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by paulgb 4y ago
That line comes up as a retort when people accuse twitter of violating the first amendment (which, as a private company, it is not bound by). In this case I don’t see anyone talking about the first amendment, just Musk’s claims that he woul
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by paulgb 4y ago
I think you’re underestimating the number of people hedging their bets on twitter not for ideological reasons, but because a company left with a billion dollars in annual interest is going to have to squeeze that out of whichever users rema
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by paulgb 4y ago
Mastadon provides a way for servers to have an “about” page, which often has more details about who runs the server. In some cases they prefer to be pseudonymous, but in some it’s possible to attach the instance to a human.
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by paulgb 4y ago
There are elements of ideology, but I think a lot of us just see the writing on the wall in that twitter now needs to squeeze more profit out of its userbase (to pay the interest on the debt from the LBO) and is likely to change in big ways
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by paulgb 4y ago
If you had to use Amazon, sure. But the option would be nice. That said, I’ve tried supporting both DynamoDB and an RDBMS with the same software and it was a pain, and this was for something with a less complicated schema then Mastadon. I
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by paulgb 4y ago
Re. moderation, I think you’re right to be skeptical of all-volunteer moderation, but I see it as a return to the phpBB days. My big worry is that once spammers/trolls start their own instances existing instances will have to lock down
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by paulgb 4y ago
I know they framed the statistic as “only 4%” but that’s higher than I would have guessed, given that modern locks (should) have anti-picking security features. If we could calculate the fraction of break-ins by the picking where the lock
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by paulgb 4y ago
That they let him launch the Cybertruck already makes me think he doesn’t have people who can say no to him.
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by paulgb 4y ago
The author said: > Also, let’s stop mincing words for a second: a big part of the issue is that these messages are progressive, and reflect a progressive agenda. The author is speaking specifically about the messages that come from the R
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by paulgb 4y ago
Thanks, that's interesting! > He addressed his ground crew: “Well, now we have been considering whether the start should be made or not; my comrades insist on starting, and as I have no fully valid reasons against it, I shall agree
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by paulgb 4y ago
The current situation at Twitter has made me want to go back to the good-old-days of RSS, I'm glad to see I'm not alone. I'm rusty, though. What's the best Mac desktop RSS client these days?
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by paulgb 4y ago
Thanks, I just ordered a copy of the book that it’s based on ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Eagle_(novel) )
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by paulgb 4y ago
> I have seen a report of the press conference they gave before starting, and it seems painfully clear that they would have all abandoned the attempt if any one of them would have said, out loud, that it was a bad idea. This sounds very
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by paulgb 4y ago
Although the name is about web3, https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ is pretty comprehensive in covering all areas of crypto.
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by paulgb 4y ago
Alameda is closely tied to FTX, which is big enough to have an arena in Miami named after it. > This purported leak of Alameda’s financials demonstrates that the firm’s largest asset is its holdings of “FTX Token (FTT),” issued by none o
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by paulgb 4y ago
Theranos scammed wealthy investors but also hurt a lot of other people in the process, namely patients who received bad tests and employees who have a black mark on their resume. In an ideal world maybe investors would have done more DD, bu
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by paulgb 4y ago
But only a little bit of help, evidently. Maybe they want you to treat yourself and splurge on an avocado.
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by paulgb 4y ago
Cool. Can the GPU be attached to more than one VM at a time? I’m curious what the approach to sharing the GPU is.
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by paulgb 4y ago
I imagine they'll charge money. Mighty's $30/month is a bit out of my price range, but given that I spend ~70% of the workday in a browser, if one could improve my productivity the amount I'd pay for it isn't nothin
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by paulgb 4y ago
Firefox came at a time when the web was really annoying to use, and had features to make it better. I don't think IE had even shipped a pop-up blocker at the time. But FireFox's extensibility also made things like ad blockers an
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by paulgb 4y ago
Nobody thought anybody could dethrone IE when Firefox came around. I don't think the goal of Arc is to be the browser that everybody uses, so much to be a useful browser for a lot of power-users. With the industry standardizing (for
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by paulgb 4y ago
His “Painting a Character with Maths” video is also incredibly mind-blowing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8--5LwHRhjk
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by paulgb 4y ago
That is one fast-loading page, especially for (what looks to be) dynamic data! Are you doing anything special or just using a good CDN?
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by paulgb 4y ago
We can! It’s a lot of work because you don’t have the whole JS ecosystem to fall back on, but to some that’s a feature not a bug. My favorite example of this is https://makepad.dev
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by paulgb 4y ago
Most likely the user deleting their own tweet (see https://twitter.com/dee_bosa/status/1586055365409443840 )
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by paulgb 4y ago
The tweet was deleted, presumably to do with doubt over whether the employees they talked to were actual former employees. > fyi -some questions being raised about whether these are really twitter employees. > Still trying to verify
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by paulgb 4y ago
Congrats, this looks super cool! In the example, is the .await in get_article run in a tokio executor inside wasm, or is did you write a way to poll the future across the wasm/host boundary? I'm curious if you could do something l
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by paulgb 4y ago
I agree, but it's also a matter of degree and availability of the skill you're looking for in the market. I wouldn't hire a developer who has only touched Java to do React when there's lots of React developers out there,
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by paulgb 4y ago
Neither email nor phone anticipated the spam problem at the protocol layer, and solutions have instead been tacked on. At least anecdotally, the solutions mostly work, if slow to gain the adoption throughout the network to make them useful.
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by paulgb 4y ago
One thing I've seen come up a lot is that people got used to treating containers as a portable unit of code, and then Apple Silicon threw a wrench in that assumption. A WASM module is the same regardless of whether you're running

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