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721.
by riffic 4y ago
accident is not the preferred term considering people intentionally drive the way we do https://laist.com/news/car-crash-accident-traffic-violence-l...
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by riffic 4y ago
who?
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by riffic 4y ago
ActivityPub is the protocol that powers Mastodon's interoperability. It's an open standard formalized by the W3C. Seeing this protocol potentially becoming a first class citizen within WordPress is very exciting. https:/&#x2
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ActivityPub for WordPress Joins the Automattic Family(wordpress.com)
3 points by riffic 4y ago|1 comments
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by riffic 4y ago
you've never seen an angry drunk? you're very privileged.
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by riffic 4y ago
people who study the traffic safety problem area will generally avoid saying the word "accident", just for your information. https://www.grahamfeest.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/accid...
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by riffic 4y ago
rail is a safe investment to make for our future. a good counterargument here to a thread such as this one from yesterday griping about the ballooning costs of CA HSR https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35157023
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by riffic 4y ago
complex systems are complicated to run? it's incredibly expensive to chase another 9 of availability so everyone who isn't the bell system has had outages from time to time.
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by riffic 4y ago
great, now tell us how much money goes to California highway expansion and externalities. https://cal.streetsblog.org/2023/02/15/legislative-analyst-s...
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by riffic 4y ago
you'd be speaking about livelihoods then, not lives.
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by riffic 4y ago
In case anyone comes along and believes your assumption, the software scales but you would need to expend the effort to do so: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-scal... https://doc
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by riffic 4y ago
no one died here sheesh
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by riffic 4y ago
huge news. this is a monumental moment for the open web. Automattic has also signaled interest in making Tumblr an ActivityPub compatible service, and there are also sparks of interest elsewhere.
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by riffic 4y ago
to be fair a mastodon instance is a pretty heavy rails webapp and having one linked to HN on a monday morning is a significant traffic event.
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by riffic 4y ago
Your cursory look is confirmed by viewing this page which holds their charter and forms 990: https://dp.la/about
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by riffic 4y ago
wash your hands
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by riffic 4y ago
correct me if I'm wrong but aren't relativistic differences due to velocity and not gravity differences?
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by riffic 4y ago
bikeshedding isn't helpful.
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by riffic 4y ago
this is the weirdest forced metaphor
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by riffic 4y ago
there is also talk of Tumblr (and unrelated gossip, Flickr) considering to adopt the ActivityPub protocol. https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/28/flickr-weighs-support-for-...
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by riffic 4y ago
they're currently under the stewardship of the company that makes WordPress. I'd say it's in good hands today.
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by riffic 4y ago
they wish to be seen as today's bell labs
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by riffic 4y ago
the federal government can step in and nationalize the railroad at any point as it has done in the past (woodrow wilson era iirc)
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by riffic 4y ago
that's what it seems to be lol
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by riffic 4y ago
what is a "first principle" and why does it matter here in an explanation of email?
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by riffic 4y ago
terrestrial television is actually a form of radio.
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by riffic 4y ago
in that case I'll throw on my wraparound shades.. and deal with it
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by riffic 4y ago
the microsoft stack, which there are an unsurprising number of people on. edit: I read the title as 'unpleasant', lol. I do not endorse this comment.
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by riffic 4y ago
rebrands are never a good sign.
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by riffic 4y ago
it'd be a nice but expensive storage location though.

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