cyborgx7

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by cyborgx7 4y ago
They understand you can send e-mails without needing to have an account with the same provider. They may not know it under the name federation, but they do understand the relevant part, for them.
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
People just have lost the ability to comprehend the concept of federation because everything in the current internet is walled gardens. There is nothing Mastodon can do to "fix this" without giving up on federation. But people und
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
>No formal announcement yet folks. This is how you get a press that only uncritically regurgitates press releases.
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
Self-regulation only works if government regulation is a serious threat in case self-regulation fails. In this case, self-regulation failed, so government regulation stepped in to force industry to do what is right. All the handwringing abo
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
Exactly. It took me a while to understand that this article was written for community managers of brands, not people developing social networks. They keep saying engagement has no value, but to social networks and to "influencers"
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
I disagree. What we have now is so much better than what we used to have. Better labeling would be a nice improvement, but I'll still take the current state of things over what we used to have.
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
I absolutely agree. I'm arguing for cookies as an inherently consensual form of tracking and legislation to keep all the other ones in check.
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
Exactly. The great thing about cookies is that they are a tool, completely in the hand of the user. The site gives you a piece of text and says "show this to me next time if you want me to remember you". And then the browser can c
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
>kind of Exactly, kind of. It's actually a Chrome that removes the native ads, inserts their own ads they sell as a middle man and a built-in weird crypto currency.
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
Yes, but not from selling the software. Nextcloud makes money from hosting and support, exactly as the article lines out.
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
I wonder if the ubiquitousness of people carrying flashlights in the form of smartphones could be leveraged into doing away with street lights as an expected practice. I don't think I would actually support that, but I think that kind
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
That is very cool and a clever use the technology. Any place where someone can follow your development efforts?
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
>I don’t see how a computer racer that destroys human competition would make the game more entertaining, I guess there’s work to do there to not make the AI reliably pull of highly risky moves. Maybe not a fun challenge to race against,
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
Text is the universal interface. It can be easily be output and input by both people and computers. That said, there are plenty of video players with very robust GUIs. What's wrong with having one that is focused on people who want to
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
>I.e. I'm not sure the argument can be made that this is Atlasassian's fault. As someone who spends a lot of his work life administering Jira and Confluence, I disagree. The problem is that these products try to be everything t
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
Not giving out real estate on a "first come-first serve basis" but actively moderating the allotment of real estate.
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
Volunteers volunteer their time and energy for free, so you are nice to them so they will continue to do so. The only part that matches your description is the free part and that part of it doesn't really matter because the point the s
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
>I read it as: "Dont pay them the market rate, squeeze them like lemons - and make them earn peanuts, for the grand vision of getting equity later". In what context are volunteers treated like that?
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
Oh, that actually really helped me getting a grasp on the problem. I feel like other comments and sections of the article were trying to get at that idea, but your phrasing of it made it finally click for me. Thanks.
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
Fun fact: In German, earthworms are called rainworms.
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
what?
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
You would be correct. Marketing in general and advertising in particular is a villainous practice.
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
I share some of your sensibilities regarding the lack of features being a possible advantage. But I don't think the Gnome Project is one that values minimalism in software design that much. And I think it's valid to for there to b
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
I have been rewatching the documentary I linked since I wrote that comment and you are right. I got my wires crossed with another video[1] of his, about a group of geocentrists who tricked high profile physicists into making statements that
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
Belief in Flat Earth is most definitely not a joke for a very large group of people (though it is absolutely a joke for a much larger group of people). It is part of a wider movement of biblical literalism and conspiracy theories describing
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
I think item 8 is one of the most obvious boxes it ticks. The weak-minded, constantly-triggered, safe-space seeking, snowflake libs control the entire world with an iron fist.
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
What?
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
The police exist to protect the property of the wealthy. Of course they have more power than people who make similar money. They have been granted that power by much wealthier, more powerful people. And it is conditional on fulfilling their
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by cyborgx7 4y ago
Money is power. That is a truism everybody is aware off. But Liberalism is fundamentally incoherent if that were true. So people have been deluded into forgetting this simple basic fact.

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