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WikiPedia says: “historian Herodotus … visited Tyre around 450 BC … and wrote … that according to the priests there, the city was founded 2300 years earlier …. Archaeological evidence has corroborated this timing.” I write this from Sunnyvale, California, incorporated in 1912. Ahem.  @J12t He had good sources. The priests' oral history was reasonably accurate which is kind of nice. By contrast, I think Lupa weening Romulus and Rimus is about as historical as George Washington and the Cherry Tree. Another interesting tidbit from the #Gitlab #ActivityPub thread which may well also apply to other #fediverse software: "This also is a rich target IMHO for very, very large organizations, such as the US federal government and the States, which consists of various departments, ... and partners that ...need separate control over instances but need ...controlled collaboration across them." That kind of thing was one of the original uses cases @evan had been working on back in the days, right?  Intriguing tidbit: the Gitlab issue describing how they are planning to implement ActivityPub has a label "CEO Interest" with the description "When you close out an issue with this label please also Slack it to #ceo ." I take this that ActivityPub is something the CEO of this publicly-traded, almost $7b market cap company, considers strategic for its flagship product. If #Gitlab start supporting merge requests etc over #activitypub, what will #GitHub do? A few weeks ago I asked about Fediverse apps that are as unlike as Mastodon as possible. People pointed me to some quite interesting ones, like playing chess over ActivityPub or public transport delay announcements https://social.coop/@J12t/110843539252937792 Today I hear that #Gitlab is working on decentralized merge requests over #ActivityPub! If this comes into being, this could be a really major development for the #fediverse. https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/11247
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@J12t awesome, great news! I guess I'd just say I hope they document and discuss the protocol before implementing so others can also join in  @J12t I'm comparing the #Mastodon web UI side-by-side with the #Threads web UI that was released today. Mastodon currently has more features, like DMs, so naturally it might have more UI elements. But still, one can see the impact of some diligent work by people who know what they are doing. I hope Mastodon copies some of the ideas. “Four very powerful billionaires—Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreessen—are creating a world where “nothing is true and all is spectacle.”” Not wrong. What shall we do about that?
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 @J12t With regard to the Oligarchs greedily bringing an end to our Planet, some might say that 229 years between Reigns of Terror is long enough.   @J12t has it been updated to be breakaway in case Shaq goes in for a dunk? Translating to a sport Americans are familiar with :) # TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR or in Japanese # TOTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORO :) Wondering ... if #social #media isn't made to be #addictive and emotionally #manipulative, how are post frequencies different? E.g. if on a commercial social media platform I see 100 posts, and react to, Idk what the numbers are, but let's say 10 of them, with 8 Likes, 1 Comment and sparking 1 new post ... Then in the #Fediverse, what would I do? Are the reaction numbers higher or lower? Higher or lower for whom? Under which circumstances? Am I an outlier? Are we all who are here right now? @J12t I respond more in the Fediverse ( though still not that much ) because I have less unwanted dreck to skip over My Mastodon feeds have been the best content/noise ratio for me in social media[0]. Would still love more customizable filtering :) [0] Aside from small specific topic IRC rooms and a couple early days mailing lists “Appeared to be missing a wing just before crashing” It works as a statement from one thug to all the other thugs. https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-08-23-23/index.html So much about "nuclear energy will save us". The French power company ESF is continuing to keep shut down its 1.3 gigawatt nuclear reactor Golfech 2 in the southwest of France. Reason: the river water used for cooling is above the maximum permitted temperature due to a heat wave. And it's not the only reactor.  @J12t @owenblacker https://www.power-technology.com/news/edf-energy-golfech-nuclear-plant-heatwave/ The limit is to protect marine life. It seems they don’t have any facilities to cool the water before returning it like cooling towers, though I remember stories from British coal fired power stations about fishermen preferring downstream of the plants because the fish were more active in the warmer water despite the cooling towers. I was today years old to realize that if we could time travel, we’d end up in outer space 99.99+% of all times. Well, so close to 100% as to be basically indistinguishable from 100%. Space is almost completely empty! Everything moves, not just around the sun but around the galaxy etc. By the time you pop back in from your time jump, everything has long moved away and there’s no chance you happen to land on anything interesting certainly not earth. This has always amused me with time travel in media. Like, they are in a chair and go back in time and end up back on that chair, but that chair has traveled MILLIONS of kilometers between those points in time. Time travel and teleportation are essentially the same thing! Either my screen is broken or the X née Twitter logo of the app on the iPad now has scratches. Hmm, I can move the scratches with the logo. Seems my screen is fine. Why would anybody want a logo with scratches?  And then it suddenly stopped working, and nobody knows why. Who could have known? https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/22/icann_un_digital_compact_warning/  @J12t aren't you afraid some people may take it to literal and jam 1500 word in 4 huge sentences? 😂 This is a better explanation of what #Elon is up to than anything else I've ever read. The piece quotes Reid Hoffman: 'he told me that Musk’s attitude is “like Louis XIV: ‘L’état, c’est moi.’ ”' https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule  @J12t A very interesting article, under many points of view. The piece is long and winding, and exaggerating at times, but a few key paragraphs describe clearly the kind of real world power (or at least influence) that the owner of #X / #Twitter can wield, behind (or despite) his buffoonish antics. I used to think that #Xitter was going to fail and slowly disappear off the table of the big players, now I'm not so sure. Btw, here is the archive link: https://archive.li/Jo8u4 The weather outside is definitely unusual, even if the hurricane dissipated 100's of miles from here. |
