I have to assume the lack of a quotation mark means the quote includes everything else you'd read on Twitter that morning.
Woke is just a borrowed word they used to describe themselves. Its poor grammatically because it comes from African American Vernacular English.
It's a euphemism treadmill type thing, like a euphemism on ramp -- it only began carrying a negative connotation once people realized the ideology was bad.
Now progs are like "I'm not woke! Woke isn't even a thing!" Even though they're the ones who created the term.
The opposite happened with terms like chud, or chad. Both were initially intended to be considered derogatory but gained generally positive connotations, with Chad being particularly funny because it was supposed to be like "Chad stole your girl don't you hate him?" But the online right was like "Chad, you are an example for the rest of us, let us make you our king."
For chud it's funny because the elitist progs want to talk down to people who aren't like them, and the anti-elitists are like "I am everything you say I am and that's great."
That's like a reverse euphemism treadmill where they try to find terms to attack their enemy but their enemy isn't bad so the terms take on a positive connotation.
It's a euphemism treadmill type thing, like a euphemism on ramp -- it only began carrying a negative connotation once people realized the ideology was bad.
Now progs are like "I'm not woke! Woke isn't even a thing!" Even though they're the ones who created the term.
The opposite happened with terms like chud, or chad. Both were initially intended to be considered derogatory but gained generally positive connotations, with Chad being particularly funny because it was supposed to be like "Chad stole your girl don't you hate him?" But the online right was like "Chad, you are an example for the rest of us, let us make you our king."
For chud it's funny because the elitist progs want to talk down to people who aren't like them, and the anti-elitists are like "I am everything you say I am and that's great."
That's like a reverse euphemism treadmill where they try to find terms to attack their enemy but their enemy isn't bad so the terms take on a positive connotation.
Naw man he's a good one he forces you to submit a w-2 before scamming you to prove youre rich enough to scam.
It's actually complicated.
ISPs love piracy. Youtube even loves piracy. They would be way worse off if they were held accountable for piracy on their networks or sites. Chinese manufacturers use piracy on a mass scale -- you can buy unlimited games on amazon (that weren't legally placed there). If AI companies can get away with mass piracy, they're more than happy to.
ISPs love piracy. Youtube even loves piracy. They would be way worse off if they were held accountable for piracy on their networks or sites. Chinese manufacturers use piracy on a mass scale -- you can buy unlimited games on amazon (that weren't legally placed there). If AI companies can get away with mass piracy, they're more than happy to.
Everyone with eyes should have predicted this. "Oh, this is the best economy ever and everything is fine" meanwhile grocery bills have doubled but wages have stagnated.
I mean, most people won't want them, but some people will -- so why not? Some people really want full spectrum light.
Just nuke southern ontario and vancouver island, it'll be fine after that. And give Quebec to France, they'll love that (and immediately surrender it back to the US as is tradition)
Thank you, Mr. President! When are you sending the army to annex the 51st state? I want to prepare a gift basket.
Got the new 'servers' in place. 100% fanless still, but these two guys used to be Intel Atom D2550s (about as powerful as an old netbook), and these guys are AMD Ryzen Embedded R1505G (about as powerful as a new low power laptop, 4-5 times faster).
I really need to find my label maker for obvious reasons haha
I really need to find my label maker for obvious reasons haha
Reincarnated – The Hero Marries the Sage ~After Becoming Engaged to a Former Rival, We Became the Strongest Couple~
In case anyone else was wondering.
In case anyone else was wondering.
Don't panic about losing your guns, he's going to take away your ability to use money long before that matters!
It's kind of sad, 2024 saw the meltdown of a lot of folks I respected online, or at least the final chapters of ongoing meltdowns.
In the end I guess, wisdom isn't something that a particular individual can own, it possess you for a while, and perhaps you can help spread it, but it can just as easily disappear into the ether, and you end up going on at 12-hour Ayahuasca Bender online for the world to see... Or the world can find out that you were having a massive cocaine Bender with your kids in the house. You can find that just as quickly as wisdom possessed you, it leaves you, and in your arrogance you will go off and do something really stupid. So if you believe that you have a time you should nurture your wisdom by following it's advice rather than listen to the luciferian impulse to think that your intellect can outsmart your wisdom.
And I guess equally importantly, be careful not to idolize human beings, because every one of them is fallible. Especially yourself.
In the end I guess, wisdom isn't something that a particular individual can own, it possess you for a while, and perhaps you can help spread it, but it can just as easily disappear into the ether, and you end up going on at 12-hour Ayahuasca Bender online for the world to see... Or the world can find out that you were having a massive cocaine Bender with your kids in the house. You can find that just as quickly as wisdom possessed you, it leaves you, and in your arrogance you will go off and do something really stupid. So if you believe that you have a time you should nurture your wisdom by following it's advice rather than listen to the luciferian impulse to think that your intellect can outsmart your wisdom.
And I guess equally importantly, be careful not to idolize human beings, because every one of them is fallible. Especially yourself.
There's a saying that has changed a lot over the years due to inflation, but only in becoming more and more true:
"It's possible to become a millionaire through honesty and hard work. But not a billionaire."
When that was first said, a millionaire was worth the equivalent of 19 million dollars today. Today, someone working a fairly normal job and saving consistently will become a millionaire in their lifetimes.
"It's possible to become a millionaire through honesty and hard work. But not a billionaire."
When that was first said, a millionaire was worth the equivalent of 19 million dollars today. Today, someone working a fairly normal job and saving consistently will become a millionaire in their lifetimes.
It seems to me that most people are focused on the two official Matrix homeservers, but I ran Matrix Conduit on an Intel Atom D2550 for years and it was surprisingly usable. Meanwhile, Matrix Synapse and Matrix Dendrite were essentially useless, pegging the CPU at 100% for days on end.
So is the problem the protocol, or the implementation?
So is the problem the protocol, or the implementation?
For probably 10 years I've been very vocal about the problem that companies want fully formed professionals but aren't willing to put the time or effort into training entry level people.
One thing that enrages me about the skilled trades is that governments put on ad campaigns trying to get kids to want to do skilled trades, but in reality when an apprenticeship job is actually advertised, hundreds of people including people who are fully qualified to do the job through education they paid for themselves apply. "Oh, we need more grants for apprentices!" no, we need more apprenticeships.
One thing that enrages me about the skilled trades is that governments put on ad campaigns trying to get kids to want to do skilled trades, but in reality when an apprenticeship job is actually advertised, hundreds of people including people who are fully qualified to do the job through education they paid for themselves apply. "Oh, we need more grants for apprentices!" no, we need more apprenticeships.
I don't want to go back to the bad old days of being forced to do horrifically dangerous things, but man sometimes safety people are pants on head retarded...
There's one thing that's not really right in your analysis: bluesky is difficult to host because of its size because everything is everywhere making it mostly centralized even when you host another instance. Fedi is easier to host because it's a la carte, instances pull what they need from who they need them from, making it highly decentralized when you host another instance.
If you had to host every fedi post everywhere from everyone then it'd be difficult to host because of its size too, and that's how it can scale, by only having each instance pull what it needs. Bluesky added 10 million accounts during its twitter exodus, but so did the fediverse. It is a big thing if you were to try to have everyone have everything. In fact, it'd probably be way bigger, because the fediverse has been around longer, and has been posting for many additional years across many platforms.
Most of the problems of fedi are baked into decentralization -- you're fragmented because instances are islands that connect to each other to send or receive data as required. Moderation and federation issues? Baked into decentralization because everyone gets to make whatever platform they want. Data portability? baked into decentralization because not everyone knows about your account or all your posts, and nobody but your home instance can verify it's you.
For some people, that decentralization is a feature not a bug, but for a lot of people they want a centralized platform with decentralized elements and they're not wrong to want that. One downside of decentralization is your reach is what you find for yourself. In some ways it leads to more centralization because you'll find lots of people who ought to be running their own instance instead just hopping onto mastodon.social and sharing the one server with a million other people instead of building a network from one server that won't see the rest of the fediverse without tracking down other users.
Nostr is a different beast, but it's got a lot of issues with putting the tech too front and center -- npubs and nsecs, this isn't how normal people use computers, even techies. If Alex succeeds with ditto, he might be able to use the technology as a backend to at least be usable on a day to day basis by normal people.
If you had to host every fedi post everywhere from everyone then it'd be difficult to host because of its size too, and that's how it can scale, by only having each instance pull what it needs. Bluesky added 10 million accounts during its twitter exodus, but so did the fediverse. It is a big thing if you were to try to have everyone have everything. In fact, it'd probably be way bigger, because the fediverse has been around longer, and has been posting for many additional years across many platforms.
Most of the problems of fedi are baked into decentralization -- you're fragmented because instances are islands that connect to each other to send or receive data as required. Moderation and federation issues? Baked into decentralization because everyone gets to make whatever platform they want. Data portability? baked into decentralization because not everyone knows about your account or all your posts, and nobody but your home instance can verify it's you.
For some people, that decentralization is a feature not a bug, but for a lot of people they want a centralized platform with decentralized elements and they're not wrong to want that. One downside of decentralization is your reach is what you find for yourself. In some ways it leads to more centralization because you'll find lots of people who ought to be running their own instance instead just hopping onto mastodon.social and sharing the one server with a million other people instead of building a network from one server that won't see the rest of the fediverse without tracking down other users.
Nostr is a different beast, but it's got a lot of issues with putting the tech too front and center -- npubs and nsecs, this isn't how normal people use computers, even techies. If Alex succeeds with ditto, he might be able to use the technology as a backend to at least be usable on a day to day basis by normal people.