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danhulton

@danhulton@hachyderm.io

Software developer, entrepreneur, socialist, coffee-drinker, opinion-haver, and all-around busybody. He/him.

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aud, to opensource

uggghhhhhh I finally have to license something

I’m not naive; a license is as effective as pissing in the wind if you don’t have the means to enforce it. Still, any recommendation on licenses to make it as difficult as possible for people like Palmer Luckey or dtolnay to benefit from it, in general??

Permissive is good, I don’t care whether it matches a libertarian definition of “open”.

danhulton,
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@aud You could always go with a modified MIT license, with a clause similar to the one preventing Anish Kapoor from using the Pinkest Pink: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/artist-only-person-banned-using-worlds-pinkest-pink-180961464/

annieversary, to random
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i assume (i hope) this changes after you know how to play the game, but reading magic cards always feels like im trying to decipher an ancient riddle in a language i dont speak

danhulton,
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The first couple would make sense, but then you'd read one that seemed to do what another one did but referred to something differently, and it wouldn't be clear if two types of cards were equivalent in context, or if an action described differently was the SAME action and could both trigger a desired effect, etc. (2/3)

danhulton,
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@alyx @annieversary Yeah, it absolutely is a code, but it's WAY clearer than if every card tried to explain what it did in natural language according to whoever wrote the description that day. (1/3)

quintessence, to random
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If you could re-invent / re-imagine how email works (protocols): what would you change to make spam prevention easier / the default rather than reactive?

danhulton,
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@quintessence A per-email calculation cost, like some prime factoring, maybe. Configurable at the server so that as computers advance, you can require a larger computation, or if the user has allowlisted the sender, skip it.

Yes, ham email becomes more expensive, but honestly, "free" email that's paid for with ads and data harvesting has been its own kind of problem anyway.

(Also, I suspect total electricity use for all email would go DOWN with sufficient spam reduction.)

thomasfuchs, to random
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“Tech isn’t political”

The Nazis in tech are, very vocally. That’s why if you have any sort of following in tech on social media you should vocally call them out and use your voice to denounce these absolute garbage people.

Because if you don’t, you’re quietly let them take away what you love.

https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat

danhulton,
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@thomasfuchs It's just... It's just fascism. It's not even anything new, it's JUST fascism. He's not some big-brain thinker, he's just parroting ideas that failed a century ago, and these dumbshits are eating it up.

Unbelievable.

aud, to random

patching Fallout 4, huh. so did they patch the plot as well, or

danhulton,
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@aud And then this is taken TO WILD EXTREMES in Starfield...

I feel like Bethesda has a lot of "feature owners" that are incredibly passionate about making their features the best they can be (have you SEEN the models for the food? damn!), but a real weakness from the folks in charge who should have a holistic view and be prioritizing/cutting the right things.

(Cutting, too, absolutely. The "sit down in your ship" animations are beautiful, but they make the game worse.)

thomasfuchs, to random
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Calling you naive, also calling you blocked

You do not owe anyone your time to listen to their opinion, especially not if that opinion is “these babies deserve to be incinerated by American tax-payer funded bombs”

danhulton,
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@thomasfuchs "Conflicting opinions and worldviews" are fine if your conflict is around different ways to end the genocide and which is the better option.

If the conflict is around "are you really sure there's a genocide in the first place?", that person is a fascist or an idiot (but I repeat myself) and ABSOLUTELY deserves to be blocked.

danhulton, to random
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Deadname shitty corps all day, every day. They're not people. They don't get that automatic respect. https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/112322771918053728

annieversary, to random
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so is 92% good enough to use?

danhulton,
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@annieversary I can haz :has?

owen, to random
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The actual fuck if IBM acquires Hashicorp is that so much of Hashicorp's value as a maker of development tooling is tied up in free contributions. Some of those are from large organizations who made a considered decision to support Hashicorp (eg. Amazon, who write their own providers for Packer and Terraform), but many are from individual devs or small shops who are just trying to get their own jobs done.

None of those people will see any compensation for the value they added to this deal.

danhulton,
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@owen A hundred fucking percent.

Open source devs are just uncompensated labour for these orgs and it sucks.

Wikisteff, to random
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AI is so small in energy use compared to crypto.

Training GPT-3 used 1.3 GWh, BLOOM 0.4 MWh. The massive GPT-4 used between 29 and 62 GWh. Using the higher number for GPT-4, we could estimate training Google's frontier model Gemini Ultra at 150 GWh.

In 2023, crypto used 120,000 GWh of energy.

danhulton,
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@Wikisteff @joby "Less bad than crypto" is such a low, low bar to clear.

danhulton,
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@Wikisteff @joby "More useful than crypto" is also just about the lowest bar you could set for yourself.

And you are doing some very magical thinking there. "Maybe, if we're lucky, it'll turn out to be very green anyway, you know?" is not the strong defense you think it is.

danhulton,
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@Wikisteff @joby Right now, the single biggest use of AI I see on a daily basis is "shitting up the internet in order to scam ad money off of Google sending people to worse and worse websites in desperate search of an answer."

That's the "displacement" we're ACTUALLY seeing out there, and it's nowhere near green. It's literally all waste, the entire enterprise only serves to make the world worse.

danhulton,
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@Wikisteff @joby Okay, but like, what is the point of this data? How does it matter that GenAI is "better than transportation"? It's not going to displace that industry, GenAI can't transport anything! And would you really want it to replace AGRICULTURE?!?

We're going to have the energy use of those industries PLUS the energy use of GenAI, which is by definition, worse than just the energy use of those industries.

danhulton,
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@Wikisteff @joby I work at a company that has been reliably and responsibly using AI for years now (before GenAI was even A Thing), so I know it's not all nonsense, trust me, I get it.

But there's SO MUCH NONSENSE, and so much of it is driving this "AI Boom". When we're burning GPUs to first generate emails and then summarize those same emails, that's not a sign of a healthy new economic sector, that's a sign that people should learn point form!

danhulton, to random
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"Be Evil." https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@researchbuzz/112299873624857965

danhulton, to random
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There's going to be a class action suit about the Cybertruck. It's pretty obvious at this point.

piggo, to random
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no more tax evasion at kagi inc?

danhulton,
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@piggo Yeah, if anything this is a sign of improved financial success, rather than a panic to cover up financial crimes.

owen, to random
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I'm particularly frustrated right now because I tried to search "OC Transpo fines" and got nothing but news articles about their fare-enforcement practices.

That's search failing to meet the (underspecified) needs I have, but it's also in part because OC Transpo does not publish that information in the first place.

danhulton,
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@owen I ALSO want for us to consider the corpus being searched a lot more carefully. We passed the point where "search the entirety of the web" was actually what I wanted a long time ago, it feels, and very recently I have felt that more strongly than I ever have before.

Honestly, I think what I want is a return to actual human-run directories again, but with good search on top.

danhulton,
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@owen I think I care less about cataloging "the web" these days and am happy to settle for "the parts of the web that other people like me have decided are any good."

Like, I'd be thrilled if my searches never included link farms or hate sites or AI spam sites, etc.

And I THINK I'm okay with that index not being perfect, line missing a good chunk of stuff that hasn't been approved yet. Actual experience would have to bear it out, but it feels like an okay trade-off.

owen, to random
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Open Source was a reaction, kicked off by a libertarian and a would-be venture capitalist, against the restrictions of the Free Software movement.

The Free Software movement was started by academics, whose money came from grants and subsidies and not from their work as programmers.

It's no surprise to me that neither movement adequately accommodates the needs of the median programmer today.

danhulton,
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@owen The "ask me about it, like one decent human being to another" license. I like it. =)

owen, to random
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Have you ever submitted a pull request on someone's pull request, or are you normal?

danhulton,
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@owen Definitely not normal, no.

danhulton, to Starfield
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I just realized that I put maybe 20-30 hours into and NOTHING stands out as especially cool and worth remembering. Not the boring spaceflight, not the bland characters, not the bare-bones combat, none of it.

Meanwhile, the frustrations are still clear as day. The pointlessly limited inventory, the long-ass animations they were so in love with that they would not let you skip, the terrible UI that was fixed by modders within DAYS of release... All still fresh and infuriating.

danhulton,
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And how could I forget the generic procedural planets that you spend 95% of your time fast-travelling across, completely removing any sense of wonder or adventure that had been Bethesda's ONE THING they did really well?!? It's like they looked at Radiant Quests, the least fun thing from all their previous games and decided to replace the entire galaxy with it!

And I STILL can't think of anything really fun that I enjoyed about the game!!! (3/3)

danhulton,
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...which generally ends up being the sensible option, because there's really nothing of value to craft anyway! By the time you've unlocked the ability to craft something, you've probably picked up or bought something equivalent, and you'll regret having those spent character points on pointless crafting unlocks. (2/3)

danhulton, to random
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If you've been holding off on on Netflix, I can confirm that it is EXCELLENT. It's a love letter to the universe and Wednesday herself is featured in a delightful and interesting way.

It had me guessing about key plot points and motivations right up until the end, gave us a wealth of fantastic friendships and complex relationships, and overall, did my little goth heart a world of good to watch.

Really, really hope it gets renewed for Season 2.

danhulton,
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@Edelruth @gnarlygeek Thank you, this is excellent news.

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