chilicheeselies
@chilicheeselies@lemmy.world
- Comment on Delusions of a Protocol 2 days ago:
I suppose technically someone could implement streaming using AP payloads. So long as the format of the payloads are the same they could translate. It would be a different thing though without the pull part of it
- Comment on Delusions of a Protocol 2 days ago:
Fair point
- Comment on Delusions of a Protocol 2 days ago:
Yes eventually, just like the instances do once enough users are hitting it. Its a matter of how much all servers in the network need to scale, but also the nature of the protocol itself. Streaming binary data is more performant than individual http api requests for instance. Event streams are the way to go un a decentrliazed network for sure.
- Comment on Delusions of a Protocol 2 days ago:
OP would have to have their wordpress site running on multiple instances to leverage that. It would work, but now they are paying for more infrastructure.
- Comment on Delusions of a Protocol 2 days ago:
So lets say there are 100 instances. My instance needs to issue api requests to each instance to sync with the network. They in turn need to issues 100 requests to me to sync (and eachother). What about when there are 100k instances? Its exponential.
From the looks of AT, its farily linear because its really just operating on a set of giant event streams (like kafka).
To me, ActivityPub being based on REST APIs was always a problem. On the upside it makes it approachable, but its not really the right tech imo. Use something without the overhead of http headers and whatnot.
- Comment on Delusions of a Protocol 2 days ago:
Yeah i guess you could look at it that way. Each instance would have to scale horizontally to handle the load, which is waste.
I could be wrong, but my understanding is that ActivityPub is just a rest api contract that one can implement in order to communicate with the rest of the “network”. Its simple, but its such massive overhead to do this all via http. Pushing all your instances events to a dedicated stream and letting the other instnaces read it can be more performant and handle the load better. The downside though is who controls the streams?
IRC is the OG of federation, i am sure we could learn something from it and have federated networks that are in turn federated with eachother. I dunno, just thinking out loud here.
- Comment on Delusions of a Protocol 2 days ago:
I can see how the AT protocol is designed to scale. ActivityPub works fine now because the community is fairly small, but it will reach its limits as it is currently designed. Its basically an event driven model vs a push and pull model. Sure a docker image can more or less jusy be deployed, but that simplicity is a ticking time bomb.
Running a relay is way more powerful than the author states though. You could do stuff like selectivly intercept and reject events before they make it into or out of the firehose.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 1 week ago:
They want to spread their diareah everywhere
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, if a jr dev has enough acesss to screw a prod db from a schena update, then the issue is with the seniors and managers who did not set up the appropriate guard rails to prevent that.
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 2 weeks ago:
Thats what i like about it. They can stay there.
- Comment on If you miss old network multiplayer games, or would like to try them with your friends for the first time, may I suggest setting them up via SoftEtherVPN? 3 weeks ago:
You think battlefield 2142 would work with this? Best battlefiekd game in the franchise
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 4 weeks ago:
My theory is that we have a limited number of hours a day to view content. We also have a growing number of channels and content in general. Algorithms include new content we kight enjoy, and for every new channel we get hooked on, one of the older ones drops off.
Tv shows rarely (ever?) Last forever. Why should channels?
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 5 weeks ago:
You didnt do anything wrong if you were being yourself. I know it sounds corny but just being the best version of you is the best thing you can do, and if someone ghosts you like that they did you a favor. You dont want to be with someine like that; you just eant to be with the idea of the person you thought they were.
Still a bummer, but dont let a jerk define who you are.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 5 weeks ago:
I think its pretty hypocritical for anyone who isnt a male to have an opinion on the validity of an experience they cant possibly have unless they transitioned.
Its like me having an opinion on have a period.
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 1 month ago:
Whats the TL;DR on why?
- Comment on This 81-year-old still works at Home Depot to support herself and her 90-year-old husband 1 month ago:
Then they have a new problem; isolation. Given having to work or be isolated, work is better
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 1 month ago:
I dont understand this take. This is a “think of the children” bs that panders to (certain) citizens. Also a thinly veiled attempt at data collection of its citizens en masse
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 2 months ago:
You can just save your card info in steam. No need for paypal for that.
Honeslty i am not sure what paypal is even for anymore
- Comment on YouTube's Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead 2 months ago:
The internet was best when noone could see qhat you looked like, or your name. Pure thought
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 3 months ago:
That stipped working. Now the option it gives you is to block the ad going forward after it finishes
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 3 months ago:
I havent tried it yet but i think you cab rub a pihole and use that to fikter at the source
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 4 months ago:
We can, but part of it is accepting that our tech will be a decade or two behind. Its not the worst thing. Life is more convenient now, but all in all i think it was better before.
The masses will go for convenient, and thats ok. You have near total control of how you live your life; you just cant have your cake and eat it too is all
- Comment on Let's play this game again 4 months ago:
The incantation is “heil hitler”
- Comment on Techno feudalism, here we come 4 months ago:
I use them for work and wouldnt want to be with out them, but in the same way that i wouldnt want to be without my IDE, and internet connection, and/or a manual.
Where i find it shines is as a rubber duck. It helps me consider other approaches that I might not have thought of alone. I also think it shines in the situation where you kind of know what you need, but arent deeply familiar with the concept enough to know where to begin a search.
If you dont know anything about how to do something, its way better than a search. If you do know how something works though, its clear how wrong AI can be.
TL;DR: its an excellent little buddy to act as an assistant, but it aint got the chops to do the real work on its own.
- Comment on Tity more tity, the Greed is sickening 4 months ago:
My guess is they use voice control and they dont know how to pronounce it. Kids dont type these days
- Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them 4 months ago:
Im talking about someone who doesnt know wtf any of that means. Like the town idiot.
- Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them 4 months ago:
I mean more like someone who is irresponsible and maybe dumb. I was trying to be polite. Someone that doesnt even know what a fidicuary is.
- Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them 4 months ago:
Absolutely. However, if you are not the best with money, or on the irresponsible side; it might be best to take the annuity. Mathematically it makes no sense to do so, but if it stops you from blowing it all on hookers and coke in two years then its for the best. In other words, if you having it all is riskier than the state keeping track of it.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 5 months ago:
Its not nearly that easy. They are dealing with personalities behind all of this, investors they made promises to, etc. What you are describing is the right thing to do, its just very complicated with a ship as big as microsoft to turn on a dime like that. The bigger the org, the slower it is to react and the harder it is to course correct
- Comment on 'Starter homes' cost at least $1 million in over 200 U.S. cities, Zillow data finds 5 months ago:
Got a link?