chrisnight

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by chrisnight 3y ago
Why is the defining feature of being human the property of having a phone number? Spam is indeed a hard problem to solve, but the issuance of phone numbers is not designed to be used as human identification.
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by chrisnight 3y ago
> I don't know why this needs to exist given all those... I guess it was just a fun project? The answer is already in your reply. This is a pure approach that has 3 dependencies: xlib, xft, and farbfield, while the other solutions p
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by chrisnight 3y ago
> Like, I really don't get it. Why not just use a password manager. I always tell these people to just sign up for a password manager and they always resist and say no. I must be missing something obvious. Simple, I don’t trust a cl
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by chrisnight 3y ago
What I’ve found from running my own mastodon server is that while self-hosting is a very nice idea to control your own account and manage your own timeline (specifically, choosing who to defederate with), there is a fundamental flaw with it
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by chrisnight 3y ago
This is definitely a primary problem with Mastodon and other fediverse software. However, I will mention there is a problem with the idea of fetching replies from the parent post’s home server that makes it hard to solve. The primary idea b
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by chrisnight 3y ago
Given that Stable Diffusion is designed to be able to run on consumer hardware, without the need for a third party cloud platform, it saddens me to see that this, alongside many other similar projects, require the use of a third party platf
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by chrisnight 3y ago
I’m not sure where you live, but I believe every battery sold in the US legally is required to label their I/O voltage and amps, and capacity voltage, amp hours, watt hours. At the very least, every wall outlet and power bank I’ve seen
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by chrisnight 3y ago
Any time that I have used automatic panning, it's always felt like a bad solution to the problem of the trade-off between view size and detail. It's clunky and unintuitive with how it essentially forces the mouse to move (relative
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by chrisnight 3y ago
The middle option they are discussing is between never buying anything you don’t currently have the money for (what the parent commenter claimed), and buying more than you will be able to afford by the time the payment is due. You can pay y
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by chrisnight 3y ago
I myself have found a very clear, objectively measurable, falloff for Google search results when it comes to non-NLP searches. The quotes operator is designed to search for pages containing exactly the phrase given, however I have found tha
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by chrisnight 3y ago
> Are you even required to pay that? One sad part of the situation is that even if you aren't required to do something, it can result in you being completely banned from said business's services under the idea that they can ref
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by chrisnight 3y ago
Ever since Row v Wade was overturned, the method I've taken in arguments is to point out the now blatantly existing cases of misuse of private data to prosecute people. Many people know about the news now about how people have been arr
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by chrisnight 3y ago
Additional idea for why this won't be used as much as they hope: Creating the software is just one part of the entire process of utilizing software. Small scripts actually could be possible to be written by AI, but actually using them
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by chrisnight 3y ago
> Great! Delivery fees are already unsustainably low. Just where are you from? Sure, I see delivery fees that are "free", which means they're included with the cost of the product. But any time I see a delivery fee tacked
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by chrisnight 3y ago
Politeness and respect is sadly a service in the world of consumer-facing business, which means the amount of it that you get is going to correspond with how much you pay and how much the server is willing to give away for free. If the argu
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by chrisnight 3y ago
There is a certain balance in this act though. Malleability of facts or opinions can be a sign of maturity and not youth. While the types of malleability for adults and young kids are different, with adults generally requesting evidence and
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by chrisnight 3y ago
> There is no cryptocurrency involved? Have you heard about the mess that was Durov’s channel some months ago? Telegram is now reserving and then selling usernames as NFTs for crypto on a new site: fragment.com (Use a VPN since it blocks
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by chrisnight 3y ago
This is indeed true and we will have to see how the numbers settle as we go along. However I would be surprised if Meta doesn’t continue to possess well above a supermajority of the userbase until another large corporation embraces Activity
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by chrisnight 3y ago
> If that's your complaint, why wasn't it doubly or triply so with the last corporate overlord? I'll interpret this to mean "If the problem is that Threads owns the majority of the userbase, why didn't you compla
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by chrisnight 3y ago
The problem I see with Threads isn't what Meta will do with fediverse data, it's the power they have with owning 97% of the entire fediverse network [1]. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Owning the vast majority of the fediverse userb
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by chrisnight 3y ago
Mastodon works by copying all data their users see from other servers to the server's own local PostgreSQL database. Admins have access (through the owner or directly) to that database, which means they can already censor content if th
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by chrisnight 3y ago
> Just don't subscribe to them. (Assuming you're not on a single user server) The problem is, in order for a user to see them, they don't need to explicitly subscribe to them, they need to not block them, which is the defa
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by chrisnight 3y ago
My laptop broke and I had to buy a new one. The new one was intel 12th gen, which was unsupported at the time. Why haven't I come back to it? I now often use programs that require hardware acceleration for optimal use, which is unsuppo
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by chrisnight 3y ago
I personally daily drove QubesOS for about half a year when in school, and personally, I loved it. When I first tried it out, I fully expected it to be a nightmare to use, given that's how it's usually advertised by non-users. But
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by chrisnight 3y ago
Not to mention they’ve already held meetings with Fediverse instance admins under NDA about something a while ago [1]. So not only is it their stated plan, they’ve clearly contributed resources to research aswell and still announced the p
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by chrisnight 3y ago
> Something about typing that makes people’s brains fully activate, I think. Part of it might be that, but I think it’s also about the previous experiences that people have with programs. How much a person thinks about something is inver
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by chrisnight 3y ago
The best way of making statements for things like this is to disclude any negatives in it. Don’t include any “cannot”, “never”, “is impossible”, etc because if they are ignored then the statement reverses in meaning. Instead, describe the a
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by chrisnight 3y ago
When it comes to anti-consumer actions taken by companies, many times one can take a blind eye to it as long as they can still play the game. The problem is that’s it’s like a frog in boiling water. At some point you realize that you need t
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by chrisnight 3y ago
Lemmy apparently has controversy with its developers, with Kbin being given as the alternative. So you could look into Kbin aswell.
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by chrisnight 3y ago
Many subs did public polls to gauge their community’s opinion about what action they should take regarding the blackout. Alongside this, considering how hard it is to get people to agree on what they need to take action against, I’d hardly

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