I’ve heard great things about Malazan. I should probably pick that up.

Sanderson is a great airport read.

I wouldn’t recommend it outside of that context. It’s nothing special.

I understand the intent, but this is not phrased well.

prevents your messages being spied on by Signal, but ironically they’re probably one of the most trustworthy actors in this whole chain, so the fact that it’s protected from them, while commendable, is not particularly valuable security

It’s extremely valuable security, because most companies, even if they don’t want to spy on you might be compelled to by court order. And those companies often think their security is sufficient because they have good intentions, and they expect the government to have good intentions when they’re going as far as getting a court order. (I also suspect more court orders are justified than not, but a few bad subpoenas spoil the bunch.) The fact that they physically are unable is quite important.

All your points about how things around that can fail are valid.

I will say that double posting is a completely reasonable solution. More orgs should be the gateway where they can be seen, and have the visibility of the big platforms, but they also offer Mastodon as an alternative. If enough orgs do that, it enables people to just… move.

It’s hard for users to move when 75% of their content is exclusive to X. And it’s hard for orgs to move when 75% of the users are on X. Double posting allows this to move to 10% X exclusive content, 60% content that’s available everywhere, and 10% exclusive to open platforms. After the orgs move the content, it’s so much easier for users to move, and after the users move, it’s easier for the orgs to move.

This should be a cooperative thing. And afaik it doesn’t take that much effort to post the content to two places.

Or the Russian regime. Or at this point the combination.

Would your country like to join the Internet borg?

There are absolutely reasons. Firefox is done by a reasonable job of anti-fingerprinting, and it’s a fine line to walk to disable as many of those indicators as possible without breaking sites.

Browsers do give away too much, but at least Firefox is working on it. And it’s not extremely straightforward.

Should be fine. They don’t have to use a browser to retrieve that feed.

Our bans are… less effective than Reddits. So it’s not just that we hand them out less.

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the ads went away when the internet access did.

Then why are you mad?

It can be both.

I would rather live in a big house in a more walking and mass transit based community.

Is it possible. We even have the stores in walking distance… If they were made to be walkable.

We’re starting, on a very small scale. New, trendy communities are usually 5 over 1s, and they’re learning to put the parking in the back, with small walkable streets in the front.

The mass transit part is key though, and that’s very, very lacking.

8GB ram though.

Arguable

Oh, I was talking about GitHub copilot that’s in visual studio.

I’m usually just very targeted in what I ask it to do. I keep it to things I know will be in the basic reference books or on stack overflow. It basically just saves me from having to look up and apply existing examples to my code.

It makes for a pretty good ORM.

Copilot isn’t bad, but generally I agree.

It’s a tool that can be helpful, or you can just create problems for yourself down the road.

It’s a lot like building a house. After all the drywall is up, it’s hard to tell if the studs are 18 inches apart or five feet apart, but you’re gonna find out eventually.

You guys agree and it’s just the word “subsidy” he has an issue with because subsidies have the connotation of helping actual people.

There exist places outside of the bay area.