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    2023-10-20

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  • Mastoot is my new Mastodon favorite app
    Yeap, the dev acknowledged his absence[1] (also, linked in the post). He said app development is beginning again. [1] https://mastodon.social/@libei/112166669205865314. - Source: Hacker News / about 24 hours ago
  • Google's First Tensor Processing Unit: Architecture
    There seem to be conflicting reports as to who came up with the TPU https://mastodon.social/@danluu/109641269333636407. - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago
  • Lens Flair – Reviews of camera lenses
    Now that macro lens gets a top score here https://www.dxomark.com/best-sony-lenses which fits my own experience that the pictures are great. I shot all of these in front of my barn https://mastodon.social/@UP8/111052075781351382 and could not mix photos I took with my 70-200mm because the Bokeh looked night and day different between them.. - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago
  • Cheap Cars Are Dead
    From Dan Gillmor: https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/112102491028919681 "The auto industry has almost completely abandoned the idea of selling affordable cars in the U.S. China is plainly planning to fill the gap, as Japan did some decades ago. This will -- guaranteed -- lead to a furious response, but that won't include US carmakers actually competing. The response will be protectionism, because one thing... - Source: Hacker News / 12 days ago
  • Major medical provider drops patient for not having a Android or iOS device
    If I'm not mistaking adding /embed to mastodon links makes it possible to see them without js https://mastodon.social/@lrvick/112079059323905912/embed. - Source: Hacker News / 17 days ago
  • Why Browsers Get Built
    I replied with the following, because I think this article is (unsurprisingly) extremely one-sided. Google's impact (damage imo) on the big picture browser and standards landscape cannot be ignored. "Funny how you don't mention your former employer Google at all as the biggest ad/spyware/surveillance browser company in the world. Google has used its giant browser market share to push standards that only benefit... - Source: Hacker News / 18 days ago
  • Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024)
    > Paper book will take a while longer. According to the author, Marijn Haverbeke. https://mastodon.social/@marijn/112020092273623390. - Source: Hacker News / 21 days ago
  • The steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings
    Slight disagree. "More boring" is a defence against spammers, but not the only the one. There's also: "Take commercial incentives of the running company out of the picture." The most prominent example of that is Mastodon. It's software is opensourced, and it's most popular server instance: https://mastodon.social is run by a gGmbH non-profit. (It's hosting company runs it as a non-profit charity for the social... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago
  • Popular Git Config Options
    There was an interesting discussion about this problem on Mastodon yesterday started by Julia: https://mastodon.social/@b0rk@jvns.ca/111935753657358820 The general conclusion is that relatively few FOSS tools collect usage information the way commercial software now does. Interesting opportunity to potentially improve things. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago
  • Ask HN: Nitter officially declared "over" today, alternatives?
    +1. I wasn't happy to have to use Nitter to access Twitter, but I accepted it. I'm not jumping through any more hoops for Twitter. Random Twitter links become random FB/Medium/LinkedIn: a closed world I'm not interested in. I only ~followed two people's content: * Dan Luu, available on https://mastodon.social/@danluu * Paul Graham, available on https://mas.to/@paulg but he doesn't post anymore. I'll live without... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago
  • "Images in this article were generated by Midjourney"
    Reminds me of this one… https://mastodon.social/@rands/111928566422565512. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago
  • Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your DBMS?
    If this was a significant factor, then it should have a greater impact in high concurrency workloads, getting progressively worse across multi-socket machines. Benchmarks all show that LMDB performance scales perfectly linearly across arbitrarily many CPUs. If this effect were an actual issue then the performance scaling should be significantly sub-linear. It's not. See e.g.... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
  • Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your DBMS?
    500 lines of code is still 500 lines of added complexity. For LMDB that'd be a 7% increase in LOCs, which would also introduce the need for manual cache configuration and tuning (further increasing complexity for the end user) and a 50% performance loss? Doesn't seem like a good tradeoff to me. But at least you thought about the decision. Nice benchmark, by the way. https://mastodon.social/@hyc/111887577620902329. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
  • Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks
    The best translation, however, is from Fortinet's clarifying statement. https://mastodon.social/@jasonkoebler/111892744775689047 "It appears that due to translations the narrative on this topic has been stretched to the point where hypothetical and actual scenarios are blurred". - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
  • Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro
    Here's an almost trivial bit of "permissionless innovation" thanks to Silicon Valley giants: https://mastodon.social/@UP8/111049822586450100 30 years ago somebody who wanted to develop a "new object you can use to distribute music" had to spend $100 million on some project like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette today it is very simple because almost everyone has a player in their pocket that... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
  • From Japan to the world: how to translate a game
    I hear a lot of complaints about it from some players, particularly my son. He didn't like this collage of Fate/Extella characters I made https://mastodon.social/@UP8/110817619887893867 They recently came out with Fate/Samurai Remnant which is nowhere near as sexualized as previous games in that series and it's claimed that this is trying to reach a wider audience. My feeling was that... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
  • Adobe Gives Up on Web-Design Product to Rival Figma After Deal Collapse
    I still use Photoshop because I know how to do a lot of things with it but I'd really like to have a similar app which is designed entirely around linear light. (It's not like the 1990s when I was always editing indexed color images) They are still keeping it relevant because of the generative AI features which I often use to touch up photos (remove a spot of grout from a brick wall, then add a row of bricks to... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
  • Oxide Computer releases distribution of illumos intended to power the Oxide Rack
    Keep in mind that Helios is really just an implementation detail of the rack; like Hubris[0], it's not something visible to the user or to applications. (The user of the rack provisions VMs.) As for why an illumos derivative and not something else, we expanded on this a bit in our Q&A when we shipped our first rack[1] -- and we will expand on it again in the (recorded) discussion that we will have later today.[2]... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
  • Lightweight woven helical antenna could replace field-deployed dishes
    (1) antenna (2) the signal of a radio transmitter is (usually) more or less a sine wave that is either modulated by varying the amplitude or the frequency. You could feed the same signal to multiple antennas. For instance in this photo https://mastodon.social/@UP8/media there is a radio antenna used for emergency responder comms. Note that there are several arrays of antennas stacked on top of each other. If... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago
  • Ask HN: Why most Indian websites design sucks?
    English-language books from India and China have long used terrible typefaces, I think mainly because they couldn't afford to or didn't want to license typefaces from western sources. Even though I know very little written Chinese I have a hobby interest in CJK language typography because I print cards like this https://mastodon.social/@UP8/111219354336635872 so I think I know something of their aesthetic sense,... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago
  • Reading QR codes without a computer
    Reminds me of how the first generation iPod firmware and keys were reverse engineered. They blinked out bit patterns on the LCD backlight and used a camera to read the data in! https://mastodon.social/@bagder/111538350617290554. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

External sources with reviews and comparisons of Mastodon

If You Want to Leave Twitter Because of Elon Musk, These Are Your Options
The most obvious Twitter replacement is probably Mastodon, a decentralized series of social networking sites that are, in form and function, the most similar to Twitter. The one big difference is that instead of just one Twitter, it’s more like a network of Twitters that can interact with each other but don’t necessarily have to. It’s theoretically possible to be a part of one Mastodon instance that is focused on...
Facebook Alternatives 2020 – Social Networks That Won’t Sell Your Data
Mastodon launched in 2017 and made quite an impact on the social network scene. Mastodon is a free, open-source social network. When it launched it was presented as an open source Twitter competitor, but as people are leaving Facebook its being used the same way you would Facebook, which makes it a really good alternative to Facebook.
8 Best Facebook Alternatives With Focus On Privacy For 2018
Last year, Mastodon made splashes as an open source Twitter competitor but you can also use it as a Facebook alternative. Apart from all the differences in terms of privacy, character length, what really sets Mastodon apart is the “instance” feature. You can think of the service as a series of connected nodes (instances) and your account belongs to a particular instance.

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