@evan I answered no, but seeing RUP in another comment brought my time at IBM hurtling back to my memory. "Rational," okay... That said our SW devs mostly politely ignored it.

I can't wait for Picks & Shovels, the third Niven in the Marty Hench series by @pluralistic , to be released. This time we're revisiting the birth of personal computing, and as someone who grew up in the era of the TI-99/4A and Commodore PET, the nostalgia is strong!

Still 17 days to back it: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/picks-and-shovels-marty-hench-at-the-dawn-of-enshittification

@evan My initial reaction was revulsion at all of the options, which says much more about how I feel about current political leaders than it does about my child.

Then I remembered that one of the problems with political leaders is that the worst examples are drawn to the position for the wrong reasons, and that what we need are people who genuinely want to find the best solutions.

On reflection, my child could be one of the good ones. Thus my choice.

@brewsterkahle @corbet thank you for having taken over purl.org when the library monopoly, err, cooperative, gave up on it

Well, so much for the Canadian federal government launching their own Fediverse instance instead of driving people into the arms of X, Facebook, etc. The official response suggests that they didn't understand the intention of the petition: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4769

@evan Did you hear from the reMarkable tablet enthusiasts? Sounds like it might be ideal for that use case. But $$$