Notices by Ben Evans (kittylyst@mastodon.social)

@HauntedOwlbear Hosting a PDS (data store & cryptographic signing capability) is basically trivial.

The Relays and the AppViews and the tough & expensive part, and are how Bluesky Inc retains control whilst being able to bullshit about "decentralization" - b/c it's possible to have your own PDS.

https://anderegg.ca/2024/11/15/maybe-bluesky-has-won

@evan There are circumstances where they are absolutely the right tool for the job.

For example, in a database where the transaction log is correctly implemented (e.g. Postgres, DB2) then using sprocs for complex logic preserves the transaction log as an unpolluted source of truth.

This makes replication (including wide-area async) and recovery vastly easier (and even trivial in some cases). If those properties of the system matter to your use case, sprocs are a good candidate technology.

@aral I had to read the damn article 3 times, but sure enough, all the methodology and data is under wraps.

Theranos vibes, much?

@kagan I reject the entire premise of the question. Every serious relationship I've been in has been with ... other bisexuals. (There's one person from my teens that I'm not sure how they would identify now, but apart from that it's all of them). In my circles that is not unusual. Bisexuals date other bisexuals a lot.

If other people want to make assumptions based on the gender presentation of the folk I'm dating, then that is scarcely my problem.

In case you're having a bad day, a reminder that there are people that believe that the X-Men are a metaphor for being persecuted for having conservaitive views. #marvel

@HauntedOwlbear IKR.

@RustyBertrand What the fuck I do?

@RuiSeabra AFAIK the deal hasn't closed yet and I would therefore expect IBM to be prohibited from making any such statements currently.

@GossiTheDog I said net worth, which is not remotely the same as income, and it varies widely depending on where you live.

In the US, for example, you need a household income of over $500k to even make it into the 1%

@GossiTheDog Depends how you define it. There is a point of net worth where you are basically decoupled from what is happening in the economy - you no longer have to work & provided you don't do anything really stupid & have a diversified portfolio you will be absolutely fine for the rest of your life.

The amount varies on what kind of lifestyle you want, and where you want to live - but $10M will do it pretty much anywhere. Those are the actual rich.

Free 12hr art event on Weds 8th (from 17h): C/ Tenor Masini 65, Sants, #Barcelona #art - my partner is exhibiting, and our friend Nikolaj is DJing.

F/OSS Friends, the @commonhaus_fdn is now officially open, aiming to provide a long-term, stable home for projects / communities that are frequently of critical importance to their users. https://github.com/commonhaus

The focus is on libraries & components, rather than standards or language runtimes. The key aims are Stability, Low-Overhead Governance & Access To Funding in a way that preserves project / community individuality and identity.

#opensource #freesoftware #programming #software

@fesshole Get yourself a bottle of mushroom ketchup.

It's both easy and fun to mock Liz Truss for her many failures and shortcomings ("Tuppeny Liz", pork markets, lettuce, etc) but we should never overlook just how vile and dangerous she is, and what she'd do if given any kind of power again - https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/11/liz-truss-bill-trans-women-only-spaces/

Just fash being pash.

Parenthetically, I find it helps to think of him as a iddy biddy porg. Jorgon Porgonson.

Yes, very sad. Anyway, ... https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2024/02/08/54947/russell_brand_loses_his_bid_to_shut_village_pub

In case you don't happen to speak BBC this basically translates as: "Lol, get fucked TERFs". #doctorwho

@djsundog After all, that's what "LLM" stands for: "Lawless Lying Machine".

@Gargron This is the year that Masto & the Fediverse have proved that Another World is Possible - we're not forced to live our online socials in the court of the oligarchs.

That is a huge achievement - both in terms of the millions of people that your work has directly impacted (& the impact has been overwhelmingly positive) & in terms of showing what is possible

Ignore the inner voice that says that it's never enough. It will never be silent, so all the more reason to start ignoring it now

@HauntedOwlbear From a couple of years ago.