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391.
by riffic 3y ago
there's a wealth of data locked up in these old newspapers and it's kind of a shame it's only being valued by these genealogy corporations. They're not really the best stewards of the data.
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by riffic 3y ago
their flagship OS has an administrative culture of "ClickOps" and effective security is built around practices that are antithetical to that sort of culture.
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by riffic 3y ago
ah, we're still having that endless debate concerning ideological purity versus pragmatism. can we just ship good code please?
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by riffic 3y ago
In English it's rats https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/like-rats-fleeing-a...
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by riffic 3y ago
windows has always been garbage.
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by riffic 3y ago
I read entrainment as "entertainment" which seems like a different thing altogether
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by riffic 3y ago
but making employees miserable is the point isn't it?
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by riffic 3y ago
I mean bacon infused whatevers are not unheard of in desserts and cocktails.
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by riffic 3y ago
managed hosting perhaps? It works in the email industry at least (Google and Microsoft nearly dominate the email biz)
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by riffic 3y ago
why, exactly, are operating systems licensed in this asinine user-hostile way? Is it a monetary thing or something?
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by riffic 3y ago
great, now do markdown! edit: markdown has been done too :) https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7763 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7764
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by riffic 3y ago
welcome to the world of tomorrow!
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by riffic 3y ago
reinventing Unix, poorly.
404.
by riffic 3y ago
we have package managers in this day and age, lol.
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by riffic 3y ago
it's stated it may be a possibility here: https://atproto.com/specs/atp#future-work > Protocol Governance and Formal Standards Process: The current development focus is to demonstrate all the core protocol feat
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by riffic 3y ago
> IEEE-style RFC IETF, and they do have a process for independent submissions: https://www.rfc-editor.org/about/independent/
407.
by riffic 3y ago
historically these kinds of things are submitted to the RFC editor but I suppose the team had a good reason for doing it this way.
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by riffic 3y ago
I hate the term fediverse to be quite honest. software that implements the ActivityPub protocol, or historically older protocols such as OStatus is a mouthful.
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by riffic 3y ago
Actually Kye the original incarnation of the fediverse pre-dates the ActivityPub protocol (this shifts your "most of a decade" statement back to 2008) but I think you know this too.
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by riffic 3y ago
It's plausibly the reason he burned $44B on Twitter, Inc.
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by riffic 3y ago
By Fediverse I mean the W3C ActivityPub ecosystem. Yes it has a diverse collection of applications but they all talk a common protocol and interop to some degree . The way I see it, fragmentation is a feature not a bug because it drives
412.
by riffic 3y ago
I apologize in advance for the cynicism but this is how I see Bluesky's virality/stickiness playing out: everyone's going to move to it, it's going to be an unofficial but incompatible "fediverse2", VC type of
413.
by riffic 3y ago
oh I have no idea but that would invalidate my theory
414.
by riffic 3y ago
an email can be sent by cron, this seems like a convenient alibi to craft
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by riffic 3y ago
okay that actually makes sense I appreciate your explanation.
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by riffic 3y ago
why do we say dupe on orange site? this is like the most trivial inconsequential thing to call out, let this be duped. This is going to be news to someone . to add some more substance to my comment this is how I see Bluesky's virality
417.
by riffic 3y ago
Will tea, Earl Grey, hot, send me spiraling into a profound, dreamlike state, where I live out an entire lifetime, learning the flute and undergoing life-changing experiences, all within the span of a few real-world minutes?
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by riffic 3y ago
I just don't have the imaginative capabilities of seeing the entire archipelago depopulated but I suppose it's possible.
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by riffic 3y ago
> go extinct Wouldn't this be more of a Ship of Theseus scenario than outright extinction?
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by riffic 3y ago
isn't it ironic how crapware sold in the name of "security" effectively increases your attack surface?

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