Notices by Sam Whited (sam@social.coop), page 2

Has there ever been a situation where the small community network allows the bigger commercial network to bridge, interface, etc. and it has resulted in the smaller community network growing and becoming a viable alternative the commercial one? I feel like I get in this argument every few weeks on fedi, and, to my knowledge, there are literally no examples of this happening ever. But I do want to be fair if I'm just wrong and they exist.

#AskFedi

@moira @ascentale for my part, I take the exact opposite stance: I suspect cross posting does the opposite and creates serious harm for the people of the fediverse by creating "too big to fail" instances that can't be moderated appropriately, and providing them with a path to embrace-extend-extinguish us. I'm strongly against bridges to corporate social media in general and would caution us from defaulting to assuming they're helpful. That said, I also have no proof that they're doing this here.

@tim @arnoldboer somewhere in the depths of my feed I have a post where I was thinking something similar. How this would be organized is an interesting question; would it be a union of anybody against AI? A union of users of a specific service? A union of users who agree to use some version of open source and pressure companies to open source stuff or pay for the open source they use by getting employee unions to coordinate with them?

@ATLeagle now that's a new years tradition I can get behind! Maybe I'll walk over to WaHo instead of boiling these black eyed peas (I'm all about the collards and corn bread, but black eyed peas were always my least favorite pea…)

@ascentale @moira I love the original Buffalo bicycles, but I didn't know they'd done an update. The dual chain thing makes sense to me, though I'd worry about the availability of parts: when you wear down that chainring, where do you get another one with whatever weird setup that has?

I have worked on a few shaft-drive bicycles and, though I really liked them, I always felt the same about those (too hard to find replacement parts).

#BikeNite

@epilanthanomai @dixon oh dang, I have worked at Cloudflare, they are possibly one of the *worst* companies about this. I have watched them put a junior dev on a new security critical product and had product managers tell me to not worry about protecting customers or how the product will affect them, just get shit done fast. Do not recommend. This was the start of me leaving tech.

@ridetheory @nocontexttrek similarly…

@slothrop count me in. I have some (limited) BikeCAD experience and am happy to help out with designs and sizing if I can raise the money to get a full license at some point. Also building experience and can braze a test frame when we get there.

I had completely forgotten about this show until today, but I *loved* "Gullah Gullah Island!" as a kid. I had zero awareness of what it was about or its importance in that regard, but even just hearing the name before reading about the show again made me stop and realize that it was obviously about more than some fun puppets. As a white kid in a conservative household, that was completely lost on me at the time.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/dec/23/gullah-gullah-island-geechee-tv-show

Is there a word for the fallacy where someone says "I'm just being neutral" or whatever as an argument for their specific political view? I wrote "neutrality fallacy" without thinking, but I feel like there's an actual name for it that's on the tip of my tongue and that the obvious thing isn't actually it.

Shit posting and jokes about CEO killing's aside, I generally don't think individual acts of political violence work most of the time (not that I'm against them as a rule of thumb, but generally speaking) and that community building is the real answer.

Once you've built community other strategies, including sabotage and private property destruction, are probably more effective than violence against people, and lead to better outcomes afterwards if you win.

I've had a draft on the back burner for a while comparing the Luddite revolution of the 19th century to the IWW-led strikes of the 20th century and how breaking private property was a key strategy in both, and how they both fell apart only after violence against people was brought up. I'm not sure what the 21st century example would be, maybe not having a large labor movement anymore means there isn't one. I still can't quite get my thoughts together and haven't gotten very far on this.

TFW you're wondering if one day your fedi posts will be used against you in court.

Lawyer: "Tell the court how you became radicalized Mr. Whited."

Me: "Well, the turnstile in the train station kept trying to take my money every day even though there was a big sign right next to it that said 'public' transit."

Judge: "…"

The peasants of feudal Nottinghamshire had Robin Hood and the industrial-era Luddites had General Ludd to rally behind… what do we call the mythical version of the eventual CEO killer that will act as a symbol for us all long after the original gunman is forgotten?

"Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield calls off surgery anesthesia cap"

*guy in New York tentatively puts his bicycle back in storage*

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/05/blue-cross-blue-shield-anesthesia-anthem-connecticut

@tim I actually went to the theater for the first time in ages to see it; someone behind me took (not "it rang", they actually picked up and started talking) 3 calls before I snapped and told her to turn it the fuck off, and every kid on the row in front of me had their phones on staring at them the entire time and then I remembered why I didn't like to go to theaters even in the before times too 🤷

@tim my only complaint with the adaptation was that they stretched out every song or big important scene to like 10 minutes to turn it into 2 movies. It's less than a 3 hour musical *with* a 20 minute intermission; it already fits perfectly as one movie!

There's an important lesson to be taken from this mornings killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO… the bicycle is the best mode of transportation in the city. If the killer had tried to escape by car they would have been caught by the police, or might not even have made it to the CEO's hotel on time in the first place! If you want to be on time, ride your bicycle.

So Google's iOS app now inserts links back to Google into *your* webpage when it loads it, and you can't opt out unless you sign up for an account and agree not to sue them. Also it fundamentally breaks the entire trust and security model of the web.

I know people will he saying "so what, it's just a link" but I can't overestimate how gross this is and how much you should stop using all Google products yesterday.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/google-app-ios-now-adds-193040741.html