Notices by Steveg58 (steveg58@aus.social)

@esther
Also once you get older, touch screens will ignore your fingers, you will be less able to distinguish the icons without changing your glasses and your fat fingers will cover several icons and a random one will activate. I know all these things.

@inthehands
Yeah ... and that is why Traditional Configuration Management has Interface Control Working Groups so that someone can make sure they talk and crack some heads together if they don't play nicely.
The worst SNAFU I saw was when our customer (a very big mining firm) wrote their own description of the interface to our software and consulted neither the software documentation or ourselves and gave it to another contractor to build a big downstream system. A year or so later our system did something that is completely acceptable but wasn't in their specification and they tried to raise a defect notice against us. It took a couple of years of to-ing and fro-ing before they called a formal fault resolution meeting and the existence of the unsupported interface specification came to light.

@raven667 @inthehands
The downstream contractor was raising the faults. The policy of Big Mining Company was that subcontractors should never be allowed to talk to each other and preferably never even know of each others existence.
The behaviour in question was our system responding to an error condition and that did not happen frequently. We repeatedly told them it was expected behaviour but the other subcontractor wanted a lot of money to re-write sections of their system. We tried to put mitigation in place but without knowing why it was a problem we were a bit hamstrung.

@thomasfuchs
Also,
Database: a slow file system.

@fromjason
Sounds like American conspiracy theory. We like to deal with facts not vague assumptions. Sure, "Ecorp" is out to destroy the Fediverse and may well subsume Mastodon.social because it will not be defended. But other instances will defederate them and carry on. Your 30 administrators are a drop in the ocean and are certainly not "Fediverse leaders".
Please be more clear with your concerns.

@fromjason
The thread had no substance. I read through it all and it didn't mane an actual argument. You re-hashed a lot of history that we already knew. You went on about "Ecorp" is a bad actor which we also already know.
If you said its is about an existential threat to mastodon.social then you are probably correct. But mastodon.social is not the fediverse and they are not the leaders of the fediverse. And lets face it, historically, mastodon.social was not the mainstream culture of the fediverse. Before the Twitter exodus arrived it was always skating on the edge of being defederated because of its ineffective moderation and tendency to permit bad actors.
Remember we came here and formed communities because we thought both Facebook and Twitter were piles of stench even before the Elonocalypse.
You haven't put any links to your blog so I can't even see what you have written there unless your blog is WSJ or BFI.

@futzle @lindamciver
I would simplify that as basic mathematics but I'm not sure that actually qualifies as "science".

@Yukari
Remember that the Kakuno will accept the Pilot Con-70 converter with vastly more ink capacity than the standard Con-40 enen if it does double the price of the pen.