All the ones where the idea was to “just start something, grow grow grow, then figure out monetization later” is wild to me.

E.g. reddit. It worked. CEO is rich, site is still online. Somehow they got investors probably, presumably.

I get not having profit. I get not having income, if it’s in some prototype phase. But having no plan or idea whatsoever for how to monetize and still getting VC? Wild.

Kann schon sein, aber ich sehe da keine Quelle und eben auch nicht die angesprochenen Dokumente.

I had a phase as a teen when I was constantly swearing. My parents told me that, it can’t be that bad and it’s really annoying.

And it’s mostly an impulse reaction and we’re kind of above that.

It doesn’t mean that you can’t express pain or anger. You’re just not insulting people’s ears if you scream “Aaaaah” when you bang your toe against a table leg or something. And your environment really doesn’t deserve it. Most people are somewhat compassionate and you’re just swearing while they try to help… that’s not a pleasant environment for them to be in. It makes it harder to help you.

No to both questions. I just made a change and that was it. And it has never stopped me from expressing anything.

If anything, it lends more weight to the regular words.

A _______ criminal? Or a criminal?

You can still put the same emotion into the words, they’re just not swear words. :)

Jap.

Es ist ein sehr schwieriges Problem über das ich schon lange nachdenke, wie man da ggf. wieder raus kommt.

Das große, große Problem, ist das unser Mix aus Gruppenbildung und Abstimmungen genau diese Monster erschaffen hat, und das ist halt unser mehr oder weniger bester Ansatz für Demokratie. Jede Bewegung weg von diesem Modell ist entweder mehr in Personen zentriert, was wir als diktatorisch(er) sehen würden, oder direkte(re) Demokratie, die im Ruf steht zu populistisch, und zu oberflächlich zu sein.

Und damit sind wir mehr oder weniger systematisch Schachmatt.

Andererseits wird es weiterhin viele noch motivierte Menschen geben, die versuchen die Struktur von innen heraus zu verbessern. Das könnte auch funktionieren, aber ich sehe es noch nicht. Die würden sich aber (zurecht) gegen Vorwürfe wehren, das sie “das falsch machen”.

Den Standpunkt den ich im Moment am ehesten glauben würde, wäre wenn es eine Partei mit einem Program ankommt und ich an der git history sehen kann das die Leute auf den Listen auch tatsächlich die Leute sind die das Dokument geschrieben haben und das das wirklich deren Meinungen und Positionen sind.

Und sie dann knallhart daran zu messen wie sehr sie sich an ihre eigenen Aussagen halten. Ich würde lieber ein “weiß ich nicht” sehen, als das sich jemand zu weit aus dem Fenster lehnt, was gerade zu passieren scheint.

Plus, was ich auch sehen will sind sehr konkrete Ziele, also z.b. eine Wohlstandsverteilungskurve die in Deutschland das Ziel sein soll und dann das Steuersystem danach auszulegen wie wir da hin kommen. Und Entwürfe für Gesetze bevor man in der Regierung ist. Wo klar ist was ggf. Koaltionisverhandlungsmasse ist und was nicht. Also Vermögenssteuer (nicht verhandelbar) in Höhe von (2-4%) p.a. und das dann verhandelnbar im Ausmaß.

Aber das ist alles theoretisch, faktisch kriegt man die Leute wahrscheinlich nicht dafür zusammen.

Das ist gut, für den Fachkräftemangel. Die Leute können einfach umschulen, dann sind unsere Probleme gelöst.

Oder?

Es lag doch an den fehlenden Bewerberzahlen, oder?

Having an easy on the eyes markdown that is also easy to parse would be cool.

But YAML does these things:

https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-from-hell

which are not excusable, for any reason.

I’m not sure now that I think about it, but I find this more explicit and somehow more free than json. Which can’t be true, since you can just

{"anything you want":{...}}

But still, this:

<my_custom_tag>
<this> 
<that>
<roflmao>
...

is all valid.

You can more closely approximate the logical structure of whatever you’re doing without leaving the internal logic of the… syntax?

<car>
<tyre> air, <valve>closed</valve>  </tyre>
<tyre> air, <valve>closed</valve>  </tyre>
<tyre>      <valve>open</valve>  </tyre>
<tyre> air, <valve>closed</valve>  </tyre>
</car>

Maybe I just like the idea of a closing tag being very specific about what it is that is being closed (?). I guess I’m really not sure, but it does feel nicer to my brain to have starting and closing tags and distinguishing between what is structure, what is data, what is inside where.

My peeve with json is that… it doesn’t properly distinguish between strings that happen to be a number and “numbers” resulting in:

myinput = {"1":"Hello",1:"Hello"}
tempjson = json.dumps(myinput)
output = json.loads(tempjson)
print(output)
>>>{'1': 'Hello'}

in python.

I actually don’t like the attributes in xml, I think it would be better if it was mandatory that they were also just more tagged elements inside the others, and that the “validity” of a piece of xml being a certain object would depend entirely on parsing correctly or not.

I particularly hate the idea of attributes in svg, and even more particularly the way they defined paths.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Tutorial/Paths#curve_commands

It works, but I consider that truly ugly. And also I don’t understand because it would have been trivial to do something like this:

<path><element>data</element><element>data</element></path>

YAML

To each their own indeed.

;)

It is very cool, specifically as a human readable mark down / data format.

The fact that you can make anything a tag and it’s going to be valid and you can nest stuff, is amazing.

But with a niche use case.

Clearly the tags waste space if you’re actually saving them all the time.

Good format to compress though…

Ja, jetzt wo man den Kram nicht nur mit Paypal bezahlen kann sondern auch mit Kreditkarten ist das definitiv die komfortable Lösung.

Ich hab neulich auch zum ersten mal die Packstation + App benutzt. Da braucht man wirklich nur noch die Box. Aufkleber gibts an der Station.

Es gibt noch die unschönen Fehler das die Karte und Informationen nicht gecached werden und man mobile Daten braucht um das Ding zu benutzen, auch wenn man davor steht. Aber sonst? Ein guter Fortschritt.

It also means “we don’t know (yet)” so there is a chance it’s not that toxic.

At the cost of sounding naive and stupid

It may be a naive question, but it’s a very important naive question. Naive doesn’t mean bad.

The answer is that that is not possible, because the compiler is supposed to translate the very specific language of C into mostly very specific machine instructions. The programmers who wrote the code, did so because they usually expect a very specific behavior. So, that would be broken.

But also, the “unsafety” is in the behavior of the system and built into the language and the compiler.

It’s a bit of a flawed comparison, but you can’t build a house on a foundation of wooden poles, because of the advantages that wood offers, and then complain that they are flammable. You can build it in steel, but you have to replace all of the poles. Just the poles on the left side won’t do.

And you can’t automatically detect the unsafe parts and just patch those either. If we could, we could just fix them directly or we could automatically transpile them. Darpa is trying that at the moment.

I think the timing isn’t quite right, because the other social media places aren’t figuratively totally on fire.

There isn’t “the great social media collapse of 20XX” happening, because of some security issue or servers being super expensive or ads being actually 99% of the content. The forces that be are managing things well enough that things aren’t collapsing right now.

There is no single actually big celebrity that has picked a fediverse platform as the place to be, follow and discuss news.

And there is no killer feature that you can only get here.

The bonfire is stacked nicely, but there is no spark. For now. That could change at any moment, but it could also take a while.

I don’t think the timing is quite right.

I don’t really have anything meaningful to contribute to the feeds and most of the discussions are a bit pointless. They’re not really changing anything. So, in part those other platforms are fueled by outrage culture. Which I know is bad, so not having it is good, but then we also don’t have the growth from it.

The technology is there and that should help. Apparently people aren’t going to mass migrate from reddit quite yet, even though the push last year probably helped a lot.

It is a network problem. I think the slow growth will / should happen eventually, because the fediverse is an objectively good place to start a community. It’s just not going to be fast and other platforms adding push factors would help obviously. We’ll see where reddit goes with their paid subs.

I don’t think the low effort posts are a problem, there is hardly motivation to interact with an empty page and there is slightly more if there are “boring topics”. At least it’s a place.

You’re a hero for making this happen in… 24 hours? 48?

The issue won’t go away, we’ll see how well everyone else deals with it, but this is a super strong argument for your system / server.

(Advertise it. Advertise it HARD. “piefed, we have private votes”.)

I would like a (c) where my instances collects all the votes on the post, and then transmits an anonymized aggregate.

“We didn’t consider the idea because it sounded silly”

Isn’t something I want scientists to say. So good on them for taking a look at the feasibility.

Tim:

““I can tell you for a fact that more than just a few PSF members are terrified by the possibility that the CoC WG [Code of Conduct Workgroup] will ruin their careers,” he wrote.”

CoC WG:

“How dare you. Racist. Filth. 3 month suspension.”

😂

Alrighty then.

No.

https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/programs/applications#requirements

Take a look.

Though, if you have not heard of the program before, you’re probably not involved with a project that qualifies.

How is it vague?

It’s vague in all the legal ways:

• First of all which kinds of games it applies to. It obviously can’t work for games that have a technical server requirement, … world of warcraft, but actually EVE online. The guys who run that game, get experimental hardware that’s usually military only (or at least they did in the past). The server is not something, you could run even if you wanted to. Drawing the legal boundary between what “could be” single player offline (e.g. the crew, far cry, hitman), wasn’t done.

• It’s not clear how it should apply to in terms of company scale. The new messenger legislation that was passed, made space for the EU parliament / system to declare and name, individually, who counts as a company that is is big enough, so that they have to open their messenger system to others for interoperability. It’s not clear if the law has to apply to everyone, and every game, or just e.g. companies above 20 million revenue or something.

• It’s not clear what happens if a company goes bankrupt, and the system isn’t immediately ready to keep working.

And a few more.

That being said, I think Thor’s stance on this is silly. All of that is part of the discussion that is now starting. He could raise good points and get them included, but I guess that’s not happening.