Notices by Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 (kboyd@phpc.social), page 2

@annika the first thing I'd try is LibreOffice

@mhoye Perhaps it would be more accurate to the original intent to say "apps and websites can't solve social problems"?

Even that's not strictly true - but it's a good rubric to question if what you're working on is contributing, or if it's taking away from existing potential solutions simply for the sake of building an app.

@molly0xfff Isn't blackmail egregiously immoral? https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/22/2043231/anthropics-new-ai-model-turns-to-blackmail-when-engineers-try-to-take-it-offline

@kims @blogdiva what about when boat names do it? https://flic.kr/p/2oGKMPX

@mhoye is this why i haven't had the energy to code OSS lately? Too self-conscious of my butt?

Amazon is so afraid of unions that it's willing to eat the loss on 7 entire warehouses, just to cauterize itself.

Wow.

@mcc it's somewhat ironic that a "newest first, always" platform is so prone to necroposting ...

<schedules this reply for April 2025>

@feld @mekkaokereke that's why I said it was messed up. It's a completely plausible translation of our current status quo to several hundred years in the future. From a star trek perspective, that's messed up.

Especially because of the Company Town concept being adapted to space.

Rather than taking star trek's hopeful-utopia approach, The Expanse inspires hope from the grass roots. Earthers, Belters, and Martians coming together to intentionally make the world a better place.

(Except Duarte.)

@mekkaokereke Jeff Bezos loves The Expanse.

A messed up future where billionaires play with entire settled worlds as though they are meaningless toys.

Where even the Secretary General of Earth is an underdog in the fight against their machinations.

@annika well if the tim tam slam is done with hot chocolate, would savoury tim tams go best with gravy?

@annika I don't know what source control means in this context, so I'm forced to picture either a Git or Perforce mask design.

There's probably a command for that.

p4n95. git merge --n95. Heh.

@annika so what I'm hearing is that my upcoming blog post comparing activitypub to santa claus might not be as helpful as I hoped?

@SteveThompson @derek gonna be really interesting for the future of humanity if the medical-aid-delivering airships end up exhausting the global supply of helium that is needed in part by the medical profession to run diagnostic equipment.

(Though, in researching the state of things for this post, I found there are low- and no-helium MRI machines in development)

@annika

Torment nexus, write me a book

Make it the darkest that I've ever betook

Give its front cover some real human skin

Now open Necronomicon and let it Begin

@mcc it's not exactly an intermix, not in the same way that discord can be. It's more like forcing people into mono slacking, making it harder to switch to other teams or see which of those other teams have new messages.

@thomasfuchs @mekkaokereke pictured: mastodon replies

@mcc Even when it's mostly working, it's still super annoying. Heavy caching means that content takes ages to update, and if you have an emergency need to update it you have to make custom cache invalidation calls. (At least this was my early experience & why I've avoided it ever since.)

@ramsey i went looking for a bluesky OSS server today, just for fun - does that not exist yet?