@timbray maybe you can also sponsor them ;)

@timbray “We aim to cover the running costs of our public instance through donations.”

Sounds like a solid plan.

@timbray the ai generated logo 😭

@timbray node_modules the heaviest object in the universe comes immediately to my mind.

@timbray looks more like a “don’t forget who you need to pack” situation to me…

@timbray it has always struck me that all of the successful nations on earth are regulated, market, democracies.

And thus the critical questions revolve around how you regulate a market in a democracy.

But you are right, and this essay is right, that many people take a polemic shortcut. People on one side might call any sort of regulation "socialism,' and on the other they might call any sort of market "capitalism."

@timbray my short take on this has been for several years: US-style capitalism contains 3 elements: 1. entrepeneurialism 2. loosely regulated markets (for both contents, participants and prices) 3. preferentially distributing profits from human enterprise toward capital rather than labor and/or IP.

My claim: you can have most of the eggs laid by the golden goose with just #1 and #2, you do not need #3.

@timbray indeed, excellent piece. It should all sort of be obvious, but instead. It’s obvious that it’s not.

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BTW:Nice cars
SCNR

@timbray oh man first rain and then the fire nation attacks bad luck

@timbray damn volcanoes...

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The idea is very old and very good at the same time.

But as far as I know, some people consider even not ActivityPub projects a part of the Fediverse.
The "Fediverse" term itself sounds somewhat ambiguous, so it's not very illogical for them to do so.

I'd suggest to stick to "ap" or "activitypub" schema unless you're planning to propose something as universal as "magnet" which could work for BitTorrent and other protocols at the same time.

@timbray have you seen https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-07d7-a-custom-url-scheme-and-web-based-protocol-handlers-for-linking-to-activitypub-resources/3588/, and the proposal it links to?

There's a bunch of other discussions there along similar lines, eg https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/possible-fep-proposal-cross-android-app-way-to-open-object/2985/14

@timbray Would be nice to enumerate the problems and related problems to see whether this is the right "slice" of them to solve together.

@timbray One might hope so. It's a pity that has to happen in the US though, while the whole world is dragging their feet. Here the EU has pretty good antitrust laws and if not at least in Austria Google would clearly be found guilty of monopolizing - if it was a local company. Yet judges constantly dismiss claims against corporations operating internationally, even though they make millions in this small country and pay almost no taxes, because they're afraid to touch that "new internet stuff".

@timbray nice piece. To say anything more is probably putting my foot in it.

@timbray Excellent piece. If you coined "Bay Aryans", well done!

The last few years have convinced me that the world as we know it is powered by racism and misogyny. I mean truly powered by it, not just allied with it.

@timbray 51.8% Socialist? 22.4% Anarchist? I strongly suspect that many who claim such identities don't really know what they mean. Liking things that socialists like doesn't make you a socialist. The reality is that many of the things that socialists demand, such as universal health insurance and many other social programs, are completely compatible with capitalism.

@timbray No update for the iOS 17 betas. Hope they're covered 😬

@timbray Saw a toot a couple hours ago, updated to 16.6.1, informed family and friends who also did…
#Mastodon working well

@timbray upgraded and omg

@timbray Debugging topics.

@timbray as seen in an airport bookstore

@timbray And people wonder why I love Dewey enough to keep my home library in it.

@timbray I stopped coding professionally when this BS started (JS frameworks out the arse, and Zend)

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>Of course, all that stuff had terrible accessibility, SEO and first-rendering time issues, leading to the rise of Server-Side Rendering, aka CGI with extra steps.

Yep. Painful extra steps. So many extra steps that you wonder why you didn't just use a proper server-side framework to start with.

@timbray Worth the read just for the list of Flux implementations alone. I was _sure_ they were just riffing toward the end...until they linked to evidence. 👀

@timbray @marcan I did like the wide-open default functionality, back when I could prank a fellow co-op student by flashing terrible pics up on his HP workstation in the computer room.