Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

@timbray @jamie I didn’t ever tweet with any sense that I was doing something to be archived. I see it as ephemeral.

I’ve downloaded an archive and completely purged my account. I just don’t feel like leaving my content, including photography, on that dumpster fire of a website. I’m completely fine with being gone and not leaving much of a trace!

@timbray I agree with A but (for me) not with B. I have long delete all of my twits and likes after N months for the same reason that I close comments on my blog posts after N months: nothing good can come of those late replies: no community, only bots and monetization.

Anything of substance (you know, the *quality* fart jokes) are on my blog. I'm not one of those "buckle up" goofballs. I know HTML and several other languages.

@aral I hear there used to be this thing called "tax" which was used to fund efforts that benefited society

Wonder what happened to it.

@aral #disapora* and #tumblr come up in my mind as alternatives, in a world without AP or statusnet.

Every private space is owned by someone. That someone makes and enforces the rules according to their own interests.

You have no right to free speech in private spaces. If the owner of a shopping mall doesn’t like what your t-shirt says, they can have security escort you out.

“Social media” (Silicon Valley and venture capitalists) sold you the lie that shopping malls are parks.

They are not.

If you care about human rights and democracy, build and support parks not shopping malls.

#SmallWeb

In 2019, before Covid and George Floyd and Jan 6 and Putin, Anna Wiener wrote a brilliant story in the New Yorker introducing civilians to that torment nexus of tech, Hacker News (“the orange site”, 🍊🕸️). I forgot how apt and meaningful I found her phrasing here about the tone of HN:

“The site’s now characteristic tone of performative erudition—hyperrational, dispassionate, contrarian, authoritative—often masks a deeper recklessness. Ill-advised citations proliferate; thought experiments abound; humane arguments are dismissed as emotional or irrational. Logic, applied narrowly, is used to justify broad moral positions. The most admired arguments are made with data, but the origins, veracity, and malleability of those data tend to be ancillary concerns.”

Back then I tooted, “I used to do this performative erudition shtick. Then I got junior devs with brilliant ideas. Then non-dev domain experts with razorsharp insights. Had to open.” That’s a wonderful memory—I am now with much fondness remembering the juniors and seniors who, literally by dint of being such fine people, made me give up that clinical coldness because I simply had to celebrate how much I learned and grew by being around them.

But not so pleasant is the realization that Elon and his fanbois are living embodiments of that HN toxicity, highly distilled to poisonous levels.

Feasible.

Any #erlang devs looking for a contract? We have a company who needs 4-6 weeks worth of work spread over two projects. They'd like to start soon, but can be flexible on timing. More work may be possible after that.

#XMPP and #Ejabberd experience would be very useful. I'm told the work is quite in-depth. Please reboost!

@Chris_Swan Yup, you tell them there's no source code files and they look at you like you are mad.

#XMPP Events

Last chance: Proposal submissions for #FOSDEM's Real Time communications room, by tomorrow!

A great opportunity to share what has been going on in the past year for XMPP.

https://github.com/FreeRTC/fosdem/blob/master/2023/cfp.md

#jabber #interoperability #standards #rtc #matrix

@majorlinux @BlackMastodon Boosting not for me, but in hopes others of #BlackMastodon can see it for y'all.

#lifeGoals: write free software that's so reliable that on the rare instance when someone is able to find a bug, it makes the front page of Hacker News, https://www.philipotoole.com/how-i-found-a-bug-in-sqlite/

@nasa Every time I see an LRV, I think, "Only AMERICANS would take a car with them to the moon."

But I'm sure NASA had their reasons. ;-)

@graham_freeman I have been moving about 99% of my "cloud" stuff in house. #SelfHosted

If you distribute your content publicly over an open protocol, you have no right to be angry when others read that content in ways you don't like.

Case at hand are fedizens who complain about indexing or re-hosting of their profiles, toots and images.

I'm convinced that If you don't want your content/details to be public, don't publish them. Keep them private.

If you allow indexing, expect to be indexed. If you make data public, expect it to be read, copied, stored. Regardless of who & how.

It's that most wonderful time of the year when Wikipedia is fundraising hard.

They literally have hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and enough runway to essentially run the site for decades.

If you have money to donate to good causes, consider local charities; if you want to donate to an Internet thing give to the chronically underfunded Internet Archive: https://archive.org/donate

Apparently Namecheap is now selling blockchain-based domains, and unless you hover over the illegibly low-contrast "i" icon there's no indication that you're buying something "not compatible with DNS" throughout the rest of the checkout process.