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aaronpk_tv
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CREATORS: If you're still getting bot spammers and scammers in your YouTube comments, I put together a Google Doc that lists all the keywords, phrases, and emojis they've used.
Since then, I have yet to have any bots get through. I hope this helps!
https://bit.ly/youtubebotspammerblocklist
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I finally got around to reading @timbray 's "Bye, Twitter" blog post that everyone's rightfully sharing, and the last paragraph of this section resonated.
Full post here, if you haven't seen it yet: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/11/26/Bye-Twitter
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Scott Hanselman :verified:👸🏽🐝🌮
https://hachyderm.io/@shanselman
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Nov 27
Getting a plane to Europe tomorrow. I have full seasons of a half-dozen shows, a Retroid with retro games, a Nintendo Switch, and work and email to do. I will likely do none of it and simply fall asleep. I do this EVERY time and I NEVER learn.
haha same 😅 I have done this so many times -
sonicrocketman
https://pine.blog/u/sonicrocketman
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Nov 27
Just searched the App Store for my own app by name and the app appeared nowhere in the results. Thanks Apple.
I keep telling people about the apps "Shoot" and "LiveApp" which are basically impossible to search for in the app store 😅 -
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Here's my newest Salon article, about the FTX debacle and the longtermist ideology behind it. There are several crucial points that the media has consistently missed. A short 🧵 in hopes of rectifying this problem.
https://www.salon.com/2022/11/20/what-the-sam-bankman-fried-debacle-can-teach-us-about-longtermism/ -
Hey, so, don't tell anyone, but I'm announcing PalmPilot emulation at Internet Archive for the holidays, probably next week. All the currently-working items need descriptions, so it's not quite ready. Don't tell anybody, OK?
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_palm
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someone on Twitter asked why we think ActivityPub sucks from a protocol and implementation standpoint, and we're porting it over here with minor cleanups:
several things — from a server perspective, the most popular implementation requires that you become an SRE for Nginx, Rails, Postgres, Redis, Sidekiq, and possibly ElasticSearch. IMO, these (especially postgres) are nontrivial services to maintain over the long term.
once you pick a piece of Activitypub-compatible software, as far as we can tell, you're locked into that particular branch — you cannot simply export a Mastodon database into the GotoSocial implementation, you have to set up GotoSocial brand new, and make everyone refollow you
protocol-wise, we keep finding shocking ways in which activitypub is worse than email; the biggest pecadillo (IMO) is that if i follow 100 people on 3 servers and make a post, my server has to make 100 requests, one per follower, instead of 3 posts, one per server
the way the protocol works is that if two large instances defederate each other, it causes a notification storm for everyone downstream that can overwhelm smaller instances
so! if you run your own, you pretty much have to become a cache SRE, web-tier SRE, DB SRE, queue SRE, Rails SRE, you have to know how to secure unix systems, mitigate attacks, and if you're responsible, you have to do replication and backups.
sure, Docker has made it so that you can stand up all of this easily, but long-term maintenance? are you really confident that you know what you're doing here? Oh, sure, you've offloaded a lot of this to your cloud provider, but then you're now dependent on that provider continuing to work. Unless you're a large corporation with a secure contract, your cloud provider most likely doesn't care about you.
in short, standing up our own mastondong is signing up for a whole lot of Actual Work that we don't really want to do just to talk with friends, and we absolutely must stress that we both worked for twitter for 6 years and run our own **email server* for 21*
