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It sees periodic major updates to keep it in line with standards. That's not much more than maintenance mode, but it's more than just keeping the servers running. It seems like someone at Google pays attention to it and keeps it from falling behind, but I suspect the same was true of Google Reader until it wasn't.

But how does a laser improve on that? They're slow and have to stay on a target for a while to damage it. Close-in defenses fire thousands of rounds per second and every single one of those rounds can take a drone out instantly if it hits.

What's special about a drone that a laser would be better for than existing close-in weapon systems?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-in_weapon_system

The protocol is older than productized transformers. It's like that scene from Office Space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjZKVKxZcAo

Meanwhile this is the normal, expected, and well-received behavior on ATproto. Every platform defines its own lexicon and can optionally support others. It wouldn't make sense for a blogging platform like (for example) Leaflet to show Bluesky posts the same way it shows blog posts. And apps can be selective too: Skylight only shows video posts. It's exactly how it should be for a video app.

The "account" then is just the data on your PDS with as many views into it as someone wants to develop. If I'm browsing (viewing) an account (subset of data) through a platform or app devoted to one type of content (data), I only want to see that kind of content in the main timeline. I can always pull out something like ATExplore or PDSls if I want to see everything.

The complaint only makes sense for a protocol that expects you to make a new account for a new platform and has limited portability. It doesn't make sense when an "account" is just a view into data, no more morally compromised than an SQL query. I'm skeptical the movement to revive the dead half of ActivityPub that could enable similar functionality will go anywhere, but I am rooting for the folks behind it.

That's so he can chase his dreams.

One thing I've learned from checking up on assumptions I've had about history is that it's easy to underestimate people in past times. They were probably better at communicating this stuff than you think.

Big events in sports and politics are what drive growth for most social networks. You can almost map every growth spike after the 2024 election to stuff happening in soccer, football, and baseball.

Nope. It's been like this for much longer.

Check any sports subreddit. I also see them on Discord all the time.

https://old.reddit.com/domain/bsky.app/

>> "At least one fully independent ATProto stack — PDS, Relay, and AppView operating without dependency on Bluesky PBC infrastructure — will achieve viability in 2026, meaning it has paying customers or sustainable funding. This will be the year ATProto proves (or fails to prove) it can exist beyond Bluesky-the-company."

Isn't Blacksky already there? I haven't kept up, but I thought the last big banning blowup led to prioritizing finishing the AppView.

Snake oil. Even if it worked in a way that wouldn't be bypassed quickly, it was too late, and the few artists who've applied it aren't enough to matter in the next training runs. Watching artists pull down years, sometimes decades of already scraped galleries to apply sketchy anti-AI magic was distressing.

Are wind turbines remotely similar? I would have thought something mounted high up on an always-moving top would have to be smaller, lighter, and sturdier than something that sits on the ground in a controlled environment. I'm not sure the two are in competition for production.

The they and their refer to Framework in that sentence, but I can see the ambiguity.

Oligopolies don't get to use the market forces defense.

Where's the gouge? DDR5 prices went up more than the 50% they increased their price by.

It did remind me of this comic: https://boingboing.net/2017/01/02/autoexec-bat-the-tee-shirt...

The original seems to have disappeared.

Probably referring to autoexec.bat, not cars.

People vastly underestimate the danger of a moving body of water in general, but especially when that water is where it isn't normally. Even a relatively tame storm surge picks up sewage, dangerous chemicals, debris, and confused wild animals.

1 meter is bad. That's a lot of water full of things you don't want slamming into you or any structure. Then it comes back full of even worse things.

My experience with writing, music, and photography is that I get better results trying a bunch of different things rather than focusing on one or a few. The quality is still variable, but the hit rate is much higher. I can then switch to polishing a batch of hits rather than trying to turn a single idea into a hit.

Some early memory was woven: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_rope_memory

We could bring it back.

Vector math

It's not my job to provide support for your point. Examples. It's trivial to cite them if they're in the edit log.

>> "For many people it's obvious"

[who?][citation needed]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template%3AWho

Having standards for this stuff matters even if you don't always like the result.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Word...

>> "Weasel words are words and phrases aimed at creating an impression that something specific and meaningful has been said, when in fact only a vague or ambiguous claim has been communicated. A common form of weasel wording is through vague attribution, where a statement is dressed with authority, yet has no substantial basis. Phrases such as those above present the appearance of support for statements but can deny the reader the opportunity to assess the source of the viewpoint. They may disguise a biased view. Claims about what people say, think, feel, or believe, and what has been shown, demonstrated, or proved should be clearly attributed."

A video showing those steps, for the curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX9CGRZwD-w

It's probably not 100% identical to TSMC's process.

I was surprised at how similar Trilium looks to Obsidian when it was suggested in a thread somewhere: https://triliumnotes.org/

It's open source and as far as I can tell uses a database.

I didn't really get it until I Airdropped a shipping label PDF to the guy at the UPS store to print from his phone, which was already set up for the label printer.

A good rule can be a bad heuristic. In my experience this one misleads more often than it informs.