Notices by Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe), page 7

@Peternimmo @major you're assuming that they know what a cassette tape is. 😀

@thomasfuchs Similar in Swedish.

But the most important fact about Swedish is that we use the word "Besserwisser" because Swedish didn't have a good enough word for it. 🙂

@clacke oh same here. But these days it feels like it fails half the time so I'm used to it.

Did you say you work in IT?

@JohnShirley2023 @doot to be fair, Mandarin is vastly easier than the others. The grammar is incredibly simple, and spelling isn't a problem. Or I should say, Chinese writing is difficult in a different way, but people with artistic leanings tend to find it much easier.

I found the writing really easy and aligned much better with the way I think.

@wonkcosmo as a gen xer I can just say, good. Personally I was raised in a heavily socialist household in a socialist country. I then started moving quite to the right, peaking in my 20's, definitely branding myself a liberal.

Since then over the next couple of decades I have felt myself being pulled back to the left, and in particular the people here have given me an insight into what I must call modern socialim, with their personal stories, and if you're not yanked to the left seeing that, then you lack the ability to read.

@clacke @vaartis @mian Less water means less energy, assuming it has to be heated to the same temperature.

@clacke I was there in 2019. It was a good event. Also met a couple of Fediverse people there.

I'll be attending FOSSASIA in April. Are any of you people coming?

https://fossasia.org/

Boosts welcome of course.

#fossasia #fossasia2023

@clacke yes. But it's actually supposed to be a half width space.

@exelotl @obsidianical @ipg It worked with Google, but I don't think FB ever federated even though they used XMPP.

The way Google did a bait and switch was very educational though, and taught us precisely what the end goal is when these companies adopt open standards.

And then they managed to completely screw up owning messaging, which is because they were incompetent.

@drwho @exelotl @obsidianical @ipg Yeah, it really exposed the level of evilness. I mean, this kind of stuff was practiced by Microsoft for decades, but it was never quite so obvious until Google took it to the next level.

@atomicpoet To be fair, I don't think they have any plan to neither monetise nor track people like you who run their own instances.

Their plan is to make you irrelevant. They want to put themselves into the loop such that it will be impossible to fully use the network without going through them.

Exactly how they plan to do this, I'm not sure they even know themselves, but that's their goal.

@thomasfuchs holy crap, that article isn't a thinly veiled ad, there is no veil at all.

I also love this quote:

"The craze for NFT collectibles kicked off in earnest in early 2021 and has continued since"

Has it now? Nothing at all happened last year that has changed this?

@atomicpoet @maegul to add to what you said, a flexible protocol allows for new ideas to be implemented, ideas that weren't even considered when the spec was defined.

I'm sure the Diaspora protocol is great for implementing Diaspora. But people experimenting in this don't want to implement Diaspora. They want to build something completely new. AP provides the underlying framework to allow these applications to link to an existing network. It lets them take advantage of the network effect as it were.

Most applications using AP are still microblogging platforms in one way or the other. The idea to tie a code forge (was it gitea?) platform to AP is one of the more interesting ideas, and something you could never do with Diaspora, I think.

@mattmight Inspired by this discussion, I decided to ask youtube how to print a number in hex in Java.

Yeah, I'm not sure this is the best use of one's time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBJQWZqvEWs

@ben @evan doesn't it depend on the role under which they post? If they post on behalf of the company, they should use a corporate account. If they post as an individual that happens to work for the organisation, then it should be a verified personal account.

@alyssa @Orca That would be "don't" to both statements, no?

@losttourist @neil and this is the same post rendered in Tusky.

@losttourist @neil The content is presented in HTML form though. The markdown isn't visible to the client. That's how I understand it.