Notices by Philip Mallegol-Hansen (philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com)

@peterdrake @evan https://tags.pub/#faq

@evan Being in the edge case of running on an instance that I myself run for only my wife and I, it happens to be that “My fediverse instance” is synonymous with “my household”.

So that’s an easy win.

Git: A cool, distributed, version control system.

GitHub: A shitty, centralized, abstraction on top of git.

That's how I'm explaining to anyone who conflate the two from now on.

@evan I’m conflicted.

Today my wife took our son out skiing, they’ll be away overnight. Since I’m alone at home, I took a day off work to have my first real “me day” in years.

At first glance, not a bad day to relive! Low stress, no outwards commitments, awesome!

After a few cycles though, I think I would be sad that my family leaves me every morning at 6 AM never to come back.

@evan I think there’s also an aspect of differing opinions on what it means to “use” a feature.

If I have a community “profile” on steam, but I never think of it, never look at the friend requests, never willingly interact with it, I would say I do not use it. But the bean counters at Valve would presumably count me as part of their “social users” population.

@skinnylatte Also, hope you enjoy your visit to Portland :)

@skinnylatte Website claims they have it at the Cascades station location, which is fairly easily accessed by the MAX.

@skinnylatte I honestly think Best Buy has it. But absolutely understand if you don’t want that option.

@thomasfuchs @foone I thought that said MCP Level 2 and boy was I about to lose my shit.

Phew.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the very idea of Open Source was always a radical left leaning ideological stance.

You're GIVING AWAY labor to the tune of millions of dollars because of some notion that we'd all be better off together if we didn't have to re-write the same dang components over and over again.

Of course members of the Open Source community are going to get political. We always have been.

@thomasfuchs @mislav Pro tip: You can do *both* and it's glorious!

@thomasfuchs The only half mast flag I noticed today was at the office of our regional trash collector.

Not like I have much choice in doing business with them either… FFS.

@evan Being a single user* server, I have the luxury of making up my rules on the spot (Captured in Mastodon’s Rules field as: “Don't do anything I wouldn't approve of.”)

So it’s a definite yes for me.

*My wife and one work colleague do have accounts, but rarely use them.

It’s easy to forget that these days we may have colleagues in the software industry for whom an iPad was their first ever computing device.

So just to remind you: The idea that software should come from a central authority is new, it’s radical, and it’s wrong.
https://guild.pmdcollab.org/@StaticR/115098597647157516

@cwebber I have been conditioned by your earlier toots.

I genuinely read this as “pronk of work”

It’s slow, but I’m seeing more and more people at work admit that they don’t believe the AI hype.

We might just come out the other end of this alright.

@evan No, but it is my (naive, perhaps) hope that commercial activity utilizing the Fediverse does so while attempting to further the social goals many of us here share.

E.g., not scraping all public posts and selling them to advertisers.

@kaia @linux_mclinuxface To finish the analogy, Kyle’s colleague is like “nobody cares about pasta” meanwhile we have a whole pasta convention they just aren’t attending!

@evan Yes, but they should be opt-in. And we need to have good answers to the problem of how you can/should process my data if it's on your device (I.e., screen sharing in a call) to respect each other's rights to our data.

@cwebber I don’t know what “decentralized” means, but I keep hearing about how much fun* bluesky is.

*Fun is limited to those in the good grace of the Turkish government and may be revoked at any time.