[-] bouncing@partizle.com 8 points 1 year ago

Life in plastic. It’s fantastic.

[-] bouncing@partizle.com 8 points 1 year ago

It's a worldwide phenomena. The "Big Dig" is a great example of urban space reclaimed from above-grade highways.

[-] bouncing@partizle.com 8 points 1 year ago

There is already a business model for compensating authors: it is called buying the book. If the AI trainers are pirating books, then yeah - sue them.

That's part of the allegation, but it's unsubstantiated. It isn't entirely coherent.

[-] bouncing@partizle.com 8 points 1 year ago

Honestly, that's fine. Good for Reddit.

It's just not a place for me anymore.

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One of the features seems to be a "hide my email" feature, akin to Apple's hide my email or Fastmail's masked email feature.

Having used both of those, I would say one downside is that occasionally, a site will detect that I used the Apple one, which is strange because it's just an iCloud email address. Perhaps they're looking for a specific pattern.

I haven't yet seen the Fastmail one blocked.

One concern with the Proton one is that it seems like its masked emails are all at passmail.com. I've already found some sites block protonmail, so they'll surely block passmail like they do Mailinator and other sites. That could be a limitation that's less likely to affect Fastmail's service.

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It does seem like sooner or later, if someone is able to build a reliable AI model of my face and voice, they could even phish my own relatives by video call.

Seems like a Philip K. Dick novel—objective reality is something you could only see around you, while the machine would be completely untrustworthy.

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Kagi raises $670K (blog.kagi.com)
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Kagi is a paid search engine. Instead of getting ads, you just pay for the privilege of using it.

I've been using it for a while and overall I think for most searches it's better than Google. It isn't necessarily that the content is always better (sometimes it isn't) but the signal is far easier to find through the noise.

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I'm reading some of the docs on federation here and I'm noticing that it seems like some includes aren't rendering correctly in the docs. Eg,

{{#include ../../include/crates/apub/assets/lemmy/activities/create_or_update/create_note.json}}

I assume that's supposed to be a create_note.json example?

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On Native Mac Apps (reinventedsoftware.com)
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Keaton Brandt writing in response to Elegy for the Native Mac App (which is arguably a eulogy).

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Lemmy 0.18 has Slack-style emojis. Obviously, we need some custom emojis.

What should they be?

[-] bouncing@partizle.com 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The maximum a phone will ever last is probably ~10 years, because that's about how often 2g, 3g, lasted. By then it certainly isn't getting any software updates and on the Android side, security updates won't even last 5.

So the maximum lifespan of a phone is, reasonably, 5 years. That's taking into account software updates, and other wear and tear.

During that time, if you use and abuse the battery, you might go through 2 batteries, which you can have serviced.

So I'd say it's more akin to a timing chain that's a pain in the ass to replace. Most car owners would not try to replace a timing belt, much less a timing chain.

[-] bouncing@partizle.com 7 points 1 year ago

That means that it’s from a journal in Denver. Boulder is 15 miles from Denver.

[-] bouncing@partizle.com 8 points 1 year ago

I'm assuming you couldn't get around the paywall, so here you go:

In May, Twitter’s landlord filed a complaint against its tenant Twitter, alleging that the company is behind on rent payments. The landlord is Lot 2 SBO LLC, affiliated with The John Buck Company, a Chicago-based real estate firm.

The complaint alleges that Twitter set up a letter of credit for $968,000 that the landlord could draw upon if the company failed to pay its rent, and the lease agreement said Twitter must replenish that letter of credit within 10 days if that were to happen.

The landlord used the letter of credit toward the unpaid rent this March, according to the complaint, but Twitter failed to restore the letter of credit within 10 days, as outlined in its lease.

Basically yes, non-payment of rent.

[-] bouncing@partizle.com 7 points 1 year ago

It's from the Denver Business Journal.

[-] bouncing@partizle.com 8 points 1 year ago

If you want something very cheap (though not necessarily totally free), and within your control, just get an AWS S3 bucket and put them there. Or possibly Backblaze.

[-] bouncing@partizle.com 7 points 1 year ago

Almost 20 minutes in, and he's written 3 responses, each about a paragraph.

I'm guessing it's not going well.

[-] bouncing@partizle.com 7 points 1 year ago

Actually, maybe that's a business model. B2B.

"Are you struggling to fuck up your user experience? Let our experts guide you through the process of alienating your userbase with our list of tools, including an easy-to-use jQuery plugin that automatically inserts link bate garbage around your site."

[-] bouncing@partizle.com 8 points 1 year ago

I'm inclined to agree with you that it might be a potentially good way to interact with a computer. There's a company called Sightful that makes a "Spacetop" computer, which is basically a laptop with a headset instead of a screen. Mike Elgan actually gave it some pretty positive press lately.

As someone who travels constantly and misses a big monitor on the road, I am inclined to agree that the use case could be compelling.

But... $3,500 is a lot of lettuce for something that could easily be obsolete as fast as my cell phone. And Apple mentioned that the total field of vision is something over 4k, but that's still a lot less than multiple 4k monitors.

Still, I'm willing to be convinced. Especially if a stripped down "viewer only" model comes out without all the bells and whistles. I don't need outward display, or the lidar, or any of that. I just want a big workspace.

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