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  • What are some software red flags?

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  • The install process requires one of:

    • Running a command with npm
    • Manually compiling binaries from source
    • Manually installing dependencies

    These aren't bad per-se, but my experience has led me to associate these with spending a bunch of time trying to resolve errors and having to give up in the end and not install the software after all, so if there's any alternatives that I could use I am trying those first.

  • Copyright and DMCA Best Practices for Fediverse Operators

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  • Hopefully the person doing that is beyond the reach of US law and/or has very good opsec

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    What is your favorite conspiracy theory?

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  • The world is secretly run by evil shapeshifting aliens

  • Christine Lemmer-Webber - Building a Humane Social Internet

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  • Wow, that was a great talk. I liked the bit about the importance of joy to making effective software/platforms.

  • Phone is about to stop being yours

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  • Then aren't they going to block apps on it?

  • What was the most recent thing that made you cry as an adult?

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  • I don't understand why but a certain type of movie trailer or similar with dramatic music makes me cry a little, even if I think it's a stupid movie trailer.

  • Anyone else use RSS?

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  • I am using Liferea

  • Anyone else use RSS?

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  • What service is that?

  • U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back

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  • World

    Why do people name companies like this? Yet another stupid name that is going to make internet searches and conversations more frustrating.

  • "Subscribe & save"

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  • Nope, most things you can buy new on amazon you can also buy new on ebay. Sometimes it comes in packaging with labels implying it was shipped from other retailers like amazon, walmart or home depot, I'm assuming this is because some sellers get memberships for free shipping and arbitrage it.

  • Accelerationism

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  • idk, I feel like in particular the arguments I've had advocating for UBI with people arguing against it from a left wing perspective, those arguments often tend to be basically accelerationist (that it would be bad to improve things for people in a way that enables the continued existence of capitalism) or at least gesture at that. And as others have pointed out, the right is even more outwardly accelerationist.

  • "Subscribe & save"

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  • I think it depends where you live, for me the minimum is $35 which is basically on par with others. I find that I can often get lower cost items with free shipping on ebay for around the same price as similar items on amazon to avoid having to meet an order minimum, although it depends on what I'm buying.

  • Can you stop beans from making you gassy?

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  • Many, many people will tell you that the key to reducing bean gas is to eat more beans. Eating more beans, they argue, works because it allows our digestive systems, and the microbiome in them, to acclimate to the beans. Over time, they say, the gassiness will go down. This makes no sense to me. If these oligosaccharides are food for bacteria in our gut, common sense would say that feeding that bacteria more food would, if anything, do the opposite by supporting their population growth while giving them plenty of raw material to digest. It wasn't within the scope of this project to test (and, I suspect, disprove) this theory, but count me as highly doubtful. If anything, I have to imagine that eating more beans more often just makes people more used to being gassy, and that, in turn, makes them notice it less. (Their significant others might have a very different take…)

    All these people are right though and this guy is wrong. I don't know what the mechanism is but it's clearly there whatever it is. If someone who doesn't eat beans much can notice having bad farts after eating beans, someone who does eat lots of beans would be able to notice if their farts suddenly get less bad after taking a break from beans. Or be aware of the other foods that actually do give them gas, and the stark difference between that and the norm. "They're just pretending not to fart all the time" is not a realistic explanation.

  • The AI Industry Is Discovering That the Public Hates It

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  • The real reason it's not the best argument is the exaggerated relative scale of those issues and plausible fixes. Water use in particular is orders of magnitude lower than other industry, only a serious issue if building it in a really bad location. The electricity use is enough to raise prices for people nearby which could be a good reason to oppose local government allowing them to be built, but they can get around that by expanding grid capacity themselves to make up for it, and even better if they did it with renewables.

    It's a good argument for holding datacenter builders accountable for doing it responsibly, but a flawed one for unconditionally opposing AI.

  • "Subscribe & save"

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  • Amazon also has a minimum dollar amount before free delivery kicks in

  • What tv show has the best theme song?

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  • Are we building an alternative to billionaire platforms or just a quieter version of them?

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  • If you're wanting a planned in advance ideal solution, that's not really possible, but people can collectively respond to problems as they happen and adapt, as long as they aren't constrained from doing so.

    I believe the pattern and tactics you describe are always going to be more effective on a platform controlled by a company like Reddit, because any efforts to counter them are ultimately limited by the agenda of the platform owners. There are people on Reddit trying to investigate and call out deceptive commercial spam, but when the spammers block them to prevent a response, set their post history to be unreadable, buy moderator positions, and admins only care about their own power and profitability (cutting users off from api etc), the deck is stacked against them. In the end it's just not their website.

    Ultimately this is an organizational challenge, not only a technical or platform design challenge. If the organization is a collection of users who generally want genuine non-manipulative interaction between real people, and the protocol is set up to make it easy for them to route around malicious attempts to usurp control, that doesn't mean immediate victory over adversaries but it is a big leg up.

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  • I don't think it uses npm though, that's got to count for something

  • What are your personal beliefs and values?

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  • The self is less than real and this has implications. We're a network of dreams, projecting people and every other constructed interpretation of physical reality. It would be nice if we got better at it.