“They were always green”. I wish

https://youtu.be/22vbhTi1ieI?si=pS1mcII10zdelEan

What I like is that the products are good and that the company doesn’t engage in shitty exploitative business practices

Sniper’s dream we used to call him

First time I’ve come across the Chinese Room, but it’s pretty obviously flawed. It’s not hard to see that collectively the contents of the room may understand Chinese in both scenarios. The argument boils down to “it’s not true understanding unless some component part understands it on its own” which is rubbish - you can’t expect to still understand a language after removing part of your brain

Yes, thank fuck for that. Material design fatigue is real

So you’re the guy who organises the computer literacy programmes in schools?

The comma and ampersand are plain English, not one big command

But it would hit a different place every time… Most developers wouldn’t even consider checking for this, and the chance of getting a repro in a debugger is slim to none

Holy shit

“TonalEnergy Tuner & Metronome” is easily the best money I have spent on an app, ever

Unless you define “chicken egg” as an egg laid by a chicken. It’s question of definitions

You can definitely still get similar FiiO devices, but not sure about that one. They’re still great devices too

If you are looking at w3schools and you are confused, stop looking at w3schools

PSA: SMS 2FA is not secure! Use a hardware key or mobile app instead

Anyone with half a brain switched from antiwork to workreform after the moderation drama a couple of years ago. Doesn’t surprise me that the remaining members are hard to displace

Do you want to host the videos on your own server? A quick Google search turned up https://datarhei.com/. I’m sure there are many, many other options.

Otherwise you need to host on someone else’s server. Here’s my advice:

1. Forget FOSS. What software your host runs is not important. The only lock-in is video discovery, and FOSS doesn’t really help.

2. Someone is paying. Either you (e.g. Wistia), big tech + viewers (e.g. YouTube) or some poor volunteer/donor (PeerTube). You need to decide which is less problematic.

If you need a video “platform” where users organically discover your content… That’s another question

Scrolling through the live streams, 90% is piracy and the rest is automated AI/nature/whatever streaming. Didn’t see a single “twitch style” human steam.

Is owncast going to struggle with adoption more than other fediverse projects due to the inherent synchronicity of content creation and consumption?

Here’s a slightly more subtle version:

An explorer leaves his camp and walks 1km south until his path is blocked by a huge bear. He makes a 90° turn to his left and sprints 1km east. After checking the bear is nowhere in sight, he turns another 90° to his left and walks 1km north, arriving back at his camp. What colour was the bear?

Polar bears could live elsewhere too - what’s important is that no other kind of bear lives at the North pole