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I think I don't really understand the benefit of data portability in the situation.

Twitter was my home on the web for almost 15 years when it got taken over by a ... - well you know the story. At the time I wished I could have taken my identity, my posts, my likes, and my entire social graph over to a compatible app that was run by decent people. Instead, I had to start completely new. But with ATProto, you can do exactly that - someone else can just fork the entire app, and you can keep your identity, your posts, your likes, your social graph. It all just transfers over, as long as the other app is using the same ATProto lexicon (so it's basically the same kind of app).

Exactly. Anything that's ever been public on the internet is never really gone anyways, and it's unsafe to assume so. This is similar to publishing a website or a blog post. Plus, from a practical (non-opsec) point of view, you can delete items (posts, likes, reposts, etc.) on ATProto, and those items will disappear from whatever ATProto app you are using - usually even live. You need to dive into the protocol layer to still see deleted items.

Out of curiosity, does that mean that GPUs are indeterministic only in their exact execution run-time behavior, or also in the actual output they produce? If the latter, is it something to do with the indeterministic order of floating point operations causing small output differences, or something completely different?

I think the best argument for that might be that some people don't seem to understand what "consciousness" (in the sense that you are talking about) even means, and how it's different from something that can be explained as an emergent phenomenon of known physics. I then sometimes wonder whether those people are not actually conscious, or whether they just don't get it.

So far, none of these exist yet in the real world, so we'll see which one actually gets produced and sold first. I wouldn't be surprised if it's around the same time (sometime next year).

How is the Cybertruck not focused on utility? It has a larger range, larger bed, more torque + HP, a ramp, you can stand on the bed (vault) cover, it can power electric tools, etc. Sure the Lightning can do some of that too but the Cybertruck seems even more useful to me.

Oh nothing for now, and there's likely not going to be a viable alternative around for a while. But long-term, I don't see Grafana as part of the openly sharing ecosystem anymore, as with them being under the AGPL, but most other relevant OSS projects in the space being under permissive licenses, the whole idea of code sharing now goes out of the window (or rather, becomes one-way). I don't like the long-term implications of this for the ecosystem.

Yeah, which is why typically those companies make external contributors sign a CLA that allows for copyright assignment and relicensing. Which is annoying if you contribute to a company-owned project under a permissive license to help make it big and successful, and then they change the license under you. But yeah, then they could switch it around in both directions if they get all the rights signed away to them.

Yep, already thinking about alternatives to Grafana in the long term now...

If this incremental step led to a better world already, I would maybe agree... but I think it makes the whole ecosystem worse and worse, until some far-away tipping point is reached where almost everything is AGPL and can reuse each other again. And even then I'm not sure I'd be happy with the *GPL, as now you can't back out of it again in case you later discovered that it was the wrong decision, without getting the permission by all copyright holders.

I think it's both a completely unrealistic end goal (we live in the real world), and I also think that the AGPL puts you into a hole where you can never get out of again if you decided that you now need different constraints. So I really much more prefer permissive licenses.

Funnily just before you wrote this comment, I also tweeted just that :) : https://twitter.com/juliusvolz/status/1384599249082626052

That sounds nice in theory, but the reality is also that a lot of more permissively licensed (BSD / Apache) projects now cannot use (most) parts of Grafana / Loki / Tempo anymore, since realistically they won't be able to or want to switch to the AGPL as well (because of all the pain that would incur on others, in turn). That means that basically the whole free code sharing idea goes out of the window, at least in one direction – Grafana can of course still integrate code from more permissively licensed projects into their codebase.

What I don't like about changes like this is that it makes it impossible to reuse any Grafana/Loki/Tempo pieces or libraries in any more permissively-licensed code without forcing that whole project into the AGPL as well. That doesn't only hinder competitors (which seems to be the legitimate goal), but also hinders interoperability and an open ecosystem evolving where people freely exchange bits and pieces of code to make things work together. I know that some parts of the codebases have been exempted from these changes (see https://twitter.com/TwitchiH/status/1384566382180896769), but those are only some, and they may change over time...

But Bitcoin can't exist without miners...

Nope: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1369051431903268865

I mean, there's a dude who ate an airplane.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito

He commented a bit more here: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1362600676174557186?s=19

I use it in React by pointing the setup code at a ref of the CodeMirror div container and then I store the CodeMirror View object in another separate ref of the component so I have access to it from other places. Slightly awkward, but seems to work fine.

I'm using CodeMirror 6 for https://promlens.com and together with the lezer parser generator, it was great for developing syntax highlighting, contextual autocompletion, and inline linting for PromQL (that part is OSS actually, in https://github.com/prometheus-community/codemirror-promql, much of it built by Augustin Husson, some by myself).

See https://www.linuxfoundation.org/the-linux-mark/

I like that I can write pretty much normal React in it, and that it has a lot of features and plugins. But I'm still a pretty casual user probably.

It's not a drop-in replacement (even though it tries to sell itself as such), it's incompatible in a significant number of ways and throws away part of your data.

It's about solar on the roof of your house, not the roof of a Tesla car.

Hi! On the road right now, but back later :) There's no established cadence yet, but twice a year or so sounds like a reasonable update period to me.

Thanks! I already have my own Germany company, but it may be interesting to others.

For now I'm just using resellers like Copecart/Digistore24/Paddle/FastSpring to handle all the global B2C VAT stuff for me.

One word of caution: at least if you're based in the EU, this is basically impossible to do legally correctly by yourself globally unless you spend many thousands of dollars VAT-registering yourself in all kinds of places around the world and knowing global tax laws to make sure you get everything right, since electronically delivered goods (like your SaaS) are taxed in the country of the recipient of the services. Within the EU it's at least possible to use a simplified MOSS (mini one stop shop) process, but that also has its drawbacks.

This is the best summary I found of the situation so far: https://quaderno.io/resources/eu-vat-guide/

Basically I arrived at the conclusion that it's impossible for me as a small business to do global B2C VAT (not just calculation, but also actual remittance) myself, and thus am using resellers (Copecart, Digistore24, Paddle, FastSpring) that do all this for you by being a complete middleman in the transaction. Of course they then also take a larger cut than something more light-weight like Stripe. I wish Stripe also supported global VAT / sales tax remittance.

EDIT: See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MowACIitd1s and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO4nzWWMAvg

How do you handle global sales tax / VAT remittance, especially stuff like B2C VAT in the EU, etc.? Stripe doesn't do this unfortunately, but solutions like Paddle and FastSpring do, by acting as a reseller and Merchant of Record.

"The Model S was a pre-refresh Model S, which means that it was likely using the first version of Tesla’s Autopilot, which hasn’t been updated in a while'

Wouldn't Twitter have locked the affected accounts by now then?

Check out https://promlens.com/?l=OTuO7josUeU for an example of a shared page with some queries, and https://promlens.com/features for an overview of PromLens features.