Elon Musks make engineering orders of magnitude more difficult. Those poor Tesla neoslaves

Can we hear it again for Liz Cheney, a woman who literally put integrity ahead of power and career? Lost her seat, campaigns vigorously against this vile troll, at her expense. Convinced her father to go public. Crazy how rare she is.

I think people will be using Trump as an argument against democracy a hundred years from now

So they’re not paying severance to employees they fire?

SponsorBlock (alongside an ad blocker) is great for skipping ad reads plus a lot of other annoying bullshit.

Search engine quality in the United States is determined by 60-80 year olds who have only ever used Google to search for “lexisnexis.com”

Good point. I wonder if there was a way to like auto-transcribe these voice/video comments and automatically embed them in the source code so you have like a written-out comment that people could read.

This guy embeds TicTok URLs in source comments followed by long strings of emoji

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Steve looks forward to the hell of interfacing with shareholders, which makes me giddy. Reddit is now a money machine and no longer a community. The enshitification is well underway.

I just assumed it would be terrible because it’s a hard problem to solve generally, but like 98% of the time I don’t even realize it’s on (and it’s really easy to turn off). It’s seriously incredible.

People don’t understand that the average programmer’s EQ is in the top decile because they’re forced to work through the stages of grief several thousand times a year

Yeah, or batching changes and confirming receipt with a hash, or doing pull instead of push. From what I’ve been reading, the design seems a little janky.

Scalability does mean favoring monoliths because it costs money to scale and scaling here isn’t proportional to your instance’s users, it’s proportional to the size of the entire network.

60k users is today, not tomorrow. I’m thinking forward to 6000k users.

When the protocol favors monoliths, we’re right back to the Reddit problem

Interesting. Curious if you have a better understanding of ActivePub - do you happen to know if the protocol guarantees synchonicity and what mechanism guarantees it?

The implementation as far as I understand it is plain stupid. It prevents small instances from participating at any significant scale and seems happy to just drop data over the wire without reconciling. Seriously amateurish.

Speaking as someone who has little familiarity with the situation in France aside from the basic facts, this reeks of blameshifting

Dark Reader is amazing. Not just a great idea, but incredible execution.

Doing some reading + confirming with an instance owner, this is how it’s working now. You can click on the “Instances” link at the very bottom of the page to see who else your instance is connected to. An instance mirrors all content for all other instances its connected to.