 People don’t understand the fediverse. Today’s exhibit: people on #Threads complain that it’s not good for news, example yesterday. We know that, because Meta has said over and over they de-emphasize news. But that’s what the #fediverse is for! Somebody will build the worlds best news feed and you can subscribe right there from Threads (once they are done with their ActivityPub implementation) and any other fediverse application. I’m genuinely puzzled by Iran’s attack yesterday. In the mind of the Iranians, was this retaliation, with respect to the perceived wrong, supposed to be: Anonymous poll
Poll
One-tit-for-one-tat (equivalent response)
2
14.3%
More-than-one-tit-for-a-tat (hit them harder)
3
21.4%
Less-than-one-tit-for-tat (de-escalate)
14 people voted. 9
64.3%
Voting ended 17 April at 18:25. The western press says it was supposed to de-escalate. Evidence: telegraphed up front, “concluded” statement before the missiles even hit. Active measures and disinformation are out in full force. Remember: don't believe anything you read on social media, and don't believe any photos or videos either unless it's extremely well sourced. @J12t thats also a good idea for all news you see/hear/read! Question everything. Form your own opinion. Don't be a swimmer, find your own way. Usually the news is "the missiles hit target X". This time it is "the missiles will continue to be in the air for some hours". That is unusual, to put it mildly. Not that missiles in the air or otherwise should be usual or ever happen. Tech has always had its 20-something tech wunderkids. Bill Gates and the Steves, and Andreessen and Zuck etc. Who are the current ones? What am I missing? “the open source social web (aka the fediverse)”. Hmm, not sure what to think about that description. I see the appeal but do we want to stretch “open source” all the way to include closed implementations of open protocols? From a headline in #techcrunch about #flipboard. This is actually pretty funny in a catch-22 type of way ... If you put the link relation type http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page into a web browser, the site redirects you to https ... and then the page tells you that the identifier starts with http not https. It has to be http because of string comparison rules as defined in WebFinger. I suspect that if whoever runs that site had kept it at http Google would have punished it in search results. Hey @matt, you have an https "proto" in what should be rel=http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page/ in your webfinger that probably should not be there. String comparisons in WebFinger are character by character. Compare with the others here: https://fedidevs.org/reference/webfinger /cc @feditest Hi @framasoft, you have a trailing slash in your rel=http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page/ in your webfinger that probably should not be there. String comparisons in WebFinger are character by character. Compare with the others here: https://fedidevs.org/reference/webfinger/ /cc @feditest Thanks @davepeck for fixing the hamburger menu (for small screens) on https://fedidevs.org and https://feditest.org This is exactly my take on Russian influence operations in the west, facilitated by money. Except that I would expect the numbers to be much higher, as the ROI for Putin is considerable, eg the benefits they got just this year from preventing additional US aid to Ukraine. https://newrepublic.com/article/180630/russia-corruption-network-europe-buying-politicians-america I almost forgot about this. We played this, an eon ago! You’s truly in the second violin, about age 17. I’m still looking for a ginormous bone shattering surround subwoofer for the base in the slow intro. But please don’t judge the piece by this recording. It’s like the conductor is missing and the very talented orchestra had other things it wanted to get to. “NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Gen. Cavoli … noted that China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia are forming “interlocking, strategic partnerships””. Meanwhile, the West is also furiously building and deepening alliances. Seems something new is in the news every week. Quo vadis, mundus? https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-april-11-2024 It says here that in Paris, less than 5% of trips are now made by car. Most by public transportation, and bike trips beat out car trips by some margin. Hi America, how are we doing? /s Turns out it's not my M.2 NVMe drive that's bad, but the NUC's interface to it. I have never heard of such a thing, but of course it's possible. The drive works fine when put into a USB adapter. And the SATA adapter in the NUC works fine, too.  @J12t could it be different signaling maybe? I have a flash drive that won't work on any USB3 interface, but has no issue with USB2. Your usb adapter could be using a lower PCIe generation that doesn't trigger your issue... Today, between #gitlab #cloudflare and #firefox, I'm getting an endless loop of some silly attempt to verify that I am human. So it says at least, I don't think it can, but maybe it is recognizing that and that keeps it looping :-) Safari works. I have no idea how Microsoft gets away with this over the decades. Every time I turn on my Windows box (well, it's just a disk, which I slide into a spare NUC when I need to do something Windows) it takes hours before it is ready to do something useful for me. It's like the market opportunity has passed before Windows is willing to assist.  @J12t Decades of We're Smarter Than You™ computing, where the operating system is designed to try and think for you, instead of *being a tool* for you. While you always want the problems you have from upgrades, and you never want the problems you have from *not* upgrading, one can rarely afford the time you'll have to waste by forced upgrades (and their subsequent problems.) In today’s episode of random unexpected facts it turns out that A at 440Hz is an ISO standard, and previously an international agreement on setting a standard pitch was part of the treaty of Versailles which ended WW1. @J12t Without that standard, Randy Jackson wouldn't have been able to say, "Yo, dawg, that was pitchy." The singer could simply reply, "Sez you. I _like_ my A at 444." @J12t Wow, synchonicity. Just yesterday, I was reading /The Commodore/¹ to Dawn and came across: “Jack tuned his restrung fiddle: they talked for a while about pitch and how some people maintained that A should sound *thus* – Jack played the note and said, ‘I cannot bear it. I hate to think that our grandfathers should be such flats.’ … "Broadband nutrition labels" are coming in the US. Interesting. All in favor of transparency. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/10/24125572/fcc-broadband-nutrition-labels-isp-deadline-today |
Gregory's Server
Maybe somebody even writes one that’s optimized for news instead of friends. It might even be profitable!
@J12t Here's a start https://newsmast.org/