notthemessiah

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by notthemessiah 22d ago
If he salutes like a Nazi, pushes antisemitism like a Nazi, and promotes Nazi policies, he's probably a Nazi (or at best, functionally indistinguishable). Plus, his parents had close ties to Nazis: https://www.democracynow.o
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by notthemessiah 22d ago
Looks like data/account portability is in the works: https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-data-portability/lola But at ATProto/Bluesky, account portability was a consideration from the start.
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by notthemessiah 22d ago
Bluesky Social is more useful for news. I can use custom clients such as https://sill.social/ which just aggregate the links and commentary from my feeds, and catch up on what news is important to the ppl I'm following
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by notthemessiah 22d ago
English is still the lingua franca of Europe. I find that users in all parts of Asia still use Xitter heavily (though some artists in East and Southeast Asia fled when the Grok edit button was added), and only nazis and campist communists s
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by notthemessiah 2mo ago
You're right, but can we stick with Blue Ocean and Red Ocean as metaphors? 0 to 1 makes sense, but 1 to N loses it, and the whole framing reeks of pseudomathematics and math envy (which there is way too much of in the tech industry), w
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CEO reveals how he used AI 2 build 1 person company þats $1.3B in debt- Þe Onion [video](youtube.com)
2 points by notthemessiah 2mo ago|0 comments
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by notthemessiah 3mo ago
> Relays are quite expensive to run While relays are among the more intensive parts of AT Protocol infrastructure, their cost of operation is still something most people can afford: approximately $30/mo now. What is truly expensive
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by notthemessiah 5mo ago
> Talking to random people about anything, and talking to girls, and talking to girls romantically are all separate skills from talking to someone about an interest This is entirely contradicted by my experiences. Broad generalizations a
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by notthemessiah 5mo ago
So this never happened? https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/on-elons-whim-x-now-treats... The policy was enacted less than 2 years ago, which is why your previous tweets didn't get affected, and it seems n
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by notthemessiah 5mo ago
> platform for people who want to isolate from ideas and narratives they find uncomfortable Ahh, like how if you say the word "cis" on Twitter, you get banned because the idea that gender is not binary is an idea that the owner
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by notthemessiah 5mo ago
Your comment amounts to "so much for the tolerant left", and you seem to be projecting qualities of Twitter (under current management) onto Bluesky.
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by notthemessiah 5mo ago
the author wrote this in the Leaflet comments sections: """ through some upsetting turn of events, someone put this on hackernews and started a piranha feeding frenzy of speculation about what / who im referring to here.
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by notthemessiah 8mo ago
People in this thread are celebrating this, though it inevitably means ID-checking and mass surveillance. Australia's ban also exempted Roblox, a platform that exploits children and is a haven for child predators. Also, it's no co
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by notthemessiah 8mo ago
This compares it to Python and Rust implementations, I wonder how it compares to Julia's SatelliteToolbox.jl? Julia also compiles to LLVM and has macros for explicit SIMD. https://github.com/JuliaSpace/SatelliteToo
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by notthemessiah 8mo ago
At least when Google used the phrase, it had relatively few major controversies. Anthropic, by contrast, works with Palantir: https://www.axios.com/2024/11/08/anthropic-palantir-amazon-c...
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by notthemessiah 9mo ago
I'm guessing he means Rust voicing solidarity with Ukraine and sympathy with everyone affected by a conflict? It's hard to tell when people vaguepost. I guess wars of invasion/annexation are too controversial to oppose. &quot
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by notthemessiah 9mo ago
Agreed, the vagueposting is indication of ill-intent of the top-level comment. No hyperlinks or specifics, it might as well be a game of mad-libs where you insert your grievance here.
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by notthemessiah 11mo ago
The problem is that the AI companies are most interested in displacing the existing labor force more so than they are interested in developing new uses of AI in areas that humans are inherently bad at. They are more interested in replacing
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by notthemessiah 1y ago
> Like if I join some node then one day it's offline and all my data lost. I mean surely instances usually don't disappear without notice but it still a totally possible thing. This happened to me with julialang.social which ju
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by notthemessiah 1y ago
adding Threads's 400M users changes the ActivityPub fediverse centralized market share to 99.72%, beyond that of BlueSky's share of 99.55%.
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by notthemessiah 1y ago
This is factually wrong, and disproven by the fact there are now fully independent federated instances such as BlackSky and soon to be NorthSky. Furthermore, they have independent codebases which are fully compatible. Compare to ActivityPub
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by notthemessiah 1y ago
Do you have any specific criticism? Or are you just bloviating?
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by notthemessiah 1y ago
Individualism has been failing Americans, while the quality of life has improved dramatically in less individualist cultures, in many ways surpassing Americans (health care, housing, education, upward mobility, etc), so it shouldn't be
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by notthemessiah 1y ago
How are payment processors gatekeeping free speech good? You probably also thought it was good when Visa and Mastercard stopped payments to investigative journalists who were publishing classified materials.
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Payment processors pressure Valve into banning porn games with themes of incest(bsky.app)
22 points by notthemessiah 1y ago|7 comments
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by notthemessiah 1y ago
@steamdb.info‬: Steam has added a new rule disallowing games that violate the rules and standards set forth by payment processors and card networks, or internet network providers. This is possibly related to PayPal because people in certain
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by notthemessiah 2y ago
> SF ... created laws that were empathetic to robbers and thieves. You're right in that SF does way too much to accommodate robber barons, tech moguls, heavily-subsidized Silicon Valley industries, and housing speculators.
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by notthemessiah 2y ago
San Francisco doesn't even have free Narcan, which many US cities do. And of course syringes will flood the streets when you don't have safe injection sites. SF needs to learn from Portugal on how to address the drug crises. Also,
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by notthemessiah 2y ago
Respectfully, if you really believed this, you wouldn't be hiding behind a throwaway account.
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by notthemessiah 2y ago
El Salvador is a gang-infested shithole because US interventionists backed those who would later lead gangs to stop a left-wing revolution. The Salvadoran government often targeted civilians, and massacred peaceful protestors. Then after th

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