WClayFerguson

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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
Whatever people find unacceptable about Java could've been fixed. No need to burn it all down and start over. Remember, I'm talking about "source level" syntax of the language not any specific VM implementation. Every co
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
The paper says this magic power was "abolished" under a blindfold or a longer wavelength light, but I bet there's another way to "abolish" it: ...simply have another experimenter try to replicate it, and I bet it ma
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
I'm sure Google is merely interested in having another great product and this wasn't just another way to expand surveillance data collection.
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
Linux is much better than relying on proprietary services. Nobody said Linux solves all the other problems in the world. lol.
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
The Parler CEO initially said they would be offline for a whole week, in order to “rebuild from scratch”.
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
Looks like you misspelled "NoSQL" :)
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
We used AWS and EC2 at my last job so I've done about 4 years worth of what you're describing. Definitely if you use Amazon as your way of getting a Linux instance that's fine, because then you can just move to Linode or any
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
Exactly right. lol.
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
There's a lot of DBs to choose from: MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL. What you want to avoid is anything from Amazon or Google ANY other similar service.
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
Parler used AWS. I suggested avoid AWS. What am I missing. I might be missing something.
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
You can build on Java + SpringBoot + MySQL + Linux + Docker Compose, then what else do you really need? I mean there's tons of technology stacks to choose from, but people get lazy and take the easy way out rather than learning to scal
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
I've been telling developers for years if you build your infrastructure on top of tons of 3rd party services like Google Cloud or AWS then you basically don't own it, and can be shut down any day, against your will. Web companies
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
Sure given enough time to study chips and microcode it can be reverse engineered. Despite my degree in M.E. I've been a software developer for 30 yrs. :) So I know you're right. I was just saying it's a practical impossibilit
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
Right, the fidelity is not that good, when just sampling arbitrary vibrating objects. For example a simple accelerometer attached to the center of a lamp shade might create an intelligible signal, but one attached to a heavy table might not
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
I'm a mechanical engineer myself. I've built microphones before in a college laboratory where all we used (proved) was "any object that vibrates from sound, which can be used to alter an electrical current, can be turned back
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
You were arguing "against" any controls on Twitter. Not "for" controls. Let's be clear.
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
I'm also doing the same: Java+TypeScript. If you want to collaborate, I'm here: https://quanta.wiki https://github.com/Clay-Ferguson/quantizr If you create an account on Quanta reply back with you
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
It's likely there are microphones in Echo that even an electronics expert can't "recognize" as a microphone. Any object that is flimsy and can 'vibrate' due to sound, can have it's position used to alter a
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
You're right, if it weren't prohibitively expensive to store social media data on Ethereum (for example) then that's exactly what all the decentralized developers (including myself) would already be doing. I checked the Gas p
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
Your name 'grishka' looks familiar. I'm also an ActivityPub developer ( https://quanta.wiki ). What languages do you develop in, in case we can share code?
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
You're describing the Fediverse (Mastodon, Pleroma, etc)
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
One thing I'd add to what people need in a decentralized social network is the ability to own their own data, and be able to port it from place to place. So there needs to be some kind of data format that is accepted as the standard fo
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
I've spent years creating my version of what I think is missing: It's here: https://quanta.wiki One narrow incomplete summary of Quanta is that it's Federated Social Media.
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
Congress has held numerous hearings about censorship starting way back when the first nose-ring wearing, openly socialist, 20-something overlords in Silicon Valley started censoring heads of state, and government officials for clearly and b
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
If you think BigTech companies (providing email, messaging, etc) should get to censor at their whim, I do wonder if you'd afford them the same level of discrimination if they were right-leaning rather than leftist.
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
Even if we can't agree on whether monopolies should be allowed to censor [legal] public speech, we can probably agree that decentralization and federation (like some kind of social media blockchain) is the best solution. ...because the
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
The User Guide and screencasts only show about 10% of the functionality, so you really don't have any way to judge it, but you can still guess can't you.
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
I think stopping AT&T (or Twitter, which is merely the more modern form of telecommunications) from censoring the public provides greater freedoms to the society at large without taking rights away from anyone. The hypocrisy on the left
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
On a related note: The Governor of California was cutting off electricity and water to homes for the crime of "peaceful assembly", recently... so it's not just free speech that's under assault, but probably you could say
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
The obvious point is that both internet and water are public services, and the minute we let companies start cutting off services for political reasons we no longer have a democracy.

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