Posts by raven667@hachyderm.io
(DIR) Post #AW5yWLsd0Cd5dYslzk by raven667@hachyderm.io
2023-05-27T23:21:20Z
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@lauren @spaf I don't really see this as a problem, each instance is going to have their own community standards and will either fully, partially or not at all federate with other instances. It is more like blogs where commenters form independent communities, with federation, than a single community, so move to an instance that has the community you want. If some person or instance blocks you, or you them, then you never have to think about them again 😉
(DIR) Post #AW60ErdkNehupoi8fI by raven667@hachyderm.io
2023-05-27T23:40:36Z
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@lauren @cazabon it would be very democratic to list the ToS for each instance when you pick them, in a standard way, but people wouldn't read them
(DIR) Post #AW62FSrgBCuaC3dqNc by raven667@hachyderm.io
2023-05-28T00:03:06Z
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@lauren it would be helpful if the client was clear if you are following someone and your instance has blocked them, if it doesn't do that already idk, so instance members can provide feedback to their admin on their moderation decisions and users on that instance can decide for themselves and vote with their feet if they don't agree.
(DIR) Post #AW64plLP9Pftq7yuS8 by raven667@hachyderm.io
2023-05-28T00:13:42Z
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@lauren @raven667 I expect every instance to be run by it's own petty tyrant, and the trick is to find one you are compatible with. I guess I would not expect reliable comms outside your own instance or a limited set of others that have mostly compatible policies. Instance owners don't really have to listen to anyone, they have their own incentives for running an instance, and some are just not going to be aligned with yours.
(DIR) Post #AW64pm4mQhyG6rD9BA by raven667@hachyderm.io
2023-05-28T00:27:56Z
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@lauren @raven667 maybe to think about it another way, if you are exposed to enough people on the internet, you are going to be a villain to someone you've never met, for reasons you may not even understand, and while this will be important to them for you it'll be Tuesday. It does suck if people are stuck in a community with a tyrant that they don't agree with and don't have the visibility to know
(DIR) Post #AW64vRVrnPCC4VaEd6 by raven667@hachyderm.io
2023-05-28T00:33:04Z
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@lauren yeah, agreed 👍. Give people the knowledge to make their own decision
(DIR) Post #AWCSu52WxIN0onPqm8 by raven667@hachyderm.io
2023-05-31T02:29:55Z
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@lauren I kind of figure that the "AI is a threat" ooga-booga coming from AI executives is just a sales tactic to build interest and get free advertising in the news. The pitch is "Our tech is so advanced it could literally be SkyNet" humblebrag.
(DIR) Post #AWHqo9Q18D2BLruHjc by raven667@hachyderm.io
2023-06-02T16:51:25Z
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@lauren by simulation they meant tabletop exercise, which the Pentagon runs all the time with various thinkers, to bring in off-the-wall ideas when planning. The described scenario is not exactly plausible because "AI" doesn't make logical inferences like what was initially described. AI can randomly try things and rank for success but they wouldn't "randomly" target their own unless they did not have friend-or-foe data. At that point you just have a fancy landmine
(DIR) Post #AY2lgxIdpnP8ZNqbpY by raven667@hachyderm.io
2023-07-24T21:09:38Z
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@Denton @jk I just don't understand how Python management is so much more difficult than Perl considering the age of both.I use the heck out of cpanspec and just plain rpmbuild to make well-formed RPM packages with all the dependencies tracked that we can manage in-house with yum/dnf, but setuptools doesn't do any auto-dep tracking, leading to venv and Java-style bundles or a lot of manual work making custom bdist_rpm command lines. I don't know why the common case is so difficult
(DIR) Post #AhIj95tZmtjKSez4QC by raven667@hachyderm.io
2024-04-27T03:29:18Z
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@foone I've played with Scratch a little with the kid and that could be a fun show, just animating the sprites and interacting in interesting ways. I'm not sure how many episodes you can do, but neither was Bob Ross I'm sure.
(DIR) Post #AiTHP0bTecVrQEXHcm by raven667@hachyderm.io
2024-06-01T03:35:53Z
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@foone at least the RF keyboard probably worked, I have/had a wireless PS/2 keyboard and mouse with an IR dongle, that shit never worked right and was a total waste of money 😕
(DIR) Post #AjErVAJ4xm5waCr95E by raven667@hachyderm.io
2024-06-24T02:28:36Z
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@foone it got you to share 😜
(DIR) Post #AjiAm74mV8vkfDBeOu by raven667@hachyderm.io
2024-07-08T05:55:18Z
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@ZachWeinersmith I think there is real value in maintaining regional capacity though, China can't be the worlds _only_ manufacturer of PPE (or a million other items in the supply chain) because if they had to choose between maintaining exports and protecting their own people, the exports would lose. COVID didn't hit them as hard and as fast as it did other places because of their strong early response and willingness to maintain a high degree of public health procedures, keeping factories open.