(toot 'atheia) @atheia@octodon.social

do not imagine that a currency market is any way to equitably distribute finite goods. it is not a solution to web of trust problems. it’s a speculator’s game. how long are you willing to ride the bubble?

a highly consistent distributed ledger, divorced from all this proof-of-work stuff would have tremendous value
to communities trying to operate local voucher and coupon programs. the use cases abound for this but somehow we’re stuck reproducing currency markets for rich nerds.

"Maintaining An Independent Browser Is Incredibly Expensive" by Robert O'Callahan: http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/12/maintaining-independent-browser-is.html

Mozilla is the last organization building their own browser engine who isn't also a big tech company (Google, Microsoft, Apple). The work they're doing is incredibly important for maintaining a diverse and vendor-agnostic web.

Sometimes it's about the little steps. Brush your teeth. Wash your face.

Fate Core basic rule summary in a 2 page comic: http://www.uptofourplayers.com/fate-core-rules/

Well done!

Rather than talk about work, here’s something about D&D.

The 2nd edition Monstrous Compendium describes how on full moons Death Knights will sing about their tragic fall from grace. That’s so Ravenloft.

BUT consider a death knight is the armored nigh skeletal cadaver of someone who was a knight in life, not necessarily someone who could carry a tune in a bucket helm.

So they probably sound a little like Tom Waits, only badly off key, muffled, and with weird echoes.

federal state #Schleswig-Holstein of #Germany takes first steps towards replacement of Closed Source software solutions: https://m.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Schleswig-Holstein-laeutet-Abschied-von-Microsoft-ein-3849115.html

Reading "ACL's Don't" http://waterken.sourceforge.net/aclsdont/current.pdf

Probably my favorite feature of magit is just being able highlight a region in the current diff and stage it for commit. No "git add -i", no removing code you don't want staged. Just highlight and stage.

So I have a Patreon page now: https://www.patreon.com/cwebber

Will write more soon about why I'm asking for your help, but I've been working on ActivityPub, MediaGoblin, etc full time for the last number of years, trying to make federated networks and decentralized systems happen. It's really hard to fund this stuff, but I think it's too important not to do. If you think so too, consider supporting. Thanks! I appreciate all the help I can get. <3

#memory

I wrote a thing which puts some perspective and backstory on why I am asking for donations on patreon and flattr: https://n0is.noblogs.org/post/2017/04/10/hi-im-ng0-and-i-hate-introduction-rounds/

Q: What are the limitations of blocking?

A: Numbers. Identity. References and reshares. Disruption.

There are a lot of idiots in the world. If a given social space you're in is free of them, it is generally either very small, or has excellent gatekeeping. Usually the first. The problem is that staying small doesn't scale.

Identity online is asserted, not intrinsic, and generating new IDs is cheap. Absent checks on that, blocking someone who doesn't /want/ to be blocked is ... difficult.