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I'm not sure that making this sentence as obtuse as possible is a great idea to convey your point.

On Android, the apps won't track you through bluetooth if they don't ask for the location permission.

They paid for the badge

Mastodon is the biggest part of the Fediverse. https://the-federation.info/

According to this page, between September 1st and November 13th, the user count went from 6.12M to 7.56M, so an increase of 23%. Where does your estimation come from?

> 1) Once someone starts paying you, they get to exert their influence on your work, and it becomes a lot less "hobbyish."

Definitely. I've been working on a free open-source project for 6 months. Last week, a user came with a feature request, and stated that they were willing to pay me. That could sound nice, but I immediately thought "nope". I told them that donations were appreciated, but I wasn't going to do commissioned work.

I don't want that kind of responsibility for my hobby projects.

The number of Mastodon users went from 6.0M to 6.6M in the last week. https://bitcoinhackers.org/@mastodonusercount

Almost all the biggest subs, or popular subs tied to a commercial product, have shitty moderators. They're either modding dozens of subs or have conflicts of interest with said products.

They recently released 1.0 (with an announcement on HN too), which changed the interface to something more tabs-centric. It's not faster - it's still an electron app - but it definitely feels less clunky.

The "Chrome/Web vs Mastodon/Fediverse" isn't event correct, it should be "Chrome/Web vs Tusky/(Mastodon|Fediverse)", or "Twitter/Web vs Mastodon/Fediverse"?. Those things operate on a different level, they can't really be compared because they serve a different purpose.

Twitter users aren't joining the Fediverse, they're joining Mastodon. They rightly don't care about the Fediverse, they're just looking for a Twitter alternative, that's what Mastodon is. The Fediverse isn't tangible like Mastodon is. For the majority of users, that's an implementation detail.

Because it's already complicated enough. Marketing matters, even for open-source projects. If you want people on your decentralized social network, don't make it sound more complex than it already is.

> Is there a term for complementing something that is objectively much worse than what came before only because it's better than what we have now.

What kind of smartwatch came before it, that had a battery that held for more than a week? And no, a simple watch is not a smartwatch, so that doesn't count.

Omnisearch plugin developer here.

> I use Obsidian but never cared about neither the mapping/backlinks, logging, etc.

This is exactly why I built the plugin :) It's not that I don't care about tags/links/etc., but every time I tried to use those tools, it was a write-only process. I'll never remember how a note is tagged, or in what folder I "smartly" put it in.

People consider search as a clutch for a lack of organization, but more often than not, these same people spend all their time refining their workflow, try new methods with fancy names, and treat organization as a goal in itself. _That_ I don't care about, I just want to write notes like post-its on a desk, and quickly find them when I need them.

They mean that if the proxy is sent to a non-trustful contact, it will quickly get reported and blocked.

Here are the algorithms for PICO-8's sin(), cos() and atan2(), as implemented by the Picolove emulator: https://github.com/picolove/picolove/blob/4b79a3b7ebd1d1bc6c...

Also, since PICO-8 coordinates have their origin in the top-left corner (y goes down), sin()'s result is also inverted.

The "it works or it doesn't" was opposed to "used cards perform worse" (which they don't).

There's a nice Linus Tech Tips video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKqVvXTanzI

The tl;dw is that used cards don't perform worse than new cards - your card either works, or it doesn't. But like any electronics, they have an "expiration date", and if it's been used for 2 years, it's 2 years closer to dying. It's up to you to decide if the discount of a used card might be worth it.

- "X is extremely wasteful"

- "Wait until you hear how much Y is more wasteful"

Ok?

Trains, cars and power stations serve a purpose. The blockchain only creates waste with nothing in return. Yeah it does pollute less now, but it's still too much.

Wait, the Ethereum blockchain alone was consuming 0.5% of the world's total energy?

For me it kinda makes sense: the portrait/person is an important feature of the image, so it's heavily weighted in the generation, producing another image with that portrait/person, and so on. I find it more interesting that the visage itself is still recognizable between generations, as if it's not "any person", but a very specific visage.

The woman appeared once, and they kept combining it with different prompts. So it stayed in the subsequent images.

https://twitter.com/supercomposite/status/156716492990339481... https://twitter.com/sheslostheplot/status/156737091948789350...

My bad, I missed you were talking about on prem. Genuine question though (I'm just an average salaried dev), what are the advantages of on prem in this case? It looks like it's just costlier, will require more maintenance work, but the end you're still hostage of that same proprietary software.

Its between $8/month and $99/month, and the highest tier includes all Jetbrains products. That looks... reasonable?

> Or someone assumed (or just tried) that other email address.

I received 2-3 personal emails, but most of them are automated invoices.

That's something I don't understand. I've always given my email as john.doe@gmail.com, and I sometimes receive emails - addressed to Another John Doe - sent to johndoe@gmail.com.

That Another John Doe never, ever had access to johndoe@gmail.com, they just gave a wrong address. That's not gmail's fault.

I started working in 2012, and my colleagues used usb keys to pass projects around. I was a bit... surprised.

On a smaller scale, I sometimes like making (and looking for) tweetcarts. Search for the #tweetcart hashtag on Twitter; those are procedural animations made with PICO-8 in less than 280 chars. There is a code golf aspect to it, but it's a bunch of math first. If you're interested, some basics are explained here: https://demobasics.pixienop.net/tweetcarts/

"School shootings are mathematically irrelevant", what a take.

> it rubs me the wrong way when people who decided to take on long commutes for better pay talk about how it's being taken away from them

Sure, everyone happens to live right next to several good potential employers in their field, but instead choses to take a job further away because money.

I have colleagues that take DRY to an extreme when it comes to tests. There are so many levels of abstractions that it's incomprehensible. Tests should be clear and readable, you shouldn't have to dig code to understand _what_ a test is doing.