EamonnMR

"I don't believe in censorship" is a political position, and political positions have no obligation to reflect reality.

Huh, SDF isn't connected to the wider usenet? Who knew.

When you say "not hard to get an invite" what do you mean?

Ah, thanks.

Whoa tildes are a reddit alternative? I thought it was all about, like, public access unix systems.

I'm surprised he didn't get more flack for this when he last courted controversy by changing posts critical of him.

HN is experiencing some serious slowness, I wonder if everyone is checking here.

I think this is missing the key change licensing would effect: it would crush the profit margins involved. I think that alone would drastically reduce 'AI risk' (or more importantly the negative effects of AI) because it would remove the motivation to build a company like OpenAI.

That's not a legend, it's well attested: https://kotaku.com/how-warcraft-was-almost-a-warhammer-game-...

Ah, thanks!

Is there a way to get past the 999 comment limit?

It's mostly a modern day graffiti covered bathroom wall, but it's also unfortunately got some good knowledge trapped in it, from between the collapse of forums and the rise of Discord respectively as primary niche hobby gathering places.

Awesome, I really wanted something like this. I have a lot of reddit posts and it would be neat to cringe at my younger self.

Painting the minis is a fun hobby. Boltgun is the best video game from the franchise that I've played.

StarCraft owes more than just the zerg to 40k, the marine design is very space Marine and the protoss are very Eldar. One thing StarCraft did was turn away from the grimdark outlook and tell a very human (if operatic) story.

I've wanted finger guns as an input mechanism since the Kinect disappointed me with its lack of finger gun halo. But the tracking would need to be crazy precise.

> Logs are structured and passed to a SaaS which will have a custom search syntax that takes tens of seconds to search them poorly, and they'll get lost in the noise of all those components. You'll spend a non-trivial amount of time devising systems for tracing requests through all these components.

I feel this one. At a previous gig we had an entire project to try and pick a logging solution, and none on offer let you do the one fundamental operation that makes using logs bearable; full text search.

On the contrary, I think you can blame people who make antisocial choices. In fact, you have to.

Probably referring to this: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/13p889x/red...

Link?

I've had a better time on Mastodon than I ever did on Twitter actually finding people to talk to.

Follow people, and look at who's posts they share. Follow hashtags. Browse your local feed if you joined a topical instance. Occasionally browse the global posts firehose.

AssaultCube was a pretty good foss CS clone, no idea if people still play it though.

The rate of construction accidents is what you should look at, not church fires.

> Sites like HN and Reddit have a "currency" like Karma.

Karma isn't a currency, it's formalized reputation to surface good content and gamify writing good content.

> If Wikipedia operated its own currency, it could reward helpful contributions and make vandalism costly

The transaction scale (Wikipedia has two edits oer second) required would put it out of the reach of a crypto though. A centralized Wikipedia-buck would work just fine. Wikipedia itself is centralized.

> (you'd lose 10-50% of your currency if you were found to have vandalized a page, etc.)

This is exactly the type of thing that Crypto was built to avoid!

> micropayments

Due to scalability problems (ie gas fees) aren't cryptos much better suited to macro payments?

> Perhaps HN is wrong to simply hate the idea of decentralized currencies?

You haven't really shown that decentralized currencies are required for a decentralized social network.

You also haven't shown how your preferred networks will avoid the misaligned incentives that have created human misery out of existing social networks if they're still going to be for-profit (and the presence of a coin certainly suggests a profit motive.)

> The societal impact and problems from centralized social networks are documented in many places...

But hold up now, is a decentralized social network dependent on a decentralized currency/token/Blockchain? Mastodon for example is a robust decentralized social network has absolutely nothing to do with whatever web2+n you're touting. The idea that you need to rebuild currency in order to build a new kind of social network reminds me of the common gamedev trap of writing a game engine in order to write a game (and shipping neither.)

> I guess you like having public forums being privately owned by tiny groups of people

When you said centralization I didn't think you meant social networks specifically since generally crypto talks about disrupting banks and governments and I think (with some obvious exceptions) I prefer those to, what would you call it... the anarcho-kleptocracy represented by the Crypto space.

> relying on centralized entities which clearly is a problem

More or less of a problem than out and out scams?

> Web5

Did I miss web4?

Overall your complaint would be similar to if I complained that Bryan Krebs was one-sided in his coverage of cybercrime, in that he's never pro-crime.

The difference between this and climate change is that generally climate change activists and fossil fuel companies are at each other's throats. In this case it's... the same people. If the CEO of ExxonMobil signed a letter about how climate change would make us extinct a reasonable person might ask 'so, are you going to stop drilling?'

Please make that sticker, I will buy it.

But if LLMs hadn't captured the popular imagination I doubt this would have been written this year and gotten the attention of enough prominent signatories to frontpage on HN.