dahwolf

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by dahwolf 3y ago
True. Chat feels alive. Quite different from posting on social media where next you have to wait whether anybody even saw it at all (usually not) and can be bothered to like it (which does nothing) or respond to it.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Good thinking and it's a rule I live by. I do not share anything digitally that would backlash if revealed. Also not in private digital spaces. Not in work chat. Not even on a private device in a note. Nowhere. Digitally, I do not goss
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by dahwolf 3y ago
He predicted the privatization of social networks 5 years ago. Which isn't that brilliant, the trend can be casually observed.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I remember the circles concept working for about 2 weeks. I'm into photography and people started creating "best photographers" circles, one of them had 700 posters in it. You could follow the entire circle with a single clic
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Relatable. My idea is that a profile should indeed be sliced. Personal, professional, specific niches (cooking, tech, whatever) and that we have a reliable labeling system that accurately detects the "channel", preferably fully au
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by dahwolf 3y ago
People don't want this. They say they do but they don't. Social media is 15 years old now. Watching what your friend had for dinner or some other mundane non-event is just not that exciting anymore.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
True. And Mastodon's paranoid safety culture is why they could have just used chat.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Even the public personas are having a rough time. Twitter is falling apart and then there is Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads and just generally a very fractured yet crowded space where you're up against dirty tactics of your peer influencer
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I think my aunt is great and much cooler than my peers. I object to this weird anti-family culture. I don't give a shit what is "cool". It's a made-up concept, unlike family. Family has my back, and I have theirs. But I
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by dahwolf 3y ago
It's an annoying word in itself, and yes, it's simply business as usual in startup land. Invest aggressively at a loss to accelerate growth, then later monetize, if you get that far. Can't we do better? Have a stable business
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Facebook doesn't care about the tiny amount of content on Mastodon. And it's the wrong type of content anyway. Mastodon is for misfits, nerds, anarchists, Tumblr-style far-left politics, doomers, weirdos and very bad artists. Inst
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by dahwolf 3y ago
The article touches upon this. You can phrase it as social media becoming just "media" again. A small group of heavy posters is responsible for the content backed by an algorithm that broadcasts it. I think the cognitive effects a
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by dahwolf 3y ago
It is. On Facebook you can sort your feed that way and also on Twitter. Not sure about Instagram. In my opinion, people are bored out of their mind also on a chronological feed from their friends. Not because they dislike their friends, it&
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Hardly a new insight, Zuckerberg acknowledged that the future of the public square is private, about 5 years ago.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
It's not aggressive and being critical of work deliverables is the very point of quality assurance. It doesn't mean you have to be mean about it, but you can just spit it out.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Me neither. I would reply with: "Thanks that you liked it, I'm always happy with positive feedback so will share it widely within the team and towards my manager. When I get home I'll also tell my wife and put it in the famil
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Well, that's the entire problem now, isn't it?
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by dahwolf 3y ago
You're missing the point entirely. It's not about the Mercedes. If anything, Google makes it impossible and unaffordable to serve up the useful information you desire.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Don't ever build anything large on top of Google Maps. Beyond the free tier and 200$ credit, prices are so insane that they would make Musk and that Reddit CEO blush. Have a look yourself: https://mapsplatform.google.com&#x2
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Well, perhaps because they can't afford it?
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Because that would be unreasonable and impractical. Next question please.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Many people are politically disinterested even to the point of not bothering to vote. And like you said, even those that are engaged are still not qualified to comment on the more complicated issues, of which there is a growing amount. It&#
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by dahwolf 3y ago
The truth of the matter is that most organizations are fundamentally incompatible with agile. Organizations obsess over details. They want detailed plans and cost estimates months ahead. They have a low or zero tolerance for failure. They t
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by dahwolf 3y ago
It's a ridiculous thing to say that any version of PHP is slow. You could run PHP5 today and it's still not slow by any modern standard. Even on the hardware of 15 years ago almost any script you throw at it finishes in single dig
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by dahwolf 3y ago
The good thing about Scrum is that it introduces frequent moments of accountability. They are not popular but much needed in many teams and better than the alternative of the traditional waterfall approach. It should also very frequently re
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I personally believe that I've been in a short-lived "wet bulb" situation twice in my life. In both cases, in the Amazon, pretty much at the equator, at some of the hottest days of the year. 40-45C, humidity near a 100. A col
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by dahwolf 3y ago
As is the case with the new social media meme where "Europoors" don't have ACs and should be ridiculed for it.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I agree that there's friction between the greater public good and private interests. But I don't agree with the reductive take that compromised security means companies don't care or are greedy. Companies that do care and hav
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Agreed. I think they should negotiate a security test beforehand. For their own sake but also to get a buy-in. And if a company categorically refuses, you can then publish that, or share that you worry about a lack of track record in known
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Can't believe the pushback I'm getting here. The use case is stunningly obvious. Companies want to dump all their Excels in it and get insights that no human could produce in any reasonable amount of time. Companies want to dump a

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