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Re: on Monday August 24, 2026 @01:42AM (#49415583)
And yet, ironically, we have this post. And sites like Reddit and Substack and the site I'm commenting on right now -- lots of human thought still in circulation on the Internet. The sites he mentioned like Quora are dying for other reasons. And LLMs still pull from all these sources, perhaps more draining than search engines that came before LLMs, but yet we are still here, posting and commenting, I don't see it going away. In fact, I meet more and more friends that are finding their voice on Substack or YouTube or their own blog and producing even more thought content on the web than ever before.
Re:QuadRF on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @11:52PM (#48393555)
This project is awesome. I'm thinking of mounting it on an fpv quadcopter to get a realtime survey of the RF situation below. What is the feasible range triangulating where RF activity is located below in a situation like that? If it can work at 50ft range I could make it work but I'm wondering if that is realistic with this kit.
Re:Slow Social Media on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @01:41AM (#45272163)
A lot of his ideas remind me of the BeReal app, it limits posts per day and is geared toward 'friends in real life' and with just a few friends on it I've stayed engaged. But it's sparse for me and can be a ghost town much of the time, but that may be just because my friend group isn't using it much. There needs to be sufficient network effect to maintain and grow it's reach as a network, which may be antithetical to its founding principles.

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