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manlycoffee

@manlycoffee@techhub.social

I write code for fun, and for profit.

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evan, (edited ) to random
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Do you say "Fediverse" or "Social Web"?

manlycoffee,
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@evan

I'm trying to get more people to join the Fediverse, and for this reason, I tell people "I'm working on the social web."

manlycoffee, to random
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manlycoffee, to fediverse
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The whole idea of BlueSky supporting nomadic identities but the rest of the ActivityPub (plus other stuff) Fediverse being unable to do so is such an oversold idea.

A new service using ActivityPub behind the scenes (and not the AT Protocol) can absolutely support nomadic identities, even if the service doesn't treat a whole website as the actor.

It will still use did:plc, same as AT Protocol (BlueSky), but once done so, an application that understands how to work with did:plc can dereference an actor based on the DID.

That said, an existing service will simply not be compatible with this idea, without changing how it operates.

manlycoffee,
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@mikedev that's definitely the BlueSky folks talking about why the AT Protocol is advantageous.

Yes, they were mostly talking about Mastodon, but their blog post did seem to hide the fact that anything ActivityPub enriched with other protocols will most certainly empower nomadic identity.

manlycoffee,
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@PlasticParagraph

Hey, I'm glad you are asking these questions.

Nomadic identity is the idea that your account is not tied to a single server, but instead can move from server to server, but your profile will still be identified by the same identifier, regardless of what server that you are on.

manlycoffee, to random
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There seems to be a high demand for linguists in the era of LLMs.

manlycoffee, to random
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Energy cost is going negative in California in the spring.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/04/22/california-solar-duck-curve-rooftop/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzEzNzU4NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzE1MTQwNzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MTM3NTg0MDAsImp0aSI6IjRlYTE1ZjM4LTk3ODQtNDVhYy05MjZlLWRjYjgxNGNhMmY5ZSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9jbGltYXRlLWVudmlyb25tZW50LzIwMjQvMDQvMjIvY2FsaWZvcm5pYS1zb2xhci1kdWNrLWN1cnZlLXJvb2Z0b3AvIn0.oWYOHLgrSaZNKLvmYZ45KaNCBacVFoD7USdTV2JwmNA

mike, to fediverse
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The problem with building a closed social network is that it sets up an all or nothing premise for users. They might like some of the signature features but they'll leave if there's not enough people to network with. That's a shame and a huge barrier to innovation and new social products.

The changes that forever. People can now use the features they like from a mix of apps across a common network of people. This means we can take a whole new approach to how "social" and "media" should work including discovery, user experience and monetization that will be far healthier than anything we've had in the past.

manlycoffee,
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@oblomov @mike

I'm working on it.

manlycoffee, to random
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I will never vote for a politician who attacks the BoC for raising interest rates in the face of higher than 2% inflation rate.

The Bank of Canada has one job: keep inflation at 2%.

They only have one tool for the job: monetary policy, which includes the overnight lending rate.

Yelling at the Bank of Canada for interest rates is like yelling at a tree for having its leaves fall during autumn. They can't help it.

It's also the government's job to manage inflation rate, by keeping a close eye on the economy.

Several things that lead to inflation that we're seeing today:

  • high housing costs
  • supply-chain issues
  • uncontrolled immigration, even in the face of inflation

Inflation doesn't only mean more money in circulation; it also means market can't meet demand.

So combined with supply-chain issues, red tapes behind housing starts, and high immigration all lead to the inflation that we are seeing today.

Governments should have been on top of this.

manlycoffee,
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Speaking of housing, for a long time, people have been saying that real estate speculation is a good investing strategy.

Hell, people included their own primary residence as their investing strategy!

Why? Because a home will apparently outperform the US stock market in terms of total expected return.

Why no one thought that this is unsustainable is beyond me.

manlycoffee,
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Speaking of supply-chain issues, China was struggling to meet demands during the pandemic.

While the rest of the world opened up and China was falling behind, Canada should have looked into bringing in more secondary markets into its borders. But nope, we are still dependent on China.

And as Tim Cook said, China is no longer the leader in cheap labour. Labour costs are similar to that of North American markets.

The real problem is that the raw knowledge in manufacturing is just not here in Canada.

We have lots of land for which we could develop manufacturing capacities, but we didn't.

manlycoffee,
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Don't even get me started on the labour market.

There's literal slavery going on in Canada, and we're doing absolutely nothing about it.

manlycoffee,
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@johnefrancis

Yeah.

I definitely wish that monetary policies were more granular than just a broad, far-reaching floor on interest rates.

That said, I still think other orgs should be involved before the BoC starts amending its policies. Perhaps the OSFI can do something about it?

manlycoffee, to random
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Just learned of an open source Stripe alternative, called Lago.

Could be useful for what I'm working on.

https://www.getlago.com/

manlycoffee, to random
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I just read two articles that has me believe that social media is not a net negative, and is probably a net positive overall.

More validation that me working on software in the social media space shouldn't have me feeling morally bankrupt.

Definitely time for me to go all in on the Fediverse.

manlycoffee,
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First study tests for markers of stress, through heart rate and cortisol levels, and the findings revealed that browsing for 20 minutes on a smart phone lead to a DECREASE in stress markers.

Accessible via the web here: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0298553

Oppenheimer S, Bond L, Smith C (2024) Social media does not elicit a physiological stress response as measured by heart rate and salivary cortisol over 20-minute sessions of cell phone use. PLOS ONE 19(4): e0298553. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0298553

manlycoffee,
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And also, children who scroll through social media can shape mental models of socially acceptable behaviour in mere hours, rather than years otherwise.

https://twitter.com/robkhenderson/status/1775589748091867580

manlycoffee, to random
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Amazon Fresh relied on off-shore Indians watching live footage of you picking up and walking away with items, in order to charge you https://www.threads.net/@jonathangarelick/post/C5R8TkFPTBg

manlycoffee, to random
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So there's this AI music-making platform, called Suno, which I talked about before.

But looking at the name, I was thinking "wait, are the founders South Asian?"

For the uninitiated: in many South Asian languages, a word homonymous to "suno" literally means "listen", in the imperative mood.

So I had to look it up, and Google lead me to this small thread on Hacker News, which confirms that Suno's name is derived from a South Asian word.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38745674

manlycoffee, to random
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We'll see what happens once we convince people that you can get paid to post to the Fediverse
https://atomicpoet.org/objects/fee90d29-9e25-4ae2-b29c-2a48e59c0dd3

treyhunner, to python
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Self-taught programmers: what made the idea of "time complexity" really click for you? 🧮

Was there a video, blog post, book chapter, etc. that really acted as an ah-ha moment? 💡

manlycoffee,
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@treyhunner

I'll need to ask you a question: what are you struggling with?

Time complexity just made sense to me.

Hard-coded procedure? O(1)

For-loop? O(n)

Loops-in-a-loop? O(n^m) (where m is the number of loops)

That and among other things.

What do you need help with?

hrefna, to fediverse
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Really what I want in development is more decoupling.

Separate the web interface from the backend.

Separate the API from the processor.

Separate the queue from the cache.

Doing this properly is damned difficult but it is so so much better than what we mostly have today.

manlycoffee,
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@hrefna

I'm not doubting that the queue is coupled to the cache, but I have a suspicion that there is a specific example you are referring to that I probably am not aware of.

What queue (or part of the queue) is coupled to the cache?

manlycoffee, to random
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I swear, if I wanted to get normies to hop onto the Fediverse, I have to show them how to make money on here.

People will stop saying "I still don't understand what the Fediverse is" and suddenly become Fediverse experts.

manlycoffee, to random
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I DO NOT hate Mastodon. In fact, it's one of the most important pieces of Fediverse software that exists.

However, I just hate that all new Fediverse software is confined to being just another Twitter clone, because people want the elegance of being able to use their new Fediverse software using a client.

But it doesn't have to be this way.

The Fediverse, via ActivityPub places no limitation on what it can even be.

You can still use a client, that interfaces with something that isn't just Mastodon.

Heck, it can do it in a standardized way, thanks to the powers of JSON-LD.

Not only can you browse through a microblog (e.g. Mastodon), but you can browse through something else, perhaps a photo blog, or a video channel.

The sky's the limit.

I mean, if all you want is a microblog, then Mastodon is more than enough.

But if you want more, then it is the Fediverse's duty to not exclusively support Mastodon.

It's the only way to move the Fediverse forward.

atomicpoet, to random
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I’m at one of those coffee nerd cafes.

You know, the type that precisely weigh each bean, grind it on site, and then do a careful pour over with a goosenecked kettle.

manlycoffee,
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@atomicpoet

Don't leave us hanging. 😆

What's the name of the shop?

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