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by riffic 10mo ago
A "social network" is a concept that goes far beyond computing and the internet
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by riffic 10mo ago
can't reveal too much too soon but someone out there is quietly trying to make "At least one major national government or major city will launch an official presence on BOTH Bluesky AND the ActivityPub Fediverse in 2026" ha
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by riffic 10mo ago
Much like the motion picture industry, there are hardly any original ideas anymore.
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by riffic 10mo ago
how about following the well-architected framework and building something with a suitable level of 9s where you can justify your decisions during a blameless postmortem (please stamp your buzzword bingo card for a prize.)
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by riffic 10mo ago
there is so much systemic failure and it says a lot about the people who are elevated by society and the people who are demonized.
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by riffic 10mo ago
loaded questions.
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by riffic 10mo ago
there is an O'Reilly plan for public libraries which is dope and accessible to those less privileged to afford premium access.
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by riffic 10mo ago
combadge
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by riffic 10mo ago
I really wish something like Hack Club existed while growing up, how empowering! great work.
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by riffic 10mo ago
There's a slew of RFC documents that cover these related protocols so imagine that now means "requests for compliance".
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by riffic 11mo ago
Universal Blue is under very little risk of just shutting down operations without warning (as opposed to a hype-based BFDL kinda situation like Omarchy). I'm a happy Bluefin user and would wholly recommend people step up to help out wi
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by riffic 11mo ago
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The Pithiest Critique of Modern Conservatism Keeps Getting Credited to Wrong Man(slate.com)
3 points by riffic 11mo ago|2 comments
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by riffic 11mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wilhoit_(composer)
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iPod Socks(en.wikipedia.org)
241 points by riffic 11mo ago|49 comments
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by riffic 11mo ago
That's actually a key point to make. To generalize, people don't install operating systems. They buy a device with some sort of operating system on it.
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by riffic 11mo ago
Conway's law would say so.
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by riffic 11mo ago
it'd be nice if Microsoft paid just a bit of attention to the immutable/atomic Linux ecosystem a bit and if they could finally ship an OS that wasn't always a dearly loved "pet". pity to those who have to work on&#x
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by riffic 1y ago
Pennsylvania 6-5000 was a real phone number too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEnnsylvania_6-5000
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by riffic 1y ago
this only applies in country code 61. most folks here would be in another numbering plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_telephone_country_code...
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by riffic 1y ago
In general, plain language works so much better than throwing bowls of alphabet soup around.
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by riffic 1y ago
ISPs have been known to do the same thing.
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by riffic 1y ago
This ultimately looks like the good old Centralization / Decentralization Pendulum playing out over and over and over again (Mainframes gave way to Personal Computers which gave way to Client/Server architecture to Mobile devices
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by riffic 1y ago
> ICANN is effectively a child of a U.S. defense agency is it?
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by riffic 1y ago
static hosting is the way to go in 2025 if anyone is looking to avoid sudden traffic spikes taking down a questionably configured WordPress.
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by riffic 1y ago
yeah I'm taking operational sysadmin advice from someone whose site can't stand 35 minutes of HN traffic hugging.
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by riffic 1y ago
arrogance
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by riffic 1y ago
air-train?
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by riffic 1y ago
that's a feature not a bug.
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by riffic 1y ago
it's a newfold brand (EIG). that's all I needed to see to explain the shutdown.

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