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by grumbel 1y ago
If I'd wanted my user account tied to a server controlled by somebody else, I'd just use Twitter. Mastodon isn't solving any problems here. The beauty of Nostr is that it turns the server into a dumb relay, the server control
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by grumbel 1y ago
It's also due to browser not doing anything useful with the additional tags, if I use <article>, <section> or <div> doesn't make any difference, my browser doesn't use that to generate a TOC or let me open a
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by grumbel 1y ago
The most annoying part is that the type checking exists outside the regular runtime. I constantly run into situation where the type checker is happy, but the thing explodes at runtime or the type checker keeps complaining about working code
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by grumbel 1y ago
> In my opinion is the most innovative way of communicating that I've seen in the last 20 years. The sad irony of this is that this is really not all that innovative, it's just reinventing the 45 year old Usenet with public-cry
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by grumbel 1y ago
The fundamental difference is that with Mastodon, or any Fediverse service, the server still has full control over the user. It's basically no different from regular Facebook or Twitter, just with some optional federation on top that c
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by grumbel 1y ago
You are probably browsing with zoom, that seems to screw up the up rendering and makes the background and text look different. It should be just black&white random pixel noise for both background and foreground, without motion the text
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by grumbel 1y ago
The Oculus Go was discontinued June 2020, the shop was locked down for any further updates or new games December 2020, that's just six months apart. They did "support" it with security updates until 2022, but it's pretty
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by grumbel 1y ago
That was the promise with the original Rift, not the Quest. The Quest2 required a Facebook account from day one and never worked with an Oculus account, unlike Quest1. They relaxed the requirement in 2022 to only require a Meta account and
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by grumbel 1y ago
> AI is a competitor. AI isn't competition for Google, AI is technology. Not only is Google using AI themselves, they are pretty damn near the top of the AI game. It's also questionable how this is relevant for past crimes of G
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by grumbel 1y ago
> There is not entity "Mastodon" that could decide anything. mastodon.social is a server, if you have an account on there, they can delete it. If you don't have an account there, they can still block you by defederating wh
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by grumbel 1y ago
> This achieves your goal, doesn't it? Running a server isn't practical for average people. It's also nothing new, people could do since the dawn of the Internet, they don't need a Fediverse for that. > You can fre
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by grumbel 1y ago
> Is everybody nice to each other on the Internet? For most part, yes. ISPs still carry traffic as is and don't just block random hosts because they don't like them. This is however slowly changing in Europe due to ever increas
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by grumbel 1y ago
> They just don't know that decentralized platforms offer long-term solution. The crux is that most "decentralized" platforms don't offer long-term solution either. The whole concept of Federation only works as long a
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by grumbel 1y ago
Completely the wrong way around. We are heading into a future where everything will be touched by AI in some way, be it things like Photoshop Generative Fill, spell check, subtitles, face filters, upscaling, translation or just good old alg
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by grumbel 1y ago
> all the handwavy "engineering" is better done with more data. How long until that gets more reliable than a simple database? How long until it can execute code faster than a CPU running a program? A lot of the stuff humans ac
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by grumbel 1y ago
Cyc[0] tried for 40 years to make handwritten semantic rules a thing, but still don't have much to show for. Humans just aren't good or fast at writing down the rather fuzzy semantics of the real world into a computer readable for
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by grumbel 1y ago
> Flakes are a great example, I still have no idea what a flake is A package that fully specifies its dependencies (via flake.nix/flake.lock) instead of depending on whatever the user has in their Nix channels. You enable them via:
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by grumbel 1y ago
Guix is a reimagining of the concepts of Nix with Guile/Scheme instead of the Nix language, so they are very similar in overall feel, but differ in the details (e.g. GNU Shepherd vs systemd). As for learning curve, I find Nix substanti
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by grumbel 1y ago
> there is more freedom of speech in most EU countries than in the USA A quick look at Steam says otherwise. All the games that credit cards companies pressured to get removed from Steam, were already long gone in Germany. Because that&#
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by grumbel 1y ago
With shared_ptr you completely lose track who actually owns an object or when it will get destructed. It encourages sloppy programming and makes code much harder to read and reason about. Unlike most languages that have ref-counting build i
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by grumbel 1y ago
Numerous countries are debating the creation of a digital currency: EU: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.ht... UK: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/the-digital-pound U
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by grumbel 1y ago
Use projection mapping, instead of lighting the photo uniformly, use a projector and project a copy of the image onto the photo, thus you get detailed control over how much light the parts of the image receive. Alternatively, use transparen
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by grumbel 1y ago
It's a blockchain, so you can keep permanent record of what a person is doing and when and where they got caught violating the rules. It won't stop the infractions from happening at first, but it will make it very easy to avoid th
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by grumbel 1y ago
In the AI driven future we are heading into, telling the difference between AI-bot and human might become a valuable good.
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by grumbel 1y ago
There is '-Wconversion' to catch things like this. It will however not trigger in this specific case since g++ assumes converting 1000.0 to 1000 is ok due to no loss in precision. Quantity(100) is counterproductive here, as that d
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by grumbel 1y ago
I'd be more impressed if they'd used a hyperlink. But that's apparently forbidden in modern journalism.
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by grumbel 1y ago
That requires having an account on the other machine. What's missing is anonymous scp, where the other side just opens up a directory, and you can copy into it. One can build something like this with rsyncd, but it's not a pretty
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by grumbel 1y ago
Money alone wouldn't fix this, as a Web where every page has a paywall wouldn't be much better either. Which in turn would concentrate most of the Web in a few services just as it is today and enshittyfication would bring the ads
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by grumbel 1y ago
Give every Internet user a domain name and routable IP for free with their Internet account. That won't magically fix all the problems in an instant, but the core of everything wrong with the Internet starts with the Internet being sep
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by grumbel 2y ago
Not much. A horizontal split (C-x 2) can be quite useful to keep the top of a file in view while editing around at the bottom of a file. A vertical split (C-x 3) is useful when comparing files side by side. But that's about as far as I

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