Kabaka

Kabaka, 10 days ago

That quotation and the other one in the article seem to be from comments on the social media posts, not comments from people actually on the cliff.

Kabaka, 3 months ago

I have two .af domain names that got suspended as well. I don't even think they had a single DNS record set right now, but I had short-term plans for them. Oh well.

Kabaka, 3 months ago

Probably because of all the crustaceans.

Kabaka, 4 months ago

Fair point, but we should celebrate any privacy wins we can get. That privacy is a consideration at all is a good start.

Kabaka, 4 months ago

I recently asked about this while touring a landfill in northern California.

Only some types of waste can be composted, and large scale compost buyers are very picky about what went into the compost. Residential compost tends to have very unpredictable contents, so it's basically impossible to sell it to anyone but small businesses or individuals, and some of these programs end up giving it away for free.

But yeah I don't think most of this could be turned into compost anyway, especially at this scale.

Kabaka, 9 months ago

It's a render. Sorry for the Reddit link, but this seems to be where the artist posted and discussed it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LiminalSpace/comments/so0ppq/90_of_my_time_was_spent_making_the_falling_water/

Kabaka, 10 months ago

This should help.

Kabaka, 10 months ago

With the utmost sincerity, I recommend deleting this and erasing all known copies.

Kabaka, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

It's complicated and the implications and scope are not entirely clear.

The court stated that creative works such as web design qualify as a form of speech, and that the first amendment does not allow the government to use law to force creators to speak any message — especially one with which they disagree. Essentially, any business with something that might be considered speech as its product or service may be free to discriminate against protected classes. We aren't sure how far this will extend in practice, but I expect many will test it.

In this case of this post, it depends on what is being sold.

Edit: wrote this before my coffee and thus neglected to point out what replies said: political affiliation is not a protected class in America and these signs are a bit misleading. See replies.

Kabaka, 10 months ago

I actually like tigers a little more than I like lions…

Traitor. But gryphons are cool!

Kabaka, 10 months ago

There have been credible reports that they had initiated an emergency ascent, though I am not sure if this is a certainty. If it's true, they were definitely aware that they were in serious danger long enough to make and enact that decision.

Kabaka, 10 months ago

I found a real estate listing for the house (yes, you could own this beauty), but I don't know if posting it would count as doxxing per community rules, so I won't. In any case, this is not a business.

They want £300k+. Based on what was written, the whole idea was minimal maintenance and maximum room for parking. The back yard/back "garden" is the same as the front: just a bunch of tile. The interior is less offensive, but just what you'd expect: very modern, lots of black and white and bold shapes.

Kabaka, 10 months ago

With the right circumstances, you can sometimes see the actor's pulse on their neck. Sometimes they'll hold their breath or breathe slowly, but there's not much you can do about the heart.

Kabaka, 10 months ago

At that point, many structures would not provide adequate protection. Sometimes I miss Oklahoma weather, but... not like that.

Kabaka, 10 months ago

Surprisingly, the hull was primarily carbon fiber with some titanium.

Kabaka, 10 months ago

The 19-year-old reportedly told family he was terrified. It was Father's Day and his father is very interested in the Titanic, so he went anyway. He was just trying to impress and relate to his father.

Kabaka, 10 months ago

I don't quite follow this. It might be a slow query with a full scan, but you could select on user-id, join post-ids with community-ids, and aggregate how a user votes in various communities, or do an export that joins votes and posts to analyze for word-clusters they up/down or whatever.

I think they mean you couldn't exclusively pre-aggregate it to a vote tally on the post record and not track it per user. It must be tracked on a per-user per-post basis (in some way).

Kabaka, 10 months ago

I really don't disagree with you, but if we want democrats to show up and vote, this is not the attitude that will make it happen. People largely believe their votes don't matter. If the candidate is bad anyway, why even bother? I'm not saying this negativity is the only (or biggest) problem, but it is very discouraging.

Let's get better candidates where we can, but we need to go full speed with the best we have. If democrat voter turnout was better, there would be no contest, and maybe we could start having a real dialogue about improvements instead of just fighting to avoid more far right extremism.

Kabaka, 10 months ago

Yes, that's also happening. But many users have reported deleting or editing comments and finding those specific comments restored hours later.

Kabaka, 11 months ago

Good news: it is not iOS only. I'm not sure why the poster put that in the title. It is going to be cross-platform. The beta sign-ups are evenly split between platforms. @hariette has posted about this a few times.

Kabaka, 11 months ago

Neither, though it behaves a bit like a mirror. It is a Twitter client that fetches data server-side.

Brief summary here: https://nitter.net/about

Kabaka, 11 months ago

Kbin is barely a prototype, so I wouldn't say it has a real approach to the UI. It's about to go through a lot of change as contributors begin working on a more thoughtfully designed UI. Many basics are not even implemented in its current state, so expect it to change a lot. Also third-party apps will start showing up once an API is added.

That is, check on it again in a few weeks.

Kabaka, 11 months ago

This software doesn't need fixes, it needs to be finished. I've been looking at the code for a few days and it's clearly barely past the mock-up phase. When Ernest calls it a prototype, he really means it. Even the commit messages are barely useful.

It's also written in PHP/Symfony. I don't know about everyone else, but I quit writing PHP 15+ years ago and haven't looked back. Trying to wrap my head around this monolith feels like stepping back in time. The lack of comments or documentation — while expected for something of this maturity — makes it very difficult to just jump in and start writing code.

But in general, I agree: let's help rather than just complain!

Kabaka, 11 months ago

I don't judge the language for its age or quality, but rather its relevance or popularity. I asked around and only one of the software engineers I know has even touched PHP in the last 10 years, and online polling agrees that it is not very commonly used. I know there are still PHP developers out there.

The reason I am taking about this is that there are going to be very few people able to work on this in a meaningful way. Sure, I could catch up on 15 years of changes and relearn the language. Unfortunately that means that I and many others will be approaching this from that perspective (i.e., the perspective of a relative novice) rather than as subject matter experts. Progress will be slow and many are not going to want to invest the time. The best bet for making an impact is to find passionate PHP developers that are also passionate about social media and decentralization. I imagine that venn diagram has a very small overlapping area, and conversations and DMs I've had with others on these platforms seem to point to the same conclusion.

Scale is also a concern (and already a real problem), but this has more to do with the architecture of the application than the language itself.

Kabaka, 11 months ago

The routes are defined but there is little/no code to actually generate responses. There is no usable API. It needs to be implemented. Even the few endpoints under /ajax that exist provide placeholder HTML responses.