nucleative @ nucleative @lemmy.world

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Invite only is a fascinating choice for a social network that requires network effect to succeed.

Gmail is the most famous/successful example but interesting to note that email is a federated network that can interoperate with every other email address too.

What about this bluesky network?

Here's another that's slightly less terrifying than the above sample https://youtu.be/jCEYPyUBDAU?si=4rhnEk6ZZhZrQgtq

Longtime Mullvad user, always been happy. But when Mullvad was still a small service it was unusual to have any problems when browsing the web with their IPs.

Recently, many services can detect you're on a VPN when using Mullvad and block or ban you, which means they've become successful enough that there are countrer-VPN databases including all of their IPs.

Yeah, I don't know anything about this guy but this is an alarming decision if the headline is accurate.

America, Fuck Yeah!

Don't know why that song pops to mind in this case 😅

Fellow notepad.exe aficionado here as well

I have to Google for this everytime. What I can never remember is how to check whether I should put my tar.gz into the subfolder first or risk getting a thousand files sprayed into my homedir.

You could cross post to Lemmy and then put a link in the Reddit thread that says something like: "for the real conversation, the way Reddit used to be, come to Lemmy"

That might get Reddit accounts banned though 😅

Yeah, I'm never using Airbnb again. This device is a crutch for wannabe hoteliers who don't know what hospitality is.

The prices on Airbnb aren't much different from real hotels, and there's way less of a gamble with a hotel brand that can't just delete their user profile and create a new one tomorrow after a bad review.

Basically... a portion of each of the David's legal fees

Didn't they actually participate in it's invention...?

I tried to recover an ancient icq account but it looks like the company sold and nuked all the old accounts. Bummer, was hoping all my mid 90s friends might still be there.

I love this. I'm a former IT engineer/CTO turned renegade entrepreneur, so this story tickles both of my feet.

Yeah, any reasonable person would know this idea to move the servers without a plan was ridiculous.

Yet as a roll-up-the-sleeves entrepreneur your entire job is to fucking destroy the red tape that is put up in front of you constantly. Or else you and everyone who works for you is out of a job. Of course there will be problems, but that's why you have smart people who can sort it out afterwards faster than they can preplan for it.

And a lot of really smart people make "doing it the right way" a religion, so when the cash is going to run out shortly, well, sometimes the big guy needs to just roll the dice.

Turned out Saddam was a meanie after the USA helped make him. Had to slap that idea down lest any future installed dictators try any funny business.

We need to embrace AI written content fully. Language is just a protocol for communication. If AI can flesh out the "packets" for us nicely in a way that fits what the receiving humans need to understand the communication then that's a major win. Now I can ask AI to write me a nice letter and prompt it with a short bulleted list of what I want to say. Boom! Done, and time is saved.

The professional writers who used to slave over a blank Word document are now obsolete, just like the slide rule "computers" of old (the people who could solve complicated mathematics and engineering problems on paper).

Teachers who thought a hand written report could be used to prove that "education" has happened are now realizing that the idea was a crutch (it was 25 years ago too when we could copy/paste Microsoft Encarta articles and use as our research papers).

The technology really just shows us that our language capabilities really are just a means to an end. If a better means asrises we should figure out how to maximize it.

Thanks for that suggestion, I hadn't even found that sorting option until just now! It does look better already.

Me. The way the API thing was handled just pissed me off too much to log in or contribute there anymore. I do occasionally load the "old." version of the site up and read some of the specialized communities. I'd been there since the mass migration from Digg.

Lemmy is too slow with new content (my Lemmy frontpage has 2-3+ day old posts) and there are fewer interesting comments to engage.

I do think reddit's frontpage is noticeably worse off now, but I wish there was some metric to see how that looks statistically.

Hopefully Lemmy continues to grow.

I am a Twitter "user" in the sense that I read the site for a few minutes every few days to see the latest news or drama.

Recently all the Elon drama is boring. So I'm in that decreased user count.

I love projects like this if only for the learning opportunity.

The process of building this, especially for someone thinking about entering a robotics/automation career, would be priceless. I'm sure this is an industry that will continue to see a ton of growth in the next few decades.

I'm not saying this kind of project will future proof your career or anything, but people who do projects like this for fun have future proof skills.

Especially if it's going to be a small ROI for the IRS.

I know in tax planning for high net worth individuals and businesses there is often a question about how the penalty (downside of being found to owe more tax) relates to the upside of just not paying the tax. For matters that aren't so clear or where the tax code can be interpreted many ways - it often comes down to the decision maker's risk tolerance.

So it's smart for the IRS to avoid cases where a hundred hour audit gets them another $2k vs litigating a $20m underpayment over a grey area.