[-] Kirk@startrek.website 15 points 5 hours ago

In case anyone else was wondering, "shut down" here means someone put some metal over it and hired two ~~airline pilots~~ security guards to watch over.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 9 hours ago

Leaving the door open to the idea that putting wheels onto grandmothers could make them into wagons

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 9 hours ago

It comes from this 2019 post by Mike Masnick.

Unfortunately the atprotocol is more like Profits > People > Platforms

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 9 hours ago

Absolutely I was not trying to take away from your point! Cory Doctorow actually recently wrote a good piece on Wikipedia that you reminded me of.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 10 hours ago

I agree with your overall point, but Wikipedia has a singular mission. Social settings can have wildy different missions from shitposting, to hobbies, study groups, to support groups, etc. There is no singular moderation ethos that can apply to all of them, that's why decentralization is important in social media.

We want to algorithms to work for the people, not have people slaving for the algorithms.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 10 hours ago

If a grandmother had wheels would you consider her to be a wagon?

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 11 hours ago

No, please respond to the gif. If my grandmother had wheels, would she be a wagon?

BlueSky is centralized. Describing it as "federated" is being (intentionally, in your case) misleading.

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[-] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago

ok and bluesky is literally centralized

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More avoidance. You astroturfing?

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 9 points 3 days ago

I don't understand, $600M? Is anyone using this browser?

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 4 points 3 days ago

Bazzite is based on Fedora no? This could be very cool

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Graber

In 2015, Graber began working as a software engineer for SkuChain in Mountain View, California. She then worked in a factory in Moses Lake, Washington, where she soldered bitcoin mining equipment. In 2016, she began working as a junior developer for the Zcash cryptocurrency.

So lately I have been trying to figure out why people are calling BlueSky decentralized and I noticed that fun fact. It made me realize how cryptocurrencies are something else that was often technically "decentralized" but in reality controlled by a single person or group.

In case it's also not known, Jack Dorsey who helped found BlueSky is a big cryptocurrency booster.

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Yes I know I'm behind everyone else!

First the away team spends a long time debating if they should proceed or... step outside for five seconds to call the ship. They ultimately decide that stepping outside for five seconds is not feasible.

But then literally one minute later Ensign Gamble is somehow beamed up. Presumably they must have called the ship to do this? Did they just... leave out the part about the (now obvious and real) danger? Was there a scene where Pike said "ok yeah his eyes are gone but you can keep going"?

Then later in the episode the away team spends a long time talking about trust and friendship while debating if they should walk on an invisible walkway instead of just like, I don't know, tapping it lightly with their toe or throwing a pebble on it first?

The Ensign Gamble B-plot was good and freaky and featured some great acting by everyone involved. But the A plot felt like it was vibe-scripted! I love SNW but come on.

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