cdrini

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by cdrini 2mo ago
Out of curiosity, what are your favourite features that are unique to your implementation?
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by cdrini 2mo ago
I think scopes/criteria/boundaries on communities are fine, I disagree that invite-only (as one implementation of community boundaries) is the future of online communities. Although the statement "invite-only only is the futu
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by cdrini 2mo ago
I think some are fine, but if I had to choose one I'd choose open access, so I think it's the more important of the two. And in fact it's because the web is open, "no permission needed" by default that allows elitis
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by cdrini 2mo ago
Hmmmm interesting analogy! I'm not too sure if cliques apply as much to online communities. Cliques are usually exclusionary not because people don't meet the criteria/scope of the clique, but by scale constraints, eg how man
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by cdrini 2mo ago
> Invitation-only is the future of online communities. This feels antithetical/dystopian/elitist compared to what online communities are, for me. I think it's ok for some communities to be like this, but I don't think
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by cdrini 2mo ago
> keeps going on hit miss (Is this a typo?)
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by cdrini 2mo ago
What open source alternatives have you switched to recently? Always on the lookout for good OS tools!
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by cdrini 3mo ago
I think there are many arguments for and against this type of regulation. Good arguments on both sides take into account nth-order effects. But both sides have different priorities, and have different weighing of the trade-offs. Calling one
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by cdrini 3mo ago
I quite enjoyed Blindsight, but that was not my takeaway at all :P How do you see people differently after reading it?
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by cdrini 4mo ago
Very interesting book/idea! Adding it to my "to read" list. The more I think about it, there is kind of a two-step process here; entropy creates chaos/disorder, but chaos/disorder creates an environment ripe for kin
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by cdrini 4mo ago
Interesting reads! Apologies, that's not what I intended to communicate, but I can understand where that conclusion came from. I think understanding and exploring the universe is an essential "success metric" for intelligent
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by cdrini 4mo ago
Thought-provoking write-up. One part of this is the "meaning of human life". Part of that for me is: humans are the only known lifeform that can look at the stars and try to understand. And, to the best of our understanding, this
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by cdrini 4mo ago
I find it hard to assign good faith to someone who says the question "Could a being capable of perpetrating such a thought really be unconscious?" is the same as proclaiming "AI is conscious"! But assuming good faith,
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by cdrini 4mo ago
Is anyone disagreeing with that statement?
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by cdrini 5mo ago
True, but arguably better than "sorry, to use our website, you must have a ChatGPT subscription."
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by cdrini 5mo ago
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/18/up-to-70-... Up to 70% of streams of AI music on Deezer were fraudulent!
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by cdrini 6mo ago
I think one could argue that one. Is a DDoS a symptom? In which case the intent is irrelevant. Or is a DDoS an attack/crime? In which case it is. We kind of use it to mean both. But I think it's generally the latter. Wikipedia des
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by cdrini 6mo ago
Exactly. Identifying crawlers like Google, bing aren't the issue. They obey robots.txt, and can easily be blocked by user agent checks. Non-identifying crawlers, which provide humanlike user agents, and which are usually distributed so
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by cdrini 6mo ago
The first is incorrect, these scrapers are usually distributed across many IPs, in my experience. I usually refer to them as "disturbed, non-identifying crawlers (DNCs)" when I want to be maximally explicit. (The worst I've s
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by cdrini 6mo ago
I found this on open library from 1989, if useful: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5859479W/Steel_construction?... With a few other options in search: https://openlibrary.org/search?q=%22steel+cons
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by cdrini 6mo ago
Gish-galloping! Today I learned, I'm going to have to remember that one. I think people can also gish-gallop unintentionally; especially in online discussion threads. When someone leaves comments that are very long, poorly organized, a
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by cdrini 7mo ago
> I extremely quickly dismiss them in the most polite, but firm, way possible. And I think that's the answer; people who don't want to talk will simply tell you! And everyone carries on.
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by cdrini 8mo ago
While observing the benefits of his position, I also empathize with the struggles that must come with unexpected widespread fame. And I never said he is/should succumb to the pressure, but again I empathize that navigating that pressur
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by cdrini 8mo ago
I think it's an interesting relationship between influencers, especially young ones, and their followers. Young influencers of this nature get a following because of their authenticity. They're genuine, honest, about their experie
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by cdrini 8mo ago
For me it was poignant as the story of a young man who has for his entire life been keen on reading, writing, and communicating, who has in a way achieved what he was looking to achieve, and unknowingly created a set of shackles from his ow
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by cdrini 8mo ago
I've seen a few of his videos over the years and remembered them similarly to your description, but watching that video you linked to I think he does do a proper critique. Goes into what makes the writing weak, plot drag, links books t
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by cdrini 8mo ago
Second definition of power on Google: "the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events." Influence is a reasonable part of the definition.
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by cdrini 8mo ago
Depends on how you define power, and the article is defining it as influence. Do Jack Edwards reviews influence a substantial population of people to buy/read certain books? Seems like yes. If he's the world's most powerful,
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by cdrini 8mo ago
And on the flip side, sometimes there's no need to learn a lesson! One of my pet peeves is when people draw huge conclusions about people/things based on way too few interactions (small sample size). Sometimes someone is just havi
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by cdrini 8mo ago
Yeah, but the lead makes it seem like an organisational decision: > Ever since Linux got a graphical desktop, you could middle-click to paste – but if GNOME gets its way, that's going away soon, and from Firefox too. But who knows,

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