Notices by Andrew Godwin (andrew@fedi.aeracode.org)

The best part about the London mayoral election? That the massively racist party (Britain First) are so unpopular that they were beaten by a man with a bin on his head (Count Binface).

I did not realise that the Amazon Go/Fresh "just walk out" technology was in fact significantly powered by a thousand people in India manually labelling things. And now it turns out that they can't actually close the automation gap, they're ditching it as it's too expensive? https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116

It is deeply funny to me that my experience trying to compile Nvidia graphics drivers on Gentoo laptops a decade ago so I could get 3D working is suddenly incredibly relevant to my work.

@glyph Well in good news for your wallet, it's sold out, for now at least. The Valve tech team said they learned a lot making it and hope to do more (I would get a frosted blue-white one in a heartbeat)

I could write a long essay about the nature of translucent consumer electronics being one that encourages exploration, of treating the things that we use as constructed items that can be understood and repaired rather than mere black boxes, encouraging the next generation of engineers and technicians to gain a passion for knowing how things work...

But honestly, they also just look good. Look at this thing!

New blog post: The Cloud Is Just My Basement's Computers

https://aeracode.org/2023/11/13/cloud-servers-basement/

In which I discuss how sticking a $500 server off eBay in my basement and running all my development off of it has already improved my side project enjoyment significantly.

New blog post: Life Critical Side Projects https://aeracode.org/2023/11/06/life-critical-side-projects/

In which I discuss how working on a social media server no longer brings me joy, look at ways to find others to help run it, and ponder on the good and bad of the Fediverse itself. (boosts are more than OK on this one!)

@mull It will be less heavyweight than Mastodon, that's for sure, but I don't know if it would be overkill or not.

Out of curiosity - what would drive you to set up a single user instance if you could still have your own domain and theming on a shared one - the ability to control your own moderation?

@Sampei @takahe No - content and account migration from Mastodon is still something in future plans.

Wrote up some thoughts about @takahe and a refactor/redesign I'm doing, with the aim of more customisable profiles and proper domain separation: https://aeracode.org/2023/04/29/refactor-treat/

(also, maybe we can support BlueSky/AT as well? Who knows!)