oh hi there!

Picked up Art of Computer Programming. Worth it for an old dog?

Intro so far is pretty compelling and reaffirming that I'm not insane or clueless at least.

market seems to be starting another round of layoffs. caught in the net this time.

anyone looking for an old hat engineer. industrial safety, fintech, security, or ssi ideally.

never forget that this was done as a protest against sexual abuse of children by the catholic clergy. sinead was decades ahead of her time in calling this shit out and it destroyed her career

was standing in the plaza 2 weeks before.

i think these days they call me a Xennial now, its changed many times over the years.

interesting, i just googled it. Entomology starts there or just got used a lot in the writing?

this answer is also correct

i annoying and I know it, but don't really care

There are federations that function, and they are more than just mastodon.

The internet was not designed to be centralized, what we built was co-opted. Re-claim your common space.

https://opensource.com/article/23/3/tour-the-fediverse

Fediverse - Federation that communicates with real standards

i too have no clue what it is, but the noise and tenor makes me think its all noise for nothing

distractions from what or rabbit holes for nutters?

ive seen 12 definitions of tpot in the last 72 hours and at least 100 in the last month.

i dont think anyone knows what it is or there is some strange astroturfing going on.

is bsky just insane or are users trying rto 4d eachother to death?

when you ask for dark and horrific you get it. if you got happy and flowers it would be mis-aligned using shoggoth.

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A comic in which Mark Ruffalo explains what's happening in the current SAG and WGA strikes while a buffalo swears.

The best summary of what's going on with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes I have seen so far is in this Phil Jupitus comic. www.instagram.com/p/CuvHrS5M7zN/

Insights into the difference between social media without profit motive.

escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wron...

If we’re offering some grace to Bluesky, we could also offer it to people who are understandably upset at being dehumanized by bigoted scum on a new platform that got their hopes up. I mean I assume there’s that much grace to to around.

Insights into the difference between social media without profit motive.

escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wron...

pretty much an f-u strike, we think we can out wait you or we will get to good ai quicker than you think.

they are wrong on both counts.

my biggest issues with ATproto are as follows

1. Standard proliferation, ActivityPub already exists and can be extended.

2. Bsky is a for profit entity made by the same people and come from the same places/cultures as the other networks. Funded by them too.

3. Profit + Commons = not your commons

You fluidly moved from system to system because they didn't have your data, you did.

There were ofc some practical reasons for centralization at one point for some usecases. At this stage of our technical development, they make less and less sense every day.

of personal control through underpowered personal moderation tooling.

meanwhile, the real internet (web1 ill call it) put the client in your hands and the data on a standard protocol backed by the dev/eng orgs of the world.

realizing the kind of capture that could be had (similar to what AOL and CompuServe had) they built up thier proprietary systems with specific anti-consumer designs such as forced remote data storage for NPI/PII

this allows them to control everything you see and here while creating a façade...

its just the nature of the domain mixed the proprietary protocol implementations. Social networks like most apps sit 2 or 3 layers above HTTP(s) often just using a patchwork protocol they that gets wrapped into the public API via a gateway.

domains, through marketing domain names were made a sole way of accessing systems. this was pushed to the people as "the way the internet is used".

We need them yes (TLS forces it), but they don't need to be the land-staked gateways they are now. it's perception that lets the gatekeepers reign.

protocols can distribute themselves if we make them do so, im ok with large instances, they wont kill fedi, they will just kill themselves.

eventually people will learn.

this is fallout from marketing around DNS.

the problem on fedi is the mentality of being on "big instances" which is just as corrosive as piling onto any single domain as we have seen the last 20 years.

every single instance with tons of users just has all the same problems. Communication is local first, thats how this scales.

this is the bed we make, how many times before people figure it out I wonder?

profit + commons = not your commons

why accept any of it, none of us need to be bending knee to valley kids to communicate. this is ridiculous.