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- Comment on In 2025, People Will Try Living in This Underwater Habitat 3 weeks ago:
That’s a face
- Comment on In 2025, People Will Try Living in This Underwater Habitat 3 weeks ago:
Lubricant is required
- Comment on Samsung, Google take on Dolby Atmos with new 'Eclipsa Audio' 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community 3 weeks ago:
I thought Blockchain was how the protocol knew how to federate, e.g. where to find other users. (?) I don’t really remember how Blockchain works but iirc it is a way to verify trust, e.g. this person really is /u/sem because our shared document says they are.
I know DNS is an alternative but it kind of sucks. Bluesky is inventing it’s open DiD thing for identity and it is centralized in practice but might be a good system. And I have no idea how it works.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 3 weeks ago:
Right
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 3 weeks ago:
Or live music played by musicians, in this case.
Maybe it is only for Pixel phones. It’s hard for me to differentiate between pixel features and stock android recently.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 3 weeks ago:
On my android it’s called “now playing” and it’s a feature of the os. It even recognizes live cover versions as the song they’re covering sometimes. Claims to do it all local-only without sending data, just always listening and seeing what it recognizes.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 3 weeks ago:
There have been ad agencies who have claimed to be able to do this, so they would if they could. www.404media.co/heres-the-pitch-deck-for-active-l…
- Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like an interesting thing to try! I do think it might tend to group users into a groupthink / exclusion mentality, maybe, or maybe it won’t, but definitely cool idea.
I’ve seen plenty of mod drama / trolls over the years, seems like a fundamentally human problem, kind of like good vs evil in a way, almost impossible for one side to win over the other.
- Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s pretty well studied that pseudonyms are much better for human interaction than true anonymity. I’m not a social scientist though so I don’t have the references offhand.
It can be fun to be anonymous but there’s a reason Yikyak shutdown, 4chan, 8chan are how they are, etc. they just don’t tend to work well long term.
With pseudonyms ban evasion is possible but registering an account is at least some friction deterring some bad behavior, and mods have more tools. And on the other side you do have some reputation building that occurs when people have stable usernames.
- Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for your thoughts on this.
I am not sure how Matrix handles keys but it is a real headache for end users. For me at least
With openid, etc, it’s decentralized compared with centralized and distributed, so you wouldn’t get stuck with one openid provider.
I don’t know much about any of these so thanks for developing for the rest of us.
- Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community 3 weeks ago:
There’s more abuse potential with full anonymity vs persistent pseudonyms
- Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community 3 weeks ago:
What would be the possible alternatives to block chain?
- Comment on Literally c/THE_PACK 1 month ago:
The imagery
- Comment on Spotify Wrapped 2024 controversy explained — what you need to know 1 month ago:
There’s also libre.fm but IDK if it’s any good. I’ve always been on last.fm it was my first social media.
- Comment on Noob stuck on port-forwarding wile trying to host own raw-html website. Pls help 1 month ago:
If you are looking for a vps to host your website, may I recommend Google cloud platform free tier? You have to give a credit card, and occasionally it messes up and charges $0.01 a month, but it’s pretty good.
- Comment on Dyk, Bobby? 1 month ago:
Depends on the type of tree – pine trees do benefit from the acidification of soil via their dropped needles - it reduces competition.
- Comment on not the mama!! 2 months ago:
This dude is high as shit
- Comment on oh no 2 months ago:
The benefit is learning to close the lid before you flush. If you flush unlidded anyway… that’s gross.
- Comment on "What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, questions include "What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?" 2 months ago:
What if the whole survey is just a ploy for donations
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 2 months ago:
Nothing, and it’s already run by web3 folk
- Comment on Microsoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissions 2 months ago:
Like making a datacenter so hungry it needs an obsolete nuclear plant, yeah.
- Comment on Microsoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissions 2 months ago:
Do you propose some alchemy that transforms carbon to another element? Remove carbon from the atmosphere and stop putting more up in there.
- Comment on Microsoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissions 2 months ago:
Too bad all that cool stuff is negligible compared to what actually makes a difference
- Comment on AI tool that sounds like elderly grandmother created to waste scammers' time 2 months ago:
It’s amazing how simple something like this can be and still be effective.
Machine learning is not that necessary for this use case 😉
- Comment on And 299999999 is divisible by 13 2 months ago:
Phew, for a moment I worried that 2.9999… was divisible by 7 and I woke up in some kind of alternate universe
- Comment on How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"? 2 months ago:
I see what you did there
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 2 months ago:
On my client I can either share the canonical URL or “share as image” and I choose which one based on context
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 2 months ago:
You got it lol
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 2 months ago:
I didn’t see anyone else say this so I’ll chime in: when I’ve had to keep bulky things on a keyring (a CPR pocket mask comes to mind) I’ll put it on its own small keyring and then hang that on the main keyring with the keys. It isn’t a perfect solution, but it helps a lot.
