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by simfree 4y ago
Armbian and similar communities have worked hard to mainline Allwinner and Rockchip SOCs kernel drivers. Note that this boards SOC is about 3x faster than a Raspberry Pi 4 https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/com
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by simfree 4y ago
Mastodon.social and other large instances certainly aren't working to build the same focused, higher quality communities that smaller instances thrive on. This is part of why many instances block the large, poorly moderated instances.
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by simfree 4y ago
ActivityPub implementations thankfully tend towards open federation versus closed whitelisting federation.
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by simfree 4y ago
The business is at risk of banruptcy due to the leveraged buyout which took on debt at eye watering interest rates (over 11%): https://news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/twitter-musk-deal-... Excluding the recent settle
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by simfree 4y ago
Forced OS upgrades should be regulated. Microsoft, Google and other operating system vendors should not be using dark patterns to "encourage" upgrades when users aren't paying attention.
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by simfree 4y ago
Google Safe Browsing is going off the rails with silently Man in the Middling Chrome users. You will see traffic coming from logged in users via a Google IPv4 address, the user is unaware their traffic is being proxied for analysis. Flaggin
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by simfree 4y ago
To add to this, using hidden points of escalation are one of the few ways you have for appealing bans or restrictions from platforms that you can't avoid. Stripe - Comment on one of the Stripe founders threads with your issue, email th
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by simfree 4y ago
Cloudflare doesn't make good money on the vast majority of their self serve services, so user hostile behavior is not a net negative when it doesn't impact their individual custom basis contracted customers.
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by simfree 4y ago
Especially on Signal Desktop, its more reliable to close the app and reopen it than wait for it to reconnect to the server. Meanwhile Element reconnects to Matrix super quick...
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by simfree 4y ago
Unless your an Android Device Manufacturer, you can't get access to the RCS APIs. All SMS/MMS apps are stuck due to this, Google has known since 2013 that they need to open up RCS but has kept it as a walled garden instead.
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by simfree 4y ago
Briar is another anonymous, fully decentralized chat app. It rides atop Tor rather than reimplementing an anonymous network protocol like Session does. https://briarproject.org
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by simfree 4y ago
Meaningful distributed identity is an unsolved problem. Not everyone can be @name, nor do people want to use UUIDs or similar non-descriptive identifiers to avoid name collisions. Paying for ongoing identity services is a nonstarter for mos
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by simfree 4y ago
Most Americans aren't using Twitter for news, there are only 77 million active Twitter US users currently[1]. People get news through various publications and outlets that aggregate stories from many sources (AP News, Social Media, Pre
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by simfree 4y ago
You can run Mastodon in a decentralized manner (everyone running their own instance), but most users do not want the drawbacks of such a setup, hence the current Fediverse having nearly all users on multi-user instances of Mastodon, Pleroma
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by simfree 4y ago
I got 50 to 60 miles of drivable range overnight on Level 1 last winter. Adding 12 kWh overnight can get you from Seattle to Everett and back, or to Kent and back. Just make sure to drive an efficient vehicle, a Mercedes or Hummer EV ain&#
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by simfree 4y ago
Mastodon isn't decentralized, it is a federated system just like email or the public switched telephone network. Go use Briar if you want a fully decentralized social network.
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by simfree 4y ago
Just wait for January 6th, 2023... Its gonna be a whole thing I bet. Considering Trump had to block the exits to keep people from leaving his announcement speech, him being back on Twitter is likely going to be messy.
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by simfree 4y ago
You can still sign up on any other instance. OP was even permitted to migrate their followers and setup a redirect after reaching out to the mods. Your not entitled to free hosting by an instance, if they object to your content or actions t
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by simfree 4y ago
Can you provide any citations for chargers using diesel generators? The batteries on these scooters don't charge quickly, and running charging cables in the bed of a truck would likely be pretty problematic considering none of the conn
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by simfree 4y ago
The stack can take time and effort to manage, but the infrastructure costs to run the stack are noteworthy, and the last thing needed are ephemeral inatances run by one person supporting many users.
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by simfree 4y ago
Stop. Running a large instance for people you don't tangentially know for hundreds of people or worse yet thousands of people is a bad idea. The Fediverse has had plenty of instances come and go, the last thing needed is a large, poorl
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by simfree 4y ago
Tweets aren't journalism. Nor are posts on 4Chan, SMSes, etc.
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by simfree 4y ago
You explicitly brought up long distance communication in this thread: > And even a few micro-watts is sufficient to communicate across town. > Many years ago the record was "1000 miles per milliwatt" using CW.
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by simfree 4y ago
Amplifiers are often protocol agnostic. Whether your amplifying TDMA, Trunked radio, CDMA etc. Aviation needs to modernize, I have zero sympathy for the aviation community getting constant hallpasses on ancient altimeters that lack filters
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by simfree 4y ago
And when certain atmospheric conditions exist.
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by simfree 4y ago
Aircraft using the VHF band with amplitude modulation is going to perform much differently than a police repeater and it's local upstream only amplifiers interacting with low wattage fixed handhelds and medium wattage car mounted mobil
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by simfree 4y ago
Perhaps public safety shouldn't be entirely beholden to Motorola rebranding old garbage (ancient TDMA networks being sold as new P25 compliant hardware for tens of millions of dollars) that is then sold as new. Modern protocols like 5G
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by simfree 4y ago
Google has terrible indexing of Fediverse posts. Your better off just using a large instance to search from.
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by simfree 4y ago
Followers only posts and requiring followers to be approved by the account they are following is common on the Fediverse. This is what vulnerable folks I follow do to protect themselves, along with their instance admins often blackholing (I
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by simfree 4y ago
IP and ASN reputation really matters, as does having SPF, DMARC, DKIM and Email Feedback Loop (FBL) properly configured. That being said, there are production mail servers on OVH (bad reputation mail wise) that deliver plenty of mail to Mic

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