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Expert developer, Buddhist

  • Would a Key-Based Login System Make More Sense for the Fediverse?

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  • I guess it doesn't really work as described. The data that's valuable is your content history & unique username. There's no way around having to migrate/store this somewhere, and it shouldn't have to be replicated by every node. So basically we just need a solution for porting account data from one instance to another securely and accurately

  • Proton CEO supports business policies of republicans

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  • The most interesting part of this take is that JD Vance is very much in the big tech friends circle with Thiel and Musk. But I'm sure they can run some antitrust against their enemies at Google or whatever

  • US President-elect Donald Trump says a ceasefire deal has been reached in Gaza.

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  • Damn dawgs, Trump campaigned saying that he would fix this as a mere president-elect. This is my "wow holy shit" face, actually seeing it happen maybe :O

    Ok so he said same about Russia, let's see it

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    Why Plebbit Outperforms Any Other Decentralized Social Media Platform

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  • Well, I took the time to read the whitepaper, and it's yeah, pretty dumb sounding. The gist is that it's p2p post sharing with lots of captchas & a crypto edge that it probably doesn't need https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/eb02f20b-e787-4a02-b188-d0fcbc250ba1/pleb.tex-6d2e1bf.pdf

    The similarities to Lemmy are substantial, it's just not on activitypub, but rather its own pubsub thing. If you want to host data, you still have to keep a node running at all times, it's not the case that "there are no instances". Those instances can moderate the content, so it's not the case that "there's no moderation." The whitepaper mentions that "its possible to delegate running a client to a centralized server..." rather than having to have a fat syncing client running on your own machine ... in lemmy, it's more like "its possible to run your own node if you want". Plebbit doesn't care about maintaining history of posts, it expects that servers will go down over time, and the data will be lost. Lemmy is pretty similar in that regard too, if all instances hosting the data go down, then it's lost. The expected outcome is that there's a handful of big nodes, as is the typical result of this form of "decentralization" - same as Lemmy, Email

    Ultimately, I don't see Plebbit doing anything particularly smarter/better, and having private/public key cryptography involved doesn't really matter. They talk about blockchains and using coins as anti-spam mechanisms, but I don't see why that's relevant to the implementation

  • Freelance Developers of Lemmy, how did you start freelancing and how is it going?

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  • Honestly, I don't recommend it. It's a stressful lifestyle, you have to do a lot, and it's rare that you make more than just switching jobs. Seeking jobs, doing negotiations / signing contracts, and dealing with the kind of bosses that don't understand software well — are all really annoying. I've been a contractor for 5 years now, and I'm genuinely not sure what the good part of it is

    Ok, so how to do it / get started. Imo you need a well known public project and speciality. Being the lead dev of a popular open source project is a good way. People will reach out to you for help integrating it, or making something similar, or adding features they need & will pay for. A specialty is something like being really good at WebRTC, financial regulations law, graphics drivers, crypto smart contracts, etc — with a proven record. You need a brand for yourself, and it needs to be way stronger than just a resume. You need to spend part of your time networking & job hunting, always

    An important part is either getting paid very well, or taking ownership stake in the projects you build to roll the dice that way. Otherwise, you would be better off doing a job. Why? Because a contracting firm, which I had, isn't worth anything in a sale, aside from the talent it has. Compare this with something like a SAAS startup where the value is a multiple of revenue and user count. Having a flat value for just the employees isn't as valuable as a 10x multiplier on a steady business. It's volatile. I've heard construction contractors complain the same way, "I just take a salary to build a house someone else flips for double, I wish I owned my own house"

    Honestly, software jobs are lucrative and easy. Contracting is stressful and complicated. The freedom isn't much different

  • President Biden commutes sentence for former Dixon, Ill. Comptroller Rita Crundwell, who embezzled over $53M

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  • There's like 1.2 million people in USA prisons. Why this group in particular?? Just do what every dem president does and release all the potheads without actually fixing the war on drugs problem

  • Reddit Will License Its Data to Train LLMs, So We Made a Firefox Extension That Lets You Replace Your Comments With Any (Non-Copyrighted) Text

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  • Reddit isn't going anywhere, and they WILL prevent this kind of existential business threat, if it actually becomes one. It's pretty easy for them to institute a policy like "no edits after a month" — or serving older content

  • Reddit Will License Its Data to Train LLMs, So We Made a Firefox Extension That Lets You Replace Your Comments With Any (Non-Copyrighted) Text

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  • Tech companies usually take backups y'know? There's almost certainly older snapshots from before the AI craze, or at the first sign of trouble ...

    The main buyer is Google. Google actually ALREADY has all the data on Reddit, they scraped and cached it all long ago. Remember how Google used to offer mirrors of pretty much any site? Well, guess what, they probably will have all that valuable gold stashed. So it's not like reddit is actually transferring terabytes to Google, it's just a licensing deal, and the execs are having a fun chuckle about users trying to "delete their data"

  • After the new Kurzgesagt video about black holes...

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  • My mang if giant atoms exist then we are definitely the empty space between them, part of a large X-dimensional furry

  • Mexico says Canada wishes it had its ‘cultural riches’ amid tariffs feud

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  • Wow that's pretty fkin shallow my guy, try going to Mexico one day. There are ancient ruins the size of modern cities everywhere, unique construction styles that make Hollywood look like a tin shack town, and a very rich show/restaurant scene. I mean it's a huge fucking country, and I don't think you're gonna find Mexicans that see drugs as a good Christian lifestyle

  • After the new Kurzgesagt video about black holes...

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  • Imma wait to be excited about this, it's some kinda nonsense like gigantic atoms, with a hard candy shell made of bubbles but the energy of 10 suns idk man that's pretty out there

    Ofc existence is pretty strange on a good day ...

  • Magic rule

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  • Yeeeep that's a butt plug

  • Australia bans social media for under 16s

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  • Then I read that chat apps and YouTube would not be banned, and scoffed

    Literally chat apps are social media. You can post stories and pump memes and news. You can even have bots that scrape and post content. YouTube is just a matter of checking a box whether it's "for kids" and they already do that. Basically the whole thing is stupid

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  • Y'know, you're right & that's wild. I guess I should have known, but didn't assume that they have like 600m in unrelated investments. Though the burn rate is quite a lot too, so they probably would scale back browser dev a lot if it lost its profitability & become a pure VC kinda org

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  • Not only does it need to do everything from memory management to job scheduling, it also has all of the UI and graphics driver complexity blended in. Usually that's a different layer that the kernel historically didn't worry about, it would be as if GTK is part of Linux, along with the programming language. Then there's shit like WebAssembly and WebGL, databases, sandboxing, permissions, user management... A Brower is like a cross platform OS built to run on another OS

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  • The thing is it's never been more expensive and time consuming to write a browser, it's bigger scope than a kernel in many ways. Stuff like Epiphany isn't even close, despite relying on Apple's webkit. Most distros just push people to Firefox now, despite a history of KHTML and all that. We would need something like the Linux Foundation to pick it up (which runs on corporate sponsorship for a shared resource)

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  • Yeah but in the short term the company will literally go out of business

  • The Philippine vice president publicly threatens to have the president assassinated

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  • “Don’t worry about my security because I’ve talked with somebody. I said 'if I’m killed, you’ll kill BBM, Liza Araneta and Martin Romualdez. No joke, no joke,’” the vice president said without elaborating

    I'm sorry, she said it's not a joke but, lmao

  • Trump Is Pissed at True Reports His Victory Wasn’t Exactly a Landslide

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  • Honestly hilarious level of QQ. The election wasn't rigged. He won by almost 100 electoral college votes. He had the most popular votes, by 2.5 million people, roughly 50%. Republicans swept House, Senate, and Governors

    Elections in the USA are always pretty close, that's how it works. But this victory is a complete and total one with no real room for doubt

    You may not like it, but those are the facts. Don't mimic the sad boy GOP crying "election fraud" — the people voted. Yes, that means there are people in this country that disagree with you and don't trust the direction of the Democrats. You might call them brainwashed, bigoted, transphobic, or religious extremists, but they get to voice their desires anyway. Society is a push and pull between different value systems, and imagining half the country is "evil" will only cause more harm

    Nothing is going to stop the transition. Buckle up, and try harder next time. Maybe the Dems will actually let a primary happen rather than choosing your leader for you

  • HMD Fusion Review: A Cheap Modular Android Phone

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  • cries in his no longer useable projector mod