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New comment by anotherrandom in "The Fediverse is inefficient but that's a good trade-off"

anotherrandom — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 00:36:40 +0000

> ___ is inefficient but that's a good tradeoff

Everyone who knows that a technology where decentralization is one of the requirements will know this, and they will also know that this is a required tradeoff when it comes to decentralization - no free lunch.

A lot of people skewer blockchain-based tech for ineffeciency, but not a lot of those people realize it's supposed to be like that.

I'm glad that people are at least starting to realize that a lot of decentralized tech has the prerequisite of forfeiting efficiency.

New comment by anotherrandom in "Why is every layoff 10-15%?"

anotherrandom — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 05:24:06 +0000

What makes you think this?

I haven't observed any advantages to an office beyond overexposing the company to real estate (not really an advantage) - there is nothing I could do in person that I haven't been able to do faster in MS Teams (and better - now I have a written record and recording of everything). Another advantage of remote is that nobody ruins my train of thought by tapping me on the shoulder and asking stupid questions like "hey did you get that email." Best of all, no stupid pressure to go to lunch with anyone

New comment by anotherrandom in "Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover"

anotherrandom — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 15:17:57 +0000

Most of those people were there before 2016

New comment by anotherrandom in "Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover"

anotherrandom — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 15:14:38 +0000

The average Twitter user likely does not know what a file is (see: that one iPad commercial where the kid says "what's a file?" or something), and likely uses a mobile device of some kind (tablet or phone) as their daily driver.

New comment by anotherrandom in "Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover"

anotherrandom — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 15:09:59 +0000

Mastodon is a bunch of separate federated Mastodon instances. In order to see content from several you need to connect to each of them (if memory serves, your identity and social graph are not portable between instances due to the limitations of ActivityPub. This is a problem Dorsey's @ Protocol attempts to solve). That does let you see the illusion of centralization though, sort of like email which is also federated

New comment by anotherrandom in "Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover"

anotherrandom — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 14:59:43 +0000

The technical barrier to entry ensures "normies" will not be able to use or understand (or at least enjoy) Mastodon. This will prevent it from becoming as huge as Twitter

New comment by anotherrandom in "U.S. workers have gotten less productive – no one is sure why"

anotherrandom — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 19:47:44 +0000

The more you measure productivity, the less productivity there will be. Employees spend a good amount of time documenting their productivity for nonsense like performance reviews, and that is a lot of time that could have been spent doing actual work

New comment by anotherrandom in "Leaked documents outline DHS’s plans to police disinformation"

anotherrandom — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 19:30:52 +0000

Were you intoxicated when you wrote this, or am I just really tired? I'm having trouble connecting the dots on what you're saying. It seems all over the place

New comment by anotherrandom in "Leaked documents outline DHS’s plans to police disinformation"

anotherrandom — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 19:19:55 +0000

If you require censorship to show the correctness of your position, you are automatically wrong

New comment by anotherrandom in "Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon"

anotherrandom — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 20:25:49 +0000

Honestly the fact that more tools are needed to make Mastodon usable shows that federation technology is "not there yet." I hope we are able to improve stuff to the point where it is usable.

Something I'm keeping an eye on is the @ protocol that is being designed specifically for the creation of federated social media applications -- it allows for portable identity and your social graph is portable, these things are not tethered to an instance of something. Hopefully that will be an upgrade so there will be less "jury-rigging" like this required to make federated applications usable

New comment by anotherrandom in "Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea"

anotherrandom — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 18:18:19 +0000

They didn't mention any currency creation, they only mentioned the creation of a DAO. That's a far cry from trying to make a currency

New comment by anotherrandom in "What “work” looks like"

anotherrandom — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 18:16:13 +0000

>management has little idea how to judge the quality of an individual idea

This is a management-being-incompetent problem, which is likely not a universal problem

New comment by anotherrandom in "macOS Ventura is now available"

anotherrandom — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 23:34:55 +0000

They made it so "user-friendly" it is no longer user-friendly.

New comment by anotherrandom in "Remote work has been a boon for night owls"

anotherrandom — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 19:20:54 +0000

This is how it should be. "Daily status updates" regarding what you're working on are useless. It should be a short message or email containing roadblocks or small updates to let others know you unblocked them that is sent to people on a need-to-know basis, which does not include your manager (it may include your project manager) unless they are also a developer. The whole team does not need to know what you're up to

New comment by anotherrandom in "Google got caught tweeting from an iPhone while promoting Pixel"

anotherrandom — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 23:18:21 +0000

Android is going nowhere

New comment by anotherrandom in "Kill Bill – Open-Source Subscription Billing and Payments Platform"

anotherrandom — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 16:36:55 +0000

I don't understand this complaint anymore. Hotspot and OpenJDK are all GPL, licensing and Oracle aren't worries at this point

New comment by anotherrandom in "JetBrains invites developers to join the Fleet Public Preview Program"

anotherrandom — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 20:41:06 +0000

Interesting! Looking forward to trying it out. I won't consider paying for it until it's at least FOSS though, like IntelliJ or PyCharm. I paid for those 2 products and those 2 products alone solely because they are free and open source (I can't get shafted by a sudden change in licensing and can switch to a functionally equivalent free version on a whim).

New comment by anotherrandom in "iPhone Ownership Among U.S. Teens Hits 87%"

anotherrandom — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 01:47:13 +0000

I thought the pictures being downsized was due to compression to more easily go through SMS whereas iMessage is an internet-based chat, not just because "Android bad"

New comment by anotherrandom in "Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay"

anotherrandom — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 01:45:44 +0000

Just set up an email service and everything and start offering similiarities to Google's web ecosystem already. Mozilla doesn't need to worry about devices or a cloud division, or even a search engine (yet? Brave has one).

The slower they are to realize they need to do all that to stay relevant, the faster Firefox's market share shrinks

New comment by anotherrandom in "Ask HN: Why does the US and Russia still cooperate on space?"

anotherrandom — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 05:45:42 +0000

Science is bigger than politics and war. The US and Russia still worked together in the space area during the cold war in some ways, despite the two nations being a hair away from wiping each other off the face of the earth