“Another crime solved, Detective, and using your signature method of noticing a detail that’s just a little *too* perfect! But what if you’re assigned a case where everything is really sloppy?”
“I don’t know we won’t show that I guess. like that won’t be an episode or whatever”
The correct appellation for Jacob Appelbaum is "celebrated rapist," for anyone wondering.
he's shutting poor people out of the most important part of civic life, our celebrations
by cancelling them
again short posting is hard to capture all the complexity here, and I'm a dozen posts long 😅 but I'd love to see the rest of the world really think about software engineering and lifecycles, hosting, code, everything while we have this... "opportunity", if we take it
If countries outside the US have to start rebuilding alternatives to US solutions, I'd love to see us not follow their paths blindly. Maybe lets not leave it to VC funding. Govs could get more involved and stipulate things where it makes sense like non profit steward organizations, and open source
This is obviously infinity complex with no single solution. We'll need all kinds. Codeberg was mentioned elsewhere. More non profits, coops, community organizations with non capitalism funding will also go a long way to making software and access to services more egalitarian and resliliant
All that more directed at the "self host" and "federate" crowds as not critique but suggestion if they want to win more.
Folks have had much less trouble running "self hosting" when it's well designed p2p software with a GUI application for clients, I think the rise of p2p filesharing is a good example.
Crucially, while a linux admin can run a stand alone server on their server, we built running servers also into the client GUI so any desktop users could just turn one on with a few mouse clicks and run it from their computer.
Shameless plug time: It's been very crucial in informing how Open Privacy designed Cwtch, the p2p instant messenger. Two peers could chat if they were both online, and you could set up a group on a server to store messages if one was offline.
To your point, "self host" sounds I am guessing like "run on a server", but what if it meant "run an app on your primary device"? That's at least the direction I want to and have been exploring
I really believe designing software under captitalism has been a major burden and drag and held us back from even imagining better options and exploring them.
This whole wing of design has been badly neglected in the last decades as centralized approaches were way more easily monetizable so anyone starting designing software and also taking funding to do so pretty much had to rule them out before even thinking about design.
The p2p software architecture designer in me wants us to invest more in designing protocols and solutions that address the next level of problems with say, "self hosting" on a home PC or phone, with high amounts of offline time. It can be improved often greatly, but takes time and effort.
That still isn't enough but I always want to see friction and barriers to access lowered in the name of accessibility.
What frustrates me as a dev is none of this is inherent to p2p vs federated design, it appears to me more a symptom of the different cultures that have grown up around server software and application devs. I would LOVE to see folks making server software learn some of these lessons
I see slightly better options roughly coming from "p2p" apps because more often they are shipped as "end user applications" so like, have a GUI, run out of the box, have sane defaults, run on non Linux operating systems. All big improvements in lowering the barrier to entry
this is a ludicrous amount of friction and I 100% agree asking everyone to get a linux server and become an admin is impossible, and if that's where we're at with distributed software, it's starting at failure. I've seen this a lot with "federated" solutions, that very much need a tech class to run
classically "server software" is shipped with terminal only interface, meant just to be plugged into a running OS's infra, like Linux, usually doesn't run out of the box but needs a manual to be followed, doesn't have ideal defaults, needs config files to be tweaked, or written or copied
as a dev with that impulse, I think it highlights a frustration point I have with a separate what I'd like to be false dichotomy around categorizing software and then making and shipping it.
If horizon 3 skips a ps5 launch, that would be comical and brutal. Like TV shows with elongated production cycles, the more years between, the more the hype dies down. If I'm waiting for horizon 3 so long it "can't" launch on a ps5, I can wait the extra year for PC.
But yeah the fact a big horizon fan may be able to go from a PS4 for the first to games and skip the 5 entirely... I know it sounds like I'm saying I'll need to buy the 6 but it's the reverse. I feel conned for buying the 5 and now more resistant to the 6. The 5 had kinda been a waste for us
Meanwhile we have plenty to keep us busy on PC and steamdeck. We're hardly starved. It's just baffling PlayStation spent decades building a single player exclusive audience and then was like "we want to take a generation off and do multiplayer" which will also kinda require cross platform launches
But actually given how glacially slow they may be going by making everyone make live services, what's tacking on waiting an extra year and just waiting for the PC port right? Why even buy a 6 for one game so late while our 5 has sat fairly unused. Such a waste.
The point is, from our narrowly scoped POV the ps5 entire generation is kinda of a waste now given their massive focus shift. And yeah they can delay the 6 and I still probably won't even consider buying one for years till horizon 3 Is announced.
But also since they appear full in on the p2p hunters and gatherers who knows when horizon 3 could even be reasonably expected? Some time post 2030 at this rate?
As big horizon fans we got a ps5 for forbidden West assuming it was the only way to play. Because production was so slow at the start they had to release it on the PS4 as well (not initially expected I believe). At the rate they appear to be going there won't be another mainline game for the ps5
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
I made a video about Bobby Kotick, his friend Jeffrey Epstein, and a conspiracy of mediocre billionaire sickos: youtu.be/ZlrWz0JWfn8
Does this seem efficent? no. Is this safe long term losing that much institutional knowledge all at once? Feels a lot more like a mass self inflicted injury to me.
Will def be watching the news for more AWS outages in the future. 😬
