Notices by Tom Robertson (tommertron@masto.yttrx.com)

@thomasfuchs It’s so bad and boring.

@tchambers @waffles Like, as much as Mastodon isn't 'taking off,' I still think there's something special being built here. Maybe I'm just dreaming, but I wonder whether the real future of the internet is being built here, which will survive and provide value long after the algorithmic industrial complex eventually collapses under its own weight. Maybe I'm just being optimistic?

It's really interesting hearing @waffles talk about the weird early days of the internet. Like, people scrounging computers, fumbling their way online, figuring out how to eke out network bandwidth in some sketchy co-lo. None of this was done for some big profit, it was just fun becaues the internet was cool and exciting. Just to nerds at first, but then thanks to nerds, to everyone!

I still sense some of that weird spirit alive in this Mastodon instance, and Mastodon in general.

@liztai The other trick is to make a filter that puts anything with the word “unsubscribe”into a junk folder, marked as read. Just check it every once in a while to make sure nothing slipped through.

@liztai I just unsubscribe to basically every marketing email I get. Eventually you do actually get zero marketing emails.

@thomasfuchs No Mini Disc? I loved those.

@danprovost @gruber This makes me think of another truism that I’m inventing right now: “Everyone assumes battery tech will magically get way better over time, but it basically never does.”

IMO, we’ve hit a plateau in battery tech. Best we can do is make chips and radios more efficient to draw less power (and there are obvious hard limits there too.)

@gruber @danprovost Fair enough. I guess what I find is people tend to assume batteries improve like CPUs improve, a la Moore’s Law, which they decidedly do not.