Nathan2055

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by Nathan2055 5mo ago
The funniest part about WordPress is that you can usually achieve at least a 50% speed boost or more by adding a plugin that just minifies and caches the ridiculous number of dynamic CSS and JS files that most themes and plugins add to ever
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by Nathan2055 6mo ago
> And because that "someone" isn't a bigcorp (i.e. Microsoft) wanting to do a co-marketing push, but just FOSS people gradually building something but never quite "launching" a 1.0 of it — Apple just "acknow
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by Nathan2055 7mo ago
That already exists, it's called Common Crawl[1], and it's a huge reason why none of this happened prior to LLMs coming on the scene, back when people were crawling data for specialized search engines or academic research purposes
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by Nathan2055 8mo ago
In the past, I've heard recommendations not to use remote Time Machine over SMB directly, but rather to create an APFS disk image on a remote server and then backup to that as if its an external hard drive. Supposedly, doing that elimi
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by Nathan2055 1y ago
That's really surprising to me. iOS has had pretty decent audio format support for a few years now: even though you can't directly import FLAC files to iTunes/Music, they are supported in the OS itself since 2017 and play fin
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by Nathan2055 1y ago
This has been the advantage, and the drawback, of Signal's security model from the start. Everything on Signal (at least the "original" design from a few years ago, this has started to be adjusted with the introduction of use
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by Nathan2055 1y ago
Okay so here's the argument I've heard: if arbitrary replacements of the lid sensor were possible, it would be feasible to create a tampered sensor that failed to detect the MacBook closing, thus preventing it from entering sleep
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by Nathan2055 1y ago
Hmm…do you have the in-browser DNS over HTTPS resolver enabled? I personally can't reproduce this, but I'm using DoH with 1.1.1.1. I've noticed that both Chrome and Firefox tend to have less consistent HTTP/3 usage when
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by Nathan2055 1y ago
> What they're really afraid of is that people will read content using LLM inference and make all the ads and nags and "download the app for a crap experience" go away -- and never click on ads accidentally for an occasion
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by Nathan2055 1y ago
The infamous Dropbox comment[0] actually didn't even cite rsync; it recommended getting a remote FTP account, using curlftpfs to mount it locally, and then using SVN or CVS to get versioning support. The double irony of that comment is
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by Nathan2055 1y ago
The desktop issue was an intentional change that happened sometime in like 2017 or so. The original functionality of the quality selector was to throw out whatever video had been buffered and start redownloading the video in the newly selec
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by Nathan2055 2y ago
> The actual scary stuff is the dilution of expertise, we contributed for a long time to share our knowledge for internet points (stack overflow, open source projects, etc), and it has been harvested by the AIs already, anyone that pays
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by Nathan2055 2y ago
This is why I believe that Bluesky and the AT protocol is a significantly more attractive system than Mastodon and ActivityPub. Frankly, we’ve tried the kind of system ActivityPub offers before: a decentralized server network ultimately for
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by Nathan2055 3y ago
> Having to visit fifty personal sites would be a pain. Which is why RSS (and Atom, but I’m just saying RSS because it’s less to type) was such a brilliant invention, and also why it was “killed.” Everyone is talking about things like “A
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by Nathan2055 3y ago
No, it’s so much worse than that. Look closely at https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/pricing/ and note this line: > You also incur standard AWS data transfer charges for all data transferred via the NAT gateway. Yes, t
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by Nathan2055 3y ago
This is actually an issue with their docs that I encountered a few weeks ago when I was first experimenting with this tool. They apparently added a Spanish-language version of the docs, including an associated extra directory tree in the UR
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by Nathan2055 3y ago
There's a version of that with video that Neil reuploaded a while back as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu3ETgAvQrw The corporate PowerPoint visuals just adds so much.
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by Nathan2055 3y ago
The problem is that there simply wasn't a better option at the time. Ogg Vorbis was a novelty at best, and it was the only decently widely adopted open source competitor for any of the items listed that was available at the time. HTML5
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by Nathan2055 3y ago
> The best example I have is the massive infrastructure many people insist is required for a website. This is my biggest pet peeve, and I think a lot of it (among supposedly tech-savvy people at least, less technical people are a differe
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by Nathan2055 3y ago
I stopped trusting Google Authenticator several years ago when I realized it had no syncing, backup, or even device transfer functionality whatsoever. A quick test made me realize that if anything happened to my device, I would just lose al
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by Nathan2055 3y ago
Most of these companies seemingly were in a good place, and then started doing stupid pivots to try and make even more money than they already were. Reddit was doing fine as a text-only forum supported by advertising and Reddit Gold. Then t
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by Nathan2055 3y ago
> The average YouTube content creator makes less than 0.02 per ad view The number I see tends to fluctuate between $1 to $1.50 per 1,000 views, or about $0.001 to $0.0015 per view. (YouTube makes around twice that in direct gross revenue
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by Nathan2055 3y ago
Some creators do put in fairly natural ad breaks, since there is an option to manually define where to run ads. RedLetterMedia is the best example that comes to mind; they get to a stopping point and cut to black and then an ad plays, and t
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by Nathan2055 3y ago
If I remember right, they’ve already said (or at least implied; it really seems like they had absolutely no implementation plans beyond “we want money now”) that RSS and JSON access to posts and feeds will be removed at the same time the AP
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by Nathan2055 3y ago
If there’s an option on whatever YouTube interface you’re using, try to select the “Related” section of the recommendations on a video. At least in my experience, that list seems to be running the old algorithm that actually pulls videos re
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by Nathan2055 3y ago
It’s bizarre, because I understand why YouTube recommends heavily disliked videos or just things that you personally are likely to dislike. Anger leads to massively increased engagement, as Zuckerberg famously discovered. But music? Most pe
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by Nathan2055 3y ago
While I’m just as annoyed about the clickbait problem as everyone else, it is worth noting that it’s hard to blame it on the individual YouTubers. If you don’t follow whatever the algorithm demands that given week, you’re unlikely to get ve
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by Nathan2055 3y ago
This is the best solution, and really what Reddit should have done. There’s no reason they couldn’t have required Reddit Premium to access the API from third-party apps. Then the app developers don’t have to deal with the burden of payment
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Reddit's CEO says that he was inspired by Musk's “violent changes” at Twitter(theverge.com)
28 points by Nathan2055 3y ago|16 comments
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by Nathan2055 3y ago
I was almost certain that this was the case already, but it's interesting that Steve Huffman is now outright admitting that he's taking inspiration from Elon Musk's changes at Twitter, especially since said changes have been

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