Honestly probably a good thing long-term, lots of platforms have been dragging their heels in adopting better newer codecs, so maybe this will finally give the justification required to put in the engineering hours.

Ultimately Email is old technology, all the web frontends just get in the way more or less.

I use an email host that has roadmapped switching their frontend to one I don’t really like, so figured I’d get ahead of the curve and switch to a client that was open source and compatible with the typical standards — so I could learn it and never have to deal with another client again.

Ended up using Thunderbird, even for my old inboxes at the typical web companies

One client, all my emails in one spot, don’t have to deal with stupid UX changes being forced on users.

Not a fan of this model broadly. It discourages diverse membership and promotes cliques.

I thought LG was still manufacturing burners?

Saying that though, the price of those is like $200+ now apparently, which is crazy since I have two I originally got for about $80.

My issue with tape is ultimately the cost of drives, most of the time you’re just as well of buying an actual library device.

Plus managing the tape contents seems difficult.

If HDD prices ever go back down I’ll probably have to just make a NAS storage appliance.

Few manufacturers of burnable BD media these days. Sony left the market uh, I think last year.

Verbatim has said they’ll continue making them, as far as I can tell they’re the only company doing BDXLs — some are doing single layer.

For WORM backup media Blu-Ray is basically what we’ve got, and it’s concerning basically only one company is making it. Pioneer also left the player market so the quality of reading/writing devices is also getting questionable.

And what about when the AI owning class introduce intended bias?

It’s one the scariest outcomes possible. If people forego their reasoning and critical faculties for chat-bots. If you aren’t even the one thinking your own thoughts, who is?

It’s almost necessary at this point. At least some form of AI scraper prevention.

I had to take my public repos down a couple days ago, individuals and belligerents using botnets make blocking scrapers via normal means (user-agent/CIDR block) ineffective. So things like CloudFlare or Anubis are becoming necessary.

I think it’s a perspective thing.

Men are less likely to perceive themselves as potential SA victims (regardless of actual numbers): so the relative subjective “chance” of false accusations against them vs being victims themselves impacts their priorities.

I would say scrutability in itself doesn’t automatically make an algorithm good. “Demote everything that doesn’t support Trump” is perfectly scrutable but leads to a skewed discussion.

This is mostly getting into normative vs descriptive philosophy. If it’s scrutable that a site/instance is demoting everything non-aligned with a worldview; then on the Fediverse it’s users’ choice to leave (and part of ‘community values’).

In fact I would say any content boosting algorithm at all leads to skew and what you call sycophancy. That includes upvotes/downvotes that affect what posts users see first. So I would get rid of all that stuff and just show purely chronologically.

To some degree, yes. New Reddit is particularly bad about this, it actively buries unpopular replies (but it goes further, and doesn’t just use upvotes) — Software like Lemmy is better, you can easily set Sort by New or sort by Top as the default. There’s also no ‘Karma’ system that propagates across the site.

Sycophancy is a human trait, so it’ll always emerge in social systems; but normatively, our systems should not cater to these negative traits (e.g. Twitter).

For algorithms, anything that isn’t a straightforward scrutable way of presenting user content is bad, IMO.
Algorithms that promote engagement, monetization, and sycophants are bad.

As for community of communities, that’s how the Fediverse works — you have a home instance which communicates with other instances. An instance has (nominally) rules, and expected conduct, and is often centered around a particular interest (game dev, programming, cities or countries, etc) then these communities interact with each other.

Having home instances with shared values and a subset of the entire userbase allows for recognizing and connecting with other “local” users. The same way people would trust their immediate neighbors more than random people from the city over. It helps form webs of trust, and establish natural networks.
This is how human society has functioned up until very recently — it’s what the brain evolved to do.

We can see the consequence of systems that don’t respect that fact, sites that try catering to everyone and put us in the same tent, it destroys social regulation, you cannot possibly hope to explain yourself to tens of thousands of angry people on the Internet, nor should people be exposed to such vitriol.

It’s not the point of the article, but I think it nonetheless speaks to the power that the community-of-communities model provides.

The algorithmic content surfacing models are what primarily rot online interaction. Having all-encompassing sites is another cause. Letting people join communities with shared values, and those communities collectively deciding who they interact with, is a fundamental working model of human societies since prehistory.

This has been an extolled benefit of the new Hall/TMR design keyboard/switches.

Because they deal with a continuous activation level, you can define in software when the “press down” signal gets fired in the key travel, including immediately stopping the press once it stops traveling down, and resuming it in the reverse; effectively eliminating pre-travel.

These boards apparently started getting banned in comp play even, from what I’ve heard. Caveat emptor, I’m not into the comp gaming scene.

Same.

I was sure the emotional manipulation tactic would be extremely effective. Guess it was a little too blatant, even for the general public.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Because people want fancy animations, images, videos, stylized text, etc. And the easiest way to accomplish that is to just use a browser under the hood.

My experience as well.

I’ve been writing Java lately (not my choice), which has boilerplate, but it’s never been an issue for me because the Java IDEs all have tools (and have for a decade+) that eliminate it. Class generation, main, method stubs, default implementations, and interface stubs can all be done in, for example: Eclipse, easily.

Same for tooling around (de)serialization and class/struct definitions, I see that being touted as a use case for LLMs; but like… tools have existed^[1] for doing that before LLMs, and they’re deterministic, and are computationally free compared to neural nets.

Because this comes up so often, I have to ask, specifically what kind of boilerplate? Examples would be great.

But then your junior colleagues will eventually code circles around you…

Probably not. I just ran into a dude who suggested using LLMs to fix misplaced braces in source code.

With respect to CSS, there’s already several projects that recreate the Win 7 and Vista look.

https://khang-nd.github.io/7.css/

https://github.com/Avayy/Windows-Vista-HTML-Clone-WIP

Undoubtedly going to have a higher failure rate, however in my experience WD’s enterprise drives are extremely high reliability regardless.

Once these hit the surplus market in ~5 years they’ll be neat (if we get them in SATA) for ZFS RAID arrays; faster rebuild speeds will be nice.