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- Comment on Any android client that can do both Lemmy and Mastodon? 2 months ago:
@rglullis RSS is so underrated I feel. Easy to understand, battle-tested, scales up easily, plethora of clients. Many uses of microblogging, especially in the “real world” use by places like governments, police departments, public transport services could be easily replaced by simple RSS/Atom feeds. Governments and TV stations don’t need to set up Mastodon instances since they never actually interact with people. It’s not “social” media to them; just another avenue of broadcast.
- Comment on Any android client that can do both Lemmy and Mastodon? 2 months ago:
@maegul @VintageGenious Agreed. But it's tricky. Few thoughts:
1. ActivityPub itself is in a bit of a mess. Spec too large (spread out over many other specifications!), poor documentation, overly generic.
2. Many devs just aren't that familiar with interoperability
3. To encourage adoption, Mastodon and Lemmy clone existing services and behaviour
4. The two most popular fediverse servers added ActivityPub late in the dev cycle
- Comment on Any android client that can do both Lemmy and Mastodon? 2 months ago:
@VintageGenious Think about it this way: an email client can do both Gmail and Hotmail (and Fastmail etc.) because it’s all just email. The same goes for the Fediverse; it’s all just ActivityPub. For example this reply is from a Mastodon app :D
I have personal frustrations about how popular servers like Mastodon and Lemmy hide ActivityPub. I feel progress is stifled. Enough that I wrote my own ActivityPub service (https://apubtest2.srcbeat.com/apas.html)
- Comment on Is there a Git repository activity aggregator, like GitHub's user activity but platform independent? 3 months ago:
@2xsaiko RSS/Atom feeds were developed for this use case. GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg (Forgejo), Sourcehut, even cgit and git's own gitweb serve feeds. For example here's my GitHub account: https://github.com/ollytom.atom
my main OSS project: https://git.olowe.co/streaming/atom/Atom feeds are widely supported (it's how I found this post!) and there are many libraries/apps/plugins for aggregation. Robust old tech. And no need to limit feeds to Git activity if you don't want to :) Good luck!
- Comment on Im counting the days for a Piefed app so i can switch over and be able to forget about ml drama and weirdness 3 months ago:
@xnx PieFed won’t have an app any time soon due to the way it’s implemented. It’s still awesome without a native app because it’s fast and doesn’t really need direct access to hardware to do its thing.
Tech detail: PieFed is a Python app using Flask and server-side rendered HTML templates. It is super fast as there’s no heavy Javascript framework being used. The maintainer has written about how PieFed is developed with poor internet connections in mind: https://piefed.social/post/6102
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- Comment on POV: Health Misinformation Is Rampant on Social Media 9 months ago:
I get where you're coming from. But not everyone who falls for this stuff is "stupid". Some are just vulnerable - maybe just temporarily - and once you're in, it's an awful slippery slope.
I don't know how many are just vulnerable and how many are good Darwin award nominees.
- Comment on US regulators crack down on AI playing doctor in healthcare 9 months ago:
Absolutely!
Although… snail mail is also legislated to be secure. It’s not used as often because there is a more convenient, better(?) alternative: fax. I wish some funding for so-called “AI” projects could be used to develop even more convenient/better alternatives to fax. There are messaging protocols but they seemed crazy.
Payment systems are crazy too. Stripe did all the boring work and now there is a convenient interface for payment processing: Stripe’s HTTP API.
- Comment on The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes 9 months ago:
Might be closer than you think. The White House is just using Instagram right now: https://www.whitehouse.gov
(See section “featured media”) - Comment on Because AI and Crypto use to much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy? 9 months ago:
Super interesting story - thanks for sharing. Helps getting perspective:
> the data centres proposed by Conifex would have consumed 2.5 million
> megawatt-hours of electricity a year. That’s enough to power and heat
> more than 570,000 apartments - Comment on The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes 9 months ago:
A link to the video could be shared via ActivityPub.
The video would be loaded over HTTPS; we can verify that the video is from the white house, and that it hasn't been modified in-transit.A big issue is that places don't want to share a link to an independently verifiable video, they want you to load a copy of it from their website/app. This way we build trust with the brand (e.g. New York Times), and spend more time looking at ads or subscribe.
@stockRot @technology - Comment on US regulators crack down on AI playing doctor in healthcare 9 months ago:
Fax machines are still used in healthcare!
There is an overwhelming amount of healthcare admin where software could help.
Computers are designed for messaging, data manipulation, deduplication... stuff that people are drowning in because the existing software sucks or doesn't exist.
Yet we see pie-in-the-sky "AI" (LLMs? who knows?) projects being funded.(I worked as a manager at an Australian general practice. Assuming the US is similar? )
- Comment on Why Bloat Is Still Software’s Biggest Vulnerability 9 months ago:
> Part of the reason for bloat is the fact that frameworks and libraries became huge
Absolutely. What I find funny is that the inverse is kinda true, too. Tiny dependencies (as seen in the Javascript world) are also to blame. They’re so small, I’ve noticed some devs say “well it’s so small, what’s the harm of one more?”. Bloat by a thousand deps.
- Comment on 9 months ago:
@solrize 43 years young.
When I hear people talk about system issues (e.g. complex microservice architectures) I thought it was all cutting-edge problems of cutting-edge tech. Looks like people have been running into the same things for decades!
- Comment on Are there academic paradigms in web frontend dev in the same way there are FP academic paradigms? 9 months ago:
“innovation”
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- Comment on Fossil: A Git alternative with batteries included 11 months ago:
@mac Related: Why the SQLite team uses Fossil instead of Git https://sqlite.org/whynotgit.html
- Comment on Mozilla announces their new AI website builder, community reacts appropriately 11 months ago:
@ripcord @LWD @loxo @Bizarroland Some will report that they don’t work in Firefox (or whatever User Agent it receives), but actually work just fine. In my regular browsing I guess I see this once every couple of months (Firefox on OpenBSD).
- Comment on Git 2.42 1 year ago:
Seems like some good improvements to internals about which I'm not a strong enough programmer to understand.
- Comment on Australia's transition to a cashless society is underway — but not everyone wins when we get rid of cash 1 year ago:
Maybe. How many businesses are refusing cash? *Could* they refuse cash? The article does not cover this. I found this piece insightful: https://nitter.net/CBSMornings/status/1185527270125002752
- Comment on Australia's transition to a cashless society is underway — but not everyone wins when we get rid of cash 1 year ago:
"Australia's transition to a cashless society". Misleading headline; the article is reporting on a relative decline in the number of cash transactions. Don't think there's been any policy or legislation on phasing out cash.
- Comment on Australia's transition to a cashless society is underway — but not everyone wins when we get rid of cash 1 year ago:
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- Comment on Australia's transition to a cashless society is underway — but not everyone wins when we get rid of cash 1 year ago:
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