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  • Theoretically, that might be their plan.
    They could get their service federating, and then sell instances to potential admins who cant afford the hardware to deal with a threads spammed fediverse. They could rent out fediverse virtual servers on their physical servers just like Salesforce does(or now, AWS, servers, just like Salesforce does.)

    Not a lawyer(Am a dev though). That might get them out of the legal responsibility to moderate content since it might fall to the instance admin to organize that.

    Then they can have a twitter and reddit competitor that requires no content policing on their part. And they control the hardware and servers behind the scenes, so they get to insert ads and scrape all of the data.








  • As i understand the current consensus on Spinosaurus:
    • it walked on all fours, not on two legs.
    • it was probably similar to a giant croc as is mouth is design for catching fish.
    • the tail looks like it could be used for swimming, but didn’t have the muscle attachments for croc/gator tail swimming.
    • which is weird because that should put it in an ideal situation to give fantastic skeletons(similar to the duck billed dinosaurs), but we barely have any. Worse is that the most complete skeleton was destroyed by allied bombing in WW2.
    • and all of that raises the question of what the hell was the sail for. Since that doesn’t make sense on an aquatic ambush predator.
    • moreover, the sail wasn’t a one-off, but a feature of half of the spinosaurids, so it was selected for. So it served some useful purpose.


  • In my experience of using the traffic inspection tool fiddler: for https sites you have to have it add its own self signed cert to be able to see traffic.

    Firefox, out of the box, detects it immediately and warns you of a security issue, not letting you do anything.

    Chrome, and chromium based browsers,
    don’t even notice it and happily let you do what needs to be done.

    I’ve had the experience of a few sites not working recently in Firefox, one of them explicitly stated an ad server was blocked because of xss settings and refused to load. Chrome didn’t care.






  • As an example:

    Salesforce has been trying to replace developers with “easy to use tools” for a decade now.

    They’re no closer than when they started. Yes the new, improved flow builder and omni studio look great initially for the simple little preplanned demos they make. But theyre very slow, unsafe to use and generally are impossible to debug.

    As an example: a common use case is: sales guy wants to create an opportunity with a product. They go on how omni studio let’s an admin create a set of independently loading pages that let them:
    • create the opportunity record, associating it with an existing account number.
    • add a selection of products to it.

    But what if the account number doesn’t exist? It fails. It can’t create the account for you, nor prompt you to do it in a modal. The opportunity page only works with the opportunity object.

    Also, if the user tries to go back, it doesn’t allow them to delete products already added to the opportunity.

    Once we get actual AIs that can do context and planning, then our field is in danger. But so long as we’re going down the glorified chatbot route, that’s not in danger.



  • Fair.

    But even if it is relative to the earth, there would be the question of do you retain your velocity relative to the earth when you teleport in?
    So moving pretty much in any modern vehicle would be a reliable way to repaint a surface of the interior with yourself, particularly an aircraft.

    However, if it doesn’t, then you can reset your momentum every time you pop in or out. In that case, you can reset your movement several times mid-air so when you hit the ground you’re going a survivable speed.