Notices by Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop), page 9

@ariadne @pid_eins More than anything else, this is the thing I just don't understand about the nostalgia for the Old Ways. Gigantic-pile-o-shell was just ... *terrible* from a usability (not to mention maintainability and debuggability) perspective.

@shauna @grimalkina the horrible punchline was all us Clinton-era college kids with very earnest “nope, won’t happen again here” and the prof going “yeahhhhhh about that”.

@grimalkina I have something like a minor in political psychology, mostly in authoritarianism, so I’m very comfortable with that idea generally! But actual life took me in a somewhat different direction so I’m curious to dig in, thanks for sharing here!

@grimalkina wow, it never crossed my mind that this is a thing you could poll about. And it’s absolutely part of why I love software and open in particular.

@jacqueline https://itsnotdns.itwasdns.net/

I need sci-fi (book or novella) comfort food. I’m tempted to do Culture but I juuuust re-did it last year. What else?

@neil maybe this will help https://evess.co/collections/legal-wigs

@anildash If it gets people to properly value Archive as a universal treasure, I’m pretty OK with it?

@anildash (or to put it a different way: the scary and destabilizing thing to me is how razor thin the margin is between Archive’s success and failure.)

Speaker #1: every major interoperability initiative has failed
Speaker #2: we should do interoperability for AI

🤔

#SiliconFlatirons

I am personally super-skeptical of the practicality of interop between otherwise-closed systems (in practice, the most successful regulatory interop mandate has probably been CIFS, but that's been less about CIFS interop and more about SAMBA actually implementing it and that implementation being reused).

But then again I've been saying "open needs to learn from FRAND" so maybe I need to shut up.

#SiliconFlatirons

@mrtazz @debcha I haven't gotten to this point yet but enjoying it a lot so far. And boy this encapsulates something I've struggled to articulate before...

@ramblingrubbisher how do you do the “without stopping” part? 😳

@ramblingrubbisher I am… not so confident in my balance on my bike 👀

@haubles @writefreely ooh, write.as looks nice. Wordpress is soooooo overkill these days.

@sophie thank you. This is all so… needlessly obscured? And this puts it together nicely. Signed, guy who cried over Microsoft’s keyboard discontinuation and so is fighting to learn a KSA right now

On the one hand, arguing about caricatures of open is tiresome.

On the other hand, we made it really really easy for people to caricature open.

I have concerns about the scalability of the @sovtechfund approach, but while I'm privately concerned about STF, and other governments are loudly concerned about security, the Germans are Getting Stuff Done, or at least ported to Rust: 🤔https://floss.social/@centricular/111782862734264470

@bert_hubert @sovtechfund it's just that we need really broad coverage for the sort of thing they're doing. The amount of money they've committed, and the RFP-driven way of giving it out, is going to solve only a small number of problems. But it's better than nothing, which is what the rest of us are (mostly) doing right now.

@bert_hubert @sovtechfund good lord, one euro per year 🤩🥳