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And none of the quotes from that Pickering guy actually made any sense

This. They are buying a brick in the xkcd #2347 diagram


Also they bought the company which develops the open source slurm scheduler which is the primary and defacto standard HPC scheduler on the market. Bit of a concern to say the least


baseball cap and sunglasses will do just fine.


Humans are able to identify a person just with general dimensions and how they move. It's probably within the reach of today's machine learning techniques...


They have a store selling caps, t-shirts and keyboards. That's one way to donate while getting cool stuff


Isn't that the same problem though, that the profit goes to the foundation not the corporation?

However it is a nice idea, I would love a firefox mug or something. Microsoft has lobbied our company to remove firefox and chrome from all computers so we must use edge everywhere and it would be a nice passive-agressive move for me to have firefox merchandise everywhere. I work in IT so the people that decided this shit are around me.


Joseph smith claims to have had a new revelation and the book of Mormon is "another gospel". It's fan fiction for Americans and claims that the church became corrupted and are restoring the true church with their non biblical ideas. As such, their ideas are sufficiently divergent from biblical doctrine they are considered not part of the Christian church.


"i haven't noticed my soul shrivelling to the size of a pea"


Your soul is nourished by navigating congested traffic and searching for mundane stuff on the internet? That's not how mine works.


In my dreams, this is the moment Mozilla brings a search engine out of stealth mode, and says "sorry for looking like idiots for twenty years, we were secretly working on building a great search engine that doesn't suck or do AI"


Considering their recent acquisitions that search engine would most likely be funded by ads and eventually just follow Googles footsteps in every way.


There's a certain writing style, very short paragraphs, fair amount of repetition that just feels like you've read this post before. And you have, just on different topics but it's always the same feel.

But also lots of negatives to start the sentence, usually with a reinforcement e.g.

your password didn't help. your 2fa didn't help. you were never asked to authenticate. you were asked to authorize. completely different mechanism


Find it surprising that there are people still under the delusion that they have an audience of humans on twitter worth speaking to


You think a bot cross-posted this tweet to HN?


Jose valim is the creator of elixir for reference. He definitely includes a fan following within the elixir community. So its not much about twitter as much as the guy.

I mean even on top of my head, I still remember when jose commented back to me and it was a highlight for a few days as I told my friend about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44234633

> I have a fun anecdote. About 5-6 years ago, Elixir completely disappeared from the top 100 after spending some time in the top 50. People reached out to me and then I reached out to TIOBE to understand why and the reason given was "bad presence on Amazon".

> After further investigation, the root cause seemed to be that we finally had enough published Elixir books. At the time, if you searched for "xyz programming" on Amazon and only found a few results, Amazon would pad those results with non-relevant entries. However, because Elixir reached about 20-30 books, we were no longer padded, so we suddenly got worse rankings than every other language with only a handful of books. This happened on every Amazon domain they searched on, so it compounded and effectively kicked us out of the top 100 altogether. This all happened at a time Elixir language activity had already reached top 25 on GitHub PRs/stars.

So although my comment has gotten a little offtopic but people have literally written books about elixir (the language he created).

My point is, people like to listen to jose and he's a really chill guy from what I know of him and elixir feels like a great language :-D


That doesn't actually answer the original poster's commentary, however.

Humans have left Twitter, its all propaganda and spam bots just spamming and propagandizing each other.

José Valim needs to move to either Bluesky (if he prefers to stay within the corporate ecosystem) or Mastodon (which is where the entirety of the FOSS universe went).


Humans are still on twitter. Maybe the people José Valim wants to reach are on twitter and not those other platforms.


> José Valim needs to move to either Bluesky (if he prefers to stay within the corporate ecosystem) or Mastodon (which is where the entirety of the FOSS universe went).

Personally, I am not particularly on X so much as much as I am on bluesky, and I would really appreciate Jose joining bluesky.

But at the end of the day, I might take critique with the idea of needs

Nobody needs to do anything. It's his freedom and I just searched and Jose is literally on bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6h6jhmuogujxac24oilywd45 but his account is inactive since last message of 11 months ago.

So I think that he's open to new platforms and old habits die hard perhaps. I don't wish to defend X because I don't particularly like it, but being honest, it is what it is.

> Humans have left Twitter, its all propaganda and spam bots just spamming and propagandizing each other.

Can't say about all but I can indeed confirm that when I tried to make a new account and post something, I was literally recommended tweets basically saying "like this tweet/follow us to get 1000 followers or buy these followers" when I had posted a video for an product.


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