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maegul, 24 days ago to fediverse

Nice demonstration of why mastodon's dominance is problematic

See the conversions here:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4628
and
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/federating-the-content-of-posts-note-articles-and-character-limits/4087

AFAICT, mastodon's decisions, which are arguably problematic (on which see: https://lemmy.ml/post/14973403) are literally trickling down to other platforms and infecting how they federate with each other as they dance around mastodon's quirks in different ways.

It seems like masto is ruining "the standard" with its gravity.

#fediverse #mastodon
@fediverse

p03locke, 23 days ago (edited 19 days ago)

From the PR:

Note that this behaviour is configurable. It’s default is a 500 char limit because that is the Mastodon default.

That’s a shit default, and a shitty way to treat a standard that is meant for all sorts of communication. ActivityPub is not Twitter, and it is not just for short-form communication. In fact, a majority of the web is longer-form communication that isn’t a mere 500 characters long.

Retorting with “this behaviour is configurable” is dancing around the issue. Good, sane defaults mean everything in programming.

ajsadauskas, 6 months ago to TeslaMotors

Elon's "extremely hardcore" toxic work culture means people are forced to take Adderall without a prescription to meet their workload. Just ask SpaceX employees.

"Some SpaceX workers resorted to taking Adderall to keep up with the pace of work at the company's launch facility, and others found themselves falling asleep in the bathroom during long workweeks, a recent Reuters investigation found.

"Travis Carson, a former SpaceX worker at the company's facility in Brownsville, Texas, told Reuters some workers took Adderall — a stimulant designed to help people with ADHD improve their focus and concentration levels — without a prescription to keep up with the pace of work."

Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-workers-took-adderall-slept-bathroom-iv-treatments-deadlines-report-2023-11

What a nightmare!

#Elon #ElonMusk #X #SpaceX #Twitter #business #economy #finance @technology

p03locke, 6 months ago

Those are the kind of excuses people at SpaceX make. When a leader fools workers into thinking they are doing unique and societal-changing work, he can push them to work for any amount of punishing hours.

The entire gaming industry runs on this mentality.

gi124, 9 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to vim

Bram Moolenaar, creator and maintainor of Vim passes away:

https://www.vim.org/

(See the top news item. I couldn't link directly on mobile)

Thank you for all your work. I used Vim for more than 25 years

Edit: heres a nice article about the history of vi.
https://pikuma.com/blog/origins-of-vim-text-editor

Brams last commit to vim was a few weeks before he passed.

@foss @linux #vim #neovim

p03locke, 9 months ago

Slash dot dash dot slash dot dash dot slash dot dash dot slash dot com

p03locke, 9 months ago

Wow, I haven’t seen a MULE fan, like, anywhere.

renwillis, 10 months ago to fediverse

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p03locke, 10 months ago

That seems like an ActivityPub problem, not a problem with the admin who lost the domain. Perhaps somebody should fix dumbass design flaws to the protocol.

Federations won’t survive with obvious flaws like that. It needs resilienacy.

p03locke, 10 months ago

Newsflash: It’s getting bigger as we speak. Prepare for all of the scalability problems now, not later when it’s even harder to fix.

p03locke, 10 months ago

If lemmy.world went down, so would most of Lemmy, so this is already a huge problem.