rainbowmverse

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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
You and I are talking about completely different things. I don't care about numbers or prospective adoption of a private company's protocol and platform. I'm talking about what I can do now . What I'm already using it f
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
While I have no specific affinity for ActivityPub as a protocol, I do like a lot of the software being built on it and enjoy being able to follow people on them from my Mastodon account. No one's investing or expecting a return on a mi
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
It's not too bad as long as you're making something genuinely good. I'm not likely to ever make it big as a musician, but that doesn't mean Ableton or the company behind Reaper are being shady by selling me software.
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
Some types of company see penalties (or cleanup cost) as a cost of doing business. If they make > $10k to incur $10k in costs, then it works out. It's a faulty way of seeing things, but businesses like that tend to have a fog around
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
Small towns get worse the further you are from the default. For example, dating here is terrible. All the men are assholes or very deep in the closet. The women are super religious. Think bible quotes as Tinder profiles. And I don't me
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
One day it's "[thing] shouldn't be exploitable because [mitigation]", the next it's "welp, [mitigation] has a bug in it and they've exploited [thing]."
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
>> "What operating system and browser do you use that the video autoplays?" Latest Firefox and Windows 10. >> "Where is Mastodon today? What are its stats?" This is the wrong question before you ask about
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
Your site has some auto-playing video below the fold and a spinning GIF of a globe from 1995. It's cluttered, noisy, and unclear. There is no point of focus. I can't get as far as figuring out what sets it apart or makes it better
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
There was no shortage of hype peddlers and ignorant people with authority before the internet. All the internet did was wake more people up to this fact and force them to either start thinking critically or turn into cynics. What changed is
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
Many (most?) big sites will try on different titles to see which one drives more traffic.
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
Almost no one would read it. I've done it both ways. People read threads. Blog posts might get traffic if you stumble on an uncontested search term. You might say "just link it on Twitter!" Doesn't work. No one clicks.
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
There are 50,000+ ways to learn anything, and most won't work for most people. Sometimes I have to read 20 different takes on something before it finally clicks. The fact that there are so many people trying to explain it in their own
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
There are finger-based counting systems with more than one number per finger. Our average of 10 fingers can handle a lot more than 10 numbers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger-counting
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
It's possible to do an album on your own, but it takes knowledge of every step in the process. Otherwise you end up with levels all over the place, and people stop listening at the first song that's too much louder than the others
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
Working with local communities to come up with culture-fit solutions is exactly the right thing to do. Most of the problems people seem to have with Facebook is their past attempts to apply a single concept of decorum to a global population
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
The best part of Gangnam Style is it was a critique of what it became.
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
I can't speak for the others, but Mastodon hasn't ended. I use it every day and still meet lots of new people.
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
It exists: https://social.coop/about I don't know how well it works.
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
This is something I didn't know I cared about until I followed Blender's PeerTube instance account from a Mastodon instance. Pixelfed is working on it, and Plume, and... It's something I've come to expect. If your hot ne
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
It probably wouldn't be too hard to put something together with a JavaScript bookmarklet and their archive page. http://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/list.htm
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Barbie typewriter (2015)(cryptomuseum.com)
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
>> "In my previous comment, please note when I say "hip-hop", I am not referring to music, but culture. Nonetheless..." We may have fundamentally incompatible perspectives if you see culture and art as separate t
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
Appropriation and disproportionate credit for white people is a real and serious problem, but it's not the whole story. Most of the actual musicians who were inspired by black music fully acknowledged their inspirations and were often
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
It's the same with music software. It's wonderful that Reaper has a native Linux version! I might just go with Linux when I have the means to build a dedicated mixing and mastering computer, though I'll miss the ease and qual
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
Business Wars did a series on Netflix and Blockbuster at its launch: https://wondery.com/shows/business-wars/ Both entertaining and enlightening.
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Someone's probably done a study of changes in the odds of this happening over the years.
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
Someone conceived in a McDonalds restroom the last time he was its CEO would almost be able to drink legally in most US states now. The US was in the middle of an economic boom in 1997. He does not have a relevant perspective.
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
This discussion has already devolved into a war of slogans and soapboxing. It's barely been an hour. I can't really blame HN. The article focuses on minimum wage and largely blames it for automation, and the author is under the im
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
This is said about every industry standard product before another replaces it. What makes this different?
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
I don't know if the mobile version of uBlock Origin has it, but there's an eye dropper button if you click the uBlock button on the toolbar. You can use that to build block rules automagically. It reminds me of the API spies peopl

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