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by praisewhitey 3y ago
Reading through the responses on that page, many of the editors leaving a comment started editing before 2010. I'm curious how many people considered part of the editor community started in the last few years.
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by praisewhitey 3y ago
Last night I tested the mentioned domains (bsky.social, nytimes.com, substack.com, threads.net) and a few dozen others by clicking every link I saw in my twitter feed for 20 minutes and observed the 4.5s delay on those mentioned domains but
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by praisewhitey 3y ago
4521ms according to curl curl -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/117.0" -I "https://t.co/4fs609qwWt" x-response-time: 4521
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by praisewhitey 3y ago
I tested some substack.com links and there's a delay on those too.
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by praisewhitey 3y ago
In 2015 twitter changed favorites to likes, but since the username "likes" was taken, the url to view your likes switched from twitter.com/favorites to twitter.com/i/likes (later on they changed it to twitter.com&#x
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by praisewhitey 3y ago
The article addresses this
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by praisewhitey 3y ago
The Sony XM3 earbuds have easy to replace batteries so it's not impossible Apple does something similar https://www.ifixit.com/News/35377/which-wireless-earbuds-are...
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by praisewhitey 3y ago
They opened it up for brands days ahead of the general public. Of course they're thinking of monetization first.
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by praisewhitey 3y ago
Easily the worst of the twitter alternatives so far. The feed is endless garbage recommended posts with no way to turn them off. At least twitter gives me a tab of only the people I follow.
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by praisewhitey 3y ago
>Speaking from very painful, personal experience, few things are more agitating than being forced to execute on something you fully know is a horrible idea, especially when you tried and failed to communicate this fact to the individual
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by praisewhitey 3y ago
>For instance, if BOTW was released under a different IP skin and released for xbox, it would probably be a 6-8/10. That game is Genshin Impact and it's very successful
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by praisewhitey 3y ago
Mastodon's biggest problem is if you want to join a general purpose server with a level headed administrator you only have a couple of options. Most servers resemble joining an irc channel or phpbb forum where a mod will ban you for ma
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by praisewhitey 3y ago
>This 'ActivityPub' interoperability also happened with Gab, which became the largest Mastodon instance at one point and then almost all instances de-federated with it. wasn't this Pawoo.net? I remember Gab switching to ma
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by praisewhitey 3y ago
>Ask the outside world on the other hand and they’ll say Microsoft leadership is doing a stellar job. I doubt a majority of Windows users are happy with the direction Microsoft is taking.
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by praisewhitey 3y ago
Reddit shared this on their instagram story yesterday. A booth at some Adweek conference. https://i.imgur.com/NNLtjFo.mp4
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by praisewhitey 3y ago
Ideally they would join any instance and follow the topics they're interested like they would subscribing to a subreddit, and the fact that content is spread out over several instances isn't something users need to worry about. Th
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by praisewhitey 3y ago
I understand why in 2023 running Lemmy (Rust) over Kbin (PHP) is more appealing, but Kbin looks and feels much nicer to me.
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by praisewhitey 3y ago
>But Apollo can offer a better experience because they don't have to sell ads Apollo can offer a better experience because they don't have to constantly push recommendations and test new features to boost engagement metrics. If
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by praisewhitey 3y ago
They're clearly joking.
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by praisewhitey 3y ago
last I checked the iPhone podcasts app doesn't play opus. Have things changed?
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by praisewhitey 3y ago
A system that requires users to sanitize inputs is indeed broken. System designers should make sure the system handles sanitation and not the end user.
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by praisewhitey 3y ago
The reason I started using DDG a decade ago is because they "censor" their search results https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2181585
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by praisewhitey 4y ago
Fourth sentence of the article: >This is not a plucky startup founder or a journeyman finding his feet, but a guy who has the majority of voting power in a publicly-traded trillion-dollar enterprise who is giving a “forgot to prepare for
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by praisewhitey 4y ago
Personally I've always disliked Substack because their links used to only show a newsletter sign up form and a button that said "Let me read it first". I'm sure everyone who works at Substack knows no one wants to sign u
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by praisewhitey 4y ago
defaulting to a "Home" feed that includes posts from people I've never heard of is a bad start https://substack.com/notes
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by praisewhitey 4y ago
same result if you search for "@substackinc"
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by praisewhitey 4y ago
I assume this will be reversed in a day or two like the ban on linking to other social media, but it does serve as a reminder how dependent on twitter independent writers are for building their audience.
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by praisewhitey 4y ago
probably typo for Abandon
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by praisewhitey 4y ago
and here's post from 2021 doing the same tests with the Galaxy S21 Ultra https://old.reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/l7ay2m/analysis_sa...
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by praisewhitey 4y ago
more like PHP circa 1999 honestly

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