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Well, I took the time to read the whitepaper, and it’s yeah, pretty dumb sounding. The gist is that it’s p2p post sharing with lots of captchas & a crypto edge that it probably doesn’t need https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/eb02f20b-e787-4a02-b188-d0fcbc250ba1/pleb.tex-6d2e1bf.pdf

The similarities to Lemmy are substantial, it’s just not on activitypub, but rather its own pubsub thing. If you want to host data, you still have to keep a node running at all times, it’s not the case that “there are no instances”. Those instances can moderate the content, so it’s not the case that “there’s no moderation.” The whitepaper mentions that “its possible to delegate running a client to a centralized server…” rather than having to have a fat syncing client running on your own machine … in lemmy, it’s more like “its possible to run your own node if you want”. Plebbit doesn’t care about maintaining history of posts, it expects that servers will go down over time, and the data will be lost. Lemmy is pretty similar in that regard too, if all instances hosting the data go down, then it’s lost. The expected outcome is that there’s a handful of big nodes, as is the typical result of this form of “decentralization” - same as Lemmy, Email

Ultimately, I don’t see Plebbit doing anything particularly smarter/better, and having private/public key cryptography involved doesn’t really matter. They talk about blockchains and using coins as anti-spam mechanisms, but I don’t see why that’s relevant to the implementation

Can’t you just go to WordPress.com, log in to their hosting, and install the plugin?

Lemme apps are better now anyway, and no ads

That’s like one thing ML can actually help with XD cute cat

Damn that’s a huge problem

Wow people actually do this??? Good job

That’s a spooky one. From first glance - 500 employees and zero click takeovers of phones? Yikes. Makes me want to not have a phone… Ofc Google/Apple/USA have had this capacity for ages

It’s shit like this that makes me convinced that governments can easily hack into pretty much every system

Facepalm again and again every time my non technical boss asks me if Ive been using genai to speed up my work. No boss, I haven’t, that actually slows me down

I think you can use openjdk just fine & basically oracle is trying to wring the last bits of cash out of a dying language. I’m so sad Java was ever used for anything, it’s a garbage fire

Ah it’s one of these things that they probably could be profitable, and certainly their almost billion in sales per year is healthy

It’s worth remembering that corps pay no taxes if they spend more than they earn. VCs will often be happy to cover that shortfall with the idea of a big sale later. So nobody pays taxes and then eventually they sell or IPO for big bucks and roll that into more investments. The economy keeps on pumping

Hmm usually this is where you use the “reset” command in your terminal. Yes there’s a command that’s specifically for dispelling demons. Not sure how do in vscode, as I am a NeoVim elitist asshole

vi?

ifn't(!valid) halp?

Oh cool! De-googling never seemed easier … I think we are finally ready for open source phones

Potato salad

Shit y’know what, fair enough. I never had your particular needs, and I’d probably still have to double check a cache location in case the app didn’t comply, but I feel you

You used to have to do all that stuff before too. Vim has had history, settings, caching, and plugins for ever. And it all used to sit in ~/.vim. Now it’s in ~/.config/vim. What’s the difference?

My “user directories”? You mean you have more than one $HOME with dotfiles in it?

It was never a problem to find user specific app data on unix. And XDG obviously didn’t solve it because solutions that require everyone to change their code are dumb. Case in point, this thread

XDG config was always a smooth brain idea, and any other outcome of this experiment was always ~impossible (of course some apps didn’t switch …)

Great job to X Desktop Group “fixing” what didn’t need fixing, and causing us to go from one unified system that made sense, to two. And now people don’t even want to use X anymore