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Software developer. Most comfortable with Go, can do frontend too. I built jungletv.live, underlx.com, tny.im and more. I know more about the internals of GTA V and Watch Dogs than their average players. Sometimes I make music and high effort shitposts.
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Yeah I wish I could define different feeds so I could post about more stuff without inevitably annoying a subset of my followers.
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Utah teapots
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I would pay good money for a game with the level and world design of Watch Dogs 2, but a more mature story that isn't necessarily set in the universe of Watch Dogs. Alas, I don't think it'll come from Ubisoft and I don't think that other company with dubious ethics is going to provide that either.
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Protocol designers adjusting the various relevant properties to achieve "decentralisation".
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moz://a vibes
(also TIL you can paste moz://a into the Firefox address bar and it'll lead somewhere)
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I am optimistic, let's see how it evolves. I hope we can get to the point where users can subscribe to/unsubscribe from specific sources of verification. At least there's already one good advantage over Twitter: there's a setting on the official clients to hide the badges.
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I know that some people are just afraid that the same sort of bullshit could happen over here. Right verification can feel somewhat arbitrary, it feels like we're at the "Twitter right after verification was introduced" point.
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I think if you had been very active on Twitter over the last 10+ years, you would understand it better. Some people felt Twitter was destroyed with the introduction of the blue check, others when the blue check started having an algorithmic signal, others when blue checks went up for sale, etc.
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- People generally dislike change/unfamiliarity
- The visual similarity to the badge from Twitter is probably triggering PTSD-like reactions in some users
- Some perceive the badge as a status symbol, an exclusive club of sorts, that induces undesired behavior in interactions in the network
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But governments generally don't care about decentralization and not all of them care about privacy either, so I don't see things going anywhere great. Maybe we'll all have to get blue checks whether we want them or not.
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A semi-related note is Discord getting backlash for implementing age verification in certain jurisdictions as per new regulations... all things in the realm of "identity verification". Problems with no easy solution, especially when one cares about privacy and decentralization.
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I'm a bit more optimistic, I think eventually someone will invent a better system but the domains thing, alone, was never going to be it, realistically (even for technically minded users, it's still possible to impersonate people through the use of similar-enough domain names).
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It's funny that you mentioned this right after I was done reading blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-0..., whose setup uses lighttpd (but with caddy ultimately in front of the entire thing)
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As much as I dislike this fact, it was already known that relying on users looking at FQDNs in order to ascertain legitimacy would be a failure: users are still, to this day, falling for phishing attacks where they enter their credentials on websites that definitely don't have the legit domain name.
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on the surface i'm fine with this because impersonation *is* an issue, not everyone who deserves verification has a website (even if they should) and website handle verification is largely a failed experiment for the general public to trust. but lack of transparency is what made Twitter's so bad
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It's always sad to see independent artists that don't have their stuff up on Bandcamp or some other place where I can buy it in lossless quality and without DRM or other BS. No, I am not going to be buying their stuff on iTunes. At that point, price aside, piracy will be offering a better service.
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Leave it to Valve to make a device like the Steam Deck, which is a really good helper for playing two games at once (PC+Deck), and then making people use offline mode to bypass the check for "account can't be playing on two machines simultaneously."
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But for real, I knew I'm not cut out for mastering when I realized that I can listen to other people's masters like this and say they're still fine. Granted, usually only clean mixes can be pushed this hard... turns out the mixing part is kinda important.
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Clean mixdown? Sounds like too much work. I shall continue with my super busy mixes, placing a soft clipper on the master with the gain and saturation turned up to the moon, and pretending the distortion is an intentional artistic choice. It's not like I can hear you over this earrape anyway 🙉
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The domain thing is still useful to give people who aren't worthy of a blue check (like me) some way to distinguish their accounts from those of impersonators and/or people who genuinely just have similar handles.
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Another MLM scheme, like we didn't have enough of those already!
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Contrary to popular belief, "decentralized" does not mean it's uncensorable or that it's somehow protected from/immune to legal action. Most often, it just means it'll break in more terrible, technical ways when it is inevitably targeted by enforcement actions. Math can be illegal, unfortunately.
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This notion makes sense to me though, because I would expect that getting unsigned "amateur-written" code to run, would be more difficult than getting retail code (i.e. signed code, written by people with the right SDKs and docs) to run "when it shouldn't."
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Annoyingly though, I think historically (across all systems) homebrew has enabled piracy more often than DRM-circumvention methods have enabled homebrew. I'm not big on history so don't quote me on that.
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Don't let Big Cloud know about this or they'll delete the delete feature.
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previously meowed meows are also no longer available.
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We could end up having new AM4 CPUs but not enough DDR4 sticks going around to run them.
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Meaning: while there are steps one can take to increase the likelihood of a certain outcome, you can't teach someone how to e.g. reliably and profitably win the lottery. Trying to do that will turn you into a sleazy salesman, profiting from the "lessons" rather than actually giving solid advice.
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There are reasons (beyond greed) why most actively successful people don't typically spend significant portions of their time teaching others to achieve the same. There are also topics where it's impossible to be a subject matter expert - you can't teach the parts that are best explained as luck.
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meowing & purring experts group
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SQEX polyethylene terephthalates?!
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...but since I now have a Steam Deck for portable gaming and Linux shenanigans, the notion of getting a MacBook to replace my aging and bulky laptop for non-gaming stuff isn't that alien to me anymore. If only they weren't so expensive ðŸ«
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You'll have to research and decide whether the difference is worth the extra cost. Personally, and somewhat unfortunately because the hardware is really good, I can't imagine myself being restricted to macOS _on my main machine_...
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If you're absolutely sure that you won't ever want to use the laptop for gaming / that macOS will support all your use cases for the foreseeable future, the MacBook will probably deliver a better overall performance (both in terms of compute and battery life) & remain competitive for longer.
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Probably still supports more web standards than Safari.
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So is the question "when's Oracle knocking on the door?" 😬
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"kind and nosy" gang represent...
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Now that I think about it, I think the only VST I paid for is StandardCLIP, which I use to distort everything all the way up to -6 LUFS (only for YouTube to normalize back to -14) while having the gall to call that "mastering." You're welcome.