Coopr8
@Coopr8@kbin.earth
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 5 hours ago:
I haven't actually issued it over to my ereader yet, but I have a Boox so I will probably just use the Kiwix android app
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 1 day ago:
Have you actually smelted and alloyed useable steel from ores before?
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 1 day ago:
This is a good reminder, I need to upload my Kiwix backup to my eReader. I keep a Wikipedia essentials download, survival and medical encyclopedias, and a bunch of "from the ground up" engineering resources backed up offline.
- Comment on Red Dwarf and Constellation: could we skip the Bridge? 1 day ago:
I actually like the single-user Delft hosted aspect.
As far as the Microsoft stack goes, could it be hosted on a home server running Windows or does it have to be in the cloud on Azure?
- Comment on Red Dwarf and Constellation: could we skip the Bridge? 1 day ago:
One other question, how does PandaCap handle PeerTube posts? Same as image posts?
- Comment on Red Dwarf and Constellation: could we skip the Bridge? 1 day ago:
PandaCap is freaking awesome! Pretty much just what I had in mind when I posted previously about a single client to act as inbox for all ActivityPub and RSS/Atom content, only I had imagined it as a browser plugin or full on custom browser so that the content from the inbox would be opened in a client of the user's preference based on post type.
Really awesome project! including DeviantArt etc is really great for the art angle.
The only feature I would miss here vs. other clients is the search function as you mention. I assume that is omitted because it is a lot of work to implement. Have you looked at extending your project with someone else's code for that function? I know sometimes that is more trouble than help, but it would really take the project to that next level of "completely full featured client".
I have looked at wafrn, definitely a cool project and I like that it handles both protocols, but it has some limitations that hold me back from switching to it as my main client. I didn't know it was using a PDS in that way, do you mean it uses a server side PDS to mirror ATProto content or is it PDS per user?
- Comment on Threadiverse... on ATProto?! 2 days ago:
Why do ATProtocol projects tend to look so much more polished even in their infancy? Is that where the front-end people dwell?
- Comment on Threadiverse... on ATProto?! 2 days ago:
No community modded groups, not a Reddit-Like, FrontPage is more of a Digg-like I guess? Anyway nookie looks way more useable.
- Comment on Red Dwarf and Constellation: could we skip the Bridge? 2 days ago:
I realize my title has little to do with the post, lol, tired ADHD brain. I did have the thought that if someone were to be ambitious and motivated enough, the Red Dwarf code could be used to build direct access to BlueSky content into a Fediverse client.
But then, I'm always the guy in the corner pining for the good ole' days of Trillian for IM, the one client to reach them all ^_^
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- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 1 week ago:
If the owners primarily want to make money by taking out a portion of revinue as dividends or distributions, like a family business typically does, then stable revenue is more important in some ways than reinvesting in growth.
If the ownership wants to make money by eventually selling their stake (shares or equity) in the company then growth is fundamental to the strategy.
- Comment on Fediverse blogging? 1 week ago:
huh, interesting, a private text based internet protocol where everything runs server side and all sends are encrypted by default. I see the appeal.
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 1 week ago:
The biggest difference is that the Dot Com bubble was strongly focused on tech companies going public and pumping small cap stock prices up.
The AI bubble on the other hand is almost entirely being built by private equity, with the largest players all privately held but with large cap stock companies holding substantial stakes. Rather than a bunch of small companies getting pumped up stock prices of many multiples of their debut price then falling to zero, instead we have large cap stock companies bumping up their value substantially, but not by major multiples, while the actual value of the biggest players in AI are all speculative and can't be invested in by retail investors.
This is all by design, the financiers of the AI boom are well aware that a public stock oriented rush into AI for retail investors would lead to massive speculation and an inevitable crash, instead with all the retail money going into large cap stocks they hope to capture that value and funnel the money into buying long term gains by making sure that those big companies have some stake in the "winning" private companies. When the first big AI companies go bust, they will be consolidated into their investor groups and harvested for innovation to transfer over to the winners.
Overall this strategy seems sound to avoid a major retail stock bust, but isn't wothout its own risks, for example if open source AI ends up winning out and the biggest private players fall flat they could become toxic assets and drag down the large cap stocks, and thereby the Indexes and Index funds in favor of leaner players. In the current landscape, that would mean Microsoft going down with OpenAI while Apple goes up, Apple is waiting on the sidelines with a huge cash warchest, ready to buy.
- Comment on Fediverse blogging? 1 week ago:
When OpenWrite says "publish to the open web, Gemini, or Mastodon" what does it mean by Gemini?
- Comment on Fediverse blogging? 1 week ago:
Indieweb is for you! Give Micro.Blog a try, it has native ActivityPub integration.
https://indieweb.org/Micro.blog
https://micro.blog/ - Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 week ago:
OuterTune is nice, thanks for the tip. I thought for a second it was going to have my number one desired feature for a YouTube front end: playlist folders, but alas it's all just a list once again.
Is the local view missing sort by artist and album or am I missing something?
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 week ago:
What? I pay $23 for YouTube Premium Family Plan, which includes ad free video and YouTube Music for 4 people. Still pretty reasonable IMO, never going back to Spotify that's for sure, I have thought about trying Qobuz for higher quality, but the price increase across my family plus the fact that I never ever want to war h ads on YouTube makes it a difficult value prop, I'd probably rather buy one album a month from BandCamp.
- Comment on how come Lemmy show more upvoted posts further down the thread instead of at the top? 2 weeks ago:
Just a note that comment sort is currently broken on Interstellar app, but they are working on fixing it. You can change the default in settings and that will work, but not the menu in posts.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Windat
- Comment on oh cool 2 weeks ago:
Wow, and doesnt he look just like you might imagine one.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
If only I were the king of the world!
I think what you are arguing for is hardcoding requitement for signatures with an "age appropriateness" ranking into the OS. How does this change the current situation where adult sites and apps are legally required to have an age verification popup/warning? Whether signature based or graphically based, what is at issue here is age verification which means referring to some "repository of truth" outside the will of the user. The problem is that the effect of this is to link government ID directly to web traffick, as to truly verify age requires verifying identity meaning abolishing anonymity on the web and enabling complete tracking of dissent.
I could see a version of what you are describing akin to the way physical cryptographic keys are used to manage DRM on high end enterprise software, where identity/age verification would need to be done by the hardware vendor and not the software/site, the problem with that however is the aftermarket and multiple-user devices. You could say that the "age key" would be a hardware device sold to adults using physical ID akin to spirits or tobacco, something like a SIM Card but preferably with NFC rather than having to be installed in the device. "Adult Access" would then be enabled on sign-in by scanning the "age key", enabling onboard software to serve software and sites that don't have an "all ages signature".
Honestly as I write this, it isn't the worst solution, the main thing would be keeping the Age Key as an interchangeable, replaceable device that only interacts with the OS and isn't referenced by other software, so it doesnt just become another Digital ID proxie.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Nice, shame the assistant isn't on Windows.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Don't go giving them ideas. That way leads to Digital ID at birth, which should be avoided at all costs.
- Comment on Explain that 2 weeks ago:
Simple difference: spiders chemically synthesize long chain fibers not amorphous filament, the fibers are self supporting with tension, whereas hot printed plastics deform under gravity.
You could theoretically print this way with a printer that had a flow reactor nozzle that mixed the reagents for fiber formation on demand instead of a hot extruder, I have yet to see this but it seems likely the textiles industry is working on it somewhere.
- Comment on what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace? 3 weeks ago:
I think in a Healthcare setting this has a lot to do with these types of rules.
Regardless of the fact that most communications in other languages will not be this, there will almost certainly be cases where a second language is used to talk about a patient or coworker in their presence. This builds an outgroup/ingroup dynamic that can undermine confidence in healthcare outcomes and cause patient distress.
Essentially, if some people hear another language being spoken in their presence, and especially if they are in a vulnerable state, they will assume they are being talked about disparagingly or conspired against. Avoiding causing undue distress to patients is a standard of care concern.
- Comment on Are There Any Pastebin Alternatives that Allow Editing and Long-Term Storage? 3 weeks ago:
a couple more open source options with actual pastebin type interfaces, but which have not been updated in some time and have official instances which have been blacklisted on uBlock are:
hastebin https://github.com/kevr/hastebin
and DPaste https://github.com/DarrenOfficial/dpaste
- Comment on Are There Any Pastebin Alternatives that Allow Editing and Long-Term Storage? 3 weeks ago:
https://hedgedoc.org/ for self-hosted option.
https://cryptpad.fr for a private free cloud hosted option that doesnt require an email to sign up.
- Comment on Are There Any Pastebin Alternatives that Allow Editing and Long-Term Storage? 3 weeks ago:
PrivateBin is an open source Client side encrypted alternative to PasteBin that has everything you want, with the caviat that jusy like Fediverse you have to pick an instance you trust to stick around, or self-host of course.
- Comment on What are your favorite open source 3D printers? 3 weeks ago:
Nice, thanks!
- Comment on What are your favorite open source 3D printers? 3 weeks ago:
Nice! That's not bad at all. Any trouble with print consistency or maintenance?