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Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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Post by selfhoster11 »

meekmockmook wrote: post #178
PicassoCTs wrote: post #174

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This. I miss that refugee camp of misfits, outcast from society, before that which haunted us came back with a vengeance. There should be a non-cooperate sector of the web. Where all is GPL and this taint on the world could be removed.

A world without newsfeeds and algorithmically/SEO driven culture wars? A world without our social lives being manipulated by shady Big Tech firms and VCs, free of corporate surveillance? A man can dream.

That was the original dream of the internet, except replace these concerns with period-specific equivalents.

Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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Post by dahdum »

alacombe wrote: post #109
labster wrote: post #99

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I have controversial views (the EM Drive works! Sport is the opiate of the masses!) but I seem to get along just fine on social media. It’s really only the people who have boring, discredited political views who have problems.

> I have controversial views This is nowhere controversial. Try to be a constitutional originalist in the Sillicon Valley / tech sites, and we'll continue this conversation...

> Try to be a constitutional originalist in the Sillicon Valley / tech sites, and we'll continue this conversation...

I don't think it's as rare or controversial as you think, many people just haven't formed a full opinion on judicial interpretation. Textualism in particular appeals to STEM folks. We've needlessly politicized them as Red Team vs Blue Team, when they don't see themselves as anything close to that. They're all first and foremost legal nerds.

Now if you're making pro-life arguments wrapped with original intent, I can see you getting some aggressive pushback.

Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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Post by selfhoster11 »

pmlnr wrote: post #273
selfhoster11 wrote: post #259

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Graphics or audio needs some sort of talent and ever-so-tiny amount of skills with some editing program to make it work. Text needs merely a QWERTY (or touchscreen) keyboard, and the ability to compose text in the natural language of your choice (which most are able to do by the age of 10, barring low-literacy areas). In that sense, text is much cheaper to use for self-expression, even though necessarily limited. On…

> Text needs merely a QWERTY (or touchscreen) keyboard, and the ability to compose text in the natural language of your choice Writing is a lot more harder, than, for example, drawing. You said it yourself: "by the age of 10" compared to drawing, basically since someone can hold a crayon.

My unstated assumption was that whatever self-expression you put out there, would be at least possible to appreciate by an audience of adult humans.

I understand and believe that children should be allowed to self-express, but quite frankly, nobody is interested in hearing what the child has to say because it's mostly awkward in execution and repetitive. The relatives and perhaps people who work with children professionally will care, but the general public won't unless it's particularly funny, poignant, or whatever.

Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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Post by dahdum »

dragonwriter wrote: post #201
FactolSarin wrote: post #185

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There's two ways to interpret the constitution: the honest way, and the way where you pretend that not only were the Founders of one mind on what the Constitution meant, but also that you can read that mind two and a half centuries later.

So, you are saying that textualist originalism, like Scalias, is the honest way, whereas intentionalist originalism is dishonest? (And, yeah, there's actually more than two ways to interpret the Constituion.)

Not the OP, but of those two, I certainly agree textualism is more "honest". I don't see how you could ever divine a singular true intent behind a compromise of hundreds of divergent minds.

Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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Post by skinkestek »

Yizahi wrote: post #281
skinkestek wrote: post #97

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Try to point out something correct but moderately controversial. I think I've been modded for: - trying to get people to hate less on Russians - on the other hand, in the same forum: trying to tell some over eager people that no, Russians aren't saints and it isn't all NATOs fault. - pointing out (as an insider that was supposedly one of the victims in a major news story recently) that the "facts" didn't check out at…

I fully agree, we shouldn't hate Russians, they only wish to expand their lebensraum as it is their birthright. We shouldn't blame them for doing the right thing.

I stand for what I wrote: We shouldn't hate Russian citizens.

On the other hand we should be extremely careful when their military are "helpfully" supporting "oppressed" Russian minorities in Ukraine etc etc.

Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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Post by zingermc »

Grazester wrote: post #187
zingermc wrote: post #171

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Hilariously, ColdFusion strikes again. I should have used pound signs around the bad_memories variable. The above code would dump the string "bad_memories". Corrected:

I don't believe that /> is needed anymore. You can just use > I unfortunately work with coldfusion/cmfl on a daily basis at my company. I am moving the servers over to Lucee from Coldfusion 10 and trying to have any new systems built on C#/.net. The most difficult part is getting other people on board. My manager is fine with what I am doing. He saids he is too old to learn a new language so myself and the other prog…

> Let me tell you folks. Writing spaghetti code with no separation of concerns and no version control is not exclusive to php

Yowza. If I can give you some unsolicited advice: get some kind of version control in place! Even if it's just a local git repo at first.

There were two things that made working in ColdFusion almost tolerable. (1) The place I worked started using an MVC framework before I left. I was pleasantly surprised by how much it improved the experience. (2) Transitioning to CFScript instead of CFML tags made a big difference as well.

But at the end of the day, it's still ColdFusion, and it drove me bonkers.

Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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Post by leshenka »

Yizahi wrote: post #281
skinkestek wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try to point out something correct but moderately controversial. I think I've been modded for: - trying to get people to hate less on Russians - on the other hand, in the same forum: trying to tell some over eager people that no, Russians aren't saints and it isn't all NATOs fault. - pointing out (as an insider that was supposedly one of the victims in a major news story recently) that the "facts" didn't check out at…

I fully agree, we shouldn't hate Russians, they only wish to expand their lebensraum as it is their birthright. We shouldn't blame them for doing the right thing.

where did you read this, I wonder

Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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Post by leshenka »

lovegoblin wrote: post #112
idclip wrote: post #74

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Not an SJW here, actually a political minority here ... i see a moderate amount of moderation and banning pf groups where i hang. Sure its not china but we are not using that asa standard .. and mate thats a ton of shaming in your tone .. please consider showing some compassion. I fail to see how his comment provoked yours ..

> SJW Hah people still use this term unironically?

More often than ever

Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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Post by aabbcc1241 »

meekmockmook wrote: post #55

As someone with extremely deep contempt for Silicon Valley, Big Tech monopolies, and modern social media culture, this brought a tear to my eye.It was so easy to make new friends online once upon a time. The fascist uniformity of modern social platforms has left a generation creatively stifled and alienated from each other. I miss the ugly comet cursors, the crummy MIDI tunes, the bad HTML, the encouragement to make…

Is Zeronet what you're looking for? That allows anyone to share their creative content / website with low entry barrier.
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