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maegul, 18 hours ago

@J12t

yea, there's probably an argument that the comma is an overpowered part of the syntax given how small and similar to a period it is.

It's probably the buckling point for all the strains that the whitespace-as-syntax design creates.

maegul, 13 hours ago

@J12t

yea that's part of it, and all descending from the whitespace-as-syntax.

My hot take would be that parens for literals (tuple or generator) should not be permitted as precedence/scope is too fundamental.

If having [] and {} for literals feels inconsistent, then remove them too. tuple(), list(), set() and dict() are all right there and pretty pythonic IMO.

If course, it's too late. But that comma being a little Paul Atreides of your code base is PITA.

maegul, 2 days ago

@operationpuppet

Yea for sure. The whole “let’s conquer the internet” was arguably always a broken ambition. Different places have different vibes and that’s a good thing. The “everything place” idea (eg Twitter or threads) shouldn’t also be an “all the time” place. Make unique spaces instead. It’s the way of the internet.

And getting real, the protocol (AP) likely isn’t magical or good enough to foster a conquest anyway.

maegul, 4 days ago

@mick_collins @Subversivo @fediverse @fediversenews

I'm not familiar enough (or at all) with C#, but AFAICT, it could make an instance more stable, as firefish and misskey have struggled with handling a decent amount of users and C# could be a faster system for the server.

Also, a re-write sometimes is a good thing. And, developers have different preferences for languages, so having a C# project around enables C# devs to more easily contribute to the fedi.

maegul, 3 days ago

@mima

LOL ... I'm ready!

maegul, 5 days ago

@LALegault @J12t

Yea this AFAICT. The price of Balkanising “the public square” is public activity and institutions aren’t actually that interested. A single flat space with a single authority is likely more useful even if that authority is privately owned.

Reality may simply be that federated social can’t have it all.

maegul, 9 days ago

@can

Lemmy federates pretty well with mastodon. From mastodon you can follow a community as you would any person/user.

There are two major problems though.

1. everything in that community comes through as a flat firehose, including comments. There's structuring into posts with comments inside.
2. Mastodon doesn't understand the type of object lemmy sends over ActivityPub, and so simply provides a title and a link to the original post.

Also, you can just follow lemmy users on mastodon.

maegul, 10 days ago

@robcinos

This dialogue seems to always ring true, sadly:

William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”

Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”

William Roper: “Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!”

1/2

maegul, 10 days ago

@robcinos

Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!”

― Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons

maegul, 10 days ago

@robcinos

Yep. Punch line being: “Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!”

(In the second post)

maegul, 14 days ago

@tobi82 @coronavirus @longcovid

I wasn’t looking for sympathy, just sharing an experience.

You have no idea what my background is or for what reasons I’ve been infected in the past.

What’s more you’re completely neglecting the importance of the social dimensions that lead to widespread infection of an airborn virus while trumping up absolute individualism as the sole basis of responsibility and blame.

All of which is a rather flawed outlook IMO, along with a poor demeanour TBH.

maegul, 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

@cwicseolfor @tobi82 @coronavirus @longcovid

Well yea. The responsibilities we take for our actions are obviously important (and should be addressed more IMO), but blaming the sick for not protecting themselves rather than focusing on those negligent in preventing infection and in not taking care of others … is a choice.

maegul, 14 days ago

@Frieke72 @coronavirus @longcovid

Thank you!

maegul, 12 days ago

@brianb

Ok, likely unproductive response, but what the actual fuck!

Is this the education system still getting to grips with Wikipedia and the internet maybe being not entirely irrelevant and so applying the same degree of acceptance of Wikipedia to AI?

Or is this corporate propaganda?

Or just desperation at not know what to do anymore as tech disrupts traditional education structures (a real problem I’d wager)?

Either way, citing AI is just dumb and betrays someone who’s confused about AI

maegul, 11 days ago

@curubethion @brianb

Makes sense. But still, seems like a quick capitulation which implies there’s more perceived heft behind AI. In part I’d say because it actually looks convincing and that traditional assessment is actually disrupted by it.

My bias here being that I suspect it a largely good thing that AI does disrupt traditional educational assessment as it likely reveals the superficiality in education that AI achieves.

maegul, 14 days ago

@krst @juliancday

It's obviously no reddit in size, very far from it, but it's by no means empty either.

The "threadiverse" is the current "growth" area of the fediverse IMO, especially if you include blogs like WP and Ghost. See eg: https://community.nodebb.org/post/99736

Getting involved and supporting that kind of platform on the fediverse is IMO a good idea. The fediverse needs more "community building" tools, and forums/reddits are good for that. Lemmy even has private sub-lemmies on the road map.

maegul, 14 days ago

@seanbala @fediversereport

There are problems here too. I suspect this is a fundamental issue that decentralised social media hasn’t taken seriously enough. It’s a bit like back and front end people not working together well. Protocol people can be inclined to underestimate the importance of what happens in the client, which IMO is where federation actually happens, as it’s there that platforms and UIs need to get stitched together.

I’ve ranted about this before (eg: https://hachyderm.io/@maegul/112319245679533802)

maegul, 4 days ago

@koteisaev

Well it’s a general metaphor to guide design choices. I haven’t seen anything really aim in that direction.