Notices by Downes 🍁 (downes@mastodon.social)

Slides, audio, video and (automated) transcript from my presentation "Convergent Discussions in the Fediverse" are now available at https://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?presentation=594

@Gargron Ah, still waiting for my North American opportunity to buy one...

@dangillmor @caseynewton "This post is for paying subscribers only" *boo* *hiss*

(I mean, I don't care if people charge money for content, but links to that content on sites like Mastodon are just free advertising, waste my time, and will always get a boo and a hiss from me).

#SilentSunday

@J12t @debs Not sure what you mean by 'recent' or why it matters. In any case, I've watched a number of public infrastructure programs roll out in my lifetime.

@J12t @debs Public infrastructure initiatives actually have a very good history, though maybe not in Santa Clara. Roads, water and sewage, electricity and telephony were all public infrastructure initiatives here, and all deeply successful. In the early days of the internet we also had widely popular community access points across our country.

Where public investment tends to be less successful is where there are private sector business interests actively lobbying and blocking it.

@lightweight In the case of my employer, teams is integrated with other Office software already in use and, more importantly, employs the same authentication and access management. So they can secure Teams in a way they can't secure the other platforms.

@ben RestOfWorld is one of my regular reads, pretty much daily. First rate coverage of regions overlooked in western media.