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You're right, but can we stick with Blue Ocean and Red Ocean as metaphors? 0 to 1 makes sense, but 1 to N loses it, and the whole framing reeks of pseudomathematics and math envy (…

> Relays are quite expensive to run While relays are among the more intensive parts of AT Protocol infrastructure, their cost of operation is still something most people can afford…

> Talking to random people about anything, and talking to girls, and talking to girls romantically are all separate skills from talking to someone about an interest This is entirel…

So this never happened? https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/on-elons-whim-x-now-treats... The policy was enacted less than 2 years ago, which is why your previous tweets didn't get a…

> platform for people who want to isolate from ideas and narratives they find uncomfortable Ahh, like how if you say the word "cis" on Twitter, you get banned because the idea that…

Your comment amounts to "so much for the tolerant left", and you seem to be projecting qualities of Twitter (under current management) onto Bluesky.

the author wrote this in the Leaflet comments sections: """ through some upsetting turn of events, someone put this on hackernews and started a piranha feeding frenzy of speculatio…

People in this thread are celebrating this, though it inevitably means ID-checking and mass surveillance. Australia's ban also exempted Roblox, a platform that exploits children an…

This compares it to Python and Rust implementations, I wonder how it compares to Julia's SatelliteToolbox.jl? Julia also compiles to LLVM and has macros for explicit SIMD. https://…

At least when Google used the phrase, it had relatively few major controversies. Anthropic, by contrast, works with Palantir: https://www.axios.com/2024/11/08/anthropic-palantir-am…

I'm guessing he means Rust voicing solidarity with Ukraine and sympathy with everyone affected by a conflict? It's hard to tell when people vaguepost. I guess wars of invasion/anne…

Agreed, the vagueposting is indication of ill-intent of the top-level comment. No hyperlinks or specifics, it might as well be a game of mad-libs where you insert your grievance he…

The problem is that the AI companies are most interested in displacing the existing labor force more so than they are interested in developing new uses of AI in areas that humans a…

> Like if I join some node then one day it's offline and all my data lost. I mean surely instances usually don't disappear without notice but it still a totally possible thing. Thi…

adding Threads's 400M users changes the ActivityPub fediverse centralized market share to 99.72%, beyond that of BlueSky's share of 99.55%.

This is factually wrong, and disproven by the fact there are now fully independent federated instances such as BlackSky and soon to be NorthSky. Furthermore, they have independent …

Do you have any specific criticism? Or are you just bloviating?

Individualism has been failing Americans, while the quality of life has improved dramatically in less individualist cultures, in many ways surpassing Americans (health care, housin…

How are payment processors gatekeeping free speech good? You probably also thought it was good when Visa and Mastercard stopped payments to investigative journalists who were publi…

@steamdb.info‬: Steam has added a new rule disallowing games that violate the rules and standards set forth by payment processors and card networks, or internet network providers. …

> SF ... created laws that were empathetic to robbers and thieves. You're right in that SF does way too much to accommodate robber barons, tech moguls, heavily-subsidized Silicon V…

San Francisco doesn't even have free Narcan, which many US cities do. And of course syringes will flood the streets when you don't have safe injection sites. SF needs to learn from…

Respectfully, if you really believed this, you wouldn't be hiding behind a throwaway account.