dahwolf

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by dahwolf 3y ago
Not FUD, different timezone :) First, the technical/usability part... Picking an instance is a major hurdle. There's no usable feed from the get-go. Following people, especially from other instances, is not intuitive. There's
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Alternative trajectory: 1. Meta conditionally federates with Mastodon instances that sign the deal (allow ads to be pushed, data to be collected, etc) 2. Small/vocal instances reject the deal and defederate. 3. Some large instances do
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by dahwolf 3y ago
That sounds logical. Federation without conditions would make no sense at all for Meta. You could then run an ad-free Threads copy, create any client you want, easily train your AI on their content. Surely if such deals materialize, many id
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by dahwolf 3y ago
"Isn't allowing any kind of behavior the default in free societies?" No? What exactly is so difficult to understand about a school being there for educational purposes, and the smartphone directly distracting from that?
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by dahwolf 3y ago
If only you were so lucky, Mastodon admins are way worse. Not only might they mod at will in the way reddit mods do, Mastodon admins take it several steps further by bothering other instance mods about their moderation. And then yet another
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by dahwolf 3y ago
DMA applies only to gatekeeper companies, of which there's less than 20. It doesn't apply to Mastodon instances. Further, interoperability concerns messaging apps, not social media apps.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
"It will probably pain me to see the diaspora of users among many microblogging services." Not just you, every publisher, influencer, notable person, institute that uses social media to broadcast information to large groups of peo
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by dahwolf 3y ago
The most realistic comment in the thread, you don't deserve these downvotes. Threads development started last January. Quite obviously it's a rush job to capitalize on the fall of Twitter before BlueSky does. They'll instantl
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by dahwolf 3y ago
"They need the community more than the community needs them." You have to be kidding me. The entire fediverse is little over 1M MAU, almost all of them not monetizable. So...tiny and useless. Threads can launch whilst being fully
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Fully agree, been watching that space and it's insanely dysfunctional. It's a technical disaster as well as a cultural disaster. But indeed, if the goal is to self sabotage and remain an irrelevant corner of misfits, all good.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Mastodon's culture of anti-everything is naive. All posts (except "DMs") are public and can be scraped and made searchable at will for anyone mildly motivated to do so. I'm honestly pretty skeptical about the fediverse a
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by dahwolf 3y ago
It's because Mastodon is full of salty toxic doomers. Regardless, I'm predicting that if not for a cultural clash, many instances may de-federate due to the compute cost.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Monitors are frustratingly slow to evolve. What would really make a dent in experience is OLED + HDR. In the TV world, the combination with HDR is relatively new as OLED displays struggled with brightness. This particular combination workin
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by dahwolf 3y ago
We do, but we don't send tweets about it or stand around to record it.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Where did you learn to dramatize like this? Smartphone?
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by dahwolf 3y ago
It's not dumb. The phone distracts from the goal, it's as simple as that.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
They could try reading the article, which addresses this exact scenario.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Fully with you. All these kids do is play games, scroll tiktok and chat on snapchat. What possible "skill" are we talking about? If anything, they have very low tech skills. They are consumers of apps highly optimized for convenie
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Not to worry, they can continue to use them outside of school. I'm sure they'll still know how to scroll tiktok.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
You haven't given a single reason in favor of smartphones in class, but there's a zillion straight forward reasons to disallow/constrain them.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
No disrespect to any citizen, but it remains the ugliest city I've ever seen. Pure random concrete chaos.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
"So where are we all supposed to go now?" Important to understand that the word "we" in this article means chronically online tech journalists angry at Twitter.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
This is a case of trying to obsessively rationalize the irrational. Nobody gives a shit about society's "productivity" when they consume alcohol. Alcohol tends to be used to relax or to numb pain. It's not exactly the co
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I think the limiting factor of this device is apps/experiences. For this kind of money and discomfort you require mind blowing 3D experiences for it to be worth it. The problem with that is that those are impossibly hard/expensive
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by dahwolf 3y ago
How we rate things in the Netherlands is a reflection of the rating system used in schools. 1-5. Ranging from pathetic to inadequate, in any case you didn't pass. 6. Adequate, the minimum needed to pass. A culturally important number a
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by dahwolf 3y ago
"but a large portion of users do not understand why they need a password". Exactly right. My mum has an iPad, secured by a PIN. This in itself is already an annoyance, but fine. Next, several services on the device have their own
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Lol indeed, they should spend some time outside. Nobody knows what a yubikey is. Or what 2FA means, or OTP, or how this type of authentication method is device-bound unless you sync. Or how the same service approached from different devices
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by dahwolf 3y ago
When most people see the Wikipedia donation banners, they think they're barely surviving, and that their donation goes towards running the site. That's very far from reality. The money goes to Wikimedia Foundation, which is swimmi
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by dahwolf 3y ago
LLMs cause quite the paradigm shift. Before, there was a very strong if not existential incentive to get indexed by scrapers, in particular search engines. Now the situation is flipped where there's a strong incentive to put up ever hi
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by dahwolf 3y ago
We lack a socio-economic system where common people truly benefit from automation. We fear automation because it may replace our jobs. No worries, we'll make up some new bullshit jobs. Or maybe you can keep your job, and we raise the e

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