Interesting news, to be sure. It’s a shame that the article’s “What People Are Saying” section is really “what high-placed Russian officials are saying”.

Thank you, OP, for sharing an archive link.

I don’t think anyone can host a relay right now aside from bluesky.

People can host their own data / Personal Data Server, which is somewhere between self-hosting a mastodon instance and creating an account on someone else’s instance. The actual equivalent would be self-hosting your masto account separately from any instance (which is just not a thing with the current state of mastodon nor activity pub).

Sometimes it’s been butch cis women being accused of “being a man”.

Hate and bigotry really break people’s minds, it’s sad to see.

Sounds like The Matrix.

They probably think the tree farming that the space age expansion introduces (finally a way to counter your pollution!) is “some gay shit”.

I like the idea, but then who gets to decide who is and isn’t a credible source? Is it only intra-account verifying? Can anyone verify anyone else, or do you need to be authorized by bluesky to start verifying others?

Succinctly put, though I got some cognitive dissonance when the author wrote about bluesky being their choice of decentralized network to get involved with without even mentioning the hosting costs involved with running a bsky relay (or whichever component of the ATP network actually holds the data “firehose”).

According to this article it took a server that costs around $150/month over 4 days to spin up a working relay, most of which was spent ingurgitating half a terabyte of data (that’s what ended up on disk in any case). Far from exorbitant, yet if I want to self host for my own personal needs it’s still gobs more data and compute than any activity pub software needs.

Maybe my view of “decentralization as in democracy” is just fundamentally different from the author’s. I get the feeling that to them, as long as each friend group has 1 self-hoster in it then democracy through decentralization is preserved. This would make sense that they orient themselves towards something like bluesky and the AT protocol. Personally, I don’t think we should be satisfied with that level of decentralization/democracy - it’s a nice start, but we should strive for reaching at least 50% of people self-hosting an activity pub instance to truly achieve the type of decentralization that serves democracy. Of course, I’m not aware of any activity pub software that can be selfhosted by even 10% of the population, currently, so there’s definitely a lot of work to do before my vision is feasible.

Some digging on the source: https://www.truthorfiction.com/daughter-of-mlk-and-coretta-scott-king-posted-this-advice-as-the-next-six-months-are-going-to-get-real/

Regardless of who the original author is, the advice seems good.

Quelle honte, dans le pays des Lumières, de vouloir proposer ce qui de fait serait une société de caste(s).

From what I understand, you could un ironically do this with a file system using BTRFS. You’d maybe need a udev rule to automate tracking when the “Power Ctrl+Z” gets plugged in.

If it’s a single, generated, “initial” commit that I actually want to keep (say, for ex I used the forge to generate a license file) then I would often rebase on top of it. Quick and doesn’t get rid of anything.

Same, I’m pretty bummed out to see the new Godot editor “made for VR” rely on some OS features that the Quest 1 doesn’t have access to, on account of the device no longer being supported by meta.

Holding out hope for some righteous Meta employee to hook us up with a way to get root or otherwise jailbreak the Q1. Given that the sharing of the Go’s OS was only because Carmack tirelessly pushed for it internally, and he left for greener pastures several years ago, and the Zucc™ is now deepthroating macho authoritarianism, I don’t expect it to happen officially any time soon.

Thank you!!!

Doo you happen to have a good, informative link? Or perhaps a company name I could look up?

This sounds incredibly cool.

The antidote?

Believe it or not, also poison.

Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me

Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me

Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me!!!

Those that wear ties are justified

For wearin the suit, you’re the chosen white

The whiplash from the two titles in your second pic really hit me hard

Now that Trump’s plan to seize 50% of Ukraine’s mineral deposits has leaked, Putin might be more worried about the USA/NATO/“the west” getting “all” of Ukraine and Russia getting nothing. So if he backs off from wanting to seize Ukrainian territory, he can push for “Ukrainian sovereignty” to prevent the USA from turning Ukraine into a vassal state.

To suggest some things not directly related to the workplace:

• look into things like community pantries and community gardens, https://www.detroitagriculture.net/ is a good example of what can be achieved over several years
• try to match up within your neighborhood unemployed adults and low-income parents who need babysitters on weekends or outside of school hours
• try to convince the (relatively) more wealthy members of your community to help organize free breakfast for the neighborhood kids
• organize study/homework sessions for the neighborhood kids and/or adult learners

These are all ways to increase the resilience of your community and reduce their dependency on their paychecks. These will also increase trust and reflexive solidarity between community members. This in turn starts making unions and strikes feasible.

A second good read is her follow-up/response post: Re: Re: Bluesky and Decentralization