>take freelance gig
>test and review our amazon marketplace product
>see previous glowing reviews
>deploy it
>systemd won't launch the guy's custom unit files because they reference other, nonexistent unit files
>the product literally doesn't work
>it got glowing reviews
>the software itself costs ~$138/month to run on top of fees for EC2 and an elastic IP
So now I'm afraid he wanted another glowing review and not an actual tester like he wound up finding.
> Almost exactly six months after #Twitter got taken over by a petulant edge lord, people seem to be done with grieving the communities this disrupted and connections they lost, and are ready, eager even, to jump head-first into another toxic relationship. This time with BlueSky.
tl;dr:
#BlueSky seems designed to get secondarily centralized in the "reach" layer (as they call it)
@rysiek
So it works for some people but not for others. What's wrong with that?
Anyway, you could get protection from harassment by individually blocking and subscribing to feeds of blocks.
Hopefully they'll add that feature. If not, maybe it can be added since it's meant to be open source.
@rysiek
So users have a choice of recommendation algos instead of having only one? Seems like a good idea to me. Sort of like https://docs.polycentric.io/
How easy is it to get printers that support banknote-style security features?
If you give everyone with something to sell one of those + a server to serve as a Chaumian eCash mint you could get @cjd's (and I think Thomas Greco Jr's as well IIRC/AFAICS) "decentralised fiat" idea.
Every one could issue notes backed by what they're selling and trade them. #economics#decentralization#EconomicsForRebels (never seen that last hashtag before but it seems apropos)
Bluesky's terms of use state: "We may terminate or suspend, in whole or in part, your access to and use of the Services, including suspending access to or terminating your ACCOUNT".
This is a very odd policy for a company that trumpets nomadic identity as its killer feature.
I mean, that's the whole reason why Bluesky built a whole new protocol instead of using ActivityPub, right?
If Bluesky can suspend your account without notice, what's the point?
@colinsmatt11 https://docs.polycentric.io/
New (in theory) decentralised social network created by Louis Rossmann's new org that he works at.
It doesn't have any third-party clients or servers yet but it looks cool. Kind of like a cross between the federated model of AP and the relay model of Nostr with the self-custody key model of Nostr.
HN comment thread about Mastodon: guy talking about the early 00's chats and forums as barely thriving and only being used by a few people until Facebook came and brought the mainstream online.
Another answers that the net was already thriving for him back then. He gets dismissed with "Many of us software devs are a different sort".
Dude. It was everyone from children to soccer moms to my grandma. The primary draw at the time was email and once they got that they also visited forums and set up terrible GeoCities homepages about their cat. Yahoo! was exploding, Amazon was starting, pets.com was collapsing and people wouldn't shut up about eBay.
Non-techies were very much online in the 00's and they didn't need a centralized social network to do it.
It's so weird go see recent history being rewritten like that, this is barely 20 years ago.
"No one should be forced to take any medicine they don’t want, and any State that holds down an individual and forces medicine into them is not a State anyone wants to defend..."
Absolutely agree, Bomber.
"... but employment mandates aimed at stopping the spread of a novel virus were the best decision in the face of a real time pandemic."
Umm... how does that follow? Didn't that "best decision" turn out to be illegal according to some High Court rulings?
in the proposed 'democratic deterrent' system, every uk citizen will be allocated about 200 kilos of TNT equivalent thermonuclear yield, although it would require 2 million people's votes to actually launch a single Trident D5 and its four 100 kt warheads