Notices by Gary Parker (witewulf@cyberplace.social)

@ianb you're a very bad man, Betteridge. I can’t believe I'm listening to this filth 😂

Omigod, @ianb just tuned me into the Feelgood Hit Of The Summer 😂😎

🎼
“I love doing cocaine with my friends
It's a coked up friend adventure!
I love doing cocaine with my friends
The power of friendship will last forever!”
🎶

🌈✨🗻

https://open.spotify.com/track/6zD1lBnm0rpdDbZpcWfCJ0

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/coked-up-friend-adventure/1767500032?i=1767500295

@gumnos @ItsThatDeafGuy @dalias yeah, me too. I have the advantage of still working at a uni with more bandwidth than it knows what to do with, and an endless supply of end of life server hardware. Hosting isn’t an issue to me.

But ISPs are progressively making it harder and harder to host stuff at home (CGNAT, particularly), despite rising link speeds.

Nowadays, you need a friendly sysadmin somewhere with spare bandwidth and rackspace, or money to pay a hosting provider

@dalias @gumnos @ItsThatDeafGuy yeah, the way the media is distributed is something AP will need to address in the future, I think. But P2P brings its own problems, notably caching, when AP is designed to enable editing and deleting of content in a timely manner. Someone in my replies mentioned blockchain 😂

@ItsThatDeafGuy @gumnos @dalias I believe (but could be very wrong) that “most” people would happily pay for good enough solutions that don’t have advertising and don’t sell your data to others. That’s how the Internet used to work.

But most successful services get bought out by bigger ones, with shareholders and growth targets. At which point covering your costs stops being the goal

Yeah, I’m cynical. Sue me, #genX 😎

@gumnos @dalias @ItsThatDeafGuy this is partly tied to my previous post re. media rich AP protocols/services, and the increased costs in hosting them: https://cyberplace.social/@WiteWulf/113825863952056290

Again, I fear it’s unsustainable to have a free (as in beer) social ecosystem when hosting is not free

Maybe unpopular opinion: this isn’t sustainable

If you’ve got so many users on your instance(s) that it’s costing you $4k pcm (and however many tens of thousands of dollars he claims to have spent so far) and you need to solicit money from your users/community, this is not “decentralised”

Dan needs to stop amassing users and focus on building the software. Let other admins carry the load of actually running the service
https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113887622931474663

@GossiTheDog thanks Kevin, it’s the right move

@Ailantd @cstross there was a fantastic thread on Twitter, back in the day, inviting people to post/rant about what they found most annoying/inaccurate in portrayals of their profession in TV and movies. It was hilarious and informative at the same time

The one that stuck in my mind was an anaesthetist railing against the movie practice of knocking people out with an ether soaked rag, and them surviving

@GossiTheDog oh, I like that last one

Add (as per a discussion with other this morning): federated SSO, so need for an account on each different service

The #fediverse has a problem, and I’m going to be very unhelpful in not having an idea how to fix it.

Once an instance gets popular, it’s processing, storage and traffic costs get prohibitive for the people running it.

I regularly see reports of #mastodon instances shutting down because the admins can no longer afford the hosting costs. This will only be worse when #pixelfed and #loops spin up.

@GossiTheDog good call. I appreciate that it seemed like a good idea at the time (it's one of the reasons I came to this instance), but it's obviously a toxic relationship to be in now

@ISO8601 @GossiTheDog we’re having similar issues with Teams Voice call records. They always behaved weirdly, taking their time to appear in Graph, then continuing to get updates for hours or days after the call finished.

Since late last year, though, we’re seeing delays of many hours on the initial call record appearing on Graph. It makes realtime CQ and AA monitoring and alerting impossible.

@GossiTheDog 😂

@GossiTheDog ah, Buldak Korean Insanity Noodles

Been there, done that, paid the price 🥺🤯🔥🚾

I was talking with The Boy the other night about recognising regularly repeated types of false logic (rhetorical/rhetological fallacies) in arguments and debates.

I recalled there was a good web page full of descriptions of common examples. It took me ages to find it, so I thought I'd share once I did. It's well worth a read:

https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/rhetological-fallacies/

@GossiTheDog *always* happy to see Lauren and Hacker 😆

Time to give this a try, looks quite exciting!

@jeremydebose they have none of the fancy Apple features (find my, Spatial Audio, etc.) but I really rate Sony WF-C700N for the price. Good audio and noice cancelling, clicks buttons (though some prefer touch ones), and a selection of ear tips

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BXM3ZFKC

@GossiTheDog ah, I was surprised you were getting those speeds from azure. Of course they’re using Akamai 🙄😀