Alex Schroeder 🐝 @kensanata@octodon.social

@ckeen Indeed! Whenever I talk with people about working only 60% I see echoes of that. They don’t know what to do. They feel like they’re mooching off of society. Like they’re not giving their all for their children. As if they had decided that given that they’re in a rat race, and knowing that they can’t quit, they want to at least do well.

@ckeen I don’t think I’m interested in a medium that is for friends only. The sneaker net is friends-only. But my website, my toots, my nails, my messages, my phone calls, these are all for strangers, too.

@ckeen @solderpunk @c25l @ajroach42 It happens, and it makes people angry, and we can’t stop them, that is true. But it doesn’t follow that the tools we develop prevent us from doing the things that cannot be guaranteed. After all, our locks are not perfect and yet we still use them. The law and norms take care of the rest.

@aral @skiant Just a little bit. As far as I understand it, it builds a Merkle tree and that seems to lead to two properties I dislike: you can’t delete old revisions and so how do you deal with unwanted content in old revisions? And you always get the full “repo” if you download a blog, for example. How will that scale, over the years? It feels like bitcoin where you have to download all the transactions since forever if you want to trust the current status.

@polychrome @eladhen Hah, that’s even stranger than Gopher!

@aag I’m on 1G symmetric so yay me and yay for the city of #Zurich. 😀 But Yes, in general you are right. Then again, shared hosting can be had for less money than the cost of electricity for your own server unless it’s a single Raspberry Pi, I think. So perhaps that’s not really an issue?

@wrenpile perfect! “Tea Paste […] has been used by the Chinese Army on campaigns» Aaaargh!

@ckeen with wage labor

@ckeen @solderpunk @c25l @ajroach42 But this is precisely not how it works in real life. The memories might not disappear, but the insult is not repeated every time we me meet. The newspaper disappears from the stand, the books get impounded, the graffiti is painted over. We design systems to never forget but the human thing is to forgive and forget. That web page where I am called a dick still makes me angry, years later.

I miss buying obento at Japanese railway stations. https://www.bentolunch.net/

@ckeen wasting time online!

@ckeen @solderpunk @c25l @ajroach42 ouch. Thus if somebody writes something illegal there is no way to effectively retract it either... if you’re sorry you wrote something, you can only say you’re sorry and you didn’t mean it and you want it undone but there’s no way to actually do it... I don’t think that’s the kind of service I want to use. How do you deal with this? Assume that mores will change?

@ckeen @solderpunk @c25l @ajroach42 Another question that keeps bothering me: what about expiring and deleting content? Does that work at all?

@ckeen @solderpunk @c25l @ajroach42 what’s all the “voted this” stuff with links I can’t follow - are those “favorites” in Mastospeak?

@ohyran thank you VERY MUCH for that toot storm! I am totally looking forward to Gothenburg, now. And I’ll ping you for coffee for sure. 👍🏽

@saper @eladhen Yeah, number one on the site I linked says: “Integrate PyQt program window into Emacs Frame using Xlib Reparent technology” – that sounds like X only. Not even sure whether this can work for macOS or Windows.

I was talking to a friend who was thinking about the internet we want to have, decentralized, less silos, a bit like the nineties where it was possible to have static pages, host email, write your own CGI scripts, and it was all step by step easy and possible if that was what you wanted. And we got talking about the kind of things we need to today to get this back. Do you have reading suggestions? Blogs to read? Projects? People to follow?