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I came onto the comments to bemoan the fact that there isn't an easy way to sync progress across devices. This is definitely going to be the trigger for me to buy a Kobo
Re:The 512KB Club on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @02:17PM (#45814833)
While a fun idea, arbitrary limits like this just aren’t necessary. Yes it’s all well and good in the name of reducing trackers, etc but what if I want to have an image heavy site? Why does that get perceived as a bad thing?
Re:Why the open social web matters now on Sunday October 19, 2025 @08:52AM (#45633775)
The definition of “nazi” will make it niche
> Entranced by Portland, Oregon since 2017.

That explains so much

Re:Nostr on Friday September 19, 2025 @04:13AM (#45299209)
There is the concept of Data Vending Machines (DVMs) and curated follow lists now.

There’s also work on a Web of Trust in some clients that filters notes from people that don’t meet the WOT score. It’s essentially a weighted score based on who you follow and who they follow

Re:Writing Code Is Easy. Reading It Isn't on Monday September 08, 2025 @02:49PM (#45172224)
Yes it’s definitely possible now. My point was that people need to move past “vibe coding” to using the AI as what it should be, an assistant
Re:Writing Code Is Easy. Reading It Isn't on Monday September 08, 2025 @08:37AM (#45167524)
This is a challenge which I don't think AI tools like Cursor have cracked yet. They're great for laying "fresh pavement" but it's akin to being a project manager contracting the work out.

Even if I use Cursor (or some other equivalent) and review the code I find my mental model of the system is much more lacking. It actually had a net negative on my productivity as it gave me anxiety at going back to the codebase.

If an AI tool could help a user interactively learn the mental model I think that would be a great step in the right direction.

Re:Mastodon is not decentralized · Victor Wynne on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @03:05PM (#45107610)
I like the idea of there being interest specific mastodon servers. It makes content curation easier but the locking of accounts to a particular server is problematic.

Protocols like Nostr offer a good alternative to this. At the moment relays are just used as nodes in the decentralised network but there is work on how to view feeds from specific relays which could make the idea of content specific relays more likely

Re:The easy way to make a website with Markdown on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @02:25PM (#45107070)
> Next.js

Hmmmmmm no

Re:Python: The Documentary – An origin story [video] on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @02:23AM (#45099715)
Fail to see how it was a Perl advert
Re:Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @02:22AM (#45099712)
As the other response said. It’s DevOps for ML. They have Amazon SageMaker which is the managed ML/MLOps offering that we use extensively because we’re a small team. The documentation is awful
Re:Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war on Monday September 01, 2025 @03:21PM (#45095748)
Yes have seen about that. It’s crazy to me that they still haven’t released it. Really think it could save a dying product
Re:Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war on Monday September 01, 2025 @03:12PM (#45095669)
AWS specifically have really dropped the ball on this.

I interact regularly with AWS to support our needs in MLOps and to some extent GenAI. 3 of the experts we talked to have all left for competitors in the last year.

re:Invent London this year presented nothing new of note on the GenAI front. The year before was full of promise on Bedrock.

Outside of AWS, I still can’t fathom how they haven’t integrated an AI assistant into Alexa yet either

Why would we when our individual efforts are eclipsed by industry and celebrities who expend more carbon in a year than we will in our lives?
Re:Python: The Documentary – An origin story [video] on Monday September 01, 2025 @03:06PM (#45095618)
Care to elaborate why?
You’re looking at £300ish for an entry level Synology and the storage. That isn’t a realistic expense for many users.
What a weird article. Feels distasteful to utilise a group’s trauma to reinforce your point despite being decidedly anti-child.
Re:You Need a Content Tap on Thursday November 21, 2024 @04:57AM (#42202672)
I've been reflecting recently on our patterns of content consumption online. Curious to hear people's perspectives on the matter.
Re:Five minutes of exercise a day could lower blood pressure on Friday November 08, 2024 @08:54AM (#42086841)
Yes a regular check-up wouldn't be the silver bullet but it would help expose larger problems under the surface which could be prevented with prescribed exercise, diet, etc.

Ultimately it's down to the patient to put in the work but if the NHS focused more on creating community practices where these things could be more widely available then maybe we should see more meaningful change.

Re:Five minutes of exercise a day could lower blood pressure on Friday November 08, 2024 @06:14AM (#42085959)
This is a big problem in the UK I think. The idea of having a regular checkup with a doctor is unheard of and will get you some weird looks if you ask for it.

The NHS doesn't seem (as an outsider looking in) to do well with preventative care. I firmly believe (without necessarily a lot of evidence) that if we focused more on healthy lifestyles and made them more cost effective for people the amount of money we plough into the NHS every year could be reduced drastically.

Re:Plausible Community Edition on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @08:51AM (#40926329)
They make $300/mo from donations from those that self-host. The point they are making is that enterprise level users are self-hosting and not putting back into the running of Plausible.

I still think the way they've done this stinks though.

Re:Plausible Community Edition on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @08:32AM (#40926192)
Being cynical it looks like a way of holding features hostage for the purpose of extracting revenue.

I sympathise with the problem of re-sellers abusing their hard work but they are also creating two different classes of product with this change.

I’m not concerned about myself being banned on Masotodon as I keep away from political subjects. I don’t find the platform useful as the conversations that I’ve been able to find are highly politicised. I guess I need to work better at tuning out the noise on there.

On X I mainly occupy the indie hacker space which is focused on that topic. There are definitely more political conversations that come up but it’s much easier to filter those out.

I'm not looking for value through political debate and heterodoxy. In fact I'm trying to look for the opposite, I'm glad you seem to have found it! Algorithmic content is a double edged sword. I've found it much easier to find people on X to discuss the non-political content I want. On the other hand it's much harder on Mastodon.
I find that Mastodon has become the mirror-verse version of Twitter/X. I've tried spending time on there but unless if you subscribe to certain political/ideological values then you wont find much to hang around for.

On the flip side I find the discourse on X a lot more varied. There are definitely big problems with the types of conversations that happen on X but I have to go out of my way to find them. On Mastodon it's not that hard, mainly down to it being a smaller pool of content.

ActivityPub/Mastodon is flawed at its core with its concept of federation. They paint a pretty utopian picture of decentralised communities but there really isn't much difference between them. They are mostly part of the same political zeitgeist and if you don't toe the line you get banned. Once you're banned that's it, you've lost your profile, sure you can recreate elsewhere but have to start from scratch.

For the problems alternatives have like Nostr at least they are truly censorship resistant.

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