R. A. Dehi @radehi@qoto.org

@oskay We all sometimes make decisions we regret on Thankgiving

@lauren PayPal is awful for users but not for investors. But, as I commented in the post I linked, I do not think is Musk's plan to make it pay no matter what.

@kate I never do this, for exactly the reason you say. I might comment "Traverses parent links through the tree in O($levels) time" and "0 is the same node, 1 is parent, 2 is grandparent". You are using a documentation tool that omits the parameter names from the output? Surely there is a better one, no?

@lauren My predictions, such as they are, are in https://qoto.org/@radehi/109394183706677527.

@rmerriam @freemo Interesting. Presumably BitBucket is aping GFM. I didn't know GFM had syntax for adding padding.

@lauren Oh, like Newsweek?

@lauren Demise seems unlikely. Contraction, perhaps. Too early to tell.

@rmerriam @freemo Interesting! Markdown doesn't have tables. Even CommonMark doesn't have tables. GLFM and GFM do.

But apparently #Qoto's pseudo-Markdown does too! The widths look fine to me, they just need some cell padding. And the alignment is wrong.

@mathlover Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised to see failwhales, maybe even for several days running. But remember that failwhales were common ten years ago, and Twitter kept growing. What fraction of Twitter's quarter billion users will abandon it forever if goes failwhale for a solid week in December? Surely less than half.

I think Musk's objective with Twitter is, as he declared in the TED interview, not financial. He'd previously declared an intention to start up his own press enterprise to compensate for what he saw as the bias of existing USA press outlets. (That's when the USA press started really going after him.)

Eventually he didn't have to start his own press enterprise; bought Twitter instead. Is Musk's tool for reshaping discourse in his favor. That will still work with only 100 million or 50 million users. Of course, better if doesn't lose too much money, but controlling memespace is key to controlling outer space.

@chribonn @NorCal_Lynne @jeffjarvis @tomwatson Confusing Mastodon with a company isn't about being "tech-savvy" or not "tech-savvy". It's about treating a community of people as a community of people and not as a vendor or a machine.

Similarly, when you are using Facebook, it is to your benefit to understand that Facebook is also operated by human beings who can invade your privacy. Hiding those human beings behind a "smooth GUI", as you are advocating, obscures the power relations in the situation and prevents vulnerable people from protecting themselves.

@worldsendless @freemo Thanks! I wonder why I get results that are so much worse.

@mathlover Yeah, could be a big disaster for his reputation if goes badly enough. So far I haven't seen a failwhale or evidence of a drop in engagement, though, and is hard to imagine what non-operations problem would be worse than what Twitter already did before he bought it, like getting Trump elected president of the USA.

Advertisers do seem to be staying away, and that may be one reason he wants to move Twitter into more lucrative services like money transmission.

@freemo @worldsendless Does it work for you, at least to the point of successfully doing a full-text search over toots you've been mentioned in?

@freemo @worldsendless Also, even though you just now tagged me in a toot that says "markdown", text search for "markdown" doesn't return that toot either. I think free text search for toots is just broken, maybe there's a process that's not running that's supposed to build a full-text index or something.