Gregory's Server
In #Vancouver on the 17th of October? Come to my book launch!
Here’s a blog piece giving the background on the book: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/09/08/Standing-On-High-Ground
There will be food and drinks and music!
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  @timbray “We aim to cover the running costs of our public instance through donations.” Sounds like a solid plan.  Still life. Very still. When she gets charged up enough via the Thunderbolt cable, she’ll wake up. Turns out the commander of one of the missions currently resident at the ISS is a serious photographer, and has been capturing some wonderful stuff: https://petapixel.com/2024/07/09/a-nasa-astronaut-is-taking-beautiful-and-creative-photos-on-the-iss/ Magnolia calico. Having climbed to my eye level, she’s considering her chances of taking me down with a sudden ferocious leap.  @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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Calico in magnolia. BTW the collar is from https://www.birdsbesafe.com - absolutely works, this handsome cat used to slaughter ’em but now they’re safe from her. Apparently birds are visual creatures. A few annoying problems with the #Fediverse could be solved if there were a new URI scheme with the right semantics. I notice that Bluesky has already provisionally-registered the "at:" URI scheme for similar purposes. So, I sketched out a design for what a "fedi:" URI scheme might look like and how it’d work: https://github.com/timbray/fedi-uri
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 @timbray But as far as I know, some people consider even not ActivityPub projects a part of the Fediverse. 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. Matt Stoller digs into Google's antitrust loss to Epic today in (this is significant) a commercial case with a jury decision: Might be a big deal. @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". Suppose you’re generally progressive/left-ish (like me) and are a hyperoverprivileged white male techbro boomer (like me). Your social-media stream is going to be full of angry people attacking various aspects of what you are. So I wrote a piece about owning your privilege and sucking it up: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/10/07/Suck-it-up
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  @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. Oooh, you *really* want to update your Apple devices right now today, this is an ugly one: https://malwaretips.com/threads/apple-discloses-2-new-zero-days-exploited-to-attack-iphones-macs.125702/
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This is actually not about XML, despite the title, it's about us geeks being fashion victims, and I really enjoyed reading it. https://www.bitecode.dev/p/hype-cycles
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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. 👀 @marcan Don’t want to boost this ⬆️ wall of text which will be gibberish to 90% of everyone and 99% of everyone reasonable, but wow. I’ve hated X for most than you have been alive; I wonder if there’s still a use case for having a GUI here for code running over there? (That doesn’t have HTTP behind it.) I use to think that was essential but haven’t missed it in years.  |
