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by treyd 3y ago
> Oh right, nuclear makes electricity at night. When it's cheapest. Applying naive market logic to this, as solar becomes a larger share of the energy supply mix, the price of energy at night will increase, making baseload supply mo
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by treyd 3y ago
Content creators are being compensated increasingly through alternative means like Patreon, Nebula, sponsorships, merchandise, etc.
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by treyd 3y ago
It would be interesting to retrofit ActivityPub post feeds around mirrored YouTube videos.
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by treyd 3y ago
> How will Mozilla compete with Meta, Twitter? This is the wrong framing. We should be asking how the Fediverse will compete with mainstream social media. Mozilla is just doing one part of a larger collective project. And so far Fed
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by treyd 3y ago
Care to elaborate what you mean by this? There's a lot of valid criticism of Mozilla in 2023 but what this article is talking about doesn't seem like it on the surface.
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by treyd 3y ago
I personally use .htm for anything that's an incomplete chunk of an HTML-ish document, like a Jinja2 template file, and .html for full rendered documents.
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by treyd 3y ago
That's bad but also mostly unrelated to the main point I'm making about copyright. If anything it's supportive since part of the risk of account deletion/restriction is running afowl of their content ID system, which on
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by treyd 3y ago
Similarly for me, chalk dust on my hands causes quite a bit of sensory discomfort. And when writing I feel like I continually have to brace myself for ???something??? while doing it.
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by treyd 3y ago
Have you listened to artists and creatives talk about copyright recently? Especially ones that publish on newer, digital distribution platforms like YouTube? There's numerous more thorough critiques of copyright law and calls to abol
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by treyd 3y ago
If someone ran a print shop and printed out my articles into a book called "Collected works by Trey on HN" or something and didn't give me a cent then yeah I'd be thrilled, because it's a validation of my work. I a
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by treyd 3y ago
Intellectual property never really existed. Copyright is something we made up to extend the logic of commodities to the full value chain for books, which made sense 200 years ago. But it makes no sense to apply the logic of commodities to
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by treyd 3y ago
And the horrible decision to not make library-level ("module") and code-unit-level ("package") namespacing orthogonal. The former was an afterthought tacked on since the package system was designed to be used only withi
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by treyd 3y ago
This isn't really true with stable Rust. Rust uses a system of "editions" for crates, where newer compilers are directed to parse the code using the older rules and it can freely interoperate with code written for newer edit
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by treyd 3y ago
You mean WEI, or "Web Environment Integrity".
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by treyd 3y ago
Care to elaborate on what points you're saying are strawmans? Sure it's a gizmodo piece, written in the typical style, but that doesn't preclude it from making legitimate criticisms.
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by treyd 3y ago
Is there any evidence that DRM actually leads to more works getting published long term or is this just a oft repeated anecdote? It's trying to force the logic of commodities into a medium where it does not naturally exist.
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by treyd 3y ago
Has anyone tried developing a project to machine translate all these autoconf/etc configurations to something more modern like Meson that's been able to learn from past mistakes? Like obviously there's many hacks over the ma
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by treyd 3y ago
> It’s wild how doing less but better is so hard as companies to pursue It's because so much of the slowdown is tooling for tracking, ad delivery, A/B test tooling, etc. that foss projects don't have to do.
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by treyd 3y ago
What's the point then? How does DRM improve the user experience? Why should you have to break it?
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by treyd 3y ago
I don't know how much sway it has in this but didn't the W3C signal opposition to the WEI effort? And it's possible the antitrust lawsuits will have more influence on their audacity in this matter.
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by treyd 3y ago
This is only true in a very loose and rather useless sense. This isn't because of some weakness of the BitVM construction, these are products of limitations of Bitcoin itself. As far as I understand, all possible settlement pathways h
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by treyd 3y ago
This whole approach would massively increase the cost of distribution due to how CDN networks scale.
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by treyd 3y ago
How much is that actually expected to reduce the overall warming effect?
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by treyd 3y ago
I don't need payment notifications (I check it regularly anyways) and I actively don't want to use biometrics for logins, so there's 0 loss for me.
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by treyd 3y ago
In my experience, most banking apps are horrible and not worth using over accessing the bank's browser version.
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by treyd 3y ago
Does he actually feel guilt over it or does he know he has to perform the appearance of feeling guilty?
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by treyd 3y ago
I disagree. The user has accessibility needs and preferences that the app developers necessarily can't know about. App developers shouldn't be trying to enforce styles/themes/icons on the user when they might be comple
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by treyd 3y ago
> It's blatant how UI designers don't give a damn about the users' needs, not even in FOSSland. Especially with this new "don't theme my app" movement. It's really unfortunate. The issues with CSS sty
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by treyd 3y ago
Yeah that's how I see how it would work. Just build a framework for the players to interact in according to the basic mechanics of tabletop games and then expose a rich module API and hand it off to users. If you're clever about
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by treyd 3y ago
I always thought it was bizarre that there's no serious selfhostable FOSS virtual tabletop software [1]. The overlap between the two communities is very large and passionate. Foundry is selfhostable but it's a clunky proprietary

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