LesserAbe

A buddy and I were playing with Sonobus this morning. It lets you collaborate on music remotely.

Musicians will know already, but if you're not aware, the latency (lag) between participants makes it impractical to play in time together. But if you can get it below 30ms then it's roughly equivalent to playing with someone across the room. Needs a hard wired connection and the other people probably can't be more than 500 miles away. But for me eliminates a two hour round trip to work on a song.

I did read it. Here's the company post that the article references and links to.

The social proximity thing is about replies to posts. Since replies are often a mix of people I follow and people I don't, I think it could be helpful to prioritize replies from people who are connected to those I already follow.

They say the dislike button will apply to "Discover and other feeds" which is a little less relevant to me because I don't use discover. Maybe I'd check it out more if it was better.

It would still be important to me that I have my unfiltered feed of posts by everyone I follow in chronological order. The post by Bluesky doesn't indicate they're changing that.

Even so, if they were actually altering that feed, my understanding is that you can switch to a different front end which uses whatever ordering/display logic you prefer. Catch of course being someone has to have created and maintained such a front end, and many people will just stick with the default option.

I'm not here to tell you that their motives are pure. But I don't see how a dislike button or social proximity are enshittification. And I don't see how it's tighter reliance on their control.

Is Lemmy having the ability to downvote enshittification? That's what drew me to Reddit and now to Lemmy. It pushes less useful/interesting content down and brings better content to the front (generally)

Is showing you posts from people connected to people connected to you enshittification? That's a feature I genuinely like about LinkedIn. I've seen posts from people I know but wasn't connected to yet. I've seen pictures from events I attended but uploaded but people I don't know personally.

I don't know, I could see that improving the experience.

I may have some insight here: in marketing there are third party services which will "verify" an email is legit. They do this by sending an automated inquiry to that email domain's servers. Many servers are set up to respond and verify, "yes this is a real address" or "no, we don't have an address like that."

Catch is that this allows marketers to confirm, yes, my message will reach a real person if I send it here, and they may send spam. So some services intentionally configure their servers to give no response or a less definitive response.

Without looking into it I would bet that's what Tutamail has done.

Still annoying that Loudly doesn't support it, but probably less a question of size/location and more of configuration.

Because the only way Marvel movies know how to ratchet up the stakes is having more and more people die.

I think about the difference between early Bitcoin mining computers and professional mining equipment. At first people just used a desktop machine with a beefy graphics card. Then once people realized how much money was in it they iterated, and people started manufacturing devices custom designed for mining, and building operations in warehouses that were close to cheap power sources.

Same here, initially people have individual cell phones and are doing things manually, then they start to refund the process and use devices specifically made for that purpose, including arrays of sims which can be controlled centrally from a master computer. Just because it's sophisticated doesn't mean it's a state actor or terrorism. (Of course still good it's shut down)

It's like those stories about "we seized enough fentanyl to kill 1,000 people." Sure, maybe that's true but that's not what they were going to do with the fentanyl.

Used in a certain way you use those sims to shut down cell towers, but there's not much money in that, and there is in sms scams

Not really. I didn't see anything unhygienic in terms of the food people were taking home with them.

When I worked at a grocery store the dairy stock room always had a weird tangy smell. Inevitably product would get spilled, and then cleaned up, but never seemed to be truly clean.

I don't know OP's intent but there is a genre of porn where the one person isn't into it, but it's not rape. It would be like them playing a video game or washing dishes and being indifferent/unresponsive to the other person having sex with them.

Funny you say that because at the end of the article she talks about how they are definitely not implementing an AI chatbot and calls out some other companies that have.