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So the ads don’t just pay for the debilitating server costs and the cost of your text editor? :winking Unicode emoji:

In all seriousness, I really enjoyed the sudo replacement post. It was fun to read

I would love an invite if you could DM me fellow HACK user :)

I've thought about it further.

'Federation' or decentralization is a fantastic idea. There is really only one way that it truly 'works' as a decentralized service...

Each and every user runs their own instance of a federated server. This way, they can 'defederate' anything they please, without affecting the whole. This way there is still no 'central' service that can be monetized, locked down, etc. and all of the federated data is available to all private instances, akin to BitTorrent or a (and I shudder typing this) blockchain.

Maybe I'm wrong.

What really grinds my gears is that all of the signup pages and “how to join” pages just say to pick a random instance because it’s federated and it doesn’t matter which one you join.

What if the random one I pick gets defederated? Now I need to find a new instance and make a new account?

This will make federated services into even MORE echo chamber ultra-moderated spaces than Reddit ever was, as the fear of defederation will cause lockdown policing of wrongthink.

I honestly think it may be worse for free speech.

Then again, I’ve never joined a federated service and I have no actual anecdote or evidence to back myself up, I’m kind of just spitballing thoughts.

National Geographic was an amazing publication when cultures were distant, travel was not as easy, areas of the world were still 'remote', and there was no internet. Where else could you see photographs of tribes in New Guinea, or an expedition to the North Pole, or elusive savannah animals?

Once everything was 'discovered' and conglomerated into wikipedia and YouTube, there was no content left for National Geographic. They started writing articles about science news, no different than Popular Science magazine. Then the political era started, and every issue was polarizingly politicized.

I have had a subscription for decades, and I can honestly say I stopped even opening the magazine years ago. The kids just cut pictures out of it for art projects.

buzzfeed has been doing this for years without AI, I really don't see much difference here

Why is congress even involved in software, open source, AI, any of this?

Unique individuals , yes. But we all function the same way. This is why calories in / calories out is a constant among all unique individuals.

Apparently on a 2019 F150 it’s fuse 10 in the passenger side fuse box to disable the modem

So how do we turn this off?

There is an iOS app I found today called DiscourseHub that allows you to connect multiple discourse sites into a unified homepage, and switch between them. I've used it for about an hour and it seems pretty solid, fwiw

I seriously dislike trying to use Discord, and I get annoyed when open source projects direct questions / support to a community discord as opposed to a wiki or faq of forum.

Searching discord is painful, and god forbid you ask a question that someone else asked 3 weeks ago that you weren’t sitting in front of the chat for.

The only discord that kind of makes sense (that I’ve used, and I haven’t used many) is the doom eMacs discord, where the questions are kind of pinned. Almost in a Forum format.

I wish Discourse would take off more. I think it’s a great, modern answer to forums.

But then they don’t get the sweet sweet tracking metrics from their app. Once you pay for Reddit , you don’t see ads in the OEM app either, they can squeeze more value out of people by forcing their app and sucking as much data and analytics about you as possible. They’ve already begun A/B trials of disallowing mobile browsers to access their website, and forcing the app download.

This is less about ad revenue than it is jealousy over closed communities like Instagram and tiktok where you are locked into their app.

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I’ve been trying to get one forever, can you help?

At this point why even bother having separate banks? If one fails they just roll the deposit accounts over to another, bigger bank?

This is what saddens me. These dropship sellers don’t even buy one item that they are selling to test, try out, take pictures, etc. they just use the alibaba pics and let it rip. It’s all so tiresome at this point

yup.

Wow, your app wants a whole lot of personal information just to limit actually using the phone

the 'shipyard' map in call of duty is REALLLLY close to this layout

https://assets.rockpapershotgun.com/images/2020/04/yang_fy_i...

But where does the money come from

It's not harder to 'give away' the source code. It's part of the license(s) of the code you are linking to create your binary. It's not hard at all, actually. On the contrary, it's very easy.

So the spam filter works better than expected, in a proven environment!

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I used Firefox exclusively for years, but I switched away when they bundled “pocket” and kept trying to force it down my throat.

The issue is that middle managers are being proven as ineffective and useless. The guy who wanders around the office synergizing everyone now has a spotlight on them, because its been proven over the last few years that people can be efficient and productive without Lundberg stopping by and asking for a progress report. The only part of the industry that has now been proven unnecessary are the ones clawing and fighting to get everyone back into the office.

I think of HN as being a social network already. There is no need for another 'social network' in the world, actually less would be best.

Because there were no GOP donations. Why are the DNC donations all documented and above board, and the GOP ones are all undocumented and 'on the side' or 'secret'? It makes no sense at all.

thank god