Month: 17 Iyyar 5783 (May 2023)

“It began on a cheery October morning in New York City; the company had gathered the press together at a buzzy breakfast spot named Sadelle’s in SoHo. As the assembled reporters ate their bagels and lox, Google’s vice president of news, Richard Gingras, explained that the open web was in crisis. Sites were too slow, too hard to use, too filled with ads. As a result, he warned, people were flocking to the better experiences offered by social platforms and app stores. If this trend continued, it would be the end of the web as we know it.”

Yeah, well maybe if Google hadn’t played its part in convincing software devs that they should own front ends too and make webpages with client-side JavaScript instead of server-side rendered HTML a lot of this problem wouldn’t have existed in the first place. Just a thought.

https://www.theverge.com/23711172/google-amp-accelerated-mobile-pages-search-publishers-lawsuit

—@theotherbrook

Capricorn: Today will be a great day for you. Full of energy and pep. Until the meth wears off then hooo-boy is everything gonna suck.

—@sblackmoore

#mastodon #fediverse
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Philosophy is wondering if that means ketchup is a smoothie.

—@sflorg

“This page looks better in the app!”

idk, random tech company, sounds like that’s more of a you problem

—@wolfe

@Patrickoldhiker @malc @Popehat

Angry People: We should have more genetic diversity in the Royal family.

Prince Harry: Let me introduce my fiancée.

Angry People: No, not like that. We definitely very much did not mean that.

—@scottmiller42

Interviewer: Can you explain these gaps in your resume?

Me: Those are typographical indicators called spaces and line breaks that separate words and paragraphs.

—@StefanThinks

Introducing ‘Total Crap’, the First Magazine Written Entirely by AI. “We are proud to bring the written word into the future with revolutionary technology that delivers the one thing readers are most passionate about: efficiency.” https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/introducing-total-crap-the-first-magazine-written-entirely-by-ai

—@kottke

I disagree with the current CEO of Mastodon about his stance on mid-sized instances. We don’t want to be run in isolation, we are part of the Fediverse. “Normal users just want the default”, he can repeat that as many times as he wants, it doesn’t make it true because of that.

Diversity is the DNA of the Fediverse and Mastodon is just one part of the whole. Thousands of people spend their time and money to make it successful. Anyone who dismisses that and single-handedly tries to market the Fediverse as a Mastodon brand and use “crowding out” techniques to prevent users from even being encouraged to choose an instance from a diversity will ultimately fail.

I am super disappointed with the direction Mastodon Corporation is taking. If there is not enough headwind here soon, then sooner or later it will lead to a schism.

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #fediverse

—@louis

Republicans: We will literally criminalize elements of sexuality and forbid them from public life. Also: no contraception, abortions or social safety net.

Also Republicans: Why don’t young folks want to have sex?? https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/parents-to-blame-for-carless-sexless-teenagers/

—@Davechen

People keep bringing up the very tired “Linux on the desktop” meme to dismiss the Fediverse.

But a meme is just a meme.

In the real world, Linux dominates.

Your phone? Probably Linux. Your car’s infotainment system? Linux. Your router? Linux.

Chromebook? Linux.

Windows has a Linux Subsystem too.

Linux has won.

The “Linux on the desktop” naysayers don’t even realize it.

The Fediverse should be so lucky.

—@atomicpoet

@koko

Free Software Guy: For too long have we suffered the Torment Nexus, so I am creating OpenTormentNexus to finally give users and developers the freedom to create their own personalized Torment Nexuses.

—@bytex64