moojd

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by moojd 6y ago
We need a better framework for discussing speech issues in general. Even here arguments devolve into semantics over what the first amendment applies to when we should really be discussing how we actually expect/want society to function
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by moojd 6y ago
This mentality is why I believe every centralized social media platform has a limited shelf-life. We don't have a lot of discussions like this about what people should be allowed to say in an e-mail, or snail mail, or on a soapbox in T
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by moojd 6y ago
The lack of a standard library is definitively a major factor and the way npm solves the Diamond Dependency Problem exacerbates the issue by an order of magnitude. Not only is everyone pulling in dozens of packages that do simple things, yo
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by moojd 6y ago
Not fact checking is only picking a side once you have decided to fact check. Before all of this twitter could claim to be a medium of communication. There isn't implicit trust that something is true because it is written on paper, pos
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by moojd 6y ago
'git mv <source> <dest>' works pretty well for this.
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by moojd 6y ago
I rarely 'fall out of love' with music I discover but I do have to take a break every once in a while. I spend most of my time listening to new indie releases or genres of the past that I haven't explored before, but then I&#
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by moojd 6y ago
Protobuf, cap n proto, and messagepack are a few I've seen before
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by moojd 6y ago
I think this right here is a killer app for decentralized social networks and is something I've been thinking about a lot. I'm looking forward to your post!
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by moojd 6y ago
It's possible (and important) that moderation can be implemented in a decentralized community. Aether[0] has a really interesting take on it where it is essentially democratic. [0] https://getaether.net/
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by moojd 6y ago
I've been tinkering with SSB recently as well and I'm also finding it difficult to figure out how to interface with the wider SSB network in the 'correct' way. The communication protocol is well documented and easy to im
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by moojd 6y ago
Kirin J Callinan and Alex Cameron both like to invent characters and then write songs from the character's perspective as sincerely as possible. Sometimes the characters they are playing are just exaggerated version of themselves. They
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by moojd 6y ago
FaceID is better than front or in-screen fingerprint readers but I greatly prefer fingerprint readers on the back of the phone. It's right where your finger naturally rests when taking the phone out of your pocket so the phone is unloc
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by moojd 6y ago
> Name one major social media site today that was based on a “new protocol”? Answer: None. If one already existed then this title of this post would be 'ActivityPub is the Now' instead of 'ActivityPub Could Be the Future
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by moojd 6y ago
Thanks! I would like to know if there are any projects working on this. I found this thread discussing how it could be done over SSB https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-db/issues/202
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by moojd 6y ago
Mastodon can appeal to people who enjoy the idea of twitter but want to be able to have their own cordoned off community version of it with the ability to whitelist other communities that are allowed to interop.
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by moojd 6y ago
In the words of Gucci Mane, "A man can get lost in the sauce, but the same man can be lost without the sauce." It's natural that here on hacker news we spend most of our time discussing protocols and implementation details. N
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by moojd 6y ago
I want to see a hybrid federation/p2p approach (Secure Scuttlebutt pubs/rooms are close this). As far as I understand it ActivityPub is just a standard for interop between social network services. The social networks still own you
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by moojd 7y ago
Are you sure those numbers aren't reversed? I'm in a red state and while most people I know were in denial a month ago most now at least have moderate concern. It's pretty hard to deny that COVID-19 is a threat when our hospi
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by moojd 7y ago
Once you have a large enough userbase the thumbs up / thumbs down method might be the best option. My favorite example of numbered rating systems failing is metacritic where almost every user score is either a 10 or a 0. They have a we
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by moojd 7y ago
You are probably right. I apologize.
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by moojd 7y ago
How does having the ability to personally opt out of the walled garden prevent others from staying in the garden? You may not want to opt out of the garden but I don't see why you would want to deny that the others? Surely they can dec
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by moojd 7y ago
Yep, I wish either nmpjs.com or npms.io would list the total number of transitive dependencies in their search so I could sort by it. npmjs.com shows the number of dependencies at the top but doesn't total in dev-dependencies unless yo
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by moojd 7y ago
I've been using the voice-to-text included with the google keyboard on android to practice speech on duo. I'd be interested to hear from a native speaker how accurate the voice-to-text model is but I find it fun getting a computer
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by moojd 7y ago
Hunting and deriving enjoyment from it does not mean you can't have respect for the individual animal. Obviously there are sociopathic people out there who kill animals (and other people) without respect but you are arguing that there
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by moojd 7y ago
This is the 'data mapper' vs 'active record' debate and I would argue both are sub-categories of 'Object-relational mapper.' I've seen multiple people in this thread even include query builders in their de
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by moojd 7y ago
5/10 of the most populous states 2. Texas 4. Florida 5. New York 9. Georgia 10. North Carolina A quick check to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories... gave me ~38% of the US population
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by moojd 7y ago
For contrast: My rural hometown of around 15,000 (not tiny but still 10 times smaller than Ft. Collins) built its own fiber network in the mid-90s. It still runs today and has expanded to include many of our smaller neighboring communities
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by moojd 7y ago
Thanks for reminding me of these! I remember when they announced shipit. I think I was in middle school and got them shipped to my parents house because they were free and why not. I lived in a rural area and didn't have broadband yet.
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by moojd 7y ago
Interesting enough I actually agree in principle with arsenico and ken. The debug button example is a weird corner case. On pretty much every smart phone you click a green call button to make a call and click a red disconnect button to disc
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by moojd 7y ago
The most confusing toggle I've seen is the "Listen for debug connections" in intellij [0,1]. It shows the current status instead of the action you would be performing. You have to click the "Hang up" icon[0] to STAR

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