LittleShaman

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by LittleShaman 7d ago
Its an equal area projection which means it preserves relative area. Both kids in Europe and Africa will actually end up with a more correct idea of how large both their continents are.
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by LittleShaman 2y ago
I think your comment works as a reply to claiming closed source is more secure than open source - you try to bring them both to the same level. I dont think it replies to what the user asks though. It seems reasonable expecting widely used
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Mastodon 4.2 now with opt-in post search and better cross-instance interactions(theverge.com)
15 points by LittleShaman 3y ago|1 comments
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by LittleShaman 3y ago
It's quite easy doing better than Twitter considering the antics since the acquisition.
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by LittleShaman 3y ago
It very much is our problem what he does with/on Twitter because it affects us, it's one of the largest social media platforms, it's not a new yacht he bought. One of the valuable aspects of freedom of speech is ideas can gai
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by LittleShaman 3y ago
The second point is just confused. It isn't about if people would do it, it's on if Musk should be doing it. His antics include boosting misinformation like vaccine skepticism and fringe political theories, that's obviously w
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by LittleShaman 3y ago
That isn't at all true for Mastodon. Despite a very significant drop a while after the influx from twitter, looking at a few different sources it has twice as many monthly active users now (~600k before influx to hovering around ~1.2M
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by LittleShaman 3y ago
Your second paragraph isn't exactly right. The largest instances have a little duplication so there are something like 3 large gaming-related communities, 3 large world news communities, etc. This is not generally the case, for many to
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by LittleShaman 3y ago
FediDB.org has more conservative numbers, ~300k total users, ~100k active users: https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse It's because of attempts at excluding spam accounts: https://fedidb.org&#
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by LittleShaman 3y ago
Could you share a source for the 3% number? I only managed to find an AMA post about 3% of *mod actions" coming from third party apps: https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...
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by LittleShaman 3y ago
The author is aware of that, mentions it towards the end: > Most of Reddit’s current data has been scraped anyway, so the game is to protect Reddit’s data going forward. But yes, Pushshift archives of all posts and comments until the rec
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by LittleShaman 3y ago
On Linux you can prevent being ptrace'd or having your core dumped by setting PR_SET_DUMPABLE in prctl. I've seen this used in places you'd expect like ssh-agent and GNOME's Keyring password manager. Ctrl-f for 'PR_
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by LittleShaman 3y ago
No, people don't reject child marriages just because they don't like it, it is medically known to be harmful and children can't consent. Further, moral relativism is a dangerous and absurd position to hold. It might be conven
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by LittleShaman 3y ago
I've expressed this badly. By "but not what I wanted" I don't mean it suggesting an alternative. I mean it giving an answer claiming to do what I asked for, but which doesn't actually. I would not be able to catch t
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by LittleShaman 3y ago
Errors like suggesting incompatible combinations of parameters or hallucinated non-existant params you will easily catch once you try them. But what about more subtle conceptual misunderstandings? I meant cases like asking how to X and Chat
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by LittleShaman 3y ago
Why not just google it? Theres always a blog or stackoverflow question to copy snippets from. What keeps me away is that unless youre already familiar with a topic you wont catch errors. The command it suggests might not do exactly what you
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by LittleShaman 4y ago
I'm curious why Twitter would adopt it. Breaking the walled garden would cost them. E.g wouldnt it mean allowing people to interact with twitter without using the official apps, meaning losing ad revenue? (Obviously why third-party app
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by LittleShaman 4y ago
It's much more likely it just wasn't something you encountered in your practice and not that reliable sources analyzing American political and financial support for Israel all happen to make up the part Evangelical Americans play.
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by LittleShaman 4y ago
You use "guided". It still guides the largest religion and another important one. Even though it does give insight to its historical context, it is much more than an artifact. Criticism of its morals are still relavant.
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by LittleShaman 4y ago
It's still funny a company awash in money wouldn't just hire people to do this. And I'm quite sure people criticizing this won't be using it :)
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by LittleShaman 4y ago
Probably because while some data has been open-sourced, there isn't any statement on what other data be open-sourced, or a comittment to it by Google. Voice data hasn't been open-sourced. Mozilla on the other hand is a non-profit