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by joepie91_ 3y ago
It's long been accepted practice in the hosting industry to have your critical communications as a provider (status page, support system) hosted somewhere that's not your network, for this reason. It continues to amaze me how ma
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by joepie91_ 3y ago
A very important thing is that at least for some types of 3M Aura (the 9320+, at least), the nose clip is significantly stronger than that of cheap masks. So if you're used to pushing it onto your nose very strongly with cheap masks,
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by joepie91_ 3y ago
> Most old projects that follow the 'never close without verification' philosophy end up, eventually, with a majority of open issues not actually reflecting the current state of the project. There's a crucial question here
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by joepie91_ 3y ago
No, the weapons come later. The "observation stations" just determine who they will be pointed at. That's different, right?
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by joepie91_ 3y ago
Probably more action than just telling people will be necessary for that.
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by joepie91_ 3y ago
Generally either donations from users, or paid out of pocket, or some combination of both. This has, broadly, worked fine for years. > And if they are successful Do you mean "if they grow big"? Because that's generally see
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by joepie91_ 3y ago
Mastodon/fedi certainly brought something new to the table (microblogging with close-knit communities), it just isn't a technical feature nor something that's meant to "scale".
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by joepie91_ 3y ago
> Mastodon doesn't have any categorization/classification/tags tools Huh? Mastodon certainly has hashtags. Likewise, there are posting groups. More implicitly, different social groups tend to cluster together and re-boost
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by joepie91_ 3y ago
It continues to boggle my mind how so many tech folks just don't seem to understand that "maximum scale" is not everybody's idea of success, and that not everything is built to "take over the world".
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by joepie91_ 3y ago
But the problem here isn't distribution, it's durable storage. Something along the lines of Tahoe-LAFS would be far more suitable.
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by joepie91_ 4y ago
> The question then becomes what can be reasonably done about it? Or rather, can it even be realistically achieved (in an arbitrary time scale that we care about), given how much of the culture and tooling is currently centered around pa
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by joepie91_ 4y ago
> Even "schema-less" data storage solutions like MongoDB are then also built on similar lies, because while you can throw arbitrary data at them to store it, querying the data later will still depend on some assumptions about t
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by joepie91_ 4y ago
Unfortunately "text is the universal interface" is pretty much a lie, for the exact same reason that "bytes in memory are the universal interface" is a lie. An interface has some kind of structure for the data (and ope
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by joepie91_ 4y ago
Server blocks are not "random", and they are very much a part of how the fediverse functions. It's also what disincentivizes creating large effectively-unmoderatable instances, because you will very quickly find yourself isol
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by joepie91_ 4y ago
And this is precisely the sort of thing that sets apart community-run projects like the fediverse (!= Mastodon) apart from for-profit platforms like Twitter. The fediverse culture is based around consent and guarding each other's safet
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by joepie91_ 4y ago
Hi. You are precisely the kind of threat that the Fediverse culture is designed to defend from. You should maybe consider why that is. The Fediverse was never built nor intended to be a "Twitter replacement".
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by joepie91_ 4y ago
> Gitea has been growing in support and popularity, and as such, it needed to put some legal structure in place to deal with increased income and distribution of funds so that it's not abused. None of that requires turning it from a
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by joepie91_ 4y ago
I don't know whether they did, but it certainly wouldn't be unprecedented in the DDoS mitigation industry.
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by joepie91_ 4y ago
> Precedent from decisions on The Daily Stormer and 8chan was used to pressure Cloudflare to deplatform human rights organizations by authoritarian governments. Refusing to deplatform isn't about protecting Kiwifarms, but protecting
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by joepie91_ 4y ago
Because the electricity was almost certainly offered for a specific subsidized purpose, likely being funded by a grant of some sort, and thus it is being misused?
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by joepie91_ 4y ago
That approach to customer retention is exactly how you sink companies.
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by joepie91_ 4y ago
> My main issue is the use of "toxic" coupled with the post's advocacy for helping others recognize when they're in a toxic workplace. My concern is that anyone identifying with the general stress described could then
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by joepie91_ 4y ago
Toxic work environments are widespread. Their widespread nature doesn't somehow magically make them not qualify as 'toxic'. And if anything, it should prompt wider changes in industry, because clearly it is not an isolated
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by joepie91_ 4y ago
> Matrix is basically a case study in how not to design a federated chat protocol. It's bloated, it ignores all prior art and reinvents the wheel everywhere it can, and its excessive complexity means there is unlikely to ever be a w
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by joepie91_ 4y ago
> For messaging purposes, it is absolutely identical to JSON in this regard. Once you have many existing implementations out in the wild that need to interact with each other, you'll need namespaces or their NIH analogue. And JSONs
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by joepie91_ 5y ago
I'd recommend giving https://gekk.info/articles/adhd.html a read, and seeing whether that sounds like something you can identify with. I've found it invaluable, personally, to answer this question for myself.
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by joepie91_ 5y ago
> I got new glasses a few weeks ago. As I was being fitted, I asked the guy if there were any tools I could buy that would help me adjust my glasses myself. He asked me what I do for a living. "I'm a programmer." "Wel
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by joepie91_ 5y ago
I think anyone who has ever tried to get any process optimizations pushed through in a large company, knows that the idea of "the market will automatically do whatever is most profitable" is mostly an ideologically convenient pipe
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by joepie91_ 5y ago
I think the comment you're replying to was meant sarcastically.
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by joepie91_ 5y ago
Not really. RPi printing server setups are somewhat common.

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