@GhostOnTheHalfShell

Happy Birthday.

A few weeks ago, we mentioned implementing messaging in Normals. Currently, only one-on-one calls are possible, but we've managed to get it working while maintaining privacy, the rules, and the philosophy. If it's well-received by the community, we might consider expanding the chat to group chats, but this is still a costly architectural decision that we would need to cover. However, we hope you find it useful. As Team Lead for https://normals.me, I'm available to answer any questions related to this, both functional and architectural.

The basic description, security and architecture information is in the announcements thread on Mastodon and Normals.

#fediverse #Chat #VideoCall

Ethereum was a stupendously successful tech startup and now they're all rich

but nobody cares about them any more (and nobody actually ever cared about the esoteric ambitions) and they are completely failing to cope with that

so with no brakes, they're going esoteric incel anime nazi

> cute anime boy postcards
finally something for me
but not alot of people i can mail them to..

youtube comment:
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Let me go full German employee on this:

I have reviewed the Source Seppuku License clause and, as a diligent employee, I raise the following points:
1) specification of the sword. The clause states that the Foundation shall "fall on its own sword," but does not specify which part of the sword. Please clarify in writing whether this refers to the blade, the hilt, or the sword's roadmap. Ambiguity in critical clauses is how we ended up with forks.

2) Equipment provision. Since all employees are bound by this clause, the Foundation must supply each employee with a properly sized sword, covered under the standard equipment budget. Please note that a letter opener cannot be considered an acceptable substitute, and "bring your own sword" would be a conflict of interest above the $500,000 threshold.
Also, please confirm that sword maintenance counts as work time, and that a failed mainnet upgrade does not trigger the clause retroactively.
Respectfully yours,
A Concerned Contributor

I’m not sure how a process modelled off of a tribunal is supposed to act as a fix to mods or admins not acting quickly enough. Trials and tribunals are notoriously slow, because they are called when correctness is more important than speed.

By design, these are not vehicles for “swift actions”.

If a certain website is known to have a problem with their moderation, then that’s what server block lists are for. Communal server block lists already exist. Having a standardized format and the ability to subscribe to one would be nice, but as of right now the amount of effort to update a server’s block list with a new version is relatively simple.

The thing is, as the fediverse grows, and especially as the group-based part of the fediverse grows, we have to accept network splits as a natural part of that process. It is going to get patchy here. It’s a natural part of social network development. What we need to get ahead of is showing people that that is OK, and that frictionless access to the whole of the social web isn’t necessarily a good thing.

> cute anime boy postcards
finally something for me
but not alot of people i can mail them to..

@fesshole ugh. No, the glass is not included in the price.

@Seg Does it support ReGIS by the chance, the vector graphics protocol that DEC had in their terminals?

https://gunkies.org/wiki/ReGIS this here

The trap of being poor has never been explained better than by Terry Pratchett in his 1993 Discworld novel "Men at Arms".

A wealthy man buys a $200 pair of boots that lasts ten years.

A poor man can only afford $40 boots that leak after six months, so he spends $800 over the same ten years and still has wet feet.

Poverty isn't just a lack of money. It's a continuous subscription fee for not having capital up front.

#BootTheory #Poverty #TerryPratchett #Discworld

@Nasenspray Gleich neben dem Reisepaß.

There used to be a fairly active linguistics community here, but the science-themed instance it was hosted on went dark over a month ago. Hopefully it comes back.

I can’t imagine there’s not a chess sub here, surely it’s big enough?

Music wise there are some communities, maybe !obscuremusic@piefed.social fits the bill for now?

Four years ago this month we wrote the first @newsmast mission: take on Elon with a a mix of knowledge-sharing, community and fun.

We've lost a lot of naivety since then, but none of the ambition. We're not building a town square any more. We're building networks of connected communities, with the organisations that run them.

Thank you to everyone who has been part of it, and most of all to the team who make it all possible. We're excited for 2027!

https://www.blog-pat.ch/four-years-of-newsmast-where-we-came-from-where-were-going/

@TheBreadmonkey
Oh no. “Send in the Clowns” is queuing up in the old brain worm machine…

@stux It would be nice to have a few more players on the market for GPU production, honestly.