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  • Automatic bike transmission concept is wild and spiky—and could be a big shift

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  • This is for bicycles, not motorcycles. Also:

    Solo inventor says he's not out to replace gears, just offer an alternative.

    "I always imagined it going along the same line as when automobiles got automatic transmissions, and it got easier for more people to drive a car," Mercer said. Lycra-clad weekend warriors, gearheads, professionals, and retrogrouches may always prefer direct control of their cogs. "I just think the vast majority of people out there are in the same boat, where they find themselves in too high a gear going uphill, and it can be a pain to get to a low-enough gear quickly," he said.

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  • Not every instance is running mastodon. This would be useful for other software that don't have it built in

  • A poll: are followers-only posts on Mastodon public?

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  • Life-Critical Side Projects - Aeracode

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  • If you click the tag link right above the title, it takes you to the list of all articles the author has written about it.

  • Pebble Shuts Down...But Starts a Mastodon Instance?

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  • The mastodon dev team is notoriously opinionated. A lot of forks/frontends start because the dev wants features that mastodon has refused.

  • Automattic's Tumblr/ActivityPub integration reportedly shelved

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  • I don’t think pitching #ActivityPub to existing social media makes sense. Adding federation to a non-federated social media service isn’t a net win.

    You have to spend the time and money to implement it. Then you have to spend the time and money to maintain it. Most of the time, ActivityPub support is implemented as mastodon compatibility, not true AP support. This means having to constantly make sure you keep up with masto changes and constantly fielding issues with other implementations because you didn’t fully implement AP.

    And after implementation, you don’t just gain access to a ton of new users, you have to take on the burden of moderating all of it (which is a persistent ant recurring time and money cost). And since the #fediverse has a ton of opinions on moderation, you’re always pissing somebody off.

    And after all that, what you’ve enabled is an easy way for your users to recreate their social graph without your service. The idea of an interconnected social web is cool, and hopefully it’ll be the futrue, but it doesn’t make sense for profit-driven businesses.

    - From my alt [email protected]

  • Technology @kbin.social
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    The map-reduce is not the territory

    werd.io /view/653680c4bab71ca2620deb12
  • Fediverse @kbin.social
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    ActivityPub?

    scripting.com /2023/10/10/114018.html
  • Programming @kbin.social
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    Humble Tech Book Bundle: Software Architecture by O'Reilly

    www.humblebundle.com /books/software-architecture-oreilly-books

  • Playing Video Games Improves These Aspects of Daily Life Say Gamers in New Poll

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  • But have they? I’m not qualified to say. I don’t have any actual data in front of me.

    The question was do video games improve your life. I would argue you are the only person who can answer that question. This isn't really a scientific question because its purely subjective. You'd need to narrow it down and define some criteria before you could try implementing a study for it.

    If video games really were an unqualified good

    I don't think any sensible person would try to argue that. Nothing is an unqualified good. Watching 150 hours of tv would be just as bad as spending that time playing video games (video games would probably be better because at least you're getting more brain stimulation). You can form unhealthy habits with anything. Video games are like any other hobby; you have to balance them with other hobbies/responsibilities. It's good to know exactly what effects certain things like video games can have on your mind and body, but I don't think its that useful to compare time spent with one hobby/responsibility to time spent with some other hobby/responsibility. And it always seems like only certain things are compared like that. People rarely ask if watching tv is good for their health, even if they do it more than you or I play video games. Why would playing guitar be better than playing a video game? What makes video games the lowest value hobby? (sorry this got kinda ranty. This sparked a lot of things in me i guess)

    I am suggesting that “gamers say gaming is good for them, actually” does not provide useful data for analysis or discussion.

    100% This article was a waste of time. I'm not disagreeing on that. Your comment gave me more to think about than that article.

  • "Going digital will be cheaper for consumers because we can cut out the middle men", they said.

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  • I agree that this is ridiculous. But I think the issue is that the "middle men" are the retail stores that are used to doing retail things like lowering the price of older goods. Digital storefronts don't have anybody going over "inventory" and checking if it needs to be marked down. And corporations being corporations, they don't care about this oversight. Why spend time/money on lowering the amount of money they'll make?

  • I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser

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  • Thanks for pointing out Ladybird. It's a pretty exciting project. But the author isn't early in "announcing" anything. This isn't a press release. He posted on his own blog about a pet project. That's what the web is supposed to be. Not everything has to be for a big purpose or compete with everything else.

  • I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser

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  • A one-man project starting from scratch is not going to be viable in this day and age.

    It's a pet project; it doesn't need to be "viable".

    I think this attitude is part of the reason why we have so few browsers. Every time someone tries to start their own browser, even just for fun, a lot of the response is just bitching about how big and complex browsers are and how the effort to start a new one is wasted. It makes it so that people interested in writing their own browser (for fun or profit) are less likely to share about it and probably less likely to pursue it seriously

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  • I know that's how reddit works but this isn't reddit. We don't have to do things the same and we have a wider fediverse to integrate with, which necessitates different solutions.

    Your argument about multiple tags for a single topic seems to be the biggest benefit of managed tags, but I don't think that's even a bit deal. On other fediverse services, the same thing happens and users eventually settle on a single tag for a topic. Tags in a feed will also be truncated so not all of them will be displayed without interaction. That'll incentivize users to pick the right tag even more

  • Relaying of Mastodon hashtags to Lemmy instances

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  • ah, I see. That makes sense, thanks

  • Relaying of Mastodon hashtags to Lemmy instances

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  • I've been suggesting the use of tags to interoperate with the wider fediverse since lemmy started. The have reasons they don't like it but there seems to be some discussion moving forward on them in side channels. One of the devs asked for an RFC on a hashtag implementation and someone submitted one, though I haven't seen any feedback on it and it was not a solution I really liked.

  • Relaying of Mastodon hashtags to Lemmy instances

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  • I don't see why lemmy should leave out replies to top-level tagged posts. A tagged post is essentially like any top level post in lemmy. They could be displayed like any other lemmy post, with replies displayed in thread below

  • Relaying of Mastodon hashtags to Lemmy instances

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  • The main issue though is how do you meaningfully cross post mastodon content to lemmy? Will we be able to see the replies from mastodon users? Will we be able to reply?

    If lemmy users are happy to treat mastodon posts like any other external content, it could work well. But more than a bot would be necessary to fuse the two platforms.

    That already happens. Non-lemmy users can post to lemmy by making a normal post that @-mentions a community.

  • Mastodon is getting text search

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  • Right. That's how you grow a walled garden network. That's why I'm criticizing them. Mastodon is not a social network; it's software that connects to the network, which is the fediverse.

  • Mastodon is getting text search

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  • You could make the argument that they're technically different things, but I think in practice they are the same. If you're looking for something specific, then yeah search is gonna be more effective than hashtags. But if you're just looking for something to read, you could search for "fediverse" or trawl the #fediverse hashtag. Not everybody chooses to add hashtags to their posts so full text search is gonna find more posts than just a hashtag search (assuming full text search also returns matches on hashtag).

  • Mastodon is getting text search

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  • I still don't think search for public posts needs to be opt-in. But even ignoring that, my point was that mastodon merged this change without coordinating with other projects. They didn't check what the easiest way to signal an opt-in would be for other projects. They made the decision unilaterally and now other projects will be left out of masto search by default. And if their users want to be searchable from mastodon, they have to stop working on features for their own project and work on this.

    My issue is just that mastodon never respects other projects enough to coordinate, makes decisions that affect other projects without input from them, implements features that further isolate mastodon users from the rest of the fediverse or makes it harder for them to interact.

  • Mastodon is getting text search

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  • hashtags are supposed to be an optimization for search, not the sole axis of searchability.

  • Mastodon is getting text search

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  • Fediverse @kbin.social
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    honk 1.0

    flak.tedunangst.com /post/honk-10
  • Gaming @kbin.social
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    Microsoft keeps pushing toward repairability, now with Xbox controller parts

    arstechnica.com /gaming/2023/08/microsoft-now-offers-xbox-controller-parts-manuals-and-video-repair-guides/
  • Fediverse @kbin.social
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    Can any #fediverse / #ActivityPub devs take a look at a proposal I submitt