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solaceb commented on Scaling Mastodon is impossible lucumr.pocoo.org/2022/11/... · Posted by u/the_mitsuhiko

Yep and there’s already a paid service offering hosted instances!

There’s also an open and active GitHub issue on mastodon discussing how to separate server hosting from domain name so you can point DNS at an existing instance and use it from that domain: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/2668

Many thanks to my friend on twitter for pointing me to both of these: https://twitter.com/__jesse_li/status/1592006641897320448

solaceb · 3 years ago

A really, really deep irony that you found these cool new Masto things on twitter. The king still reigns

solaceb commented on iPad Pro M2 apple.com/newsroom/2022/1... · Posted by u/doerig

martin_drapeau · 3 years ago

My daughter is 16 and has used an iPad for school for many years. Latptops are foreign to her. Same for her cohort. They are the next generation of adults and have replaced desktops and laptops with iPads and iPhones.

solaceb · 3 years ago

That is scary to me, an entire generation growing up within the walled garden and perceiving only Apple's products as what is possible for computers to accomplish. These computers are confining, as much as their constriction liberates the user in its simplicity, it is a real constriction. To me, that's exactly what the FLOSS movement hoped to avoid, and failed to do so by advocating for a purist f/open stance rather than winning smaller battles with open source at least staying in the war for market share.

solaceb commented on Should billboard advertising be banned? bbc.com/news/business-628... · Posted by u/isomorph

solaceb · 3 years ago

yes

solaceb commented on San Francisco decriminalizes psychedelics doubleblindmag.com/san-fr... · Posted by u/O__________O

yadaeno · 4 years ago

Why is that a given without any thought of the consequences?

Heroin and fentanyl addictions ruin peoples lives forever, many regret ever taking it and wish they could escape the cycle of addiction but cant no matter how hard they try.

One reason they cant escape is because fentanyl use is so widespread and normalized the option to return to their old lifestyle is always extremely easy.

Freedom to take fentanyl and live on the street isnt freedom, its quite the opposite. Go walk around the tenderloin or pioneer square to see what this "free society" looks like.

solaceb · 4 years ago

Addiction is a problem, and it's a problem now, even with the harmful substances being prohibited. The fact that fentanyl and heroin are criminalized doesn't make anyone less likely to end up using them; the criminal penalties just make them even more dangerous to use. You're assuming that legalizing / decriminalizing fent and h possession the addiction situation would get worse -- I'm not convinced that is true.

If we legalized / decriminalized the possession of all drugs including fent and heroin, then people using them would not suffer criminal penalties for being caught with them. Oftentimes it's social factors like incarceration that make it doubly hard for addicts to escape the cycle of addiction. You are caught using and so you enter jail, and catch a felony on your record, making it even more difficult to land work. Or you end up with trauma from being imprisoned, further damaging your mental health, further driving you to escape with your drug of choice.

Long story short, prohibitionism doesn't really work in the sense that criminal penalties don't really deter drug users from using drugs. It just makes it even more dangerous to use the drugs!

solaceb commented on Twitter has a new CEO – what about a new business model? stratechery.com/2021/twit... · Posted by u/oedmarap

javajosh · 4 years ago

I like this because "reach" scales with "moral hazard" and so adding default network decay would help dampen the outragememes. But if you pay to take the dampening off you can be accurately judged for paying to propagate helpful or harmful things.

solaceb · 4 years ago

But isn't the bottom-line effect that your model becomes pay-for-clout? That sounds bad on its face

solaceb commented on In Praise of Idleness (1932) harpers.org/archive/1932/... · Posted by u/okbrant

burntoutfire · 4 years ago

People with means also have to work to preserve their position - at the very least they need to navigate laws, invest smartly, be on the lookout for possible political upheavals etc. Nothing is free, and wealth preservation can be a lot of worry in itself. Just ask anyone in the FIRE subreddit.

Of course, technically you're right - there will always exist a minority of people who were so wealthy (and lucky) that, even though they didn't care about wealth preservation, their wealth didn't run out before they died. If, in addition, these people inherited all their wealth (as opposed to doing any work to obtain it), then they are the (only) non-slaves by your definition, proving that not EVERYONE is a slave.

solaceb · 4 years ago

An excellent point. Only 99% of all people are slaves.

solaceb commented on Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years? · Posted by u/adamkochanowicz

solaceb · 4 years ago

Write something extraordinary. Don't worry about the frame, what's your content? Write something so god-damn extraordinary people want to preserve it indefinitely, and will do the hard work for you. You've gotta write something absolutely biblical, fundamentally groundbreaking, revolutionary to the hearts and souls of all humanity.

Good luck!

solaceb commented on Emacs' org-mode gets citation support blog.tecosaur.com/tmio/20... · Posted by u/NeutralForest

da39a3ee · 5 years ago

Org-mode is amazing and has a lovely community. But I'm really not sure it's a good idea to use it for authoring LaTeX documents because that makes it impossible to work with others: however amazing org is, the fact is that it's Emacs and therefore only a small number of people use it. But if these citations are for personal blog posts etc I guess that's great, although personally I think I'd want to use the same tools for all my writing.

solaceb · 5 years ago

I'm currently researching ways to integrate org-mode based citation structures with more commonly used tools such as Zotero, and apparently it's possible to make them talk nicely? The linked article states:

> Zotero is a good option, and if you’re using it it’s quite easy to use it with Org Cite. Out of the box, you can tell it to export your library, or parts of it, to a .bib file and automatically keep it in sync. I’d recommend installing the Better BibTeX extension though.

A non-technical friend and myself are looking into creating a blog for discussing issues related to health care, hence my interest on this front. Hopefully it's straightforward (famous last words)!

solaceb commented on Life before smartphones (2020) mattruby.substack.com/p/t... · Posted by u/evo_9

swayvil · 5 years ago

There are 6 anecdotes in this thread where friends and family apply force to get a person to look at their phone. Social force, but still. Force.

Consider the soft forces of marketing, distraction, conformity, attraction and temptation. They are as real as a twisted arm.

solaceb · 5 years ago

Sure, I agree, it's all very coercive. But I think the point really is... physical force isn't even necessary. We're already addicted

solaceb commented on Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale promethean.news/news/acti... · Posted by u/dv_dt

pirate787 · 5 years ago

There's nothing "notorious" about a maintstream legal practice representing corporations against unions, and "busting" is pejorative. It's opinion click-bait.

solaceb · 5 years ago

With all due respect, this view is conversely weak willed, and complacently takes the side of Acti-Blizzard.

The firm directly states they help companies with "union avoidance."

Even charitable interpretations here support "busting" the aims of the union. This isn't an issue where "both sides" are equal in moral standing when one is advocating for better working conditions and the other is legally fighting for more profit