dahwolf

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by dahwolf 3y ago
Also known as woke capital, California style. Optically left/ultra progressive when its inconsequential anyway, neo-libertarian when it counts.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Maybe he's referring to media hype. It lasted about a week, and now it's gone. I know you can't buy it or use it yet, but it feels like the announcement never happened. Similar for Bluesky. Everybody queuing to get in, but af
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by dahwolf 3y ago
My take on these entertaining social network breakdown times is this: Twitter refugees, in particular the power users, cannot succeed anywhere else. Their inflated status is bound to Twitter and Twitter only. On Threads, they drown in cheap
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by dahwolf 3y ago
"100M signups in five days is impressive at first glance. However, if you do some quick math, you will see that 100M signups (defined by install the app + click a button that says signup with your Instagram account) out of 3.8 billion
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Indeed, and I extend this problem to any data of any value. The more semantically you describe it, the more pathways you create for abuse.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
The original idea of having many small-sized instances is already failing, also without Meta. Small instances are unreliable (they quit/shutdown), have major sync issues (not seeing all replies, boosts etc) and have a tendency for too
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Pulling the rug is a daily event in the Fediverse itself.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
It's even worse when you consider that others will put something about you out there. They willingly give up their contacts list (with you in it), when joining a network. A "friend" may make a photo of you as part of a social
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by dahwolf 3y ago
My prediction on how this goes down... Meta has zero interest in ActivityPub or the Fediverse, a tiny speckle of users hostile to them. In less than a week, they've created an "instance" 50 times the size of all of Mastodon a
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by dahwolf 3y ago
As the crypto industry discovered: the paradox of decentralization is that every downside it has can only be solved in a centralized way. You can't have perfect privacy in a system that has the exact opposite goal: federation. It means
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by dahwolf 3y ago
The sex worker real name reveal has to be bullshit. I'm quite convinced that Meta actually does have the real name of most of us as well as the ability to link it to other accounts. But the idea that Meta would willingly reveal this wi
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by dahwolf 3y ago
It means you say way less pixels than insiders. Because that's absolutely a problem, us not having enough screen time.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Young one, let me tell you that as you gain responsibility (employment, find a home, start a family)...your gaming days are as good as over. It becomes a casual infrequent hobby at best. As for a paradigm shift, we've had AR for 10 yea
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Our brilliant European plan seems to be coming together. We're stagnating so hard that we rightfully have earned the slur Europoor. Even Indian expats are puzzled by the state of things. We can't even afford ACs. Hence we will bec
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Super basic? It has 5 trillion features.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Same here. I organized a trip to a VR center for the entire team at work. Everybody had fun, but more like going to a theme park. Nobody ever talked about it again or bought one, just zero interest. And these are tech people.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Fully agree. I'm center-left myself in the European political spectrum and cannot stand the leftist vibe, so gloomy, self-congratulating, fake.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
That is the point I was making, it's the worst of both worlds.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Personally, I'm forever locked out of OpenAI. I had the silly idea of trying to change the signin method of my account. Which isn't possible. So I figured to just delete the account and create a new one with the correct signin met
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Who cares? As I write this, Threads has 30 million users, 3 times the entirety of the Fediverse. But yes, surely they will block :)
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Not an analysis, just speculative opinions. It's not that I disagree with the speculation, but none of it is backed up. User stats as well as revenue are private. When you put out a strong statement like "revenue is collapsing&quo
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Which is silly. The reason we have giant social networks is because quantity is a quality in its own right. It increases the likelihood that your friends/family are there as well the various interest one might have.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
There's definitely a growing social media fatigue, a feeling of saturation or boredom. That feeling will only accelerate as social media further fractures. The increasingly attractive option is not to switch, instead to quit. The type
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Unsure what the point of this article is. I've never seen any person or even VC company make the claim that they're on to the one and only 100% coverage network. I'm quite sure everybody is aware that social networks come and
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I'll escalate things by saying that even the European standard of say 5 weeks is in no way excessive. It still means working 90% of the weeks of the year. You could also look at it from another angle and explore what makes work so mise
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Baseline framework performance is pretty much bullshit in any case. Real world performance degradation happens due to poor coding, endless dependencies, large amount of API calls that block rendering, and a huge amount of 3rd party (trackin
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Interesting development announced in the Netherlands last week. We're going to create massive hydrogen infrastructure where we produce it from sea water of the North Sea and then transport it inland using a pipe system to reach a low n
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by dahwolf 3y ago
You must have never heard of rules or duties? No, you cannot do whatever the hell you want at school or at work.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Quite a stretch. When you momentarily pause your Tiktok addiction for a few hours during school hours and then happily continue afterwards, no potential new learning was missed.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
You and I agree. I've been on the web since 1996 and the credo you talk about is deeply ingrained in my ethics. But it's still wishful thinking. We live in the age where AI is so bold as to scrape the crap out of even the largest

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