poisonborz

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by poisonborz 9mo ago
I believe less and less that scaling to hundreds of millions of user is not just a failure mode. There is a tipping point from which you only serve profits and shareholders/funders. Communities die by becoming too big.
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by poisonborz 9mo ago
Ask a very simple question: how would this generate profits, which high level manager would be motivated to do this? Sure, 15-20 years ago corporations would've made vanity/critics-industry appeasing projects like this out of prid
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by poisonborz 9mo ago
It was an experiment to keep bright engineers busy with cool ideas to show off.Even back then they could have known that it is not a viable idea to make a tectonic platform switch with not much business arguments for it.
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by poisonborz 9mo ago
> keep all the revenue Which revenue? Whatsapp is for free, those 3.3 billion people use it for free, the revenue is the reselling of user data and showing them ads. Which they would do less with a 3rd party client, and as such Meta figh
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by poisonborz 9mo ago
> obviously against their interests Would love to know how it is "obviously" against my interest to make a chat app and have 3.3 billion users adressable instantly. Bad for internet health to be still tied to Meta, sure, but th
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by poisonborz 9mo ago
Even the first announcement about this included BirdyChat and Haiket. Two completely unknown and yet unreleased closed source chat apps with a waitlist. Can't help but think they are maintained by people close to Meta dev teams and wer
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IntelliJ Idea: The Documentary – Trailer [video](youtube.com)
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by poisonborz 9mo ago
"Every web service that allows for communication should require personal identification to register"
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by poisonborz 9mo ago
You can also buy ready-made PhonieBoxes on some marketplace sites.
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by poisonborz 9mo ago
As probably guessable, the state of author is in has not much to do with the Cracked Android Phone, but that I assume he tries to find remote positions (already a hard find) in US from an African country (assumption, doesn't write deta
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by poisonborz 9mo ago
TLDR: author only sees OSS as a sort of marketing funnel for paid tiers and business fame
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by poisonborz 9mo ago
Congrats to creating something you think is valuable. Do you see a risk that your business model is taking away income from an API provider that you 100% depend on - meaning the plug could be pulled at any minute while you have paying custo
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by poisonborz 9mo ago
The answer is almost always either "sales trick" or "slave labor".
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by poisonborz 10mo ago
I see these posts left and right but no one mentions the _actual_ thing developers are hired for, responsibility. You could use whatever tools to aid coding already, even copy paste from StackOverflow or take whole boilerplate projects from
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by poisonborz 10mo ago
CEOs mostly just set direction, the workforce remains the same (sans mass-layoffs).
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by poisonborz 10mo ago
I wish there were some self-hosted setup that would replicate this based on either tags, bpm matching, or other similarity indicators snooped from online sites like lastfm.
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by poisonborz 10mo ago
Comments like this are not much worth without context. Each model has wildly different perf per each language and framework, project architecture (if it can be followed up successfully). No two devs on different projects have the same exper
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by poisonborz 10mo ago
Cars require the least amount of public infra and can be run relatively cheaply, allow for free movement. Contrast this with literally every other type of western public transport project going several times over budget, expensive to use an
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by poisonborz 10mo ago
Despite this, cars will be the best - cheapest, fastest - means of transportation to most of the society until we have transparent crruptionless (AI?) governments. Apart a few cases - extreme distances (air), multimillion metro areas, handf
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by poisonborz 10mo ago
It is in the distant future still (if we ever get there without apocalypse first) but I think the goal was set out to be, from the very first bits of digital data, is to completely transition ourselves to a digital world. Living it in paral
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by poisonborz 10mo ago
Rather than good I would say "same". Excellent text editor, very barebones for actual development work.
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by poisonborz 10mo ago
This "we, >smart< people will be able to >illegally< disable these artificial barriers, but those >old aged dumb people< will and should not" plan is not really a good setup for enforcing a "democratic"
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by poisonborz 10mo ago
The line of defense is not banning and silencing, people will get around that and you just make free advertisement. Will you fine or detain people reading banned opinions? The actual defense is proper education and healthy, welcoming, accep
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by poisonborz 10mo ago
Turn the sentence around with platforms like Reddit and see how ridiculous this sounds. Censorship will not defend democracy.
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by poisonborz 10mo ago
Rather subjective. I'm really happy with a used "16 gaming laptop, top performance, memory ssd extendable, extremely good display for ~1200€. Build quality is "ok" and creeks a bit, but magnitudes better value than a Th
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by poisonborz 10mo ago
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety..."
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by poisonborz 10mo ago
Thats how you try to poach smart people and evoke a sense of empathy nowadays? It's not even very Microsoft, it's MAI. Who falls for this...
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by poisonborz 10mo ago
This is the main topic of Brave New World.
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by poisonborz 10mo ago
Stock market crash? I believe less and less a 1929 style crash is possible. Tesla, Uber, hell, look at GameStop still... The market is rigged. The US and the upper class needs numbers go up, the numbers will go up. The only way an adjustmen
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by poisonborz 10mo ago
Huh, I think this is a problem that almost every HN reader solved in their life one way or other. (Not speaking of the usability of this: if voice works for you, this can still be great for you, however)

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