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by sodapopcan 24d ago
Oh Lucas! Ha, I searched your name on the forum before even reading the article but did so hastily, a thread for a talk which I guess you commented on came up, and I thought you were the guy from the talk and was like, "Nope, don&#x27
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by sodapopcan 24d ago
I'm not a huge fan of the changes myself, but discussion collapse was in full effect before the change (and had started happening long before it). But ya, I think I agree that it doesn't help. The change was made in good faith i
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by sodapopcan 24d ago
> discussion has collapsed I used to be extremely active on Elixir Forum. It was the main place I would interact with people online, and HN was a bit of a distant second. Now HN usage has spiked a bit and I now have a... ugh... reddit
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by sodapopcan 28d ago
Ha, yes I wanted to keep my comment short without trying to cover every base, but figured I might get this comment. Of course such sites still exist, but still a different phenomena when that was the entire internet. There are a lot of in
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by sodapopcan 28d ago
For me the difference today is that most people sharing their passions are now doing for The Algorithm. It's a far cry from the scrappy days of the early web where people just posted stuff because they thought it was cool. I'm n
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by sodapopcan 28d ago
HA! Touché.
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by sodapopcan 28d ago
On the opposite side or the noteable spectrum, look up "Steve Yegge wants you to stop looking at your code." He said it in a video interview, though plenty of summaries online of exact wording and ideas. Though it's being a
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by sodapopcan 28d ago
The author's name and the 1st person voice of the article's name do not match.
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by sodapopcan 1mo ago
> Did this piece of writing with common AI smells get posted before or after 2021? Textlog didn't exist before 2021, did it? (though you are probably making a general point) > Did the author write this piece about someone they a
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by sodapopcan 1mo ago
I've had textlog open in a tab for a few weeks now. Was iffy as I've never really used anything like Twitter before. I finally made an account as I really like this change. I already embarrassingly posted my bio as a note. I&#x
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by sodapopcan 1mo ago
For sure, but it doesn't say anything about what GP was trying to communicate: that they can't relate to how anyone making serious (emphasis and paraphrasing mine) app with "AI" is facing these problems.
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by sodapopcan 1mo ago
I was able to change it on every single service I use except for a well known Canadian pizza chain.
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by sodapopcan 1mo ago
I guess that's what I was getting at, I think that (as usual) there is more nuance here past "people pretending to care" (which I think is extremely uncharitable, btw). Back then there was a forcing factor to making your own
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by sodapopcan 1mo ago
Ya, sorry, I never read Slashdot back in the day (even though I'm well old enough to have had), so I'm very wrong here. I'm just generally annoyed how every forum now a days has it. But of course one of the reasons I dislik
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by sodapopcan 1mo ago
Naw, it's my bad, I'm 45 but never spent any time on Slashdot as I didn't really care about tech at large back then. None of the forums I spent my time on back then had voting systems and now all the ones I use do and I&#x27
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by sodapopcan 1mo ago
The only thing not "old" about it is upvoting, which is one of those YMMV features.
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by sodapopcan 1mo ago
> because people are hyper-focused on the negatives of the "current" web, or acting like the sites they used to love can't be recreated anymore.. Fair! > There still are. on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, 5ch and o
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by sodapopcan 1mo ago
Did they? I think it was LiveJournal that enshittified. Diaryland is actually still around. I just checked it out and it now "Diaryland v2!" I actually last checked it out in the past year and it still looked exactly like it d
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by sodapopcan 1mo ago
I loved Diaryland since it was fully customizable. It was my intro into templating! It was very crude, but it worked.
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by sodapopcan 1mo ago
> What exactly WAS the "old web" anyway? Pre-Google, specifically, pre-PageRank, and even more specifically, pre-SEO. Your post is oddly hyper-focused on pointing out the negatives, probably due to the asshole hat you put on.
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by sodapopcan 1mo ago
Ha, ya I'm just calling it that for eases sake. It's a "cleaning tool" sponge replacement. It did not work. The blanket was actually good quality but it turns out I did not even want a really massively huge blanket.
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by sodapopcan 1mo ago
Good question but I honestly can't remember, even though it wasn't even that long ago. I've given up services slowly over the past few years, but since I used all the big stuff: Google search/email, instagram, and faceb
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
lol, no, it's mostly embarrassing :P Well, they included a silicone sponge and a massive blanket.
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
Ah, well I guess I'll be seeing those soon then? I don't use Marketplace too much (and just got burned recently so I've soured on it).
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
I got a facebook account because I wanted to use marketplace. I just use one of those CSS browser plugins to hide the newsfeed which is where all the ads pop up. The following does the trick for me: [role=main] { display: none
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
I don't like ads and don't want to buy random stuff, but they totally work me sometimes, and I'm sure there has got to be many like me. It's one of the big reasons I don't go on social media really anymore. I most
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
I'm speaking generally here, not specifically about German or any law. I also know there are probably situations I'm not thinking about. But it seems generally pretty cut and dry as to what the focus of a recording is. If you a
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
I'm with you, here. People just think very differently, though. For example, I really enjoy sci-fi, but I've always viewed as a neat fantasy. Sometimes I think "It would be cool if this were real," but mostly I lean t
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
> I don't think any changes should be about public recording but about distribution instead. I think this is pretty reasonable and something I hadn't thought of. I've been thinking about this generally a bunch as I agree
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
Not to American companies, he said this after the recent Chinese release (I can't keep up with model names... Kimi K...3?)

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