Vinnl

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by Vinnl 11mo ago
I'm not intimately familiar with the spec, so don't take my word as gospel, but as I understand it, current implementations already do name discovery. It's just that every implementation hardcodes the server name. IIRC some p
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
I don't think it's relevant to this specific instance, but AFAIK ActivityPub doesn't inherently prevent name portability. It's just that almost all implementations currently don't allow it (and I wouldn't exp
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
Didn't sound to me like GP was blaming the user; just pointing out that "the system" is set up in such a way that this was bound to happen, and is bound to happen again.
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
Makes sense that that's the case: there's usually a limited amount of beginner's knowledge, and then you get to the medium level by arbitrary combinations of that beginner's knowledge, of which there's an exponentia
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
I think one problem we have (always had, but worse now that there are so many more opinions to be exposed to) is that we expect "society's" opinions to be consistent, despite being made up of millions of different people. Of
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
Amazing, I knew trains were way safer than cars, but it's almost hard to believe that hurling folks through the air is even safer than that (or I guess similarly safe now).
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
I'm kinda interesting in the same statistics for trains, although I wouldn't be surprised if we don't travel near that distance with trains.
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
At the same time, unplanned engineering time is almost always more expensive than planned engineering time. I'd rather have some regular, expected, upgrade work, than all of a sudden having to scramble because I need something at a mom
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
In general, I'm not too afraid of UI - those are usually very learnable in a short amount of time. It's the underlying concepts and abstractions that take more time to pick up, but right now, a lot of them seem to be based on obse
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
Yes, I am saying that perfect is the enemy of good enough. I think that if Signal were to keep chasing the complaining geeks, it would cease to be good enough. In the sense that it would be far less widely used, and thus not raise the priva
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
It's extra fun because it's not their own codebase; it's a bunch of upstreams that never planned to support it for that long. If they're lucky, some of them will even receive the bug reports and complaints directly...
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
Yep, exactly. So ideally, we'd have some technology that would be able to achieve those goals without needing all the info that is gathered nowadays. Though that is pretty unpopular here too.
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
Thank you both, I'm glad I ended up reading these first.
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
IMHO it's a very feasible position to just let those geeks keep criticising while meaningfully raising the bar on privacy for the average user. There will always be geeks who complain, but also plenty of them that see that perfect does
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
What does "has reasoning" mean? Isn't that just a system prompt that says something like "make a plan" and includes that in the loop?
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
This is also why it's perfectly fine to wait out this AI hype and see what sticks afterward. It probably won't cost too much time to catch up, because at that point everyone who knows what they're doing only learned that a mo
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
Print media did also include e.g. coupons with discount codes with which advertisers could learn which lead led through a sale.
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
It's obvious in the sense that most people will start out with that as their first question.
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
The new installer isn't as good as Ubuntu's IMHO, but holy moly it's so much better than the old one. I recently tried installing Fedora Silverblue (which still has the old installer), and besides being terribly confusing, it
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
They do mention it at the bottom: https://organicmaps.app/#community But it's less full-featured than the mobile-only versions.
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
I think you're thinking of Bazzite. Which indeed would probably have been an excellent fit for a gaming-focused beginner for the reasons you mentioned.
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
Yeah the NixOS recommendation here is clearly a joke and I wouldn't recommend it to almost anyone, but I too switched about a month ago, and it's basically made for LLMs. Let them read the Git repo and they'll actually have a
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
Yes, that's why I prefer looking at actual outcomes, as professed by Effective Altruism. But I'd like to find a term to describe that that doesn't come with the baggage of EA.
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Public postmortum of the brief Xubuntu.org torrent download compromise(lists.ubuntu.com)
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
I feel like that leaves me with the hard part of writing tests, and only saves me the bit I can usually power through quickly because it's easy to get into a flow state for it.
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
Yeah same, definitely going to visit when it's done.
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
It tells readers whether they might or might not be affected.
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
Is there a term for looking at the impact of your donations, rather than process (like percentage spent on "overhead")? I like discussing that, but have the same problem as GP.
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
No, I indeed wouldn't say it's bound to end up in a good place - just that it's too pessimistic a view to think that it's generally trending in the wrong direction. We're seeing all the bad signs we're seeing e
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by Vinnl 11mo ago
Or "functional core, imperative shell".

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