allenbrunson

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by allenbrunson 2y ago
“body count” is not really offensive, more like irrelevant. it makes about as much sense to take that into account as how many people someone has ever talked to. i can’t attribute “body count” to anything but prudishness. this is exactly th
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by allenbrunson 2y ago
personally, i would never use a dating site built by a guy who uses terms like “body count.” you cannot expect to have a decent relationship with someone if you are dehumanizing them from the start. i can understand people’s frustrations wi
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by allenbrunson 2y ago
having one menu bar at the top of the screen made sense when macs had nine-inch screens. it saved some screen real estate, which was at a premium at the time. but the bigger the screens get, the less sense this makes. apple should have swit
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by allenbrunson 3y ago
paul lutus himself is an occasional hacker news commenter: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lutusp
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by allenbrunson 3y ago
it is becoming irrelevant because the new regime is not prioritizing what was good about it. dismantling trust and safety is just one example of that. "engagment records" ... yeah, i am pretty sure we have nobody's word for t
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by allenbrunson 3y ago
yep, i agree with this. twitter is on a long slow slide to irrelevance, but threads will not be the thing that scoops up all the refugees. twitter never worked for me, but i can see its appeal to those who did like it. it was engaging. it w
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by allenbrunson 3y ago
they did not “fall for” anything. the article is very careful to never say that geller is capable of anything unexplainable. what they are doing here is a reframe: “hey, let’s just not call him a fraud anymore, okay? it’s more fun that way.
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by allenbrunson 3y ago
as long as we are talking about security cameras, i have a related question. i have a bunch of power-over-ethernet cameras installed in my home. all the ethernet cables route back to a server box, which has a hard drive for saving the video
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by allenbrunson 3y ago
i am a lifelong fan of electronic music. given that wendy carlos is one of the pioneers, i am in the process of buying up all her records. as has been mentioned previously in these comments, her music is harder to acquire than some of us wo
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by allenbrunson 3y ago
from the article: > For three consecutive years, the country has had the lowest fertility rate in the world, with an average of 0.78 children per woman. [...] The country is on alert, since an average of 2.1 children per woman is estimat
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
i will start by saying i love dart. i learned it solely so i could make flutter apps. but now, three or four years later, i can say for certain that i love dart a lot more than i love flutter, which i have mixed feelings about. i've le
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
> As far as I know, migrating servers is in fact very easy. I haven’t done it myself, but there’s a big button to click in the interface to do so. i have, in fact, tried pressing that button. the experience is pretty terrible. i made a b
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
i kind of love the fact that posting fediverse links on hacker news is coming to be almost as common as posting twitter links. and i already read this, because one of the mastodon accounts i follow boosted this into my timeline. all hail de
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
that sounds to me like a great excuse a billionaire could use to make himself believe that no, really, me keeping all this money is actually good . sam bankman-fried is purported to have used a variation of this.
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
i'll take a crack at it: the act of accumulating a billion dollars is an anti-social act. billionaires should have been giving it away hand over fist long before that happened.
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
several hours later: yep, i did, in fact, just move my account! it wasn’t exactly easy. not something i would expect a novice to be able to do by themselves. but anyone who is reasonably technical can do it.
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
my mastodon link is on the front page of my site. i decided not to put it in the article because i want to emphasize the phenomenon rather than my own small place in it. and who knows, maybe i’ll move soon, just to demonstrate for myself th
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
here's an example from in the wild: https://mastodon.social/@willoremus/109552745423998782
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
it's a matter of degree. you are free to make your own choices, just as i am free to make mine.
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
> Wait! You do know you can see the users and posts of any server (even if it is not the server you are on) on the server you have account with, right? yes. but that is not convenient, and definitely not how i have used a web browser, up
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
if you look at a user or post who is on your server, i.e., the domain displayed in the url bar is your server, then you're fine. if you're viewing a post or user on their own server, i.e., it is their domain in the url bar, inst
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
are you using one of the apps? if so, then yes, it's as easy as that. but if you are using a web browser, then that's where all the rigmarole comes from.
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
i agree with that! i solved it the way you're supposed to deal with new technology, i think: i lurked for awhile. read accounts from other mastodon users, to get a feel for things.
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
argh, if only it were that easy. if you try to follow someone who is not on your instance, there is a whole rigamarole you have to go through. likewise, if you try to interact with a post, but you're viewing it on somebody else's
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
my mastodon account is less than 48 hours old, so i am not the best person to answer this. i will say this much, though: anything i write that i feel has value will always go onto a site that i control. currently, that's my blog with m
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
i think that's asking the wrong question. i think most or all of them started off pretty good. where we went wrong is creating a system where social media sites are paid for with ads, which gives warped incentives to the owners of thos
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
right, democracy instead of capitalism, i should have looked it up. and yes, i would support all of that. the big roadblock, it seems to me, is that our government in the usa is now so dysfunctional as to make that stuff all but impossible.
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
agreed. if either one takes off and leaves mastodon in the dust, i am happy to support the winner, whatever that turns out to be.
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
you seem to be advocating for absolutism: these things are bad, so abandon them completely. i don't think that's reasonable, or workable. there is basically no corporation in the world who has clean hands. i don't think it&#x
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
(i stole the title from mike masnick. if he's upset about that, i would be happy to credit him, or change it.)

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