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by blowski 4y ago
This is a great point. It all depends on how you define “success”. There is also the tendency for the mainstream successes to suck all the life out of niches. It’s not inevitable, and becoming a mainstream success can itself remove what was
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by blowski 4y ago
As always, rather than describing it as right or wrong, consider the trade-offs. For a simple project managed by a small team, Python might be a better solution. There’s a point at which the trade-off changes.
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by blowski 4y ago
Think about it from the perspective of the provider of the build platform (e.g. CircleCI, GitLab, GitHub). There are way fewer edge cases parsing YAML files than allowing Turing complete languages.
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by blowski 4y ago
I want to understand what you wrote there, but I honestly have no idea what you mean. I can't even work out whether you're addressing the Mastodon issue, or trying to justify writing "unpopular".
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by blowski 4y ago
Yes, I can't remember if it was actually Portsmouth or one of the other polytechnics.
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by blowski 4y ago
A university in the UK (Portsmouth?) hired an expensive creative agency to come up with a new name. They whittled it down to three options: * University of Portsmouth * The University of Portsmouth * Portsmouth University
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by blowski 4y ago
In which case, somebody will set up an alternative server which doesn't block them, and people will move there. People who love the free market should _love_ Mastodon.
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by blowski 4y ago
I'm not interested in your assertion of the popularity of that opinion, though. If you have data to _show_ it's unpopular, that would be interesting. Otherwise, let your opinion stand by itself, allowing other people comment and v
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by blowski 4y ago
Fairly low, I agree with you. And the chances of me having set up my own Mastodon account would also be fairly low. But that's not to say that my reasoning is to signal tribal affiliation. I haven't moved before because I didn&#x2
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by blowski 4y ago
Indeed, this sounds like the very definition of "out of the frying pan into the fire".
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by blowski 4y ago
Sure, people have been choosing that approach for the last 10 years. But there's no law baked into the universe that says it will be ever thus.
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by blowski 4y ago
Are you telling me that's an unpopular opinion? If so, I'm downvoting because I always downvote people who "predict" the popularity of their comment.
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by blowski 4y ago
> This is exactly why people love twitter. They care about individuals, not organizations. Sweeping generalisation. Some people care about some individuals more than the organisation to which they belong. Think Trump funs who would vote
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by blowski 4y ago
> The real reason why people are "migrating" to Mastodon right now is one and one only: to signal their tribal affiliation That's an assertion. I've moved because I genuinely want to own my network and not get suddenl
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by blowski 4y ago
Maybe both? With a meta account that aggregates from all your other accounts. If the BBC are giving you a megaphone, it's useful that they can take away that megaphone when you leave. You can always choose to speak without the megaphon
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by blowski 4y ago
> I think the main issue a media company like the BBC has with moderation, is that they want to discourage harassment of their employees That's certainly one issue, but there are many others. Owning your own Mastodon server should m
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by blowski 4y ago
No, I haven't seen anyone doing it yet. I might just be voicing some wishful thoughts.
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by blowski 4y ago
Twitter’s model is between an individual and their followers, which is bad for organisations because the individual leaves and takes the followers with them. Mastodon allows companies to own those relationships on their server. For example,
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by blowski 4y ago
There’s a difference between my laptop being updated and my car.
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by blowski 4y ago
Why use force at all, on a default command?
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by blowski 4y ago
Check out “layering”, which is a money laundering technique. The money trail here can be complex, something like this but with extra intermediary companies breaking it down and moving it around: Uncle Jimmy -> Casino high-rollers -> C
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by blowski 4y ago
It’s layering, a money laundering term. You “clean” the money by hiding its origins and then returning it from a legitimate source. In my example, Uncle Jimmy ain’t doing this as a favour for his nephew. Uncle Jimmy’s nephew appears to have
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by blowski 4y ago
It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that there’s a money laundering aspect to this. For example, you give $100K in donations and the open source project then hires Uncle Jimmy’s nephew as a designer.
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by blowski 4y ago
In the last couple of years, I've set up a local code club for kids, starting doing all the admin for my son's Scouts group, taken over running a monthly board games club, and started painting Warhammer figures. Work is still bori
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by blowski 4y ago
Starting every comment with “this argument’s logical error is…” is nauseating and hinders good conversation. Your point would sound better without it.
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by blowski 4y ago
Exactly. If you can pay $10 for a subscription, they can’t charge $500 to a healthcare provider.
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by blowski 4y ago
Depends on the person as to whether I'd say that. With an employee who's constantly moaning about everything - I'd absolutely say that. With my wife? Noooo, it would sound like I'm saying "I'm not interested in
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by blowski 4y ago
I'm guessing it frustrates you because you like solving problems? You hear someone stuck in a rut and you want to help them out of it? Totally with you on this. I'm a solutions architect by day, and my entire skillset is helping p
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by blowski 4y ago
Sure, nobody's saying "you're a bad person for offering advice". In some contexts, though, offering advice can feel like you want to close the person down rather than listen to them, that you think their problems aren&#x
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by blowski 4y ago
Marriage has taught me to go even further than that. I now ask "are you telling me to get it off your chest, or you want help solving it?". If the former, I don't offer any solutions whatsoever, in any kind of format.

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