ollien

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[–] ollien 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Twitter has no unique technology

That's... Patently not true. Twitter, has come up with many novel innovations while running their site. If you look at their engineering blog, there's tons of information about the work they do. Not to mention, many of their scaling concerns have become staple system design interview questions (e.g. "the celebrity problem")

Now, as a business...? Yeah, they never quite took off there.

[–] ollien 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you referring to ActivityPub? AFAIK, ActivityPub isn't even shipping on day one

[–] ollien 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you don't know Rust, I wouldn't suggest learning from the Lemmy codebase. It does a bunch of non-idiomatic things and has a lot of complexity that isn't obvious unless you have familiarity with the macro system.

[–] ollien 2 points 1 year ago

I saw a thread on Mastodon about this. The cloud host approach may not hold up

https://fosstodon.org/@omenos/110640795505868104

[–] ollien 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And then painfully learn which subset of the bindings each editor supports :(

[–] ollien 26 points 1 year ago

FWIW, /etc/passwd itself contains no passwords (the name exists for historical reasons) but it definitely is a globally accessible file that can give you clues about the target system. Given this, it's more likely the user is attempting to find out if arbitrary disk reads are possible by using a well known path on many servers.

[–] ollien 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mastodon actually lets you follow hashtags, which is a nice compromise, but it definitely isn't curated so you gotta pick which hashtags you follow kinda carefully.

[–] ollien 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The UI is a bit confusing here. This is a link post with a body. Click the title of the post to go to the linked blogpost

[–] ollien 66 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I think it scratches a similar itch as most techbros: "if I can solve this hard problem, all problems are easy!" It's a mentality I see constantly, especially on the orange site.

[–] ollien 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't really answer your question, but I've been really happy making "faux latte"s and such with my Moka pot. A little inconvenient to clean, but definitely takes up less space than a mini espresso machine.

[–] ollien 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd be careful doing this, as the sensor could pivot. I had a mount that did this and I felt like I was constantly having to mess with my Z offset

[–] ollien 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, just discovered that, woof.

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