skyfaller

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by skyfaller 3mo ago
Everyone has a limit to how much bullshit they'll put up with. This could be the last straw for some people to finally quit Instagram. I quit Instagram, Facebook and all other Meta properties in 2025, after complaining about various pr
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by skyfaller 11mo ago
Good news, you can grab the source code and host it yourself on a less troubling domain: https://git.j3s.sh/vore It's under the NON-VIOLENT PUBLIC LICENSE v5, which is probably not open source, but should be fine for p
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by skyfaller 11mo ago
One of my favorite RSS readers is https://vore.website - river of news, no unread indicators, simple. It's a website, as the domain suggests, so no need to install anything.
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by skyfaller 1y ago
Such errors can be caught and auto-fixed for now , because LLMs haven't yet rotted the code that catches and auto-fixes errors. If slop makes it into your compiler etc., I wouldn't count on that being true in the future.
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by skyfaller 2y ago
One modern approach would be Caddy Server's templates, using Golang templating: https://caddyserver.com/docs/modules/http.handlers.templates The "include" function should do the job: {{include &quot
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by skyfaller 2y ago
I thought you were just being snarky, but I went and looked, and wow, it really is all "AI": https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?batch=F24 Without looking carefully, I can't tell which ones are generative A
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by skyfaller 2y ago
Not everyone agrees that this is a good place for a mine: https://www.protectthackerpass.org/ "to shut down the tar sands, we actually have to shut down the tar sands, not just blow up other mountains elsewhere and hop
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by skyfaller 2y ago
Why Gosub if it isn't written in Go? Should have been called Rustsub ;-)
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by skyfaller 2y ago
While I'm not sure I agree with the arguments, I don't think the arguments for starting over from scratch are insane: https://drewdevault.com/2024/08/30/2024-08-30-Rust-in-Linux-... The core argumen
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by skyfaller 2y ago
Big tech platforms aren't a viable alternative to big tech platforms, just look at the demise of Andreessen-funded Post News, if you're tired of me mentioning Google's failures: https://www.theverge.com/2024&#
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by skyfaller 2y ago
I'm sure we would lose some people if we switched to mandatory payments. Since this is already a pretty small community (dashboard currently says 171 active users), I wouldn't care to experiment, since we'd risk losing the cr
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by skyfaller 2y ago
I am an admin / mod for a Mastodon server that is supported by donations from the community. I have not put my own money in the pot for a while, because I'm donating a lot of time to run it. But I would pay if I had to, and I am c
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by skyfaller 2y ago
It could have helped their revenue problems indirectly if it meant being able to access more users and content, not only the people who use and enjoy Cohost. People love to talk about network effects, and something like the fediverse means
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by skyfaller 2y ago
I would have been more interested in Cohost if they weren't actively hostile to federation. Their eventual shutdown always seemed inevitable to me, and without federation + account portability, there would be no easy offramp when they
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by skyfaller 2y ago
I miss the JPEG-XL art page, which once read: "JXL art is a form of procedural image generation that exploits the powerful meta-adaptive context model of JXL to produce interesting-looking images that are tiny jxl files." Sadly th
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by skyfaller 2y ago
It has been parked right next to an IKEA for a while, where it is prominently visible from the IKEA cafeteria windows, as well as the parking lot.
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by skyfaller 2y ago
Two Boeing whistleblowers: https://www.npr.org/2024/05/02/1248693512/boeing-whistleblow...
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by skyfaller 2y ago
The "end of the world" could be a local phenomenon. I like my headcanon that in Mad Max it's just Australia that's fucked, the rest of the world is fine. If there are functional societies elsewhere in the world, then hel
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by skyfaller 2y ago
Yeah, both my parents have/had practical skills, like woodworking and gardening, and completely failed to pass them on. Part of it is that they pushed me towards skills they thought would help me more, like computers... my dad liked to
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by skyfaller 2y ago
What constitutes a small pond rather than a mini pond in your opinion? Like, what do you think is the minimum size for a stable pond ecosystem? Does depth or surface area matter more?
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by skyfaller 2y ago
I really want to make a tiny pond at my house, but I'm afraid of the mosquitoes. My native plant supplier encouraged tiny ponds, saying that while you may need mosquito dunks to kill the larva at first, once wildlife is established in
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by skyfaller 2y ago
I have to disagree that the Republicans do not have a plan. They have a very clear and public plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025 Yes, they spend a lot of energy on obstructing the government from function
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by skyfaller 2y ago
I've been using viu, which is also written in Rust: https://github.com/atanunq/viu How does imgcatr compare? Viu was last updated 5 months ago, imgcatr 3 months ago, not a significant difference. imgcatr is a long
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by skyfaller 2y ago
One problem is that cars take up the space that other transit options need, or alternately, cars themselves are the reason other transit options are unattractive. For example: - many people are afraid to ride bicycles because they are (just
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by skyfaller 3y ago
There are people who say JSON is better: https://www.jsonfeed.org/ I'm not sure I agree.
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by skyfaller 3y ago
What does HN think of Naomi Wu's far-UVC lights? https://cybernightmarket.com/products/mini-far-uvc-lights-se... I just ordered a set to check them out for myself, although I don't know how I could possibly m
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by skyfaller 3y ago
Paging Low-Tech Magazine! I wonder how they feel about these partly wooden turbines: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/06/reinventing-the-sm... https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/06&#
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by skyfaller 3y ago
But how long until this archive also joins the Google graveyard? If it were another company aside from Google, this might be more encouraging.
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by skyfaller 3y ago
"I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further."
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by skyfaller 3y ago
I think a lot of these could be used for building construction, or for smaller wood objects, if we were sufficiently motivated. For example, here is an MIT team experimenting with using forked tree branches in construction: https:/&#x

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