4z01235

@4z01235@lemmy.world
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I'm honestly surprised they made 10,000 sales.

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Twitter clone by Facebook. The worst part is they're implementing ActivityPub and will federate with Lemmy and Mastodon instances.

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  1. Website requires user to visit using particular browser
  2. User refuses to use said browser
  3. ???
  4. No profit
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Beehaw defederated from a lot of other major instances.

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"Just" fork it. Right.

It's a massive undertaking to maintain a fork of something that large and continue pulling in patches of later developments.

Not to say that Brave doesn't have the resources to do so - I really don't know their scale - but this notion of "just fork" gets thrown around a lot with these kinds of scenarios. It's an idealistic view and the noble goal of open source software, but in practical and pragmatic terms it doesn't always win, because it takes time and effort and resources that may not just be available.

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AI on its own isn't a threat, but people (mis)using and misrepresenting AI are. That isn't a problem unique to AI but there sure are a lot of people doing dumb and bad things with AI right now.

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Generate the binaries during test execution from known (version controlled) inputs, plaintext files and things. Don't check binaries into source control, especially not intentionally corrupt ones that other maintainers and observers don't know what they may contain.

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Is that a Lemmy community... ?

I know I'm not the only one but I'll say it anyway:

Altoids Sours.

Somehow it still has a cult like Apple

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The idea of a emoji is to sound more human, that's why Ai chat bots use them at the end of their answers, to sound more human and more friendly

This is how you feel about it, but you're posting in a place full of humans who don't communicate that way. It's fine that you like to, but you won't have much luck appealing to a community by calling their norms less-human and unfriendly.

I can't see any gif, using Boost.

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Threads is not a Lemmy instance, but it is implementing the ActivityPub protocol and thus will be able to federate with Lemmy instances, Mastodon servers, presumably kbin, Friendica, GNU Social, etc.

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Are you intoxicated?

Lmao, you thought there would be times it would be cheaper than now? Nah. It would baseline where it is now, and become more expensive when people actually want to eat.

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Yes

You can check the release notes to be sure, but generally you can just perform the update and move on with life. Backing up your data is always a smart precaution.

Fuel cell EVs can't be fitted with charging plugs for religious reasons

I really need to hear that story.

Yes

When was the last time you saw a corporation making decisions and taking actions of its own accord, without people?

Maybe they will start to, now, as people delegate their responsibilities to "AI"

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Seems 12ft.io doesn't work for NYT, but archive.is does:

https://archive.is/r8L9I

Example? They gave you the exact thing to run.

  1. Why bother implementing a federated protocol if the intent is not to federate?
  2. Don't you think Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp has the experience to build a social media network without implementing ActivityPub? If federation is not a goal, why constrain yourself to building something that fits into that network?
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Gotta get you some Dutch friends. In my experience they're all just like this.

GitHub is a git hosting provider, but it also has its own service software for all the peripherals - organizations, issues, pull requests, all the user account management stuff, etc. AFAIK those parts are mostly/all proprietary.

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It's also slang for hot people

Same as the others - nothing.

Which leads me to wonder when it will be standard procedure for cameras to digitally sign their footage.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/leicas-9125-camera-automatically-stores-authenticity-proving-metadata/

The first stills camera that digitally signs its photos is here. Leica is part of a tech consortium developing this as a standard and other major photography brands are also members, so hopefully this catches on and becomes standard, and expands to video.

You can use it for normal applications that aren't sort of "system components" like a VPN. So if you want to install some office/productivity software, or a web browser, or a music/video player, then a Flatpak would be a reasonable choice. For most of those cases you would probably still choose the RPM if it is available, but Flatpak is also fine if not.

"We" haven't moved anywhere, I just chimed in for the first time with my interpretation of what the other person was talking about. Jeez.

Take a look at the global human population chart over the last few millenia. Things can seem sustainable when there are a million people on the planet. When there are 8 billion things are a bit different.

Sure. And the further a fork diverges from upstream the more difficult maintenance becomes. My point is that relying on the open source model to fork projects making hostile changes only works so long as the community is actually able to maintain the fork(s), and so long as those forks actually have a reasonable chance of being adopted. It's equally important, if not even more important, to try to ensure these large projects steer in consumer friendly directions than to react and fork to try to remove anti-consumer features.

Google has enough market and mind share that they can push this and it's a real risk of becoming an anti-consumer standard regardless of any attempts to maintain a fork.

So what do I think we, as a body of users of the Internet, should do? Simple. Stop using Google Chrome and any other Chromium based browsers. Google has the ability to push these changes and make them defacto standards (and later, codified standards) because we collectively give them the power to by using Chromium downstreams.

I just went through this exact process (not for the first time) two weeks ago with a bug in the golang standard library. Fun times. Deep in the dependency stack of a container build my team doesn't own so who knows when I'll get a fixed version.

save the Earth from becoming inhabitable,

*uninhabitable

We want to be able to inhabit the Earth

A university degree in Canada costs 16-20k CAD per year for tuition/books/etc, more if you're an international student. Plus residence fees and food and other costs of living if the student isn't staying at home and just commuting to university.

There's a reason Canada suffers from brain drain of so many of our skilled workers leaving. Other places, particularly the USA, are popular destinations because they are better opportunities economically.

!cars@lemmy.world could be a starting point

You're probably thinking of Isaiah Mustafa

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Are they using an off the shelf ActivityPub implementation (if so, which?) or just implementing the protocol themselves? If it's the latter, which I expect it is, then implementing the protocol does not save development time or effort. It's just a set of specifications that they decide to conform to, rather than doing things some other way that may better suit their business goals.

True of single player, campaign-focused games. Not really the expected outcome for games focusing on the online multiplayer experience.