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by indigochill 3y ago
I probably fall in the middle. We can only make statements about what's more or less probable by getting insight into what exists beyond our perception, but by definition we can't perceive what's beyond our perception so we h
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by indigochill 3y ago
It's interesting to try to fit what is often talked about as "future-proofing" and "reusability" into the development of a general-purpose CPU, since CPUs are in a sense the ultimate reusable system. In an overly si
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by indigochill 3y ago
> Today, we know what the full potential of a website is, and it's not nearly what we thought it was. I mean, people attribute Arab Spring to Twitter (maybe it's even when traditional news outlets started paying attention to so
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by indigochill 3y ago
> at most, living society should be able to inspect & affect the post-living system (afterlife), but the post living system should be airgapped from being able to (at least, directly) affect the living one at all. I feel like this hy
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by indigochill 3y ago
> ...if they want to maximize their views/revenue on YouTube. Thankfully YouTube is not the only way of educating people.
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by indigochill 3y ago
> in a certain way we rewrite history when we do this History is sort of inherently rewritten. Memories are (very!) imperfect and even without realizing it we interpret events through our individual biases. Maybe the more precise concern
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by indigochill 3y ago
They later clarify that they're talking specifically about engine development, which makes much more sense to me since I see tons of relatively young hires at our studio (albeit no outright teenagers) but none of them for the engine. I
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by indigochill 3y ago
I hang out in that scene from time to time (particularly, the "tildeverse": https://tildeverse.org/ ). IMO, it's necessarily an underground scene because mass culture wants big tech. It takes a certain awarene
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by indigochill 3y ago
Ultimately I believe people are conflating terms: 1. Science as an institution of academics, some of whom have demonstrably prioritized their career over doing their job (and even when that's not the case, has been shown to be wrong if
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by indigochill 3y ago
I have mixed feelings, as someone who grew up in that utopia. On one hand, looking at the mass internet culture, the prevailing utopian culture was only possible in the way that jumping into the air is flying: true for a moment, but ultimat
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by indigochill 3y ago
Why have just one layer of protection when you can have multiple? https://www.comptia.org/blog/what-is-defense-in-depth Mistakes happen in the most secure systems. The more layers of defense you have, the less likely a
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by indigochill 3y ago
> Feels like the end of an era, communities seeking to protect themselves from external threats, and search engines providing as little value as search pre-Google. IMO this is inevitable. It's why countries have borders: resources a
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by indigochill 3y ago
I'd say there are colloquial and technical definitions of the word. Colloquially people have taken to referring to servers not their own, particularly operated by Amazon/Google/Microsoft, as "the cloud", such as One
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by indigochill 3y ago
> Our designs and our tailwind-config comes from the same spec. Is this the design system you created, or is this something others can use (or both)? As someone who's avoided frontend work primarily because I find CSS tedious, havin
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by indigochill 3y ago
I think in general one might consider "the cloud" to be virtual resources on hardware shared with third parties. So of course AWS/GCP/Azure, but DigitalOcean would probably also qualify since to my knowledge droplets are
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by indigochill 3y ago
I wasn't born with it, but after catching Covid my sense of smell got for lack of a better term "muffled". Some things merged together. I could still "smell" shampoo and hand sanitizer, but they smelled identical to
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by indigochill 3y ago
I'm sympathetic to that perspective, but that would entail pushing an ideal upstream to where change isn't going to happen because there's far too much financial interest in copyrighting arrangements of bytes. So if the syste
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by indigochill 3y ago
You could also look at the FOSS world. Licenses are actually important because if you license some software under GPL, you have legal grounds to sue if a corporation then uses that software in violation of the license. Most corporations jus
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by indigochill 3y ago
I like Peter Watts' approach with Blindsight. He directly provides a variety of DRM-free (including plain old HTML!) versions of it and has licensed it under Creative Commons, and he accepts donations to the "Niblet Memorial Kibbl
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by indigochill 3y ago
> The host of the ActivityPub site doesn’t have to do all the moderation The person who set up the server doesn't, no, they can appoint moderators that lack administrative privileges. I don't recall at the moment if moderators
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by indigochill 3y ago
> There are many, many servers that do not defederate with any other servers. Uh, I'm like 99% sure _every_ server defederates with many other servers. You have to to not federate anime waifus and other generally undesirable content
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by indigochill 3y ago
> LLMs have more potential for weaponising personal information against us. Doesn't follow from > They will comply with anything requested in the prompt. LLMs are impressive in how they are able to produce plausible sentences, bu
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by indigochill 3y ago
One of the questions I don't see answered here (and is, IMO, the greatest obstacle, and the reason I've backed out of discussions to set up a similar geographically-oriented node) is who moderates, say, your city's ActivityPu
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by indigochill 3y ago
I expect that if federated social media takes off, nobody (among the mass market) will know that it's federated, just like email. It'll just be, like you say, a couple of big sites that happen to enable people to communicate with
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by indigochill 3y ago
I vaguely recall a meme somewhere about how ridiculous it is to ask, say, a sports or movie star their opinion on politics or something else that isn't their field just because they're famous. Heck, even within one's field, B
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by indigochill 3y ago
Yeah, I feel like there's this ingrained assumption people have that because SQLite can run in-memory that it's "not a real database". I've never really understood it (since I _love_ using it in my personal projects
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by indigochill 3y ago
Changing databases on an existing application doesn't happen, but I've worked across teams within a single company for ~8 years and in that time I've used: 1. SQL Server 2. MySQL 3. Neo4j (very briefly) 4. PostgreSQL 5. Dynam
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by indigochill 3y ago
Seems like one has to assume corporate repos have them. If they don't already, they could decide to at any time. If that's a problem, self-hosting puts the power back into the hands of the users (and can be done very cheaply - I&#
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by indigochill 3y ago
The reason for the fork was that Gitea was going for-profit and the folks that forked to Forgejo felt they went about that transition in a way that eroded trust. Here's their explanation: https://blog.codeberg.org/codeb
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by indigochill 3y ago
> That isn't to say federation will be successful Federation is already successful, since email is federated (you can register on gmail.com and send an email to an account at yahoo.com, or even run your own email server, although th

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