What was the Linux thing?

You’re hired!

You still have to go through the central hub. You can’t spin up your own, wholly independent Bluesky. You can only make your own node.

“Fair wages, working conditions, and healthcare” isn’t the left. Those positions are centrist. The far left wants to do stuff like abolish the government. I’d still pick them over the far right, but abolishing the government is a pretty fuckin’ bad idea.

The guardrails seem to have come down

They don’t seem to, they definitely have. Remember that Supreme Court ruling that said the president can break the law?

Flip you, you’re a silly sausage!

I think Mastodon does fine, too, but I’ve often heard people complain about the lack of an algorithm. Like, they don’t know how to find things if they aren’t being shoveled into their feed

Leave it to cryptos to make simple things stupidly difficult. This whole piece you quoted was hilarious, but this part especially stuck out for me:

The base protocol doesn’t use tokens, which lets people who don’t have interest in cryptocurrency (yet) use it for free

I didn’t see the word “blockchain” anywhere.

No? The OS is the product.

They sponsored a podcast that I listen to, and that’s how I heard about it. I don’t buy stuff online often enough for it to be useful, though, and I’m wary about installing stuff like that anyway.

I guess that podcast has egg on their faces now.

I’d like for this to be changed, and I could submit a PR to do so, but it wouldn’t be accepted.

How do you know that it wouldn’t be accepted?

Did anyone actually think it would be?

I assume so. They’ve certainly been trumpeting it enough.

fare*

Mastodon would only get that problem if it became as big as Bluesky or reddit.

What’s this?

… it seems Musk has confirmed that he at least plans to create a very simple email service that uses text-only emails that arrive in the style of direct messages.

This sounds like a good idea, but unfortunately Musk is involved. He’s obviously going to use it to feed to his AI (as the article points out).

I had the opposite experience. My Seagates have been running for over a decade now. The one time I went with Western Digital, both drives crapped out in a few years.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome might not be quite as bad as paralysis, but it is pretty fucking scary…

Honestly thought it was over

You didn’t know it could mutate?

They forgot about 4 years ago.