Notices by Jay Reding ?? (jayreding@mastodon.world)

There is a fantastic and frightening report at @ProPublica about the failures of the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship. After spending nearly $100B on the LCS program, the Navy got a bunch of ships that could not do the job and are being quickly retired. Military procurement in this country has become a cash cow with Congress looking the other way, to the detriment of our fighting forces.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-navy-spent-billions-littoral-combat-ship

#Navy #LCS #Military #Spending #USPol #USNavy

I'm playing around with Debian 12, and honestly it's pretty good. Sure, it's not cutting edge like some other distros, but it is really nicely set up and perfectly workable out of the box for most users. Debian is not just a server distro anymore...

#Linux #Debian #Distro #Debian12

No Google did not "kill off" XMPP. It's still out there and anyone can use it - https://xmpp.org/.

What happened is that instant messaging protocols became irrelevant for most people because of iMessage and other services. Google Talk itself ended up dying quite quickly and never reached popular mass. Google couldn't kill XMPP with a product no one really used.

Learning the wrong lessons just means repeating the same mistakes.

#XMPP #Fediverse #Mastodon #Threads

@ruud That's a great write up! This instance has been super reliable even through all the mass migrations from Twitter. Scaling something quickly is very hard work, but you've done a fantastic job of keeping up both on the technical side and the moderation side. Write ups like that are super helpful to other instance admins on how to deal with these issues as they come up. Thanks for all your hard work over the last few months!