augustuspolius

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by augustuspolius 4y ago
It’s a false dichotomy only if you indeed believe that Russia has “created” Ukraine and that Ukrainians are not a real nation. Russia has as much right to claim Ukraine as Ukraine - Russia. None.
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
While I don’t necessarily agree with the commenter you are replying to - I can relate to how hard it is to separate Russia’s contributions from what is currently happening in Ukraine. Modern Russia is fascist in all meaningful ways. This—at
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
Wonder if the person you are replying to meant Russia, not USSR.
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
I am aware that genocide is a disputed term in this context. I lean towards it because the famine disproportionately affected Ukrainians (and Kazakhs) and was at least in part not mitigated intentionally to punish minorities with a stronger
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
We have to agree that either “modern Ukraine” was created in 1920s from Russians and Russian territories or there were different people on that land long before that. If you are leaning towards the former then this could be extended even fu
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
Never really thought of that in this way. Do you think Russian poets, writers, composers, artists of the early and mid 20th century were a product of the Soviet culture more than the Tsarist/pre-Soviet world?
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
Interesting - I never attributed that to moving borders. USSR had a pretty mixed society with many people moving between different republics during their lifetime (especially in the 40-60s). Don’t think borders changed much during that peri
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
Just to clarify - native Russians in Ukraine or outside of it? If the former then it’s not surprising, the genocide was directed at specific territories.
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
I am curious to know whether this Western perception was supported or opposed by the Soviet state. They have definitely “prioritized” Russian culture internally, so I wouldn’t be surprised if this conflation was at least in part created by
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
Commenter didn’t say anything about “modern Ukraine”. Russia has been harassing Ukraine for a very long time, modern or ancient.
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
That sounds good - thanks for clarifying. Excited to see this project grow!
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
The phrasing they use is a bit confusing. "Speech" is not a clear quality description, so it's odd to compare speech to a CD quality recording (presumably 44.1 kHz). Speech can also be sampled at CD quality. If they meant to
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
Shazam produces an embarrassing number of false matches, which I assume are hash collisions or something similar in the world of their fingerprinting system?
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
The interesting part to me was that they used specifically a 64kbps example, not a higher bitrate that would be more appropriate for music listening. Just speculating, but if they managed to get 10x higher compression rate compared to 64kbp
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
It's quite amazing how they can build something so ingenious and yet make such a glaring mistake in the announcement post (48 kHz CD quality). On your second point: they probably meant that there is no loss in perceived quality, of cou
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
I found this announcement by write.as (check out the video): https://write.as/new/blog/federated Seems like it's possible to implement just enough of ActivityPub functionality that Mastodon users will be able
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
Yes, you are describing a hosted instance. Masto.host looks good, and the cheapest option is only $6/month. The problem with this federated approach is that the actual federation features can become pretty expensive. Hosting is cheap b
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
I was just investigating this. You can run your own Mastodon instance on your custom domain (e.g. masto.host), but due to how Mastodon federation works, your instance will 1. host all your content 2. handle a ton of requests when people int
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
Hm, do they stream user's camera feed to their server? Seems like a questionable practice if the user is not made aware of that.
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
I like the idea of asking to hold the same document in the selfie. Not a full-proof solution but way better than asking for any non-specific selfie.
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
I agree. The idealist in me wants all of these aspects to be completely independent from the host I choose to use. But realistically I am not that worried about losing data, the social graph is far more valuable. Even if I have 100 follower
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
This looks great! A somewhat tangential question: what are the ways KYC can be made less vulnerable to identity theft? Do people who verify the uploaded document use some automated government services to check for stolen documents? It seems
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
Is it fair to say that now if I follow you on any instance and then you are banned from that instance, I will continue following you and seeing your posts because your identity is owned by your self-hosted instance?
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
Thanks. I am more worried about the identity than the posts. If my identity belongs to the host, then in that sense this is no better than a centralized Twitter. Just theoretically speaking (I have not been banned from anything ever), if a
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
This looks great, definitely more active and offers a good variety of topics/profiles.
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
Got it. Does it make any difference where I register first? E.g. if that instance disappears overnight, will I be able to recover my account or not? I understand that I can access posts from all instances in the instance I use, but not sure
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
(not familiar with Mastodon tech) Would I be able to move my social graph as well in your example, or just content? E.g. if I first registered an account at mastodon.se and many other mastodon.se users followed me, would they still see my u
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
So is the only meaningful difference the scale of an instance? If a single Mastodon instance becomes Twitter-size, then its owners will have the same power over the users and will face the same challenges as the current Twitter? They won&#x
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
Is there a non-niche general Mastodon instance that's really popular? That would be the easiest way for me personally to embrace it. I checked a few instances and it's all very niche and very empty. (To clarify, I don't mind
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
Interesting. Wonder if it could be clearer if they were still showing a comment field or a reply button to non-logged in users. Just to surface the feature. Thanks for the info on Peertube, I heard the name before but didn't realize it

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