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Is there a more defined set of memo types? I first expected a "protocol for thought" to have more thought oriented types and relationships. This just seems like Notes on IPFS.

Am i missing something?

Elon said it, and it was what they wanted to hear. Like most information on the internet.

What other credible art instances are there in your eyes? I'm having trouble finding them, so search terms (or tools?) would be useful as well :)

(I say credible, as in not just a tiny instance with no idea on longevity)

Not sure about that, but i'm mostly just interested in the local community.

That said if the cost was a bit lower i was mildly tempted to standup a Blender community. However that seems like a lot of work, in addition to being a bit expensive.

The `create-exe` subcommand is interesting!

For any language with decent cross compiling capability, is there a use case for `create-exe`? Eg i use Rust these days.. and i wonder if there's any use case for me to cross compile via wasmer instead of natively. My project(s) do work on WASM as a target (for browser reasons), maybe it would be easier to setup cross compiling via wasmer and not manage the release pipelines i have?

Though for some of my performance critical applications i may not want to bother with it. Simply because i'd suspect wasmer might not have the same platform specific optimizations that natively compiling would give me.

TBH, i don't know entirely, it just "feels" like i want the instance i'm most interested in. Yes, local timeline is neat and a feature i'd like to be able to use, but the Social aspect of Mastodon (vs email) means i tend to view the domain as indicating primary interest. It feels like a badge of community/interest.

Not sure if it makes sense, just trying to explain what's going on in my head. As i have debated that exact question myself, internally.

I'd be curious to see Mastodon attempt to add features which help instances pay for hosting. Otherwise i don't see how this can survive.

I'm sitting here waiting for a slot to open up on `mastodon.art`, but the same story will play out there i'm sure too. How is it paid for? How can i help? Most people won't, but i'm happy to pay a small fee to hopefully offset my footprint cost. I just think Mastodon needs features to reduce this friction as best as possible.

.. though maybe it has them already? I've never hosted an instance so what do i know?

There's a new project to make IPFS very performant (within limitations of the protocol, ofc). They've got some really great goals, hope they succeed.

TBH i love IPFS, and i wish i could get behind it and help.. but ever since they starting making Crypto i have moved away from it. I have no way of knowing if they're working on IPFS or if it's merely a means to a Coin.

Biggest one off the top of my head is in the category of developer productivity (which i pay a lot for already), and specifically it lets me use my editor of choice (Helix/Kakoune currently) while getting powerful new features.

Huge hurdle, obviously, but my thought was an expanded set of LSP features from JetBrains, disconnected from their IDEs. They spend quite a bit of time and money on developing DX but it's all inaccessible to those of us who prefer different editors.

I'd pay a lot for these sorts of features that go above the existing FOSS LSP, while retaining more integration to the FOSS tooling we've come to know and love (like editors or choice).

There's more i'm positive, but i just woke up :)

Yea.. i happily pay for several JetBrains tools and i'd love to pay for even more. I've got several problems that i don't want to spend time solving myself.

Frankly as a developer i've got more problems than i can count and if it involves a GUI i tend to prefer to pay for it. I love FOSS but UX is just not often a focus. I have better experience with paid products. Assuming the licensing isn't punishing.

Yup. Also as i mentioned i purposefully delete my accounts and rotate them to ensure i don't keep identity either. Frankly the lack of identity to me is the core of what makes or breaks a "social" network.

Having no permanence to the accounts kinda makes it feel more forum like. Where i can pretend there's no point system, it's just content, people discussing and helping, etc.

I've not been on social media in .. ~8 years or so, if we ignore link aggregators at least. Even with link aggs, i've been deleting my accounts semi regularly on both HN and Reddit, and making several accounts, in an effort to distance myself from caring about Karma/etc and add noise.

Ironically, unrelated to this Twitter stuff.. i've been searching for a social network recently. Specifically a semi-niche (Blender) community, moreso than a social network.

I was reasonably attracted to Twitter as a fair bit of the community that i'm interested is there.. but these days Twitter feels.. chaotic.

I was hoping there would be a Blender instance on Mastodon but no such luck yet in my searching. Some random Discord communities also seem viable, though there's something about the Twitter/Mastodon interface i enjoy.

edit: I suppose i could just pick a sane default on Mastodon and keep an eye out for other instances blender artists are on.

i suspect because there are so many bad managers.

There's few tests to root out bad managers. The damage bad management is capable of is.. impressive, extensive.

I'd love to see some code snippets that he likes.. because i can't grasp what would make good screenshots in this context.

If i were Elon i'd want to see "dumb" looking code which brings together a larger, complex thing in a simple way. The larger picture is complex, but composed of simple primitives. Every piece looks unimpressive because experience taught the right abstractions to write things in a simple, testable and scalable manner.

Yet Elon wants to fit that in a screenshot? I don't understand. I'm glad i don't work at Twitter.

Oh yea, i use it - i get it lol. But as someone who uses NixOS, for all it's flaws the community also is quite passionate and pushes out quite a bit of features, ideas, etc. There's little experiments in all aspects of the ecosystem.

I'm just kinda surprised some Docker-esque thing hasn't stuck. Something that works with Docker, but transforms it to all the advantages of NixOS.

CI pipelines are just so rough and repetitive in plain Docker, which is what we use.

Yup, that's where i was thinking. My career is smaller startups and smaller businesses. I make enough, but a bigger name on my resume would help a lot. Especially since i'm not someone who enjoys or expects to do well in the classical interviews.

Sure, but the "collapse" is terrible management here lol. Terrible, by the metric of his own inconsistent actions. To suddenly reverse the decision of accidentally laying off 80% of your workforce is hilarious.

People aren't saying the app isn't working. If you lay off all of HR will your company still run tomorrow? Of course. Lay off all of engineering will the app still run tomorrow? Of course (most likely lol).

The collapse is the implied result of all these terrible decisions. Terrible decisions which imply terrible leadership. And companies can only survive terrible leadership for so long.

Also imagine job postings.

Ignoring Elon for sake of discussion, it would be a big a big boon for my career to work at Twitter.. but when 80% of the staff left? I'd be worried onboarding would be a mess. That i'd be handed several projects that no one knows how they work or what the ramifications are.

Ignoring all the red flags and focusing solely on onboarding sounds like misery.. not sure i'd want to take that job.

I imagine many will.. but .. oof.

I'm a bit surprised i don't see NixOS-like tooling in container orchestration for this reason.

It's kinda sad though because off the top of my head i suspect it's really difficult to actually lose your work. Ie between the fact that the content store stores.. well, all content, until it's GC'd, and the obvious reflog, you can almost always get back your data.

The downside to this though is the type of novice most likely to make a mistake in "losing" their data will also not know how to recover their data.

To a novice, how else would you do it?

Ie i can self host most of this, but wouldn't i be hosting it on literally a $5mo VPS with a static IP to work around my homes dynamic IP?

Yea i have a printer; a decent one (laser iirc) for my wifes college papers. We've not hooked it up in years though, and offhand i'm not even sure how to use it.. that's how long it's been lol. Hell, i'm not even exactly sure where it is ..

I agree it's not necessary, but i like having it because it lets me separate what's going to be added before i actually commit.

I still commit small, frequent. But i like `git add -p` to skip debug lines, hardcoded conditions, etc. I don't want to mistakenly auto commit a whole pile of lines and then have to remove debugs/hacks/etc from things i've committed.

Stage + Unstaged is my working area, and the two live together quite nicely to me personally. I could live without it, definitely.. but i'm not sure i'd want to.

I've wanted to do the same thing with my online activity as well. Chat logs especially. They tend to go into a void and finding an older log is weirdly difficult. I've wanted to log everything and then be able to apply better search algos (semantic search perhaps) to try and make my chat logs useful.

This sounds cool, i'd love to use it but $30 feels a bit steep for my confidence in the output.

If you could find a way to have a cheaper hook, i could see releasing $30 from my wallet. However not having that hook i struggle.

Recommend any reading to learn index funds?

Are there any semantic search implementations focused on.. small, local deploys?

Eg i'm interested in local serverless setups (on desktop, mobile, etc) that yield quality search results in the ~instant~ time frame, but that are also complete and accurate in results. Ie i threw out investigating ANN because i wanted complete results due to smaller datasets.

I suspect it's a joke

Tangent, i really enjoy the design of that site. Crisp, readable, simple. Maybe a bit low on contrast, but not terribly so.

I've seen that narrative in Conservative circles. However i've seen just about everything over there, so it's really difficult for me to know what is "sticking" and what is just clumps of people agreeing to random things.

Ie what i'm referencing is more than just a single comment, it was many in agreement; but i've tended to see these "pockets of fringe" where in any larger thread i can expect to see just about anything being discussed and agreed upon.

Makes it really hard to discern larger beliefs.