Freeing the bird from the shackles of X.

Would you contribute funds?

I just did.

Let’s be honest, They won’t. The users won’t fund it, as they want to use it for free.

This is what happens when people say they will “donate” but will actually wait for others to do it and little to no one donates.

What you are seeing is the bystander effect. It is why projects like Nitter will end up raising capital from VCs as they actually have money.

Seems an unlikely investment for a VC. Xitter can shut down Nitter any time they want, and the end users don't want to pay for it.

That's exactly what VCs are good for. Cities could've shut down Uber any time they wanted, but they didn't, so it grew big.

There has to be a plausible path to making money though. If the purpose of nitter is to not make money, VCs won't fund it. If it substituted X's ads for Nitter's own ads, that could work, but the online ad market isn't as lucrative as it once was so it wouldn't be enough money.

You could find a VC whose other project has similar legal concerns and get them to fund your legal case to set precedent, but I don't know what that project would be.

Yeah, would be feasible if tickets wouldn't be so hard to get for externals. Ain't no way my partner would hang out for a year every week with me in a hackerspace

Yeah, CCC is only accessible for people who are already part of CCC for decades.

There are some token newcomers, but overall it is a very closed community.

I have absolutely no connection to CCC whatsoever and yet whenever I wanted to go to a CCC event (3 Camps and 2 Congresses so far, the first time in 2015), I could and when I wanted to take my partner with me, I could do that too. You just have to be fast to get the tickets before they're sold out, that's pretty much all there is to it.

Depends on when it was. Congress was less popular in the past so you could get a ticket.

Nowadays, most tickets go to hackerspaces and volunteers but the open sale sells out in seconds.

Camps are much easier to get to.

I did get my tickets volunteering for like a decade but last year I gave up - volunteering the whole event so I get a chance to go to the next event ... where I would volunteer the while event. That's not a good time.

Especially when there's more and more volunteers competing for work so they get a voucher - while the oldschoolers have no need for any of that because they can always get a ticket through backchannels.

Funny how CCC managed to recreate the worst aspects of capitalism as part of their leftist conference.

> Depends on when it was. (...) Nowadays, most tickets go to hackerspaces and volunteers but the open sale sells out in seconds.

2016 and 2019. That's how it was back then as well and that's what I meant by "you have to be fast" - fortunately the ordering system is reasonable and you don't have to type your data in within seconds, all you need is to be there in time. Back then there were three open sale rounds (but I see there were just two last year), I got my tickets in the second round for 33C3 and in the first one for 36C3.

If you want to share tweets from X, there is exactly that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283

So you say, they at least create economic value through obscurity of something which should be accessible?

Can't agree more, I feel the same.

I was excited to be the first pin in Berlin

now you can!

I feel that. I thought I am the only one who has this issue, with Claude always adding this superfluous BS. I feel totally backwards when realizing I am trying to teach this model how to write good technical docs, while I could have already done it in the same time.

Anyone has experiences with other models? I feel like GPT is much more concise?

It is almost certainly AI-written. Very odd writing style, also the repo README is Claude-generated.

* open-weights

(sorry for nitpicking, i think it's important to emphasize - only OLMo has been the most most prominent fully open source release)