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SorteKanin

@ SorteKanin @feddit.dk

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  • Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts

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  • Musk has marketed it as the world’s “town square"

    He says it so clearly here which makes me wonder how people don't realize it:

    How fucked up would it be if your actual town square was owned by a private company?

    A private company that is in control of who is allowed to talk and what they are allowed to say. A private company that even decides what you hear and see while walking the square. Meanwhile also shovelling ads in front of you while you try to find the people you actually want to engage with.

    "Social" media owned by private corporations is not social. Such media is anti-social, corporate control of public spaces that ought to belong to the people, just like they mostly do in real life.

  • Tim Berners-Lee: Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter

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  • I mean... He made www, HTML, URLs and HTTP. Literally everything you used to write your comment he was involved in. I'm sure he didn't do it entirely alone, we always build on what came before us. But it's not inaccurate to call him the inventor of the Web.

    Also remember the Web is not the same as the Internet.

  • PSA: You can't delete photos uploaded to Lemmy. So don't (accidentally) upload a nude

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  • You have to fight Rust a lot to build anything complex

    nutomic, one of the main Lemmy devs, didn't know Rust before he started working on Lemmy. He just started working on Lemmy and learned Rust in the process. The difficulty of Rust is exaggerated.

  • Content Nation Backlash Highlights Mastodon's Toxicity

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  • If your computer sends my computer an image and some text via [email], without any further communication, may I…

    Isn't the answer just the same if you consider it as email? I mean ActivityPub is basically just email but with "social media" features. Surely lawyers already have answers to the question when it comes to email.

    If I send an email to the whole world, what is anyone allowed to do with it?

    In some ways, I feel like ActivityPub is just public. It's not reasonable to be able to enforce any license, so it may as well just be considered public domain. But IANAL.

  • White House: Future Software Should Be Memory Safe

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  • writing a high performance video game that can run on older hardware

    Unless it's some really exotic platform, I'd honestly still say no. Rust has shown that memory safety and performance doesn't have to be a tradeoff. You can have both.

    But sure, if whatever you're targeting doesn't have a Rust compiler, then of course you have no choice. But those are extremely rare cases these days I'd say.

  • Relationships

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  • Kind of cute but also kind of sad. Love is sometimes also a leap of faith and trust. It seems like they never really trusted each other, or themselves, to still love each other.

    Personally I think marriage is not about force, but about trust. It's a confession of trust in your partner.

  • What's your opinion about the future of cryptocurrencies?

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  • I'm not really opposed to the idea of cryptocurrencies. I think being able to exchange value without having to go through any middle-men (i.e. banks) could be valuable. It's kind of like cash in that sense but digital.

    I am however very opposed to the execution so far:

    1. Wasteful proof-of-work algorithms that spend way too much electricity.
    2. Treating them more as stocks/investments gambling instead of as an actual currency.
    3. New cryptocurrencies seem to crop up every day. This is more of a pyramid scheme than actual innovation at this point.

    If those three improve, then maybe it will actually be okay. It's unclear whether (1) will happen ever, as anyone leaving the proof-of-work cryptocurrencies behind for other less wasteful ones just make mining more valuable for the ones that are still mining the proof-of-work currency (as far as I understand). But maybe it will eventually be better, though it doesn't seem that way right now.

    (2) happening is a little more likely - it would likely slowly happen if people started using it for actual payments and goods. If goods had a price based on a cryptocurrency, the value of the cryptocurrency would be more stable (I would guess; disclaimer I am not an economist or anything like that). But still, this is not too likely to happen, at least it hasn't happened yet in any big way.

    (3) is also problematic and not likely to change any time soon. It seems like we will never agree on using just one of the cryptocurrencies and if we don't, I can't really see it taking off.

    So generally, unless something changes with how cryptocurrencies are currently handled (ironically, maybe nations need to step in and "bless" a single one for anything to change), I don't really see a bright future for cryptocurrencies.