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by rakoo 2y ago
> I think they must have worked to some benefit to bring us here. No, the other consequence of evolution is that whatever we are today is not enough to kill us . Some of the things in our bodies and behavior are just useless, but not ba
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by rakoo 2y ago
> starts to suffer under heavy loads The figures from 1990 are not the same as the figures from 2024. "heavy" here is so high it is not a realistic problem for 80% of sites.
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by rakoo 2y ago
> I mean on the backup host without any dependencies so I can use standard file tools and browsers. This means the backups are not encrypted though, and is something you really have to think twice before requiring > "pull" (
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by rakoo 2y ago
They're necessary because cities are built around the idea that everything must be done through a car, so roads become necessary. It's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy. The underlying discussion is all about urban planning and
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by rakoo 2y ago
I'm wondering if it would be better to have a LevelDB-like approach here. Store the recent stuff in DynamoDB, and once it hits the threshold, store it in a segment in S3. This is also similar to SQLite and WAL. Really, nothing is ever
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by rakoo 2y ago
So Fair use means "open source but only if you don't compete with me because I want to retain exclusive benefits for 2 years". I don't see how the goal couldn't be achieved by using AGPL and then going to another, l
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by rakoo 2y ago
> And yes, your apps certified Google as a trustable provider when they added support for it. Such support is not automatic, it requires non-trivial effort Are you talking about the technical support (ie implementing APIs) or the bureauc
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by rakoo 2y ago
Quoting the message you replied to: > the people I want to collaborate with use it If I were an independent individual who didn't need any others, then it might be a decision I can make. That's the neo-liberal lie you are drive
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by rakoo 2y ago
This assumes that Google can be trusted with my data and other apps can't, and that I'm ok with Google assessing the safety of other apps. It's something that is automatic, and right now it needs to be explained. Yes, assessi
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by rakoo 2y ago
Meta has had an active part in the genocide of Rohingya, though: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo... It is also responsible for a rise in hate crimes: https://paper
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by rakoo 2y ago
All of this still exists today though. It hasn't disappeared, it has only been drowned. If you want to find it again, change your search engine. Use wiby.me, or search.marginalia.nu. Subscribe to RSS feeds of sites you find interesting
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I think it's ok in awk because awk is seen as a scripting language, where brevity matters and there aren't many variables anyway
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by rakoo 2y ago
> There’s tons more cool stuff that CouchDB does and its being used in mission critical infrastructure that you’re relying on every day :) If you could share a bit on those I think the community would be extremely interested. There was t
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by rakoo 2y ago
Map/Reduce was a hype of the days it was created, but you're perfectly fine not using it. CouchDB has been integrating MongoDB-style queries for a few releases now, and this very release introduces a full-text search engine. Map&#
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by rakoo 2y ago
Used it this school year for a research project that needs solid replication of content and a firehose of updates. There are dozens of such projects but nothing beats the simplicity and versatility of basic HTTP calls with JSON documents an
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> If maximizing value is not the goal, then why should Marxism redefine value in a counter-intuitive way? Because it's only an exchange value and doesn't take into account the myriad of things that also have value but are not a
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by rakoo 2y ago
You're assuming socialist/communist economies must, for some reason, be run exactly the same as capitalist economies. Of course if you're trying to mix both it will collapse. The point of Marx isn't that we should create
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by rakoo 2y ago
> it's very easy to misconfigure, but basic security practices like these are highlighted in bright, bold warning text in the Firebase docs. I'm sorry but if the whole design is "one big database shared with everyone and w
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by rakoo 2y ago
Yup, https://yunohost.org/ was built for that. You can manage your server entirely from the admin panel, installing pleroma or matrix or freshrss takes 3 clicks, and it can even manage your DNS zone for you. Mail and XMPP a
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This applies to both sides
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> blowing up airplanes or launching rockets at residential areas intentionally targets civilians in order to spread a maximum amount of terror among the civilian population Which is exactly what Israel has been doing for decades by insta
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by rakoo 2y ago
I'm not sure the American pov is really the topic here. This story can have consequences for everyone. The USian government is not the center of the world
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by rakoo 2y ago
> So, instead of expanding everyone's access to the digital archives, they have managed to indefinitely limit it by creating a restricting legal precedent. Let's not flip the situation upside down though: IA didn't limit a
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Yeah, it turned into neoliberalism. Not that capitalism was acceptable before, but it's definitely worse now
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What's the point of having digital preservation if noone can read the archives ? Digital access make sense, it's the logical conclusion to what IA does
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You have a very charitable view of this whole thing and I want to believe like you. Perhaps there is a virtuous cycle to be built where infrastructure that relies on people being more honest helps change the culture to actually be more hone
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by rakoo 2y ago
> This is content-presentation separation at best. The idea is the best, but arguably the implementation is lacking. > Is JSON-LD just reinventation of this? Yup. It's "RDF/XML but we don't like XML"
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Which was already possible with RDF. It is hard to not see JSON-LD as anything other than "RDF but in JSON because we don't like XML".
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I don't think we necessarily need new tags: they narrow down the list of possible into an immutable set and require changing the structure of your already existing content. What exists instead are microformats ( http://microf
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Semantic Web doesn't help with the most basic thing: how do you get information ? If I want to know when was the Matrix shot, where do I go ? Today we have for-profit centralized point to get all information, because it's the only

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