Notices by ocdtrekkie (ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social), page 3

@ariadne @theuni @ocdtrekkie @schmittlauch @wwahammy @scott @msw @Atemu I mean in comparison to Amazon? I really feel like if people are rooting for Amazon over companies that made their entire business around open source code, maybe they have missed the forest for the trees.

@jenniferplusplus @chris At this stage, yeah. I think the "x stars from y servers" thing is neat, but software like Mastodon deliberately doesn't want to hype engagement numbers so I think it's reasonable or unsurprising that Mastodon wouldn't do this and Threads absolutely would.

Do not cheer for the Big Tech backed "open"-branded fork that will be announced in the next week. As people any sort of ethics, we need to realize Amazon and Google aren't the good guys, and the open source community's defense of the FSF and OSI is reaching "weird nerd" status.

FAANGs and a dude who supports pedophiles every chance he can should not be who we entrust to steward what FOSS is. We should do better.

Another open source database (#redis) is switching to #sspl because the #osi prefers it's Big Tech backers over sustainable open source development.

Please remember that the reason they are forced to do this to survive is because a company which forces their employees to pee in bottles to make quotas while their CEO goes to space refuses to pay for what it uses.

#amazon is the OSI's second biggest sponsor. (The first is, of course, #google)

@lightspill The best place to get their books DRM-free is Humble Bundles, which they regularly participate in.

@ppatel @WarnerCrocker I mean moving a lot of sand is expensive, lot of labor and machinery and time. It was 14,000 tons of it.

But I have to ask if they could've spent less than 10% of that asking an expert if it would work.

@Hawk1291 I accept Rokus as "the least sucky way to watch a bunch of very proprietary apps". It's the best, and that's a very low bar, but generally if some TV has Roku on it, you'll get all the streaming services for a lot of years, and that's rarely the case with anything else.

@Hawk1291 If watching the usual Netflix/Disney+/Paramount+/Peacock/Hulu/HBO Max stuff is a primary need I think sucking up with proprietary platforms that are popular but single purpose is still best bet.

I haven't seen a compelling case that Kodi/Plex/etc. are a good option unless piracy is your primary source.

@ariadne @davidgerard There's this whole bit that really just cracks me up that the company literally has a trillion dollars and manages to sucker idiots into doing labor for them for free.

You want me to do data collection for Google Maps? *Pay me.* Want me to answer questions on your support forums? *Pay me.*

Absolutely hilarious. Never gets old.

@expert Not mad, just disappointed.

I'm a Christian. My faith doesn't require I dictate to people what gender they are or who they love. I get along on Mastodon servers just fine.

@SallyStrange It's so frustrating. We have a book that literally says the most important commandment is to love God, and the second is to *love your neighbor*, and some people are going to go dig for the line that validates their homophobia, and then act like that gives them a religious right to hate people.

@lightweight @donkeyblam The problem here *is* the Docker model of self-hosting. It's too complicated and it's too insecure.

Your blog post says "here's what I usually do" and then lists out over 20 magic incantation steps in the CLI. Just for one app! This is why people don't self-host.

@replyguy @ryanhoulihan I feel like there's a world where this bit would be funny, but I don't think we're in it right now.

@anarchopunk_girl @Rusty Yeah I've learned a fair bit more in the past few days. It's explained *much* better in the tweaking.thebad.space version of the site.

Also Ro appears to currently suspend .social, so I'm not sure how piecemeal the information I've tended to get is.

@Rusty My understanding is that it's a work in progress. (A lot of things are example content, the same for every server, or aren't present, like the "receipts".)

But it's also logically inconsistent: mastodon.social is listed as a suspend for federating with mstdn.io, but mstdn.io is on probation and only a silence.

It'd definitely be nice if it had a methodology posted, but I don't think defederating the domain would do anything, it's just a website.

@Rusty I have never heard the claim that it's AI-based before. Why do you suspect that's the case?

(Also, I don't think I've ever heard of someone importing The Bad Space's list, so I imagine the impact is fairly low.)

@clacke That sounds absolutely terrifying, in no small part because I spend a lot of time learning about home construction and electrical wiring and can't fathom what would even do that.

@Gargron I mean, I'll be getting one just because my 11's screen is starting to fail and the battery is starting to wear down pretty badly.

Nobody needs a phone anymore before their old phone starts failing.

@Gargron Corporations trying to be funny either goes really well, or really, really badly.

@JenWojcik It's always been pretty wild to me that there's been no real downside to companies trying to union bust. This finally makes it a bad idea.