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“1 in 5 Americans think violence may solve U.S. divisions, poll finds”.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/1-in-5-americans-think-violence-may-solve-u-s-divisions-poll-finds
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I cringe when I read the puns about @potus joining the #Fediverse making it a "true" Fed-iverse, starting with the subtitle of today's #Verge piece. Is that really the brand image we want to promote for the Fediverse? VMWare wants to sell me a "hyperconverged infrastructure". Pardon me if I don't immediately hyperconverge on your infrastructure, because I don't have the slightest idea what this might possibly mean. Are there people who react like "oh, yes, please, I want it right now!" to terms like that?  @J12t well the idea of hyperconvergence is very nice, but being sold by VMware makes me hate it immediately @J12t Their product is not for me. I’m desperately craving an infraconverged hyperstructure. I’m running out of time for me to achieve singularity… Looking up Markdown syntax. Finding https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ and how to use it on Movable Type and Blosxom! Blosxom was my first blogging software!! Those were the days ... I could never make any changes to the software, it was too Perl even for me. The US Patent & Trademark Office is publishing its processing times in some detail. Good! (Now if they weren't as long as they are ... but better be transparent about it) So @yahoonews@threads.net is active on Threads. If that isn’t a prime example for somebody who should really federate in once Threads is done with their ActivityPub implementation, I don’t know who is. Looking forward to see what they will do! 👀 I’m being pursued all over the house by a dog who wants more avocado. Send help. And more avocados. The best #tech #support of any company I've ever interacted with comes from Prusa, the Czech #3D #printer maker. Consistently, they listen to what you have to say, and right away have a good answer. No how-are-you-doing-you-are-so-important-to-us bs that only aggravates everybody, but straight answers to each question, always backed up with links, sometimes with more background info than you had any reason to supposed might exist. 3D printers are fickle and need maintenance, so I have contacted them a few times over the years, and it's always been excellent. Interested in 3D printing? Maybe buy from them just for the support. P.S. I like the printer I have a lot, too. The second failed disk in one week. Entirely different type of SDD on an entirely different computer. But stopped showing up in the BIOS entirely. What is going on here? Is the SDD chaos monkey hopping around my home office?  When were the chips manufactured? If they all came from the same manufacturer, then it's a symptom of the whole batch hitting the bell curve of the End-Of-Life. You won't be alone for long... :D Just stop using your computers. Hmm... https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-security-alert-fedora-41-and-rawhide-users I really like btrfs. I know, it has a flaky reputation but I haven't had issues in years, replacing disks -- like I just had to do when one of my RAID1 disks failed -- or adding an extra disk for more space on the same filesystem is a breeze compared to the alternatives. 18TB disk for $220. Darn. The first real big disk I bought was 20 GB. We thought we'd never fill it. My first HD was 40MB. And what an advancement it was over floppies. It certainly cost a lot more than $220 in 2024 dollars. https://www.newegg.com/toshiba-mg09scp18ta-18tb/p/1Z4-000B-00N24?Item=9SIA994K908938 @J12t The first HD I had was a "Winchester". It was a 10 meg drive that was way better than the 5.25 inch 360k floppies that were $10 each. @J12t yeah, I remember the "never gonna fill it" feeling at 800mb. Which did get eaten up fairly quickly but compared to the 40 it seemed extravagant What? Startups have invaded my Linux system: % ps aux | grep sshd I'm very much used to software development in public. I'm not at all used to software development done in public by a gigantic corporation that very frequently insists on NDAs. And why did this reasonably new, brand-name SSD just die on me? smartctl is as baffled as I am. Its identical sibling next slot is fine. I wonder for how long. On the question of “What’s the plan to make money?”, #bluesky CEO Jay Graeber says: “We’ve been building marketplaces within the app, essentially. So, we’ve got information marketplaces, moderation marketplaces..” How can that produce enough revenue to make the VCs happy? Just what kind of information marketplaces might she be thinking of that can produce those results?
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 @J12t It’s worth exploring other business models. The two current ones are completely broken: you either sell or exploit users’ data (as legacy social media do), or you rely on donations but then you don’t have enough resources to scale (as repeatedly shown by Mastodon). I’m not saying Bluesky will be profitable. Nobody knows. But exploring a third way that generates enough money while avoid mining personal data is interesting.  @J12t of course it can’t make money. It should be left like the email protocol as a common good Does a (paid) hosted #PeerTube offering exist somewhere? Like masto.host does for Mastodon, but for PeerTube?  @J12t Here are two that I've come across that claim to do PeerTube managed hosting… - Spacebear federation: https://federation.spacebear.ee Don't really know much about them though so definitely do some further research before going in. |
