@TheGibson That's because running an instance is freaking HARD.

Hats off.

@TheGibson Is thought leadership a title one bestows on one's self?

@thegibson Everyone who told us the blockchain was the future?

The Crypto bros who thought money grew on electronic trees?

The AI crew who thinks ChatGPT will save the world?

Or Sam Altman, who invests in the most oppressive technology to keep us serfs?

@thegibson trans pride masto theme when

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@thegibson JM is sharp

@thegibson If you were designing our PKI system to enable governments and other shady entities to surreptitiously insert themselves, I'm not sure what you'd do differently.

And let's not forget Google's role in ensuring that remained the case by refusing to implement DANE.

@thegibson WUURD

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Absolutely! It is so nice to not have an algorithm decide which content I see next on my timeline. It is also nice to not be bombarded with ads.

As a teenager I discovered BBS chatrooms and this reminds me of those days. It is definitely part nostalgia for me but this is also how it should have always been.

I do not want a drop-in replacement for Twitter, I want something better and I feel this is it.

@thegibson I like this 👌

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Meta 🤝 Home Depot

Your first impression is "I know more than you"

@thegibson The schadenfreude is sooooo delicious. :flan_popcorn:

@thegibson Home Depot's actually useful so this tracks.

@thegibson useless to you maybe, but that's, uh, not who you should be worried about

@thegibson this checks out:

@thegibson Don't personally recommend signal, because it needs your phone number... Element or Briar is the way to go!

@thegibson thanks for this. Q: is there a reason not to use telegram?

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People are always asking me what I'm doing. Only patt of it makes it into the Fediverse. On purpose.

@thegibson set a cron to * 12 * instead of 0 12 * and sent an email to all my clients 60 times in an hour
OTL

@TheGibson Reading through the replies brought a couple of my own to mind:
I wrote a script on a Sun workstation in our lab that would play a cuckoo sound on the hour. Something was off in my logic and I came in late the next day to the box incessantly cuckooing and my coworkers very irritated.
Even earlier in my life, my boss wanted some free space on the main work computer. This was 1992/1993 timeframe. Turns out that Windows really dislikes it when you delete all of System32.

@thegibson I once double booked 200+ credit cards of our customers - that was after I accidentially deleted all stored "valid until" dates from our customers credit cards. Magic

@thegibson Aaahahahaha