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unstuckdev··on Brotopia: Analysis and Review
This is why I reflexively flag any articles I see from it on the front page. I tried taking the site seriously a few times and worked through all the assertions, but I came to the same conclusion you did. They have a certain way, and that way makes them not worth engaging with.

The way is too consistent to not have someone behind it carefully selecting writers and submissions. I think the writers think they're saying worthwhile things, and I think whoever's editing them is exploiting their good intentions.

It reminds me of how Gawker would exploit well-intentioned but inexperienced writers to drive ad impressions with poorly-argued positions on social justice. The writers didn't know they were dupes, and some of the editors probably didn't, but someone up the chain knew what was going on.

unstuckdev··on Mastodon’s 2 Year Anniversary
Some people confuse boundaries with bubbles.

When they tell me I'm living in a bubble because I use an instance with rules and instance blocks, what they want is for the street preacher to be able to chase me down the sidewalk yelling fire and brimstone at me. "I wouldn't personally do that," they insist, "but people should be able to!"

They want to be able to harass people online the way they do offline, and on less advanced social networks. It's as ideological as all the opinions they reject as ideology.

unstuckdev··on Mastodon’s 2 Year Anniversary
I skimmed the rules of Mastodon.social: https://mastodon.social/about/more

It's the default, and most instances stick with it. None of the items seem controversial. Which one stands out as a problem to you?

unstuckdev··on Mastodon’s 2 Year Anniversary
I made a toot with 100 boosts the other day on a new account. The average is closer to 10-20. Tweets barely register on accounts with 10x the following. Mastodon might look small, but it's big where it counts.

I'm glad Eugen started it, and I'm glad it's thriving. It's like Twitter was before they went impression-obsessed after the 2013/2014 Situation showed them what was possible. And it's all funded by Patreons for the most part.

unstuckdev··on Firefox removes core product support for RSS/Atom feeds
I already searched feeds up in my feed reader, but only because the existing Firefox feature was poorly-integrated. I never could figure out how to have it redirect feeds to a reader. I wanted something like the way you can add search engines, but for third-party RSS readers.

The feature as it was didn't work very well, and they obviously weren't going to improve it. So maybe it's for the best that they remove it.

unstuckdev··on In Poor, Rural Communities, Fleeing Hurricane Michael Was Tough
It's hard for people outside the experience of poverty to understand it. It's not just a ticket if you can't afford to pay it, and can't afford time off work to fight it in court.
unstuckdev··on Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier
>> "I haven’t been on FB, Insta, Twitter in years, or Reddit in months and I don’t even think about those things anymore."

The terms used to talk about those things today might have their origins on social media, but the issues existed before someone coined a term. You might want to re-evaluate your associations if no one talks about sexual assault and harassment or the over-policing of black people.

unstuckdev··on TSMC: First 7nm EUV Chips Taped Out, 5nm Risk Production in Q2 2019
https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/risk-production

>> "Risk Production means that a particular silicon wafer fabrication process has established baseline in terms of process recipes, device models, and design kits, and has passed standard wafer level reliability tests."

It sounds like a batch produced to certify the process for insurance and contract purposes.

unstuckdev··on Ask HN: What do you hate most about HN?
This has been my experience. I very politely and respectfully commented on why I wouldn't support a certain web browser that's gaining attention. The comment swung to the minimum (-4) quickly, but settled on 0 over the next few days.
unstuckdev··on Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Application Delivery Network
It's basically the subset of AWS concerned with delivering web pages to browsers in a friendly package.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_delivery_network

You can keep a static site with something like Hugo in a git repo and have Netlify automatically build it and make it available on changes. You can also just toss an HTML and CSS file in (like I do on https://unstuckdev.com/) and their robots put it up.

You can do more with it, and that's what costs money, but it takes a small but tedious hurdle out of putting some HTML on the web.

unstuckdev··on The Bermuda Triangle of Wealth
>> "I'm not defending it, but there isn't Trader Joe's or Aldi of college yet (slightly better than average generic product with low/no frills)."

Community college.

unstuckdev··on Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers
This was, in fact, the dominant narrative at the time. Niche search products like Amazon (products), Facebook (social), and Twitter (news) were going to be the end of Google if they didn't get their act together. It's the same reason they're so obsessed with becoming the destination or broker (ads) for search queries instead of sending people on to organic results.
unstuckdev··on Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers
They had the idea, not the implementation. Circles were not some bolted on feature you had to access through a submenu. They were fundamental.
unstuckdev··on Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
One person's intellectual is another person's babbling idiot. It might help to specify exactly what you're looking for.
unstuckdev··on Bloomberg News Pays Reporters More If Their Stories Move Markets
>> "If you publish misleading/inaccurate articles consistently, then people will ignore you."

I can't find it now, but someone made a site to score opinion piece writers and see how many were right. Few were, but they still had jobs. You give people too much credit.

unstuckdev··on Apple’s repair kill switch hasn’t been activated yet
But I like my pink aluminum rectangle.
unstuckdev··on Poll: Would you prefer no copyright to current copyright laws?
>> "None of the replies to my question has even addressed that"

That's always a good sign the question wasn't clear.

unstuckdev··on Poll: Would you prefer no copyright to current copyright laws?
That would get expensive fast for anyone remotely prolific. Not every work needs protection, and it's impossible to know which does before it becomes commercially interesting.
unstuckdev··on Poll: Would you prefer no copyright to current copyright laws?
You're welcome to license the things you work hard to create under permissive terms. I like knowing I can send a C&D to a billion dollar corporation and generally expect action. As it is, plenty of people find their art in department stores sent in by people who didn't have permission. A simple notice deals with it.

What do creators do when those billion-dollar corporations have no risk from selling their art, which has an opportunity cost to make, without permission or compensation? It may cost little or nothing to reproduce, but it's not free to create. Control over reproduction makes the creation viable. Otherwise, they have to spend finite time and energy on other things to survive.

unstuckdev··on Poll: Would you prefer no copyright to current copyright laws?
Anti-copyright people seem to exist in a world where the only people who make things do so at big C&D-happy corporations. They mistake the cost of reproduction with the cost of creating and think the creating will happen with no control over reproduction.
unstuckdev··on Poll: Would you prefer no copyright to current copyright laws?
Has anyone ever been successfully sued or fined over an IP-protected object in a shot where that object wasn't the focus?
unstuckdev··on Brave – A private, secure and fast browser
I respect the CEO's right to keep details of his opinions on other people's rights to himself. Unfortunately, the appearance of his Prop 8 donation makes me not want to send money his way. There are plenty of browsers out there.
unstuckdev··on An artwork by Banksy shredded itself after selling for $1.3M at Sotheby’s
You're right. Still photos can be deceiving...
unstuckdev··on An artwork by Banksy shredded itself after selling for $1.3M at Sotheby’s
There appears to be a light inside. Compare the unshredded top to the bottom in one of the pictures from the front.

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-england-bristol-45770028

It probably used that power source.

unstuckdev··on IQ Matters Less Than You Think
But what is the best predictor of IQ?
unstuckdev··on Study: Artificial sweeteners toxic to digestive gut bacteria
Does this factor in the added sugar in most peanut butters? I can't find any without it around here.
unstuckdev··on Study: Artificial sweeteners toxic to digestive gut bacteria
Realizing one 2 tablespoon serving of peanut butter was half a full meal was a wakeup call. It turns out 1/4 or less of a "serving" of most processed things works the same taste-wise and doesn't lead to insatiable hunger later.
unstuckdev··on Study: Artificial sweeteners toxic to digestive gut bacteria
How is dextrose in a sugar packet filler? That makes no sense to me. Maybe it's just a confusion of terms.
unstuckdev··on Presidential Alerts
If the Yellowstone Caldera blows up or an asteroid hits, I want to know rather than wonder what happened and what I need to do. A system like this only needs to work once for it to pay off.
unstuckdev··on Presidential Alerts
The TV (even streamed) was 5 minutes late due to the standard delay.
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