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by blacklight 4y ago
The Makefile syntax is beyond cryptic. And I'm speaking as someone who used the autoconf/automake chain for years to build software. The author only made a simple example that requires downloading, transforming and uploading a fil
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by blacklight 4y ago
I've been quite happy with Mimic3 lately ( https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3 ), the engine that powers Mycroft. It also comes with an easy-to-install Docker image.
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by blacklight 4y ago
I've been using Protonmail with 3 custom domains for a few years, but I'm quite upset by the state of their bridge. They struggled a lot with IMAP compatibility, they only test it on Thunderbird, Outlook and Apple Mail before rele
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by blacklight 4y ago
Some people who get locked out of their Google accounts may be unable to use their phones, access their photos, receive and send emails, or do their day-to-day work on shared documents. How can you say "just be patient and wait a coupl
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by blacklight 4y ago
So in order to get a chance to be heard either you need a backdoor to a Google employee, or you need to be on a business account. Therefore, unless you fall into one of these categories, you probably shouldn't use Google products - or,
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by blacklight 4y ago
I stated this multiple times: piracy is not a crime when the alternative is to spend your money on a temporary license to access something that lives on somebody else's computer, and that license can be revoked by the owner of the remo
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by blacklight 4y ago
Articles like these (which can generally be grouped under the "what the hell is Google doing with my account and my data, and why can't I reach out to a human to get out of this Kafkaesque nightmare?") are popping on HN on a
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by blacklight 4y ago
Are you aware of the fact that Chrome stores credentials in a simple SQLite database whose encryption can basically be bypassed if the user is logged into the system? https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-Chrome-stores-your-
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by blacklight 4y ago
Takeout is a feature that Google was kind of forced to implement because of GDPR compliance. But they still try their best to make it so bad that people won't think of using it. First, getting to a point where you can actually schedule
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by blacklight 4y ago
This is probably the #500 post on HN that reads "help I've been locked out of my Google account for Kafkaesque/inexplicable reasons and I have nobody to reach out to". If you're still using Google products as your p
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by blacklight 4y ago
Too little, too late. I've been struggling with Spotify's messed up developer experience for years. They deprecated libspotify years ago without an alternative, promised an upcoming alternative for years, and they eventually pulle
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by blacklight 4y ago
Every instance is run by different people. And every instance admin decides which relays they want their instance to participate to - therefore the content of which instances gets forwarded by default to the federated inbox. Moderation tool
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by blacklight 4y ago
The subscription model is a business answer to a recurrent problem in tech: how do you make your revenue streams more reliable? If you build the perfect product, and everybody buys the first version, then you'll have no revenue stream
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by blacklight 4y ago
I think that the shift towards open protocols is just inevitable at some point. The ads-funded and surveillance-based business model is getting backlash both from users and regulators. The EU's DMA is forcing giants to open up their pl
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by blacklight 4y ago
I agree on the user experience challenges - although I don't think they are more insurmountable than several of the technical decisions taken by Twitter. On the technical and scalability side, what challenges do you see? I personally s
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by blacklight 4y ago
Btw I must also thank Elon for helping Mastodon so much. https://cdn.masto.host/bitcoinhackers/media_attachments/file... Every time he suspends a high profile Twitter account for posting Mastodon links (or, as he
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by blacklight 4y ago
I would love Elon Musk to stay. So he can accomplish his mission of destroying Twitter for good, take down BlueSky and all the associated crypto crapware with it, and take down his own other businesses in the process. Two birds with one sto
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by blacklight 4y ago
I am an admin of a small instance that most likely isn't on Twitter's block list, so my profile name and description could report the link to my Mastodon profile without getting me banned. However, even without a ban from their si
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by blacklight 4y ago
The open native protocol for social media already exists. It's called ActivityPub, it's a W3C standard, and millions already use everyday through many platforms that support it. Jack (on behalf of Twitter) walked away from the con
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by blacklight 4y ago
I've got my own instance, and since the code is open-source everybody can run their own. Who has interest in keep playing this stupid whack-a-mole game with open-source software that anyone can run?
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by blacklight 4y ago
I've used a bunch of ImageMagick scripts for a while to export, rotate and manipulate PDFs. No need ever to buy subscriptions.
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by blacklight 4y ago
I'd put the blame on languages that don't allow exceptions, and whose return value in case of errors belong to the same domain as the solution. I've coded binary searches and sorts tons of times in C++, and yet none was succe
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by blacklight 4y ago
On Mastodon people who see your old profile would get a screen like "this profile has moved here". Ok, it's still on them to follow you on your new profile, but it's not like you have no connection between the old and ne
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by blacklight 4y ago
I'll make a more concrete example. Saying "wealth needs to be redistributed, private property shouldn't exist and the greedy rich shouldn't exist" is not something that should be censored (same goes for "all pr
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by blacklight 4y ago
Capitalism and communism don't directly invite people to murder or harass who identifies with a different race, creed, gender or political idea (or, at least, they don't do so directly). The white supremacist, neo-Nazi, antisemiti
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by blacklight 4y ago
The closed signups on mastodon.social are only temporary. They've really had a huge spike of signups after Musk took over Twitter and people jumped boats, as well as a lot of automatically generated spam accounts that mods are still tr
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by blacklight 4y ago
That's partly true, but ActivityPub could be easily extended to accommodate that requirement. As of now, the architecture is kind of flat - you have instances (about 10k for Mastodon), managed by admins, and admins all have the same ri
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by blacklight 4y ago
1. I run my own instance, and it's not that hard to set up and get connected to other instances. Those that don't want to run their own instance usually either join an existing instance (there are about 10k servers out there), or
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by blacklight 4y ago
There are 6M estimated accounts, and 1.5M active users: https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/
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by blacklight 4y ago
Account data migrations are already supported on ActivityPub. If they didn't like the way they are implemented, they could have extended the specs. Building a completely new protocol just because you want to support account migrations

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