Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)

"The Librem 5 has 3GB of memory."

https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/01/buy_a_foss_fondleslab/

My first laptop had 3GB of *storage*. On a spinning magnetic drive. Can't remember how much RAM, 56MB? 128MB? It ran a Windows 9x OS, the Mate desktop I use now is superficially similar.

Laptop software has got *so* much more bloated and inefficient in that time. Whereas I feel like the limitations of mobile (eg battery life) have forced most people developing for it to work harder for computational efficiency.

#OldManYellsAtClouds

What if we made it a law that like services must interoperate without interop fees to the consumer? Like all payment systems must connect, it's up to them how they do it, but they must. Same with voice calling systems. The penalty for non-compliance being a revenue tax on proprietary services (that don't interop).

The goal would be to discourage Walled Gardens, and raise revenue to fund protocol research and proof of concept projects. What might be some of the unintended consequences?

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@p
> I said stop letting the government do it, not that there should be a permanent fixed supply of abstract units of value

If the money supply is not fixed, then who issues new money as needed, if not a democratic governance mechanism?

Not that the US federal government necessarily fits that description right now (or for decades, if ever). So let's put them aside for the moment, and focus on getting our theoretical scaffolding in place before we return to real world examples.

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@p
> casual dismissal of my perspective

I'm sorry it came across that way. I think we're in heated agreement.

> You're talking about the invasion of Poland and I'm talking about the Enabling Act of 1933

That's pretty accurate. I'm talking about when the guillotines dropped and the heads rolled. You're talking about the process of setting up the guillotines and deciding which heads to put in them.

@icedquinn @fish @cy @phnt @sampler @silverpill @light

@phnt
> Seems weird to be a CEO of a social media company and not like using social media

If Phantasm is the name on your birth certificate, it might surprise you to learn that some of us use pseudonyms online, instead of posting publicly under our real names ; )

We know Gargron's real name because they doxxed themselves. Otherwise, you might be saying the same thing on learning that a Eugen Rochko had become Mastodon CEO of Mastodon 🤷♂️

@icedquinn @fish @sampler @p @silverpill @light

@PurpCat
> Twitter is hostile too ofc but Bluesky has the Will Stancils of the world

"At the heart of the Stancilwaffen lies an unshakeable conviction: Will Stancil holds a divine mandate to Repair America Practically Everywhere—or to RAPE at his leisure. He is our visionary vanguard, divinely inspired to mend the rips in America's fabric."

https://willstancil.com/

That guy?

@icedquinn @fish @phnt @sampler @p @silverpill @light

@p
> We either put Glass-Steagall back or we stop letting the government print money

Since you're talking about US policy I don't get a vote, but I'd go for the first one. Even Moldbug has acknowledged that fixed supply currencies are fundamentally broken.

Also, in modern economies it's banks that issue new money, not governments. Under neoliberal norms govts have to issue bonds (ie create debts) when they have a budget deficit.

@icedquinn @PurpCat @fish @phnt @sampler @silverpill @light

@p
> "You should leave management to the professional managers and you can just get on with the coding"

As @cy pointed out elsewhere in this hellthread, this is not how it works. Bean counters take over projects by coercive means, and push engineers into subordinate positions. This happened at Goggle around the time they dropped "don't be evil", killed 20% time and most of the resulting projects, and assimilated the remaining ones into G+.

@icedquinn @fish @phnt @sampler @silverpill @light

@phnt
> supposedly been in the Mastodon team for years and made a couple hundred posts over more than half a decade

How do you know? Maybe they mostly post Followers-only or reply privately to other people's posts?

@icedquinn @fish @sampler @p @silverpill @light

@silverpill
> all W3C regulars are Mastodon users

I'm guessing you mean SocialCG/WG. Not true, the Chair of the newly announced SocialWG is Darius, who's a Hometown user. Also, this appears to me to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. If devs from other projects refuse to take up the open invite to join SocialCG/WG, then there won't be representation from a diverse range of AP implementations there 🤷♂️

@p @phnt @icedquinn @fish @sampler @light

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@roadriverrail
> I disagree that it's a propaganda tool

I'm pretty sure I explained why "IP" is a propaganda concept in the post you're replying to. But you're entitled to your opinion.

> you've never *seen* a suit doesn't mean threats haven't been made

And? Litigious people are going to do that. If the Harry Potter author was silly enough to do it, despite the fact they don't have a leg to stand on under copyright law or trademark law, that's just more content for satire.

@roadriverrail
> How would you propose to appropriate something under active and obvious intellectual property control

Intellectual property is a propaganda concept. The Harry Potter novels are under copyright monopoly, but that doesn't cover story worlds, just the text. I've never seen anyone get sued for copyright violation for making satirical memes. IANAL but that seems like the definition of Fair Use/ Dealing.

Some trademarks might apply, but they're only enforceable on commercial use.

@petrillic Given the diverse range of students and staff we see at Hogwarts, and the fact that exists to be a sanctuary for folks who don't fit the mainstream, wouldn't burning it down be a hate crime?

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@shaknais my point is that people hating on Hogwarts because they don't like the creator are utterly missing the point. It's a great argument for the Death of the Author approach to literary criticism.

I haven't read the Harry Potter novels, but the Hogwarts I was introduced to in the movies seems like a place that would welcome trans students with open arms, and use their preferred pronouns without blinking an eyelid. Can you really see Professor Dumbledore tolerating any less?

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Leaning into this, and appropriating Hogwarts as a symbol of trans inclusion (and radical inclusion in general) would be a far more effective way to annoy the creator than condemning a rich literary world as guilty by association. It would also avoid unnecessarily alienating fans of the Harry Potter mythos from the cause.

@Deplorable_Degenerate
> What if they join our instances though?

Instances are like pubs. People like to hang out in different kinds of pubs, and that's OK. A pub stops being what it is if the social centre of gravity shifts. But that just means it becomes something else, and that's OK too.

As long as our city has space for many different kinds of pubs, everyone can find 1 or more they enjoy.

@icedquinn @fish @phnt @sampler @p @silverpill @Eiregoat@nicecrew.digital @light @coolboymew

"Now, we're in this cycle of like, 'what's a podcast? Is it a video, is it audio, is it a YT channel?'. To me, it's the RSS feed; if you can take it with you, and I can listen to it on anything, not just YT, that's a podcast to me."

#MattMedeiros, 2026

https://openchannels.fm/podcasting-2-0-the-open-source-movement-reshaping-how-we-create-and-consume-audio/

Any company promoting media as a "podcast", but we can't subscribe using our podcatcher of choice, *and* download for offline listening, is guilty of false advertising.

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#FalseAdvertising #podcasting #podcasting2

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But I agree with Johannes here.

The fediverse emerged from an understanding that no *one* ethical platform can replace the network effects of the megafauna (as CoHost quickly learned). Forcing Ryan to make BF opt-in - after years of causing no problems whatsoever as an opt-out bridge to the IndieWeb - was a ludicrous self-punch by the Mastodon HOA. If we can fully integrated ATProto stuff into the fediverse, so much the better.

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@silverpill
> Nothing a couple of joint events couldn't fix

Sounds good to me. Although we might need to supply the Mastodon Homeowners Association and the Public Not Public folks with some entheogens stronger than ganja, before they can get out of their own heads and gain the ability to question their own assumptions ; }

@phnt @icedquinn @fish @sampler @p @light

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ATProto is in the process of being standardised at IETF. Even if BS is killed tomorrow, and broken up and sold for scrap by its Venture Capitalist owners, ATProto is not going away. Any more than Nostr is.

The AP fediverse came about as a merger of OStatus, Diaspora and DFRN/Zot networks. It seems logical to me that in 10 years time we could be looking back at the AP, ATProto and Nostr networks the same way. From within a fediverse that somehow transcends and includes them all.