Notices by Jorge Candeias (jorgecandeias@mastodon.social)

O que vocês não sabem é que o verdadeiro nome do Umberto Eco é Umberto Umberto.

Today's piece by @pluralistic is a call to action.

You know who would need to read it?

The @EUCommission

I doubt they'd agree, not right away at least, but they should be made aware that this is a very powerful weapon they must consider in trumpian trade wars.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/08/turnabout/#is-fair-play

@Gargron Are we all that sure the whole bubble won't burst violently sooner rather than later?

'Cause I'm not.

@bruces Honestly? I don't see them as such. I try to always add the alt-text and sometimes forget. That thing reminds me to do it, sparing me the need to edit the post later. It's useful. Spares me time.

I see it a bit as setting an alarm on the phone to remind someone to take the pills.

@lxo @pluralistic merdificação

@guyjantic @pluralistic the problem with that line of thought, despite being totally fine in theory, is that in practice the very architecture of the at protocol is such that only someone with deep, deep pockets will ever be able to build an at service truly independent from bluesky's infrastructure.

Edit: @cwebber wrote extensively and very technically about that.

@gamingonlinux I boosted this post, because I think it's a fun idea, but I don't want to win the game. Just so you don't include me in the pool.

(also, you may want to make it clearer if one'd have to do all of those 3 things or just one of them)

@quinn You may eventually find some slaming from me, aimed at a very specific group of people: politicians.

Not for being there. But for not being here, at least in addition to being there. That's who I think is really slammable in all this.

@quinn I'm not slaming anyone. You may check - you won't find any slaming.

I'm just telling why I do what I do. I was there. I no longer am. Twitter went further than I'm willing to tolerate. So I left. Inactivated everything and I'm telling people why.

It's a "me" thing. Not a "shame on you for not doing the same" thing.

@quinn Well, my argument is that I don't want my twitter data to be used to train a nazi IA. And the way things are going, this alone may prove your "staying there doesn't give musk as much power" argument wrong. Hallucinations and all.

The way I see it, it isn't me who's breaking the community. It's space karen.

Os brasileiros gostam muito da palavra "ruim" porque não conseguem perceber se as pessoas dizem "mal" ou "mau".

Yes, please.

https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/113113034272582082

I don't post on #twitter, but I do lurk there. Because sometimes I get info such as this, which needs to be public knowledge. In two words, this is #Musk 's kompromat.

#russia

@BeAware It might, I guess (where'd one's data be stored? Locally on one's devices? That also can be dangerous. Distributed throughout the whole network? Hm... I dunno...), but I also suppose that you'd have a much harder time approving and then implementing something that changes stuff at the core of the whole shebang than just building a new service on top of what's working now.

Then again, that's me talking off of my derrière. I don't know nearly enough about all this to have solid opinions.

@BeAware Got it, thanks.

As far as I understood it, that's more of a tweak in the functioning of AP federation overall, closing the gap between the fediverse proper and how Bluesky works (and maybe opening way to full integration between the two protocols).

My idea doesn't require any fundamental changes. It's just a service built on top of what's already there, and I can't really say how feasible it'd be.

@BeAware Take your time. Thanks.

@BeAware That's pretty cool.

You've got a link to point me to, by any chance?

This case with venera.social (and libranet.de) is due to a database update what went catastrofically wrong. It's been getting worse and worse for the last 11 days. And at this point I'm getting somewhat skeptical that it's ever gonna get sorted out. In normal circumstances, you'd put the backups on, investigate the problem and start over.

But what if there are no backups?

This is revealing one major limitation in the whole idea of "you can move servers any time you want": it only works if the servers are still up. If the server is down, and stays down (which at this point I don't know if it's going to be the case with venera.social) you can't move. You can create a new account elsewhere, but whatever's connected with the dead account is gone.

The #fediverse needs redundancy, methinks. Some sort of service that backs up account networks.

OK, apparently venera.social is completely dead now... 😔