Notices by Mark Hughes (markhughes@mastodon.social), page 2

@glynmoody they'll be offering free dentistry next. 🤷♂️

@glynmoody it's not about party loyalty but political gain (over justice).

I was young when Nixon was pardoned but even then I recognised it as corruption, blatant corruption at the level of the powerful, and never to trust that those with power will see the world the way I had been taught to.

Hopefully we will get to see whether this happens!

@glynmoody I expect her to do so because if she doesn't the next Rep candidate could campaign on it, but more in a vain attempt to bring America together or take away his martyr status.

Anyway I think it's a significant possibility. Remember Tricky Dicky.

@glynmoody as this popped up in the news I realised, "... and Harris would very likely pardon him".

So I won't be cheering a win from her as much as I thought.

@Gargron Please can we have a way to turn off the overlays (Alt etc) on images.

On mobile they always get in the way of reading textual images and are extremely annoying.

Also on mobile the new notifications layout is good but for some reason clicking on the (double) tick now, to clear them, hardly ever works. (Brave on Android.)

Why a double tick?

@pfefferle Curious I read @davew's post and don't understand what it is he's longing for or why as a programmer he hasn't built it. Not criticising, especially as thinking about it lead me to realise I need to check my assumptions about this area and the work I've been doing and supporting in this space for a decade.

I then watched the #DynamicLand intro video and boy did that help. I heartily recommend. (Link via hashtag).

@lxo well I've been writing, selling, reselling and working for others doing so since about 1980, and if you were correct none of that would have been a viable business.

The hole in your argument is, "if it was legally obtained" and the point of software licenses is to both restrict the distribution and allowed use of those distributed copies.

If you breach the the terms you have not obtained the copy under the applicable law.

@lxo
Ok, let me pose a question.

Are you saying that holding a copy of object code means you are permitted to use it without paying the copyright holder?

@lxo
I'm guessing you're not a lawyer.

I'm not either but I know that software licensing is very much about permission to use / run the code. That's why people buy licenses even if they have a copy of the code. Having source code and being able to compile it doesn't change that.

@mgorny I made this choice a while back for similar reasons, but now am also considering the anti-capitalist software license.

What do you think about that?

https://anticapitalist.software/

@mike
Something as contentious as seeing Threads content should be by consent, which means opt-in not opt-out blocking which is hard to find in the web UI. I tried more than once in the past and gave up, so this move by de facto forces users to see content controlled by the corporation that was for many the reason they built or came to the fediverse to get away from.

Federating with #Meta / #Threads is a travesty and will severely damage what the #fedi stands for.
@mosseri @dansup @Gargron

@tante
There are also unknown costs from deskilling individuals and loss of expertise which AI will not have - because humans don't just learn how to do what the AI takes over from them. The learning and understanding that lead to their skills goes much wider and deeper.

And once the commons has stopped evolving, current so called AI (LLMs) will stagnate, because humans will contribute less innovation add LLMs do not innovate.

I expect dire long term consequences from chasing short term goals

@fediversereport so many "we can trust what they say" replies here.

Play nice, infiltrate, capture and turn the screw has been played out so many times and yet🤦♂️

I'm seeing so much of this about Meta I begin to wonder if it's astroturfing, and then I remember I'm hearing it from admins too.🤷♂️

When I polled about blocking commercial instances, when Medium joined, I was heartened to see much support but I'm afraid they aren't being heard, or even asked. I'm on three instances, none have polled.

@fediversereport he actually says "your audience" not your social graph, and that's a significant difference which we should note. Because the difference between Mastodon/fedi is that they are primarily social platforms which is about to be confronted by an anti social behemoth when it is allowed to federate.

Many here, sadly including admins think the protocol can preserve this, but like those arguing for search they haven't thought this through or are not considering the evidence.

I won't link but have just watched #FoxNews interview a person who's first thought was that Putin & #Prigozhin have staged this coup.

WTAF.. to what purpose? 🤦♂️

Her second thought apparently, was that the USA struck a deal with Prigozhin, which while it seems to me off the wall stupidity by both parties is at least something many will believe possible without worrying about evidence of course. #WagnerPMC

@eob @blake @snarfed.org

You don't need a public IP address to use p2p. Take a look at NAT traversal (eg in libp2p) which supports connection over TCP behind hike routers.

As for setup, once you have an autonomous network this performs the rule of a server, but using p2p nodes rather than a centralised server.

You can also authenticate with such a network without storing credentials on the network.

There is no reason you can't do away with servers. It is hard, but solvable.

@blake @snarfed.org
That existing p2p has weakness doesn't negate the problems which are inherent in servers. Efficiency in centralisation is no compensation for its downsides.

p2p on the other hand is being improved and I believe can solve the issues you mention.

Nostr uses servers. Bluesky uses servers. Matrix, fedi, Solid🤦♂️

Let's get real. What are they all playing at?l 🤷♂️

@snarfed.org the weakness of both is the reliance on servers.

@esther in UK when I was buying mail order electronic components as a kid it was 28 day delivery. In fact most consumer mail order was "within 28 days".

Life was still good. It was actually exciting wondering each day if that thing would arrive.

I still learned enough by building and soon designing electronics to get my dream job designing microprocessor systems.