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by sbarre 3y ago
AT Protocol is open source, so not proprietary. My understanding is that Bluesky as a company is building a client experience, and funding the development of the protocol, but the long term vision is for open source and federation, so no ce
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by sbarre 3y ago
The beauty of this being decentralized and open source is that, in theory, there would be a large number of possible algorithms (including "no algorithm") for users to choose from. There's an earlier blog post that talks abou
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by sbarre 3y ago
The 60,000+ of us in the Bluesky beta would disagree but sure, be flippant. It's a work-in-progress. As I'm sure you know, you can't build and launch everything at once, so the rather small dev team has a roadmap, and is bui
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by sbarre 3y ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing that. This has been one of the things I felt that ATP got "right", so neat to see that ActivityPub can do it, even if Mastodon doesn't.
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by sbarre 4y ago
Thanks for sharing! I'm reading the docs but was curious to also hear some first-hand experiences..
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by sbarre 4y ago
Do you ever need to access your library remotely or from iOS devices? That's the one killer app for Plex for me. I can get to my library when I'm on the road (music more than movies or TV). Does Jellyfin do anything like this?
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by sbarre 4y ago
Yes yes all that too, sorry I forgot to point out all the other possible concerns in my post. My bad.
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by sbarre 4y ago
The conspiracy theorist in me can't help but think about the fact that most of the corporate/leadership power at Sony Playstation resides in Europe these days.
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by sbarre 4y ago
Yep same. I work for a telco that runs a national physical phone network, a high-speed home Internet fibre network in about a third of the country, retail stores across the country, call centers, a full sales & marketing team, plus a hu
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by sbarre 4y ago
Works for me in Firefox 111 on Windows 10
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by sbarre 4y ago
History proves that we have way more CEOs and companies acting out of self-interest, against the common good, than otherwise. So yeah, they should , but they don't.
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by sbarre 4y ago
You and I have different definitions of public space. I've been on the net since the early 90s, and even back then there were no public spaces. There is nowhere online, and really never has been, where you have a right to be, or wher
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by sbarre 4y ago
> You can certainly go to any public space and do this, however. People do it all the time (admittedly less frequently with megaphones). Are all of the people on street corners doing twirlies with cardboard signs immoral? Billboards woul
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by sbarre 4y ago
You're trying real hard to tell people how they _shouldn't_ be doing their work, maybe accept that your opinion, while valid, is just that - your opinion - and that others have their own equally valid ways of approaching their wor
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by sbarre 4y ago
Because, like so many things, context matters. Ads have a place in the world, where we expect to see them (whether we like them or not), and typically most ads are not trying to pass as non-ads (yes of course there are exceptions to this).
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by sbarre 4y ago
This is like tabling a bill that bans only one brand of cigarette.
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by sbarre 4y ago
Yes of course, it certainly is. So before you do that, you should make the service not be unknown to you. Good thing this is open source!
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by sbarre 4y ago
Worth also looking at Remotion[0] if you want to do motion graphics via Javascript 0: https://www.remotion.dev/
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by sbarre 4y ago
Ahhh there's nothing like getting lectured on a Sunday morning by that one person who thinks they knows all the things that no one else knows. edit: to stay on topic, I find these comments are useless, and do not contribute to the disc
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by sbarre 4y ago
Honest question: were you alive during the cold war days? It was different times, and the overwhelming desire to not escalate or provoke was very real, in a way that just doesn't exist anymore today.
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by sbarre 4y ago
For sure, I actually love this idea in theory, it's super clever. :-) I was just pointing out that it's unlikely we'd be in that scenario, since this approach feels like it would imply letting the ad JS run, but tricking it
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by sbarre 4y ago
Speaking for myself only here (but I suspect I'm not alone), I don't use an ad blocker to primarily block visual ads (although it's a nice side effect). I use an ad blocker to block tracking networks and protect my privacy, a
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by sbarre 4y ago
would bet if you looked only at users who use these kinds of free filesharing services, the percentage who use an ad blocker would be even higher.
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by sbarre 4y ago
If Facebook's overall global influence wanes as part of this adjustment, but they remain the social network that people like to use to stay in touch with each other, I feel like this would be a net positive overall.
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by sbarre 4y ago
This guy says he's been in the music business for 25 years, so let's add "It suck that we're not the gatekeepers anymore" to the alternate titles list. Or maybe "I don't understand survival bias".
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by sbarre 4y ago
How much was your total mortgage? Because housing prices have gone up dramatically in the last 15 years, and the math that worked back then (in terms of total mortgage amount, monthly payments, etc) doesn't work anymore today for a lo
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by sbarre 4y ago
And where would that chef work then? Should they simply give up on their own ambitions and career goals?
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by sbarre 4y ago
The problem with this approach is the impact it has on areas that have availability problems, and where there is more demand than supply for housing (think big cities that are experiencing condo booms). In those high-demand areas, owners wi
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by sbarre 4y ago
This is totally in my wheelhouse, but I'd love to be able to watch a quick demo before I commit to signing up for an account. Whether it's a video or some kind of screenshot-based walk-through.. Just something that will tell me i
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by sbarre 4y ago
I feel like a few companies have tried this over the years.. The concept of a tip jar that you'd fund and then be able to disburse on participating websites. Then payments could just be aggregated and paid out periodically from the tip

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