Notices by medium rare bird (migratory@jorts.horse)

@anildash what the fuck kind of fart-huffing makes men (it's always men) unable to name software companies and products after what they are and do

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@cwebber it actually just looks blue because light is refracted between many servers between its original source and where you perceive it

@Daojoan my model of this phenomenon is that all these people are downstream of the basic failure of their ethics to tell them that the redistribution of money is zero-sum, and so "passive income", like all other forms of profit through owning capital rather than laboring, is simply theft

but capitalism doesn't acknowledge this, so it pushes people into the purest forms of rent extraction and scamming

@whitequark from my investigation they've all seemed like insane feats of engineering just to claw back basic properties that a capability-based system would have started with, and then they have their own complex bespoke systems for managing the resulting flexibility

@whitequark to me this is beautiful "plug X into Y" like the Free Universal Construction Kit

@purpleidea possibly the least informative pitch I've ever heard. I'll invest an hour of my life watching this barely-described video immediately

@whitequark @wingo what credible alternative distributed operating systems are out there?

@pojntfx is there a prediction market on "cloudflare is the feds" so I can retire someday

@pojntfx you don't have to convince me lmao, it would be a wild strategic blunder for the feds to not be inside CF

@mjg59 I'm pretty sure there's no difference between cambridge and boston

@sluttymayo it seems like you're implying beavers and horses are two different animals?

are you telling me that even with years of experience internalizing niche furry tf porn I'm still not koalified for the position

sometimes I wish steve never invented jobs

@evan even paying for a service doesn't enable you to take your data with you at this point, sadly

@evan for new users, it doesn't matter at all. for users who have invested a lot in the platform it certainly does. and for users seriously considering the platform, it's important to be able to take claims like "your data is your own" or "you can migrate servers" at face value rather than with gaping caveats

@evan I don't believe any other social networks have account migration at all. but it being so incomplete on fedi certainly undermines the way fedi *should* be able to let people own their identity, which is one of its main value proposition vs. centralized social media

@evan posts not migrating when you migrate servers

@vriska happy casimir pulaski day!

we need an xzibit 2.0 to invent pimp my ride for bikes #praxis