RobotDeathSquad

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

I'm the CTO of a tech platform that has a consumer component of it, and the real issue is that normal people just have zero idea of how it works and generally expect it to work differently.

The main source of confusion is that if a service uses your email address to identify a user, and that user gives up a completely random email address, they now have no way of identifying themselves unless they remember they used hide my email.

They assume two things: 1) that they will still be identifiable by their "real" email address some how, and 2) if they do use their real email address later, it will somehow map back to the previous hidden email.

Also if they use Apple Mail, most of them are not aware of how to figure out what email address an email was sent to, so they can't identify if they hid their email address, or not, even when we're sending them emails.

My evidence for this is thousands and thousands of customer support cases. Our CS folks HATE this feature.

[–] RobotDeathSquad 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, I think so. There is a couple Mastodon things written in Elixir (Pleroma being the main one), so i think there's an activitypub implementation already. Would be nice to have a lemmy frontend that was fast.

[–] RobotDeathSquad 6 points 1 year ago

Cult of the Lamb is great on steam deck. So is Dave the Diver, fun little game where you own a sushi restaurant and have to catch fish for it. Both are on sale.

[–] RobotDeathSquad 1 points 1 year ago

Laserboost is definitely one of the more expensive options, but they are convenient. Ponoko is good and typically cheaper. If you live in a large city, there's for sure someone local that will do it for much cheaper than any of the online places, but it takes some leg work.

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

Medium and Substack seem to be the two big "central" sites, but also lots of people don't want a central site so they do self hosted ones. I use a Ghost based site and it's pretty great IMO.

[–] RobotDeathSquad 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure why this would be surprising to anyone. The point of announcing it now is so they can put it in the hands of devs to make 3rd party apps, of course their software isn't complete and shippable on the day in which it's announced to be shipping (probably) a year later.

[–] RobotDeathSquad 1 points 1 year ago

Not a PHP developer or advocate, but Facebook still uses PHP in 2023, so I guess it's fine?

[–] RobotDeathSquad 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Turns out Baby Reyna is good, actually?

[–] RobotDeathSquad 1 points 1 year ago

Love the Dropbear. Wish it came in HHKB style, that frosty case would look super nice I think.

[–] RobotDeathSquad 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Given that Sam Altman and a bunch of OpenAI investors are also investors in reddit, don't you think they can negotiate free/cheap API access anyway? Nor do you need an API to simply webscrape the content.

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

We couldn't get Dialyzer to work well until I found this, hope it's helpful for others!

[–] RobotDeathSquad 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm not sure about the algos, but I'd kill if it would at least remember my choices between page refreshes.

 

When trying to create community, I get the following error with no way to fix it. Anyone ran into this?

 

I wonder why they aren't profitable?!?

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