitly opting out actually entails" and "This has happened before". I don't think we should normalize adding a Google work-around to every serv
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Misinformation about Permissions Policy and FLoC(seirdy.one)
19 points by Seirdy 6y ago|6 comments
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by Seirdy 6y ago
I sometimes ask that question myself. What "real name" means is almost never clear; it's another reason why I dislike most "real name" policies. Many people go by a nickname IRL; in some circumstances, nicknames sti
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by Seirdy 6y ago
I find it unfortunate that some of the responses in the mailing list amounted to "don't worry about being discriminated against because of your 'real' name; I pinky-promise that we're all nice people". Members
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Now that a lot of GTK mindshare seems to be moving towards gtk-rs, I have a feeling that it's about to get a lot less instantaneous. This isn't a swipe at Rust, per se: if you're using Rust you've probably already decide
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by Seirdy 6y ago
SaaS is a good example of the difference between free software and open source. If some software is freely licensed but still a closed platform dependent on a particular client implementation and server provider (e.g. the web apps the artic
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by Seirdy 6y ago
I criticized both WhatsApp and Signal in an article linked here previously, and made the same points in a bit more detail: "WhatsApp and the domestication of users". Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Agreed; codec2 doesn't alter speech as aggressively, require proprietary components, or have as strong a connection to Google.
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Some overlapping reasons: Ash is smaller: - small binary size - low memory usage - smaller attack surface Ash is faster: - startup time is far lower; this is actually noticeable to me as an end-user. - better run-time performance Ash is sim
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by Seirdy 6y ago
I use Sway and Tmux. Scrollback, selection, search, and buffer piping are 10x more powerful than any terminal emulator's builtin selection/search/URL-detection that I've tried. With one keybind, I can interactively selec
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Neuromancer , by William Gibson, is to cyberpunk what Superman was to the superhero comic genre. The entire trilogy is gold.
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by Seirdy 6y ago
I actually trialed their "stand-in" service before it got discontinued. Having an AI to do difficult conversations on my behalf is really helpful. It's a shame that what could've been a silver bullet for remotely-employe
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Semi-coherent thoughts follow. The most horrifying thing to me from that episode was that the judges and audience understood and agreed with the MC's denouncement of optimizing for user engagement (something that never happens toda
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by Seirdy 6y ago
A tilde is a pubnix server that also serves as a social community. They typically let users host pages on Web, Gopher, Gemini, and/or Finger protocols too. Admins often run services such as IRC bouncers, mail servers, pastebins, or (in
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by Seirdy 6y ago
I thought so too, but after spending a while in the Gemini space it really grew on me. Having one semantic meaning per line actually makes content flow much more naturally. I find myself scanning backwards a lot less. Sometimes what's
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by Seirdy 6y ago
It already has one: GUS. A live instance is running at gemini://geminispace.info with a good index.
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by Seirdy 6y ago
> Heck, I wish there was an open, simplified HTML news renderer where there is no JavaScript or tracking, and publishers target it directly Sounds like you want an RSS reader.

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