rglullis

25 ms·

511.
by rglullis 1y ago
> then people just go back to living their lives. If during the switch you got people to download Grayjay, they will be living their lives like they were, except that some of their subscriptions won't be on YouTube anymore.
512.
by rglullis 1y ago
Few people are buying anything in this world where streaming is the norm and the labels make money by cutting deals with the distribution platforms. The solution for me, in this specific case, would be for Beato to act against YouTube and
513.
by rglullis 1y ago
> You brought up corruption, and I pointed out blockchains don’t actually prevent that. No. Let's not talk past each other. My point is not about "preventing corruption". My point is that the citizens can not rely on the c
514.
by rglullis 1y ago
> Curious that what is probably the most corrupt administration in the history of the USA, the one actively taking away their citizens’ freedoms as we speak, is the one embracing cryptocurrency to the max. Your memory is quite selective.
515.
by rglullis 1y ago
Tell that to the "web3 is doing great" crowd. I've met and worked with many people who never shilled a coin in their whole life and were treated as criminals for merely proposing any type of application on Ethereum. I got tir
516.
by rglullis 1y ago
No one eats excess calories as any type of supplement or natural enhancement, so your example does not work as a counterpoint to the free lunch principle.
517.
by rglullis 1y ago
No one owes anything to any particular project or developer. The thing to understand about discussions around funding FOSS projects is that it should be clear that society as a whole would benefit immensely from a strategic investment in
518.
by rglullis 1y ago
They are not going to do anything about it. The issue was closed last month. Some vocal people complained, then the PM reopened but made it clear that federation is not their priority: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-o
519.
by rglullis 1y ago
> How have you addressed this? In my case, by using XFCE.
520.
by rglullis 1y ago
I've been hoping to get ACME challenge delegation on traefik working for years already. The documentation says it supports it, but it simply fails every time. If you have any idea how this tool would work on a docker swarm cluster, I&#
521.
by rglullis 1y ago
Uh, the author got so close to make the same realization I had while working on a project [0] for the Wikimedia Foundation: we wouldn't need search engines if we had better tooling to query semantic databases like wikidata. However,
522.
by rglullis 1y ago
Reddit was a goldmine until they decided to put a toll booth on its main entry points.
523.
by rglullis 1y ago
Besides familiarity from the original developers, is there any reason on this day and age to support only MySQL for deploying this?
524.
Ghost (CMS and publishing platform) version 6.0 adds support for the Fediverse
4 points by rglullis 1y ago|1 comments
525.
by rglullis 1y ago
> we have access to incredible tools like this At what cost? Are you considering all the externalities? What do you think will happen when Altman (and their investors) decides to start collecting their paychecks?
526.
by rglullis 1y ago
To me it seems like a distinction without a difference. If you can "make a website" by using a third-party provider but instead you opt into running wordpress on your own, you are still over-engineering .
527.
by rglullis 1y ago
If the problem you are trying to solve is "I need to put content online and have a storefront for my product", there are plenty of hosting providers who will happily take care of all the headache from Wordpress for less than $10&#
528.
by rglullis 1y ago
Which is why I mentioned the issue of scale . Seems like you are agreeing with me?
529.
by rglullis 1y ago
> Unsustainable growth is not just ideology but an imperative, and it’s blatantly unsustainable. In a 2023 interview, Hallerman revealed that Komoot’s revenue was roughly split between recurring subscriptions and new users making one-tim
530.
by rglullis 1y ago
Not if you are trying to win marketshare by commoditizing your complement[0], like DT was trying to do. [0]: https://gwern.net/complement
531.
by rglullis 1y ago
> Ozzy fans, can you help me understand why few people seem to care? Because this is at best an anecdote for someone who had such a troubled life with alcohol and drugs? Because his music is so great and influenced so many other great ar
532.
by rglullis 1y ago
"Not being price sensitive" does not mean "looking always for the most expensive solution".
533.
by rglullis 1y ago
Because the problem was any reduction in cost, and the status quo (Microsoft) was familiar and safe.
534.
by rglullis 1y ago
FWIW, back in 2013 I was working at Deutsche Telekom in a project that was attempting to do "ChromeOS, but for Enterprise", built on top of Ubuntu and a heavily modified Firefox. We had a list of target devices to test against, bu
535.
by rglullis 1y ago
Yeah, right. And the fact that investigations on Bolsonaro were shelved by Toffoli are a mere coincidence.
536.
by rglullis 1y ago
> Living a life free of guilt and regrets. Sorry, this is not an outcome . Maybe you can say it's an strategy to help you define your priorities and it can help you set your goals in whatever endeavor you're taking on, but it&
537.
by rglullis 1y ago
I think you got your timeline of events in the wrong order. Bolsonaro was just a low-level congressman when Lula was convicted. Not saying that Bolsonaro has any moral high ground to stand on, though. He is as corrupt as it gets. But if any
538.
by rglullis 1y ago
> Following my inner guiding principles without compromising" seems clear enough. To me, it's not. What are the outcomes that we are talking about here? > You clearly feel when you do the wrong thing. Do you think that the
539.
by rglullis 1y ago
A goal implies a clear objective. "Doing the right thing" is a guiding principle.
540.
by rglullis 1y ago
Beware of sweeping generalizations. Most people only do things when it advances it goals, but there certainly are people that do things simply because they think is the right thing to do.

More ›