stormbrew

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by stormbrew 2y ago
Almost all coal plants in Alberta have been shut down and it's a small minority of net generation now. Natural gas has taken up most of the slack, but there's actually quite a lot of solar and wind generation in Alberta considerin
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by stormbrew 3y ago
17.577 million hectares have burned so far this year. If 2023 were on that graph it would be a skyscraper towering over every big fire year in the 80s and 90s. This year is unprecedented. And it isn't even over yet and the fires are s
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by stormbrew 3y ago
I think that's true, though I also think the fediverse (but not necessarily Mastodon specifically) will outlive threads. But I think the really big question will be: in 3-6 months is meta putting out DAU and/or MAU numbers for thr
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by stormbrew 3y ago
The Mastodon corner of the fediverse is also ridiculously more well run and diverse than xmpp outside the big players ever was. Like, when threads joins it's far far more likely to be a net contributor of spam and abuse towards the res
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by stormbrew 3y ago
Threads has 100m total users (that number is based on userid badges on Instagram afaik). The fediverse has somewhere around 10-13m total users, about 8-10m of those are on the main Mastodon network, and around 2-4m MAU. It's hard to
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by stormbrew 4y ago
I'm sure all the script kiddies who loved to take over channels in netsplits are gonna be disappointed that they never actually did that now. More seriously, this is the second time I've seen someone on here characterize IRC in th
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by stormbrew 4y ago
> And perhaps you need to reverse your thinking and realize that huge success without hard work work, intelligence is very unlikely even if some luck is also involved. I said none of these things you're reading in to my argument.
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by stormbrew 4y ago
> buying only like 10 tickets in their whole life Did he reset his wealth, connections, etc. between each of those 'tickets'? No. Each one was built off the previous success. Without paypal there is no tesla (or at least not in
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by stormbrew 4y ago
Winning the lottery once increases your ability to win it in the future because you can (if you want) buy more tickets. Success creates conditions for more success in pretty mundane ways.
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by stormbrew 4y ago
If someone wins the lottery, does that mean "they're a genius at picking numbers?" How many people with musk's starting wealth have started businesses? Do you think every single one of them is less of a genius than he is
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by stormbrew 4y ago
Go check out Mixer and Facebook's game streaming if you want to see how well buying influencers onto your platform works. It doesn't. No one's ever made it work. You need users and creators and users are considerably more stu
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by stormbrew 4y ago
In Canada Disney+ is where most of the stuff on Hulu or FX eventually ends up, among some other things, and at this point I think it's actually probably the streaming service with the deepest library because of that, which is kind of f
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by stormbrew 4y ago
I wouldn't be surprised to see that come into existence now honestly.
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by stormbrew 4y ago
This is also my perception. There's a cynicism that permeates this industry about what people are capable of understanding or using if given a little time and some motivation, to the point that listening to a forum like HN you'd t
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by stormbrew 4y ago
You can just put that full name in the search bar on your own instance and follow them from it. You don't have to go to their instance at all. I mean, I'm not saying that mastodon is super duper easy to use for everyone but in thi
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by stormbrew 4y ago
The topic is playing games "legally." I think you can assume people who are talking about that are aware of the concept of getting them "illegally" as well.
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by stormbrew 4y ago
Yeah and for Nike I think that'd be true here too. But for, say, Wired? Probably more active/useful. That's the biggest corporate comms use of Twitter anyways, outside "Twitter as support short line" which is honest
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by stormbrew 4y ago
The fixed selection of games on them means that if your goal is to play the games legally, the cost is either very reasonable or effectively infinity, depending on what you want to play. Post-composite and pre-cd hardware doesn't reall
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by stormbrew 4y ago
I really don't know what in my post made you feel like I was giving the GP any credit at all. This is a weirdly combative reply for a vehement agreement?
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by stormbrew 4y ago
Companies wouldn't have open registration. They'd run it like any other corporate resource, integrated into their ldap/ad/sso solution and with a corporate policy for what their employees could do on it. Ya know, like th
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by stormbrew 4y ago
> having my data "read" by a non-sentient advertising model, while irritating, is nowhere near the same as having it read by a human being. that is a false equivalence. I agree they're not equivalent. One is a small harm g
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by stormbrew 4y ago
I believe there have been studies where they've transplanted hair from and to different parts of the body and found that they largely continue to grow the way they did at their original site, implying that follicles from different part
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by stormbrew 4y ago
Go look at that PR and read the details and ask yourself who you have to trust with a list of device keys you're encrypting your dm for. You might be surprised to discover that you're still trusting an instance admin. It does impr
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by stormbrew 4y ago
Eh, if you don't trust your masto instance admin to not read your DMs do you really trust them to not break the "your password never leaves the client" guarantees that protonmail for eg. promises? This is the thing about this
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by stormbrew 4y ago
> Mastodon is supposed to be better than those, right? Here are the ways mastodon is better than twitter: - It can't be bought by a billionaire man baby - It can't be coerced into hosting awful people because they drive revenue
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by stormbrew 4y ago
I think the latter (manipulating the client) is far more likely than the former, and I think it would also be pretty difficult to detect in practice. But the point is less "I think they will do this" than "there is still an e
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by stormbrew 4y ago
Signal is not a "hosted website," which is more the context we're talking about here. But even on those services, yes, there are ways that the owners of the service could tap or impersonate you through exploiting their own k
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by stormbrew 4y ago
> it's pretty easy to assume that decentralized means there aren't admins who can read private messages. I'm not sure why you would assume that? It's not something you run on your computer, it's still a website (
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by stormbrew 4y ago
> No for micro-blogging, but Mastodon supports direct messaging, and if you support direct messaging, you should support end-to-end. No other microblogging service with DM support has e2e anything. Because they're websites. To hav
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by stormbrew 4y ago
Others have pointed out that this is fallacious -- even on big services sometimes employees are creepy stalkers, sometimes they're malicious actors of other sorts -- but even if you ignore that on twitter you are a target of advertisin

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