Though how could they possibly justify that?
If there's been no exchange of money; how would they be beholden to stake holders?
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If there's been no exchange of money; how would they be beholden to stake holders?
I think that this would not fix the issue entirely, but it deserves some thought. It's a unique way of looking at the problems.
Of course this becomes less effective when the community itself gets large, so it won't scale as easily.
My preference is C for personal projects; I like the freedom.
C# because I work with .NET a lot; some might say too much, i get weary of it sometimes. Python is kind of goofy, but it's useful and easy enough to use that I don't mind it's presence in my work.
I will never work with Java professionally ever again if I can help it; I don't like the JVM; working with Android was the final killing blow, i hate mobile dev. simply because they often have me work with ART and i just can't do it with any real enjoyment. Golang is odd, and I have yet to find any real use for it.
The Rust community is pretty unsettling in their dedication, and they seem to actively lie if you question it's usefulness in a specific situation, so i'm weary of their advice. NodeJS is useful, but truly awful to maintain after the fact. It's also quite nonsensical; I would still spend the extra time just using php or python (with flask), Node is also far too bloated and the bottlenecks seem to make my life only more difficult anytime I try to make something even remotely performant without just throwing load-balancers onto every node website I've ever worked on... not worth it.
NIM is by far my favorite; I don't know why, but I love it, it's the language i would build if I had the time. And... C++ has way too many options to do one thing that it confuses most solutions when I've ran into problems, it's just too much.
Something I've learned over the years is that the choice of tool, before you even start on a project, must be taken seriously; if you mess that up, you will be paying for it for potentially years to come.
You mention the "chilling effect" that does exist, and you aren't the only one, I've seen a lot of comments like yours not just on this site, but on pretty much any site that sees any advocacy for the Rust they promote.
I think there might be some value in filtering through something like a GreaseMonkey extension; which I've been debating for a good while if i should just make. Simply allow to remove listings from the HN page that inlude 'blacklisted' domains and filter key words. Such as "rust" in the title would see a removal.
But yeah, I think there is a place for Rust, just not where we see it for the most part, and i am increasingly bothered by the issues it presents for the Linux community (which was disregarded by the article posted hilariously enough, they can't even show respect for the communities they cause issues for, a core inidicator of narccistic behavior).
However I do agree, at least against automated attacks; there will be a bit more security. Though if you are doing anything serious that draws attention, at that point obscurity is all but putting off the enevitable failure if you are ever targetted.
I wonder if there would be a way to lose the 'value' of a downvote if the account in question predominantly downvotes a specific opinion too much (a form of abuse i think). The assumption being that, "ok, you downvoted three posts, that were all very incendiary; though the other 40+ you've downvoted were all that way, statically the chance that those posts are all offensive is unlikely."
Would be interesting to see; I don't hate Rust, but I don't appreciate the zealous nature of most of their advocates, and for me personally, there's nothing fun about writing in Rust. It's also a bit too bloated for my tastes, i would never want to run it in lowlevel personally. Yet most of the time I stay away from threads talking about Rust, because i just get sent to the bottom fairly quickly, on most sites that encourage discussion.
If you've done any research into quality malware, exploits and the like (both domestic and foreign), the quality and often elegant solutions they come up with will not be somehow kneecapped by an emoji. It also only needs to support inputting one emoji in the event that someone uses this out in the field; not hard to do in shellcode.
What was the point? Yes things come to an end sometimes, how is completely tearing support out from under anyone who uses a framework just like ending Seinfeld?
Can you still watch Seinfeld? Can you still rewatch your favorite parts, upload clips with commentary to YT as a docu-series of some sort? Yes and yes.
Keeping a repo up is just about the best thing you can do. I just don't understand why you thought to say nothing but "quitting is a thing".
Will have to give this replacement a go and see how it stacks up.
Slavoj: You are a bit of an anti-Marxist
Werner: I am actually sympathetic
Slavoj: Ah, good to stay away from -isms
Werner: Yes, also the cinema is showing us that our problems are not as easy to solve in the upcoming decades.
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It took an odd turn, I don't really know what he was getting at, and i don't know if he is a marxist or not 0.0
Do you have links to the "actual science" btw, I'm curious to read about this
If my viewpoint contains "misinformation" (that i don't know about), who's to say that you viewpoint doesn't also without you knowing it? Who's to say what's dangerous, or how wrong does someone need to be before it's considered dangerous? We have the agency to protect ourselves, we are adults. If "dangerous misinformation" destroys western civilization, then it should not have existed in the first place. This is the basis for Darwinian Evolution, the weak fall, the strong survive.
Hate speech is not a legal standard here in the US; which is great, because what was hate speech two years ago is not what it is today, and I'm worried it will just continue to grow, it is not a standard i recognize or will ever recognize. If those who held your opinion didn't push so hard and use "hate speech" as a weapon to silence opposition; while turning around and telling people that they should kill themselves because they are "scum" (calling people scum and telling them they shouldn't exist sounds pretty hateful to me). When i was in college I remember getting screamed at by a worthless human being who said that I wasn't allowed to be there or speak (even though i was just trying to get to my class) because I wasn't black; ironically, neither was she, i had no intention of speaking or loitering, I WAS WALKING, and she nearly got decked (as she wouldn't stop touching me). Any how, that's off topic, but it's a pretty perfect picture of what those who actually believe "hate speech" gives them the right to silence others implicitly allows, extending to those who might oppose them in any way real or imaginary.
I'm a fairly reasonable person, I don't like the government, and i dislike too much change too quickly, i like the tried and true method. I prefer my freedom, and i prefer people to have the freedom to say what they want and do what they want as long as it's not causing direct physical damage to others. I don't like how "we" have decided that any voice against any commonly accepted behavior is considered hate. I don't hate gay people, I don't share in their proclivities, but I really don't mind them, but I really don't appreciate the parading in SF that they often engage in, for example. I believe those demonstrations to be obscene; if you did the things they do by yourself, with one other person, you would be arrested for indecent exposure and lewd acts in most civilized societies. This statement, I've been told, though i think it's reasonable, is "hate speech". Just because i don't want my 8 year old niece to see grown men in bondage gear doing some weird things with strangers outside in broad daylight, I'm "hateful". This is how absurd it's getting. If that is "hate speech" then i will more than happily accept that title, which means nothing.
We are no longer children, most of us are grown adults who should be able to withstand "dangerous misinformation" and political violence was never legal to begin with. If i scream fire, but there is none, in a crowded building, that isn't protected speech as I'm inciting panic, which can do harm. If i tell you that you should kill the president (which i am definitely not) that is not protected either. Free speech is hate speech, wholesome speech, disagreeable speech, agreeable speech; the law even extends to non-verbal expressions of ideas! Any attempt to silence opposition indicates that the thing you are trying to protect does not stand on it's own, ideas should stand on their own; "hate speech" (not the idea, what it actually is) is necessary as anyone when opposed can and often will see that as "hate speech".
Most people want to be able to say what they believe, even if a soulless corporation deems it "bad"; most don't want to incite violence (which is unilaterally illegal) and only a small minority actually make "hate speech" (in it's truest origin), which is subjective in nature and only really a fairly "recent" cultural phenomena.
I've written at length, though as per usual, it won't make a difference :)
Again, not saying they haven't changed, but i don't trust like that.
If you so desire the information is out there, and there are blogs and so forth on the internet that link to the details.
However i will summarize. Mastadon has taken a staunch position against racism and nazi ideas, which is fine. However they will go after those who are not so militant in this en devour, even if they do not support the aforementioned ideas, there's a lot of shaming that goes on if you don't all decide to block the same instances for example. However they have, many times over, allowed certain, borderline illegal (usually linking to illegal) content to be freely accessible on said platforms in the early days (for like a good 6+ months) of mastadon. After a lot of complaints they still did very little to nothing to stop that behavior. This is the source of my hate for mastadon and those instances. They have shown in the past that they are not consistent in what they block, they do not allow others to have agency and still federate with them, and they have turned a blind eye to the proliferation of child abuse. Gab has a hard block coded into mastadon, you can not federate with them unless you actively modify the code; however, other instances that are completely untenable are not blocked in the same manner.
It was for this reason that the great "split" happened, about a year or two-ish ago. Where a lot of mastadon instances no longer federate with large portions of the fediverse. It's caused a weird bubble. I just will never forget the twisted concept of, "if you are racist, or like Hitler we can't have you" while on the other hand, leaving a large (believed intentional) gap for illicit materials that personally, it breaks my heart to see that kind of degeneracy. On our instances we do not block political ideologies, however when it comes to drawn or real child abuse, we have never allowed it, and will never allow it. It is one of the greatest evils of our time.
EDIT: this is my opinion from what i saw back in the early days, they could have changed, i don't chance it, just know when reading that this was a long time ago in internet years and a lot of those people aren't as active as they used to be. I hope they have improved the community, but i will always hold this grudge.
I prefer pleroma.
I hold a great dislike for mastadon, though they are all compatible so feel free to do your research for what you are looking for in a software stack. It's hard to move when you establish yourself.
It's a moving target, if an instance is blocked enough it will move to a different domain and start federating again.
It's just something to keep in mind.
- usually they have alts, you can send them a message to please update their twitter bio with the link to their main mastadon account.
- You can not stop someone from impersonating you; however even the most infamous/famous characters on the fediverse have links to their channels, websites and blogs that link back to that account; so this doesn't happen often, it's very rare.
- Even though i don't appreciate your dismissal of a very real problem; there is no protection, however it is very easy to set up your own instance if you feel your voice is being wrongfully censored. As a consequence, no one is ever truly "banned".
- Ignore the hype, I love the fediverse but it has some severe issues; the protocol is never the issue as we are dealing with human beings here.
Instead of advertising, we rely on donations and the good will of the community, advertisers are scum in the fedi world. If you know anyone thinking they can rep their product on it they will be in for one heck of a backlash.
I'm a long time user of the fediverse, I can't help but say that I love the freedom of having a bunch of independent nodes all communicating, all with our different standards and so forth. It's very freeing but it comes at a cost, most instances, however hard you try, will not censor half the things you would never see on Twitter. People like Twitter because of their draconian moderation efforts, I was banned from Twitter because I told someone that a death threat was not ok; apparently Twitter decided that I since i said "shut up" that i was somehow the aggressor.
I'm tired of this idea that "Twitter's future is bleak" mentality, all because some rich guy bought it that would rather the platform be less strict when it comes to political thought. If it is the town square of the internet, it makes sense that people should be able to say what they want and be laughed at if they are being an idiot. Twitter was never a good platform in any sense of the word, it is probably now the best it's ever been, and it will be better once the active user count is under a thousand. People ruin things, don't be surprised when they ruin some mastadon instance you spend time on.
As a side note, the people that run mastadon are a bit... off when it comes to ethics, so i would recommend pleroma which has had less, egregious, errors in the past.
for $25 it wasn't a bad deal for hours of really good content, read by the author. Best version i've seen.
I appreciate not having a subscription model attached to a few books I might listen to
seems fun
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Although I'm so far on the other end of the spectrum it's not even something that came to mind in my initial criticism. I'm the programmer that mostly works on old/outdated legacy systems that will never look "good" to anyone, and even then I rarely deal with the front-facing UI, usually spend most of my time working on low-level and background stuff that the user never sees. So I didn't even think about the relationship between light/dark when it comes down to unifying the two experiences with a "core" experience. If i were working on something like that I would want to change as little as possible between the two, though in that design consideration, then every element added to the program would have to be "compatible" with the core design, and the user's experience in both would have to be similar. So with that consideration, I could see why it would not be simple to implement/maintain.
It's solid for sure, I'll get plenty of use out of it.
I have glasses, they are expensive, I understand that. I have sensitive eyes and overtime they fatigue much quicker then they should.
No one owes you anything, especially at cost. However when it comes to a dark mode option, it doesn't cost the developer anything, it's a theme change.
The other options are great enough for a sub that it's worth it with or without dark mode; the mobile editor and cloud storage are good enough reason. I only felt it was even acceptable to state dark mode should be free because for a good portion of people it's necessity and there are other good reasons to buy a sub. I usually won't test a free application unless it has dark mode by default because it's that hard for me and I know from others that they experience this as well.
With or without dark mode, if you use something like this daily, you will end up caving and paying. Without dark mode, there are people like me who can't even test it out properly (it's physically painful to look at a white screen for too long).