Notices by mlinksva (mlinksva@mastodon.social)

@cwebber amusing variation n in it is description:

**I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING**
Copyright belongs to it's owner.

@cwebber the moon gains on me

probably an incorrect reference but the thing (from "Wings" by the Fall) that my brain completes with perhaps because you're posting lyrics today

@evan lovely indeed! I don't think I knew about and now LOL'd at the “There you go, social networking.” paragraph.

Something made me look at identi.ca, appreciate that @evan keeps it running, leading me to write "dent" again, without quotes https://identi.ca/avilarenata/note/yCUFGZrpSEC55vSKTDgvBg

I was probably too optimistic and not clear enough (I _think_ "by 2025" I meant to to include 2025) in https://mastodon.social/@mlinksva/109283673247449829 but still think adding AP support to all historic social software is _at least_ a retrocomputing project that will happen at some point. ⸮Perhaps it should be someone's AI agent benchmark and happen sooner‽

Happened to notice that San Francisco is Q62 which made me wonder what other low numbers are; jokes abound (e.g. Triskaidekaphobia is Q13) including some I probably don't get https://w.wiki/DxcC

@evan I picked "Japanese Invasion of China" but slightly partial to 1931 instance as first major post-WWI invasion and end of League of Nations credibility.

But consensus (including this poll) of German invasion of Poland is pretty reasonable as point of no return in hindsight, and when term WWII began to be used at the time.

Tho also sympathetic to WWI never ended view. Synthesis: WWII began with the Russian Civil War (ideological component much more salient from that point on).

If unfamiliar with the issue https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-prophet-of-parking is a decent overview.

It notes SF Park, and I'll note that expansion has been resisted by yokels who should be banished to the wildlands. But, that may be changing https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/money-crunch-push-sf-transit-major-parking-change-20113851.php do it now!

Sad to learn (via Wikipedia watchlist of course) that Donald Shoup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Shoup died a couple days ago. I never read _The High Cost of Free Parking_ cover to cover but it comes up in my thoughts frequently and I occasionally make reference to it. Shoup pointed out one of the many ways our world could be far better and was himself a Shoupista, relentlessly working to make it so til the end. Personal site https://www.shoupdogg.com/

@cwebber TIL one can, though that star was staring me in the face all along on my posts. I guess that counts as "I would never" but that's the past. Now that I know, I'll think about it. Or maybe try to garbage collect that fact.

Relatedly, I know bookmarks exist in concept but they are out of my awareness almost always. Apparently I have bookmarked one toot, years ago. I can't recall why. Maybe a mouse slip. I do "bookmark" profusely, that is open in a tab and forget til years later.

@nemobis the (indeed striking) post-Soviet part not news to me (hopefully next 30y continues catchup to ~France) and heard of the Gorbachev anti-alchohol campaign but did not know it produced an immediate bump. Totally new to me is the slow decline from the early 1960s til that campaign. Wonder what caused that? https://www.jstor.org/stable/2955420 (paywalled for me unless accessed through https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=14164432045154804623&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5) very weakly seems to say lifestyle and bad fit of Soviet healthcare for lifestyle diseases?

@evan Maybe it'd be slightly cheaper than it is now to sprawl, and homesteading in the middle of nowhere would be a bit more common. But the housing crisis comes from not building housing where there are opportunities, servives, amenities, family...people. There will be a permanent housing crisis (barring economy collapse) until cities allow a lot more housing to be built. Plus, super sprawl contributes to other crises. These are the reasons I reacted to your post. Perhaps overly! 2/2

@evan of course. Two plots of land are not equal. Thought experiment: 100% of land used for meat production goes fallow through everyone going vegan and more commensurately more efficient production of plant-based foods (yay, let's do it!). What's the impact on the housing crisis? I'd predict negligible. Lots of that land is available for housing now, there just isn't demand where it is. You can homestead in Kansas, right now. And build exurban sprawl almost anywhere. 1/2

@michelin good memory (I forgot or never knew). https://lwn.net/Articles/512166/ https://lwn.net/Articles/960630/

Finding this was worthwhile for the title "Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun" (not a hit for this topic) of https://lwn.net/Articles/329223/ which also then reminds me of the somewhat similar situation with the Java TCK.

Now I'm idly curious about other [historic or current] open source with proprietary tests case studies. I haven't verified these but candidates include Android, Elastic, MongoDB, RHEL.

@evan I'm for deleting 100% (or anything in that direction) of meat production but really dubious about land for meat production, or agriculture in general, being a significant contributor to the housing crisis, at least in the US, where it's super easy and cheap (short term) to sprawl. Want more space to live, make it cheap to build more where people already live, not doing that is where the blame lies. BUT I'm all about yes and, so endorse housing crisis is [a bit] a meat crisis, go vegan!

@bremner @cwebber ps since we're talking about different mediums, my number one reaction to https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/ which of course I enjoyed tremendously, was tangential to the substance: that as practiced, reading on a blog is way more enjoyable than the scrolly mess associated with social media. I skimmed the fediverse and bluesky threads and got a headache but read the blog post and to repeat myself, enjoyed it tremendously.

@bremner "Re: Re:..." (the title clearly justifies the post @cwebber please keep it) feels like more from the era before top posting was normalized, but it's a somewhat provocative display idea: what if all replies were displayed as quote posts.

@nemobis more recent (2022 vs 2017) mention https://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/arcnews/property-tax-overhaul-in-finland-relies-on-advanced-spatial-analysis/ (warning: presumably promoting proprietary map data/software?) maybe only for residential structures/land?

Anyway value of land where data centers built seem like relatively unlikely to increase due to surrounding investment (what investment, in the middle of nowhere, or am I wrong?) vs say shopping centers and their parking lots, but if data centers can nonetheless motivate reform, glad to see it.

@nemobis made me search for Finland land value tax (my naive undersanding outcome should approximate state renting/being landlord for all land?) not expecting anything apart from random advocacy but apparently exists or did in some small form https://fig.net/resources/proceedings/fig_proceedings/fig2017/papers/ts06i/TS06I_peltola_8666.pdf though not in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax#Implementation

@evan strong positivity, at least relative to...polls. :)

Polls are here though, would enjoy a somehow fediverse native prediction market.

@evan wasn't really my intention to look for an explanation of the poll results (why the numbers are different) but perhaps subconciously I was -- I suppose they embed people's estimations of various life outcomes associated with each of the four paths. This is what I mean by your polls often being thought provoking. :)