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by pwinnski 4y ago
Subaru is wrong for thinking you closing on a barely-moving car at speed is dangerous, and the entire internet is wrong for thinking "car length" refers to the length of a car. Two doesn't quite make a pattern, but it sugge
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Everybody who ever wrecks a car has "never wrecked a car yet" right up to that point.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
"Over-sensitive" or not, what's the actual harm in driving in a way that avoids triggering it? When your driving safety system gives you feedback while driving, you have two choices: - Learn from the system and modify your dr
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Presumably you haven't read this article, which seems to scratch a few different surfaces. If you can read that and still come away thinking "every single criticism [you] see on the Internet is" stupid, well, nobody can help
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by pwinnski 4y ago
@dang can we update the link to https://twitter.com/GerryMcBride/status/1591907714208518145 please?
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Some mastodon instances allow for much longer than 500-character posts. The qoto.org mentioned in the article allows 64K, perfect for blogging.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
In the article itself, he points out that banking is decentralized and works wonderfully. He doesn't even mention email or phone service, both of which are decentralized and work well enough.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
> My Claim: Decentralization is a Questionable Goal As oligarchs run Twitter and Facebook, decentralization seems less like a goal, and more like a necessary condition. > Imagine you're a rather small server and suddenly Eli Lill
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by pwinnski 4y ago
You might not have noticed how many shows and movies have disappeared from streaming services over the last few years, but many people have. At the end of 2016, Netflix has 4335 movies, in May 2021 they had 3622. If what you wanted to watch
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Maybe I can help with your confusion: zero percent of the reason I use Plex is for transcoding. It's a wonderful library-management tool with sharing for remote users and clients for every platform.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Plex is dead-simple for everyone! Yeah, sure, it's a mild annoyance that they keep trying to enable features I don't need or want. I guess I could stop upgrading. But still, it's pretty easy to go to Settings -> Online Med
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by pwinnski 4y ago
You're going to be frustrated trying to make this banana act like an orange. It just won't work. If by "Twitter replacement" you mean "a place for microblogging," then sure, almost any mastodon server should do
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Agreed! I, for one, am enjoying the small-town vibe of my chosen mastodon service provider, and I'm delighted that it can never become "to big to fail." You keep saying "users" when you should probably just say &quo
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Not sure what you are talking about. I can sign up for mastodon right now with a hundred different servers. Yes, people might be expecting a single corporate entity called "Mastodon, Inc," but that's why the (very poor) analo
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by pwinnski 4y ago
The onboarding process is certainly inferior to that of twitter, but that's baked into the design of mastodon, and literally cannot change. It is definitely the single most challenging thing about mastodon, with the second probably bei
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by pwinnski 4y ago
The author was last aware of the Salesforce headcount on or near January 31. Yesterday, Salesforce reduced their headcount. It doesn't seem difficult to parse at all.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I will say, if you don't have a great architect at the top level, and support from DevOps, you end up with miserable experiences like the negative stuff I see here. Well, some of it seems to be assumptions, but I believe the negative e
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by pwinnski 4y ago
The serverless dev experience was delightful! I'd work on a single lambda, or maybe a "stack" of related lambdas, and each was focused and lean. A serverless approach is also probably-necessarily a microservices approach, whi
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by pwinnski 4y ago
My previous company went "full serverless" on new development, and delivered amazing performance at very low cost. My general opinion has flipped after that experience. I believe there are use cases where serverless isn't a
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Okay, taking this at face value. I load Discord, and I see someone's post, and I think to myself, I should message that person. So I click their username, and right there is a text box for me to start typing a direct message to them. A
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by pwinnski 4y ago
All you reveal with that statement is that your posts tend to irritate people on the left. There are plenty on censorious people on the right as well, but you'd have to post lefty stuff to run into them.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Every IRC server or Discord server I ever joined, I joined because there was something there to which I wanted access, or an existing community I discovered another way, and was directed there to fill things out. If either of those things e
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Absolutely. Been there, lived through that myself. I'm sure you can appreciate that every one of these issues impacts the uptake of mastodon, of course.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Okay, so you're in the half of comments saying it really doesn't matter which server one picks. I hate to tell you this, but there are others recommending pretty strongly that one pick a server that aligns with their interests or
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Mastodon has been around for six years, which is young but not infant-young, and what I'm getting at is pretty central to the entire concept. If it is still this poor of an experience six years in, one might wonder what is going to cha
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Literally the first sentence in the article says, "Compared to men, women are 17 percent more likely to die in a car crash and 73 percent more likely to sustain serious injuries in a front-end collision."
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I was actually describing issues with email, but yes, many of the same issues apply to mastodon as well.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Today, I cannot sign up at "your friend's server" nor mastodon.social, so neither of those things help me. The phrase is key because it reflects a familiarity which new users do not have. Have you never in your life been intr
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Which is great advice--except that mastodon.social is not accepting new users, throwing everyone who has received that advice into confusion from step 1.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I clicked your link and found a "Why is Fosstodon currently down?" page.

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