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by timbray 3mo ago
To be fair, from 2022. I would argue that moderation in Fedi is holding together reasonably well. There are a few popular instances that lots of people think are overly aggressive/purist in their moderation policies, but the people usi
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by timbray 3mo ago
ATProto is an interesting protocol and there is lots of room to argue about its plus and minuses (and about Fedi/Masto's), but lots of people are already doing that so I won't. My concern isn't technology or culture, it&
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Automata, Built for Comfort or Speed(tbray.org)
2 points by timbray 3mo ago|0 comments
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by timbray 4mo ago
My pieces usually get flagged. Presumably I have annoyed some of the wrong people.
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by timbray 4mo ago
I'm highly unconvinced of the proposition that most homeless are severely mentally ill; the data I've seen doesn't support it. That's some of it, and also addiction. But a lot of them just can't make the rent. Agree
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by timbray 4mo ago
I'd like to see a few links to support your assertions in the first paragraph because, with respect, I have not seen evidence which supports them. On the other hand, multiple jurisdictions have run trials of UBI (universal basic income
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by timbray 4mo ago
Well, healthcare is an increasing piece of government spending all over the world, and the population is aging, so politics and policy aside, that number is going to go up.
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Password Manager Angst(tbray.org)
3 points by timbray 5mo ago|0 comments
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The Reviewer Isn't the Bottleneck(rishi.baldawa.com)
2 points by timbray 6mo ago|0 comments
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by timbray 11mo ago
+1 on Newsblur. I use it every day and it has flaws but nothing that really gets in my way.
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by timbray 1y ago
The tests for the go code at https://github.com/timbray/RFC9839 are in effect test vectors.
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by timbray 1y ago
Yeah, for example it's how Java stores strings to this day. But I think it's more or less never transmitted over the Network.
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by timbray 1y ago
Relevant: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-bray-unichars-15.html - IETF approved and will have an RFC number in a few weeks. Tl;dr: Since we're kinda stuck with Uncorrected UTF-8, here are the "char
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June 2025 C2PA News(tbray.org)
20 points by timbray 1y ago|0 comments
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by timbray 2y ago
That crossed my mind when I saw the piece show up on HN. But I think they're already running more or less at capacity.
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by timbray 2y ago
You're right, but I didn't realize that till later. Except for the original "Parable of the Sower" was from Jesus not Olivia. But I also thought of Olivia's first.
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by timbray 2y ago
A high-quality leather sofa these days is closer to $15K than $1500, ouch.
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Making Redis into a high-durability database(brooker.co.za)
2 points by timbray 2y ago|0 comments
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by timbray 2y ago
I dunno, my Wikipedia entry is about right.
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by timbray 3y ago
Wow, didn't know about that, thanks. But the query has to be "timbray" not tim bray
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Sustainable member-owned co-operative Mastodon instance(cosocial.info)
3 points by timbray 3y ago|0 comments
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by timbray 4y ago
Got me jobs, helped me hire other people, got me a ticket to some of the big technology debates and then helped me win one or two. Gave me a place to write cat obituaries and heavy-metal reviews. Launched Feb 27, 2003 (20 years last month)
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Watching TV is too expensive and complicated, needs an Automator(tbray.org)
3 points by timbray 4y ago|2 comments
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by timbray 4y ago
Anyone can embiggen me any time they want.
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by timbray 4y ago
We agree, AWS is a clean break, ads is way more messy. But ads only works because of Amazon retail's sorta-kinda-monopoly position. It's still a big distortion of the market. But I don't have a bright idea what to do about it
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by timbray 4y ago
Hmm? Masto comes with decent self-search now, you don't need to build it.
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by timbray 4y ago
Everybody's saying "well of course you can't stop people crawling so just give up." I don't buy it - you also can't stop people from driving too fast or smoking in restaurants or torrenting popular movies. Tha
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by timbray 4y ago
It's well-known where the Lolicon is (pawoo.net and mastodon.jp and some others) and all the mainstream instances have de-federated from those places. Email is also full of disgusting stuff but nobody is going to abandon email because
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by timbray 4y ago
You're not allowed to drive at twice the speed limit, nor to smoke in enclosed public spaces, and, in certain pandemic situations, you shouldn't be allowed to breathe unobstructedly on strangers. Where's the privacy dimension
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by timbray 4y ago
crickets

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