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by pfraze 5y ago
Going to take a moment to mention - though I shared a disagreement elsewhere in the comments, I respect the work you've been doing Cory and I regret not saying so in my comment. I'm glad you're make a case for adversarial int
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Depends on your definition of human
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Ah. Oof. That's a bummer of a mistake.
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Well I'm more thinking of the problem that browser extensions had, where people would make something handy or fun, be granted perms by the user, then get sold to people looking to mine user data. Extension authors get solicitations for
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Is it fake? The relationship isn't just between the user and facebook (thus, auth) it's between the user, facebook, and the third-party app. The concern is that the 3rd-parties act maliciously; see the challenges with browser exte
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>> the system has to be rearchitected to solve > If it was obvious how to, we'd be talking about that, but it's not even obvious how to We're in agreement, both on that and on your points on how innovation does happe
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Basically somebody borrowed a bunch of crypto, bought controlling “shares” (tokens) in the DAO, and voted the treasury into their own wallet. I’m curious why controlling levels of the token were on the market, and I have to assume that’s wh
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Doctorow is arguing for adversarial interop but also observes that companies shut down APIs due to them becoming data leak vectors and then use that concern to make circumvention illegal. The dilemma is real. You end up with a sense that fa
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I’m told the Go GC has gotten better in recent years. Has anybody run a similar program in Go lately that can confirm that?
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Extreme libertarianism is divisive, and that was the culture of Bitcoin fans from the early days. It created a negative first impression for people who don’t agree politically.
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Very good points, and I think you're right on the numbers here! I went dependent spelunking - almost half of it is because is-even is a dependent (naturally) but then I didn't notice any dependents of is-even to explain it. I gues
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by pfraze 5y ago
Those numbers are a little deceiving. It’s likely that those modules are upstream of a popular module or two. It’s not like they are installed by projects directly.
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I think you have to appreciate the history with node to know why there are so many packages. Node’s growth coincided with GitHub’s and node’s community really adopted the “social programming” trope. You could really make a name for yourself
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FWIW it wasn’t a coin thing, we just couldn’t make beaker into a product enough people wanted
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Yeah this is a really interesting question. It's the point Moxie brings up when people ask why signal isn't federated or otherwise decentralized. You basically have to solve multi-stakeholder collaboration. You want projects/
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Two years were spent talking among projects in the community. You're seeing stuff now because we formed a company at the beginning of this year and started building. (We explain in this post why none of the existing projects were picke
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It is, and we're talking with people who do trust & safety at Twitter to make sure we're approaching it right. To be clear, we're really in the early stages of the project. This post is just the stuff we have a clear conc
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Well, you might be right, but I’m going to do my best with it. My DMs are open on discord and Twitter if you want to chat, now that I am involved.
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It actually just got funded as its own org this year [1]. It was a community until that happened. 1. https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/2-28-2022-how-it-started
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I'm guessing / hoping there was a lot of data in there as INSERT statements. My horror story was being asked to do maintenance on PHP sites written in the early days of PHP. Hundreds - maybe thousands - of PHP files with copy-past
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by pfraze 5y ago
I think rakoo was contrasting your observation as a "server-side vs client-side" distinction. As you said, in a server-side model you're using a server and you have a lot of freedom in how you manage the system. The p2p model
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by pfraze 5y ago
Ey, I made Fritter. The “fr” shamelessly came from my last name. Actually the cooler thing was Rotonde, which Devine of 100 rabbits fame made. Beaker has the ability to duplicate somebody else’s website, which we called forking. So Devine m
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I get the anti-corporate opinion. I don’t think it totally fits here because VSCode is FOSS, and it offers them a very limited moat; if they tried to push something weird then you can bet on a fork or the myriad of alternatives in the satur
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I have watched a number of demos of Acme and I have two general takeaways. The idea of adding “buttons” (so to speak) to the toolbar by just writing text seems incredibly cool, and I doubt I would ever enjoy actually using Acme. Like a lot
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The metaphor I like to use is image resolution. In mass-communication, we communicate with 2x2 pixel images. Among friends with a lot of trust, we speak in 1080p. 2x2 communication just can't carry the context that we bake into each wo
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> At my law school, one of the top ones in the country, the Dean got up and declared himself a “white supremacist” at a town hall meeting To explain this a bit more: there was a fairly wide conversation during 2019/2020 about syste
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Cheers, that fits better with my memory of what I read. That does somewhat diminish my point.
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This is entirely true of imperial Rome, but less true of the republican Rome. In the context of this particular thread, the conversation was centered on republican Rome and whether a recent civil war was an indicator of the transition to em
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We have a little bit of a self-vision problem. Historically, America focused on conquering new frontiers: manifest destiny (with all the nastiness that includes), industrialization, the space race, computing. It's not really clear what
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I remember reading this theory a bit ago and I thought it was one of the more compelling observations. It depends on whether you're focusing on foreign or domestic politics, because both fit in various ways. When the republic fell to a

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