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You don't get to tell other people what they should and should not put in what may as well be an iptables entry.

If your problem is that there aren't enough instances for people who believe what you believe, congratulations! The Fediverse empowers you to solve that problem.

This seems like this might lead to some interesting second-order benefits of single-payer healthcare schemes; is the state of EHRs as bad in the UK? If so, is it because they're buying American EHRs?

I'm curious what you mean by that. It seems hard to censor people when anyone can run an ActivityPub-compatible server on a $5 VPS.

I would argue that this is not "a Mastodon instance", since it is not running Mastodon - other than that, very very neat work! I'm excited for that "Source Code" link to be live :)

Pay their creators not to insert ads into their content.

The point is that there is a semantic quibble about the word "Linux" in data gathering contexts.

> It's anecdotal, but I think Mastodon missed the boat, in large part because of the pretty terrible sign up experience.

The Fediverse missed the boat of becoming the next public square because it was never sailing that route to begin with, if you'll pardon the slightly twisted metaphor.

ActivityPub, and by extension Mastodon, are not community spaces; they are tools for building community spaces. There are at least three major spaces currently: the heavily-moderated, mostly lefty area, the barely-moderated, heavily alt-right area, and the area dominated by Pawoo and defined primarily by Japan's legal jurisdiction regarding image media. There are some interfaces between these broad areas, and some sub-divisions within them, as well as some smaller, mutually allowlisted islands that don't federate outside at all.

Building a new public square may be Eugen Rochko's goal, but it's not what most instance admins and moderators want. Joining the Fediverse looking for a new Twitter is and always has been a mistake.

> How hard could it be to feed fake data into said dongle and enjoy the lower cost?

Wouldn't that be fraud?

Interesting to note all the discussion of how aviation balloon materials aren't suitable; I presume this is because Picard was most experienced with building balloons for high altitude exploration and applied similar techniques to the Trieste.

Honestly, I think it's a good choice; I can absolutely see folks running a small web server or something on the ESP32 and putting their realtime code on the main MCU, for instance.

Having an onboard display, CAN bus transceiver, and op amp is pretty neat. It should enable this Arduino to be the core of a lot more projects when otherwise it might make more sense to use another board or just build the whole circuit from components.

Perhaps you misundstand. The ones with <10 users cost a few bucks a month. The ones with thousands of users are sustainable through donations. There is no lack of sustainability here.

Because it's a federated system, there is no need for instances larger than that (and in my opinion, they are a net negative for the network).

The previous instance I was on was around since 2018. The one I'm on now has been around since 2019.

> Even decentralized architectures like Mastodon need that - and very few people actually want to pay for it.

Every Fediverse instance I've used - and I've used quite a few - has been either so small that the total cost is a few dollars a month, or fiscally sustained by donations from users.

The problem is when people want to make a profit on their internet community. Then, no amount of community support is enough, because nobody wants to donate to your investors.

You definitely can. I think a lot of journals have policies that amount to "we don't want to waste time in projects without institutional faith behind them", and if you're doing research with human subjects you'll need institutional approval, but there's nothing stopping you from finding a journal that'll have you and submitting!

Hmm. I certainly found this annoying when I lived in San Diego but at the same time I'm not sure how ballot initiatives are supposed to work without it.

> I really liked that before each chapter, ethics and a bit of historical context of each problems were discussed, and what questions should one ask themselves when waddling into those territories.

This is a great idea. I think more introductory books should try to give context into how the topics they're introducing relate to the field and the history thereof.

Glad I now know about this book!

> would you personally settle for less pay or privilege to enable this?

Absolutely. Among other things, I already spend a significant chunk of my paycheck supporting people who, in a country with a functioning social safety net and disability system that doesn't force people into poverty, would not need my support.

> are there real solutions in that?

So many problems in our industry are directly caused by capitalists being capitalists. We don't have enough positions for junior devs because companies need to execute as quickly as possible to satisfy VC's dreams of capturing the market before anyone else can come in. We take on mountains of tech debt for the same reason. Documentation isn't profitable, so we don't spend time on it. Big companies buy smaller ones just to kill off their products.

I don't have a perfect layout for a new society, but it's very, very hard for me to see how a defeatist attitude helps.

In particular, as technologists, I think we can do at least a little about this. We can stop carrying water for capital, for one thing; we can also stop aspiring to be capitalists ourselves. And finally, I really do think, even in this system and this economy, that we can carry some of the weight of building new systems for organization that don't serve at the whims of capital. ActivityPub isn't perfect, but it does work! We can iterate on that blueprint and build even better, more open, more effective social spaces that don't require billionaire bailouts. And we can support regulation that actually makes sense, and shout down legislation that doesn't.

There is so much we can do. I believe in us.

To be clear, it's a good article as far as it goes and I appreciate you sharing it, but it's incredibly frustrating to me when people in our field come right up to the edge of criticizing capitalism and then just back off.

Enshittification isn't limited to tech; it happens to just about everything in a capitalist society, because it benefits capital.

We have to move past this economic model.

With all respect, fuck this. We can build platforms that won't be enshittified, we just choose not to, and throwing our hands up and saying "oh well! guess it's human nature to make everything bad in the name of shareholder value!" is a cop-out.

My understanding is that it was Triplett and Gould, but I could be wrong.

> that operates with so much secrecy that their leadership team is anonymous

The Rust leadership team is not anonymous; you can read about them on the rust-lang.org website [1]. The much-discussed "leadership chat" was created to enable process-all-the-way RFC acceptance earlier this year [2] and has been updated twice since then [3][4]. There was also public-facing communication about this [5].

I believe GP is referring to JT (and others) choosing not to name the people who decided to downgrade JeanHeyd Meneide's talk from keynote status. Those people have since publicly named themselves in relation to the incident.

1: https://www.rust-lang.org/governance 2: https://github.com/rust-lang/team/commit/3700516795a293493e8... 3: https://github.com/rust-lang/team/commit/09717c6540c47663960... 4: https://github.com/rust-lang/team/commit/2cea9916903fffafbfa... 5: https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/02/22/governance...

> should be reserved for actual perpetrators of mass atrocities.

Ideally, we would prevent such people from perpetrating such atrocities in the first place. The Nazis were Nazis before they killed millions, and they said they would do it before they did.

When people, especially politicians, come out and say, "we must eliminate [demographic group]," we need to believe them and understand that genocide is their goal.

Sure, and big hairdos and synthesizers existed in the 60s, but we still associate them with the 80s.

That tweet is pretty funny. Sure, Paul, nobody would know you were from the future, because you don't do weird shit. Wear weirder clothes. Be part of a subculture. Make some friends with the kind of people who write microfiction or zines or 256-byte demos. Make the culture yourself.

Sure. They provide a form for that, and there are discussion threads in many places. Commenting vitriol on random projects that are, in fact, totally unrelated to the Rust Foundation is not productive.

This is unproductive. I have significant criticisms of the policy draft, but this is not helpful.

This article misses the point. I desperately want a non-smart TV because I don't want to deal with the absolute mess that is smart TV software. I want to have a TV with a nice panel, a basic OSD that lets me switch inputs and set up color/HDR profiles, and that's it.

Hmm, this does present actors but doesn't seem to present posts (for, for instance, https://cohost.org/example/rss/public.atom as @cohost.org.example.rss.public@mastofeeder.com)

EDIT: Never mind, it's just slow. Some constructive criticism: maybe make the posts not public, so they don't flood the federated timeline at creation?

Yeah, apologies, that's just habit on my part.