maybe i'm too stupid but i dont have a clue what this is
Readit Newsabluecloud commented on Code Storage by the Pierre Computer Company code.storage/... · Posted by u/admp
Most of this is caused by incentives:
YouTube and others pay for clicks/views, so obviously you can maximize this by producing lots of mediocre content.
LinkedIn is a place to sell, either a service/product to companies or yourself to a future employer. Again, the incentive is to produce more content for less effort.
Even HN has the incentive of promoting people's startups.
Is it possible to create a social network (or "discussion community", if you prefer) that doesn't have any incentive except human-to-human interaction? I don't mean a place where AI is banned, I mean a place where AI is useless, so people don't bother.
The closest thing would probably be private friend groups, but that's probably already well-served by text messaging and in-person gatherings. Are there any other possibilities?
i had the idea of starting a forum based social network that used domain validation (e.g. work domain) as part of your registration and then displayed that as part of your profile.
the idea being that you'd somewhat ensure the person is a human that _may well_ know what they're talking about e.g. `abluecloud from @meta.com`.
abluecloud commented on Heroku – second outage in two days status.heroku.com/inciden... · Posted by u/henryaj
pathetic display from their ops team, so little coms and seemingly the exact same thing that brought down nearly the whole of the EU yesterday.
abluecloud commented on iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max apple.com/newsroom/2024/0... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
I have a hilarious list of animals that my cat has been misclassified as by my iPhone. Everything from a beetle to a nematode. It doesn't give me a lot of confidence in these features!
Chihuahua or Muffin?
abluecloud commented on iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max apple.com/newsroom/2024/0... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
I doubt that the descendants will be that interested to be honest. It's not like we today pour over the images that exist of our parents and grandparents.
Having thousands upon thousands of images to look at does not make it better.
It's nice to have a couple from each year maybe, but the huge amount of pics we have today is just ruining the experience and value of the pics somehow.
As they are stored somewhere digital on a device or cloud makes them also somehow less accessible even though technically they are more accessible. If they lay around in an album on a coffee table or a book shelf makes them more visible. It makes it also a nice way of talking about the pictures with friends or relatives when someone pics up the album.
i think the difference from when i grew up is that there were many baby photos of me but they were hard to find and view, you needed to go to the persons house and look through all their photos to find them.
if i look at my brothers kids, their phones will be full to the brim with 1000's of photos of them. we have whatsapp groups filled with their photos.
i wonder how interested they'll be when they're 40 to see these photos. perhaps a few, but all of them?
the sound mix on the video demo is unbearable for me. the vocal is lower than the background music.
abluecloud commented on · Posted by u/myrandomcomment
good think you dont need to be signed in to play any of the games you've purchased...
That's a very appealing aesthetic (possibly because I'm old enough to remember downloading games over a 2400 baud modem!). Very nice work!
That video looked great, and (at least for me) felt very evocative. In the section where the roof was too low, I started feeling claustrophobic and cramped.
Those rock and sandy-floored caverns, and the cavern with boulders (which are gorgeous!) made me think I'd love playing a Myst or LucasArts-style adventure game using this as the renderer. Spelunking through caves, or archeological digs, etc.
Can't wait to see where you take this!
completely agree with the aesthetics!
my issue with it that it looked so good, but the architecture felt wrong. in the part with the low ceiling, it felt like those blocks hanging from the roof were defying physics
abluecloud commented on Volunteer.gov: Discover volunteer opportunities around the country volunteer.gov/s/... · Posted by u/KoftaBob
The target audience of volunteers for this type of position are people that are probably used to happily sleeping in tents and eating camp food for days/weeks at a time. I don't think they'd mind.
guess it's a race to the bottom then
This seems like entirely normal human behavior at every level of society, no? Of course asking Zuckerberg is a bit like asking a bartender, but we know very well that it's not only bartenders who'd be against stopping alcohol sales.
It is strange to condemn Zuckerberg for doing this unless you're also willing to implement the all the other (vastly more important) advice from wellbeing experts that we as a society have pretty decisively rejected.