Notices by Râu Cao ⚡ (raucao@kosmos.social)

My fiancée is finally ready to watch the original Star Wars. So now I have to torrent a 50GB fan-created hi-res version, for it not to look like purple garbage with 90s CGI added, because George Lucas thought he should be a complete asshole about it, and Disney simply don't care now.

@feld And with the new 7 day expiry, almost a live log of what's available, i.e. being used. 😅

@feld ... For anyone reading this and using public domains for private services: use a private overlay network, like Tailscale or ZeroTier.

@lain Are you still trying to find out if the Warner Bros human batteries are feasible for us to live on? 😅

@lain That could power 4 to 5 U.S. homes for one day. Impressive.

@lain "Inflation is down" :clown_world:

@dave That's a lot of potential users!

> As of 2024, Cash App reports 57 million users and $283 billion in annual inflows

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_App

Is it turned on for everyone by default, or do they have to activate Lightning and/or BTC first?

@feld They still have customers after the Strasbourg debacle?

I still can't wrap my mind around the fact that Meta federates Threads now, but there's not a single federated Git hosting/collab implementation in actual use today.

How is this not a main priority for any software that competes with GitHub?

@dwaltiz So Forgejo, and thus Codeberg, federate something useful now?

I've only seen a single update, which is a broken implementation of federated stars, that doesn't let me star a remote repo, but only syncs the centralized stars elsewhere.

@feld I love how we went all the way from peak oil scare to virtually unlimited oil according to the market.

@lain Yes, as a neural network. Thanks, Warner boomers!

I don't care about the details of any instance mod/admin drama. This would all be mostly unnecessary if your identity and posts weren't tied solely to a domain, thus entirely depending on whoever controls said domain.

The proposals and prototypes for portable identity and real portability of content are out there. But the @Mastodon devs don't seem to be interested, and the @swf's E2EE project (which would necessarily cover user keypairs) ended with no real results AFAICS.

After having participated in this space for so long (Web dev for ~25 years now, identica user at the time, Mastodon instance since 2017), I have to say it's difficult not to conclude that most fediverse developers actually desire fiefdoms and admin control, and that that's also why Meta is fine with ActivityPub.

Please prove me wrong, or at least tell me how I can see this in a different light!

@evanprodromou I'm wondering why it isn't preferable for OpenStreetMap to provide this data directly. Since they are the stewards and custodians of the entire data set, it would only make sense that other people on the Web depend on OSM's domain instead of a third party, no?

TIL: The Boeing Starliner lost 4 out of 5 thrusters during its approach of the ISS. They had to reboot the system twice, before they got enough thrusters back, and they weren't able to cancel the maneuver either, because re-entry would have been too dangerous with maneuverability. So they actually risked crashing the thing into the ISS.

I guess being stranded there afterwards was a rather relaxing experience for the astronauts, compared to that ordeal.

@lain 3 Objektive pro Person sind Menschenrecht!

@lain Hat er schon Reparationen and die Nachfahren der Portrait-Maler gezahlt? 🤔

Question for the home lab crowd:

Is there anything wrong with attaching a multi-bay, non-RAID, USB hard drive enclosure to a Raspi 5 with an NVMe hat/drive, in order to run OMV with the ZFS plugin on Raspbian as a home NAS? 🤔

@lain :clown_world: