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by jrm4 1y ago
Funny, I just recommended Antifragile by Nassim Taleb to my book club, and of course, that idea is pretty much the perfect foil to this.
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by jrm4 1y ago
The problem here is the problem everywhere; we still as a world have no remotely effective way to actually punish companies-as-bad-actors on the internet or in tech generally. None of any technical ANYTHING matters until we (meaning law a
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by jrm4 1y ago
Your code analogy is horrifically bad. It strongly suggests against, e.g. the covid vaccine.
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by jrm4 1y ago
In both directions, then. Again, I'm very very comfortable with. Wait -- millions of people have been drinking coffee daily FOR YEARS, with VERY FEW visibly super-harmful side effects. That data is as good as, or perhaps better than, m
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by jrm4 1y ago
Interesting how "quitting coffee" makes it up the rounds, and pretty much all the discussion perceives "quitting is good," -- but there's quite a bit of at least plausible evidence, both modern scientific as well as
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by jrm4 1y ago
Hey wait wasn't the internet supposed to route around...?
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by jrm4 1y ago
YUP, that's the specific bit(s) I was thinking of.
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by jrm4 1y ago
I don't think you're wrong, but also don't think that the article's wildly wrong either.
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by jrm4 1y ago
I'm most reminded of not the movies as much but -- Monty Python's Flying Circus? Same kind of ... "uh what?" vibe.
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by jrm4 1y ago
This really is confirming my theory that the problem here is that "serverless" is so ill-defined that even it's own name is nonsensical. Like, there are still servers. Appears just about as intelligent as calling them "e
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by jrm4 1y ago
Y'all, the more I think about ATProto, the more I think it's worth considering that it may be a VERY VERY bad idea. Which is to say, all of the potentially intrusive human information gathering and spying that you can encounter on
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by jrm4 1y ago
Right, I mean, I was asking rhetorically. Taking this idea further -- this is the sort of thing that really makes me consider whether or not ATProto might be literally the worst idea in all of social media. Which is to say "can track
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by jrm4 1y ago
Sure it is; you can self host. Not that it's easy, but still possible.
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by jrm4 1y ago
"Real decentralised thing" here I meant 'using Git in that way that was kind of invented for but no one seems to do,' aka distributed/decentralized with no central server at all.
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by jrm4 1y ago
I think you've nailed a problem with all of these, they would make "deleting your stuff" HARDER. What's stopping the rogue node from saving all your stuff forever? I think "trying to make a thing that can work thr
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by jrm4 1y ago
Been thinking about this lately and ultimately, I'm thinking that -- taking into account what we know about "federation" -- both the Nostr and ATProto models are generally pointless because they attack a problem with more co
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by jrm4 1y ago
I'm increasingly becoming convinced that atproto is pointless. Federation is good, but this idea of implementing "take everything with you" at the protocol level is unnecessarily complicated and centralizing. With Bluesky it
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by jrm4 1y ago
KDE is the whole Desktop Environment, and BasKets is one of its programs. I actually thought it was abandoned but there is some development on it. Took me a bit to actually find a site that can kind of show what it is: https://ba
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by jrm4 1y ago
I like the idea a lot; seems similar to the abandoned KDE Baskets?
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by jrm4 1y ago
Ha. I was tasked to teach (classic) Project Management without being super-familiar. Then I had to get familiar with the new stuff; waterfall, agile whatever. They literally are all nothing but hacks that violate the basic points of actual
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by jrm4 1y ago
There is no solution here besides "skin-in-the-game." None. The process will be harmful and lazy until someone or something recieves serious consequences for getting it wrong. That's all.
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by jrm4 1y ago
No. Not "willing," that implies that the options meaningfully exist. They don't. "Willing AND ABLE" works here though.
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by jrm4 1y ago
More accountability for humans and/or corporations, not less?
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by jrm4 1y ago
Sigh -- another not-even-thinly-veiled ducking of "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision." This is not the way we want to be going.
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by jrm4 1y ago
Holy. Moly. I had no idea that this was another goal. That's ridiculous to try to do at the protocol level. What I'm realizing, perhaps as an old timer -- projects like this seem to utterly forget the concept of "layers,&qu
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by jrm4 1y ago
Your criticisms have some validity, but email is in a sense objectively great in that it's the thing that "won." I believe there's a universe of difference between ONE provider and a few megacorps plus weirdos like m
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by jrm4 1y ago
Meh. Handle a little spiciness and participate in the actual topic of discussion, or don't.
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by jrm4 1y ago
Because Bluesky actively sells itself on the whole "take your stuff with you thing?" At least with Masto, you know the possibility of being shutdown if you don't trust your provider, which is the same as email?
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by jrm4 1y ago
What? It's your opportunity to nerd out and lecture people on why they're doing email WRONG!!! (only half joking)
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by jrm4 1y ago
Mastodon is the right model. I keep saying this and I keep being surprised that it isn't more obvious to most. It's the right model because it's essentially the same model as email. Yes, there is TONS of "human" wor

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