Notices by Andre (pcowandre@jauntygoat.net)

Well, that's the very last 2TB Seagate Barracuda to fault out from my backup server, making a total of about eight of that model drive to fail on me.

That series really was a reputation-killer for Seagate.

@quokka1 I had a pretty good run with HGST but not since WD ate them.

The problem: "I'd like to to make the tea/coffee preferences of my team available so people don't need to ask when doing a coffee run or feel like making a cup of tea for their colleagues"

The UNIX way: Put your tea/coffee preferences in your .plan on the shared SPARC server.

The early web: A static HTML file with a table.

The web: A CGI application written in perl where people can update their preferences.

Web 2.0: LAMP stack in a VM with a JavaScript enabled fancy front-end wherein you can drag sugar icons into your cup. You can click to share your love of tea on social media.

AI: We trawl all staff social media, email and recorded phone calls to build a coffee and tea profile. I don't give a fuck if you're lactose intolerant, the AI says latté and AI is always right. We've discontinued the coffee machine and tea in the break room to pay for the first year cloud bill for the AI.

@mekkaokereke Just about every non-obvious improvement to Mastodon or ActivityPub would seem to carry an additional trust requirement, either implicit or explicit.

One of the great joys of the current protocol is anyone with a little motivation can spin up an instance. The only gates are a DNS entry and some sort of compute and an internet connection.

Much more and things start to require trust relationships between servers which crushes out the little guy.

@unixben @alanc Are you remembering the good ol' days of "XFree86"?

@luca @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews I'm not anti-corporate at all. I have no problem with a large entity implementing native activitypub and interacting natively with the community.

I do not see bridges/gateways that republish content as that at all.

Further, I understand there's a difference between offering someone a beer and having them walk into my house and help themselves to the fridge.

@luca @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews That would be using the content as intended. In the same way that allowing a browser to cache a web page doesn't entitle the browser use to then republish that content under their own domain.

Similarly, owning and using a DVR doesn't grant one the right to sell copies of a TV show.

I can borrow a book from a library, but that doesn't entitle me to photocopy it, rebind it and sell it to another library.

@snarfed.org @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews

If you'd like to use our content, how about paying us for it?

Or at least consider the copyright position of each post/account rather than assuming what we produce is free for you to re-use.