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by treyd 3y ago
Bluesky is not structured the way Bitcoin was structured. It's nonsensical to make prescriptive statements based on that comparison.
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by treyd 3y ago
Yes there is an established flow for exporting your full account data. It comes as an easy export zip and CSVs.
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by treyd 3y ago
The handful of moderately large instances that have shut down rhat I'm aware of gave long notices, in a couple of cases over a year, before actually going offline. The only notable counterexample I remember was BitcoinHackers.org shu
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by treyd 3y ago
You can migrate your account between instances and take your followers and follows with you. Server shutdowns are rare, since administrators tend to proactively limit registrations when activity starts to be a financial burden. Avoiding
635.
by treyd 3y ago
It's very common to see news organically shared on Fedi as well. I get a ton of Boston local news shared via users I follow on the Boston instances.
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by treyd 3y ago
If this happens randomly to a small-medium size foss project that doesn't have strong attention from GitHub the corporation it could be catastrophic.
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by treyd 3y ago
Is it at all profitable? Worth the effort to maintain?
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by treyd 3y ago
> The nice thing about the web is that while it’s no company’s favoured platform It is effectively Google's favored platform. They effectively get to be the gatekeepers for what standards become accepted. They control the most wid
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by treyd 3y ago
With all the other things they've found use for it, I wonder if you could convince them to host your wedding.
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by treyd 3y ago
Atmospheric drag increases superlinearly so it plays a significant role in slowing down the vehicle when you're moving at large fractions of orbital velocity.
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by treyd 3y ago
The rich get richer in real life too. Oh the humanity.
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by treyd 3y ago
> Less traffic in data-rich apps (even taking into account compression, HTML is heavier than JSON and not just due to syntax overhead - consider all those page headers, footers and other common parts) > Better UX for slow networks: ev
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by treyd 3y ago
> I would love to see some sort of reboot of the web with simple protocols There's the Gemini ecosystem, but it feels a bit like they overcorrected and now it's overly limiting.
644.
by treyd 3y ago
That has never been an issue. You only seed what you choose to. It's basically the same model as BitTorrent but with about 15 fewer years of R&D behind it and much less organic user adoption.
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by treyd 3y ago
I think a lot of people get annoyed by email because they're used to using it in crappy web-based clients. In 2021 I switched back to using Thunderbird after many years using web gmail and my god it's a breath of fresh air. I&#x2
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by treyd 3y ago
Fwiw, GitHub has been on the news occasionally in at least the US.
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by treyd 3y ago
It's approximately 0. Microsoft knew that GitHub had no moat being what it was when they acquired it. T hat's why they've been adding CI, Pages, Codespaces, Copilot, and a bunch of other crap that only some of which people
648.
by treyd 3y ago
When was the last time a large and entrenched corporation did something terrible to the American public and was forcibly dissolved by the government?
649.
by treyd 3y ago
Because Americans are so terrified of government that they can be completely okay with something terrible as long as it's private corporations doing it (and so, theoretically, you have the ability to not be a customer of that corporati
650.
by treyd 3y ago
IIRC they have 3 pairs (6 total) and if any of the pairs have a mismatch they powercycle them both and let the other 4 continue as-is as you described.
651.
by treyd 3y ago
Yeah that's correct. The article mentions a few cases of people who died from transmitted CJD that may have also received some beta amyloid or tau proteins that could have catalyzed development into Alzheimer's if only they didn&
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by treyd 3y ago
I remember playing it in like 2010 and it had z-levels.
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by treyd 3y ago
The difficulty is that the design of cycling infrastructure in many cities (but to be fair, especially in the US) is so poor that it's actually more dangerous to follow the standard cycling rules than it is to take certain liberties
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by treyd 3y ago
This is how it used to be. When you bought a computer you got a full circuit diagram with it so you could understand how it works. All appliances were like this, and some still are, but the fancier it is the less likely. My stove has a s
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by treyd 3y ago
There exists evidence that there was paid shills brigading /r/Bitcoin to try to shift the narrative. Reddit accounts are not a proxy for legitimate users. The rest of your points are ignoring the realities of corporate strate
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by treyd 3y ago
> You implying that malevolent motivations is the only plausible explanation for their support for larger blocks is disingenuous. How is that disingenuous? They stand to benefit from more users and they stand to benefit more from bein
657.
by treyd 3y ago
Of course, but specifically by maintaining custody over those users funds. And increasing the hardware requirements to have full custody of your own funds nudges users in the direction of delegating it to massive corporations. Also you&#
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by treyd 3y ago
All of those "industry actors" stand to benefit from increasing blocksizes and pushing users away from running their own nodes. Their shared action and support on this matter is an indictment of their dishonesty and misaligned va
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by treyd 3y ago
> While the vast majority of people in the Bitcoin space wanted to follow through with raising the limit, [citation needed] And even if it were true, there's very good reasons for not doing it that have been argued about at length.
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by treyd 3y ago
> No way to block because they’re subtly embedded into everything. Which will be super illegal in several jurisdictions that mandate ads be clearly labelled.

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