Notices by brennen (brennen@federation.p1k3.com)

@cy yeah, i mean, you're not wrong, but i think the exists-is-the-enemy-of-good thing - while often _triggered_ by corporate interference - is a dynamic that's kind of orthogonal to the specific source of the existing thing. sometimes the reason you don't have a better thing is that a longstanding community project or standard fills the niche for the people who'd otherwise create something better.

@pho4cexa a recurring rant of mine is that we don't have a good desktop mail client because everyone who would have written one is just using gmail, we don't have a good irc successor because everyone who would have written one either stayed on irc or fell for a con like matrix, we don't have good encryption tools because pgp, etc., etc. there's some general principle at work here.

@skinnylatte on multiple occasions, i have been yelled at by an entire social group for not bringing enough bags of salt & vinegar chips to a party or campout also heavily featuring dill pickles and pepperoncini. exactly one guess as to what nationality the majority of us are.

it's been 0 (zero) minutes since i last saw a set of overworked coworkers courting burnout as a result of AI bot scrapers abusing the ever living shit out of infrastructure we run as a service to the public

@theresnotime my first distros came on a couple of CDs i ordered for USD 2.00 apiece from... actually i don't remember. maybe walnut creek or something was involved? someone who specialized in selling cheap install media. i think i had to make a boot floppy to do the install.

nobody is going to out old-timer @liw on this one - who as i recall got his first linux because linus wanted somebody else to try it out...

@skinnylatte @brooke if they worked as well as these off-brand transitions lenses i have, they'd never shade genders except when staring directly into the gender sun

@Aleums ok, but to fully calibrate this take, can you tell us how you feel about peter frampton?

@alex there've been bot-related costs and malicious traffic for as long as i can remember, but this feels like it's intensified massively everywhere. it gets harder and harder to imagine a network where public-by-default keeps being a viable approach.

software as a disservice

"goin' where the weather suits my clothes" but really it's just waiting for the brief windows of time where it's actually wintery where i live so i can wear 3/4 of the things i own

ok so i currently follow people who are extremely into: birds, bugs, fountain pens, old computers, weird computers, weird computer languages, sailboats, poems, trains, bicycles, gender fuckery, cartoon animals, weather, radio, disaster response and analysis, fiber arts, rpgs, drugs, movies. you know, the usual stuff.

so what else you got, fediverse? i'm looking for some special interests i don't currently see anybody going way over the top on.

@cks "Quick guide to EBNF" is my go-to example of a phrase encountered in documentation that lets you know instantly you're fucked.

the man page equivalent of http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/nosql/

@m455 @technomancy @aw rST _seems_ like a nice design, but in practice i had to placate sphinx for a while and i'm never going to touch it again if i can help it.

@technomancy @huertanix "ignoring this bullshit until it's supplanted by some other bullshit" has its limitations, but it's clearly one of the most durable strategies in technology if you can afford the timeframe.

@ieure @technomancy you say that like it's a bad thing

@technomancy @robey "look, we're not google! (plz ignore megacorporation behind the curtain)" has had more legs as a business plan than i would really have expected.

@tess the thing that google+ actually got right: the idea of circles[0].

[0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B#Circles

@checkervest this piece of string walks into a bar, tries to order a drink.

the bartender just looks at him and goes "we don't serve your kind in here."

piece of string walks out to the alley behind the bar, rolls around on the ground, gets real messed up, frizzy bits of string sticking all over the place, goes back into the bar and orders a drink

bartender squints at the string and says "aren't you that piece of string who just tried to order a minute ago?"

string says "i'm a frayed knot!"

@srol the thought just now that if i could somehow add up the wasted $billions and years of person-time due to this alone, i'd find that slack is in fact a faithful ally on the war against the tech industry actually doing anything.

tangential to my earlier ranting about matrix, it's similarly too bad that the energy and resources that have gone into creating a gitlab didn't instead build something that was a) actually open, and b) in any way fit for purpose.