stormbrew

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by stormbrew 4y ago
If you don't own the key exchange (and you don't, even on the services most people consider secure), you're still, on some level or another, just relying on trust that this is the case. At any rate, mastodon is a web app, not
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by stormbrew 4y ago
This has nothing to do with federation. It's just a fact of life on any hosted internet service.
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by stormbrew 4y ago
> Instance owners can read DMs. "Admins of <website> can read data on <website>" is just a tautology. It's true of everything you use on the internet where you don't own the server, and even then it's
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by stormbrew 4y ago
> That breaks the idea of having a federated network What fresh nonsense is this? There's never been a federated system with anything like a perfect guarantee of connectivity to literally anything. There are always limits, both soci
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by stormbrew 4y ago
I feel the same way about accounts of working with most (if not all) modern arch-capitalists, trust me.
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by stormbrew 4y ago
> Yes, the issues the blog mentioned were real human rights issues, but selective coverage of human rights is propaganda. This is not a good argument, it's just an appeal to nihilism. That's not even remotely what propaganda is
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by stormbrew 4y ago
This article reads like an abused partner defending their abuser. This kind of double-sidedness is extremely common in abusive relationships, in large part because it's a really effective method of exerting control over someone while e
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by stormbrew 4y ago
Once upon a time I knew the c++ standard like the back of my hand. I was excited about the first few standard revisions, and read proposals as they came out. Now I think it's a dead end and would sooner start a new project in C than C+
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by stormbrew 4y ago
As with sibling, it's possible but it hasn't happened in any way that bothers me. Seems like it's just CAP theory in action. I don't think consistency is the corner of that triangle to optimize for in this case.
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by stormbrew 4y ago
The nice thing about it is that since I'm on a different server it still works fine for me even when mastodon.social is falling over.
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by stormbrew 4y ago
All I really want is to get off the "the user is the product" rollercoaster. It's been nothing but a disaster for everyone and I don't think it's necessary. "One big social network to rule them all" is an
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by stormbrew 4y ago
I think this is now widely considered to be a false anthropomorphization of what's really going on in a hive.
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by stormbrew 4y ago
I think it's a little more complicated than that. Trolls are often very fixated on their targets but they also tend to be impulsive and looking for quick fixes of glory. This is why things like shadow banning and slow modes and signup
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by stormbrew 4y ago
Yes. My point was that when people read these articles they think of a much more casual definition of productivity that has more to do with a sense of "getting things done," but the word is jargon for something that has little to
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by stormbrew 4y ago
This just seems really paranoid to me? They can't see what you're entering and sure they can scan the receipt for what you put in after if they want but I've almost never seen them do more than shove the receipt in their po
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by stormbrew 4y ago
I'm abstracting a bit more than I should really, because yeah the way I put it comes off as too close to just profit. But there are a bunch of ways to measure it, that generally comes down to some comparison of inputs vs outputs and th
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by stormbrew 4y ago
I'm really curious how you think it's defined or measured then. I'm obviously abstracting a bit, but a lot of people in the replies here seem to think it's related to how much time you spend watching cat videos on compan
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by stormbrew 4y ago
The economic concept of productivity has nothing to do with anything you can measure about a single employee (or kind of employee), the article is just conflating two very different meanings of the same word. In aggregate you measure it bas
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by stormbrew 4y ago
These things always really need a giant flashing neon note that "productivity" doesn't mean how much workers get done but how much money is made off of what workers get done. They're only loosely connected, and most prod
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by stormbrew 4y ago
The annoying thing about moca is it's still really expensive and the boxes are huge. It would be nice if you could get them in a form factor where they replaced the coax plate/box, even if they stuck out of the wall more.
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by stormbrew 4y ago
Canada has the same tipping culture as the US and we've had portable PoS systems in restaurants for like 10-15 years now (and I feel like I'm being conservative there). The machine just asks for a tip and lets you put a % or $ amo
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by stormbrew 4y ago
Git isn't either/or: GitHub is because it has extremely poor support for nonlinear history. It's not alone in that but git itself has the fundamental tools to support it.
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by stormbrew 4y ago
It would be nice if this were the universal meaning of this phrasing but people do use it to mean both "twice as fast" (2x) and "faster by double the original speed" (3x). People will rail about them using it wrong but
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by stormbrew 4y ago
You definitely can and things like that are precisely why bind mounts (usually) require root, because POSIX is built very much on the premise of one filesystem tree seen by both privileged and unprivileged users. Other systems do better by
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by stormbrew 4y ago
To me having a phone that actually fits in my pocket is a luxury and I have no interest in having "a tablet in my pocket" so I feel exactly the opposite.
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by stormbrew 4y ago
Endlessly bending the structures of law just makes them snap that much harder when they break under the pressure. It's not a good thing.
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by stormbrew 4y ago
When one side wants things to change and the other side wants things to "stay the same" (in order to deconstruct them), the current state of affairs is one side having the upper hand. The US founding fathers were so worried abou
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by stormbrew 4y ago
Disappointing there's no explicit mention of shipping here, which is almost certainly a huge part of things and an area where a big mover could make a big difference for an entire industry.
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by stormbrew 4y ago
My read of the protocol docs from when they came out a few days ago is that they're using Blockchain in the distributed merkel-tree ledger sense and not (explicitly?) in the sense of a cryptocurrency. It seems like it models your data
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by stormbrew 4y ago
Nether llvm nor clang are GPL, dual licensed or otherwise. They're Apache 2.0[1] (or formerly a quasi-MIT/X11 license[2]), as is swift[3]. The binaries of the compilers they release with the platform are also built with internal f

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