myrmepropagandist

I'm going to start an interoperability religion. This is the only way.

DO NOT post that damn #xkcd comic don't you dare.

Mar 14 at 1:36pmWeb
Show threadmyrmepropagandistMar 14

Church of the One True Protocol

Monoprotocalism

Advertising and Spam are sin.

Show threadprom™️Mar 14

@futurebird The Church of Packet Routers and Postal Workers:

Packet inspection is a sin.

Show threadFritz leck Eier 🎗️Mar 14
@futurebird I prefer monoproctologism.
Show threadEd SullivanMar 14
@futurebird Sounds like the opposite of Petroleumism, where advertising is king and government funding is never pulled.
Show threadChris EspinosaMar 14
@futurebird
You mean Reformed Monoprotocolism, the *second* Church of the One True Protocol
Show threadalgernon.stMar 14
@futurebird i mean wasnt manichaeism sorta like that
Show threadmyrmepropagandistMar 14

@zardoz03

I don't know much about it... did they have some idea about protocols?

Show threadalgernon.stMar 14
@futurebird i mean it absorbed the good parts of many of the extant religions' theologies of the old world at the time of its existence :D
Show threadAN/CRM-114Mar 15
@zardoz03 @futurebird ‘Manichaeism: Only the Bad Parts’ by Augustine of Hippo
Show threadHugo MillsMar 14

@futurebird

I shall ask for a blessing from the Lady of SHALL NOT, while dancing around the MAY pole.

Show threadMartijn FrazerMar 14

@futurebird Open standards have been the default for the longest time. All those RFCs to describe various protocols and mechanism during the development of the internet were about ensuring it works on any machine, with any system.

And then the internet got popular and standards were replaced by platforms.

The exact opposite of ensuring interoperability is what we've seen for 20 or so years now! A crime against the very internet itself!

Show threadpez23Mar 14
@Tijn @futurebird https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
The Slow Death of the Power User — fireborn

Show threadMark Shane HaydenMar 14
@futurebird The Apostolic RFC of ROM shall maintain the Holy Standards AMEN
Show threadProto Himbo EuropeanMar 14

@futurebird Well, now I'm going to try to figure out which XKCD comic you mean, but if I find it I promise I won't post it.

And I will join this religion.

Show threadquangobaudMar 14

@futurebird

The "IronSky" people did a great Jobsianism Cult parody in their second film.

Show threadchris smithMar 14
@futurebird i have never wanted to see an xkcd comic as much as i do right now
Show threadBen S.Mar 14
@squirrellybob @futurebird Google: xkcd standards
Show threadchris smithMar 14
@HunterZ @futurebird oh sweet release
Show threadJared BrothersMar 14
@futurebird SUN-worshippers from different vendors performed `Connectathon` rituals to get their NFS clients and servers to shake hands. https://lwn.net/Articles/898262/
NFS: the new millennium

The network filesystem (NFS) protocol has been with us for nearly 40 years. While defined initi [...]

LWN.net
Show threadpez23Mar 14
@futurebird 🤣 😂 🤣
Show threadmyrmepropagandistMar 14

@pez23

😡

Show threadLeonardo FontenelleMar 14
@futurebird 🤣
Show threadGerard Cunningham ✒️Mar 14
@futurebird
The worshipful church of Directive (EU) 2022/2380?
Show threadEric LawtonMar 14

@futurebird

I'm frowning at my box of adapters for electrical power in different countries.

Show threadaprilfolliesMar 14
@EricLawton @futurebird Splitters!
Show threadxrvsMar 14
@futurebird xkcd is a second nature to us nerds, that it’s easy to forget that average person only know about xkcd 927 and 1810
Show threadDavid NashMar 14

@futurebird

Anthropologists five centuries after the fall of the American Empire spent decades trying to understand exactly *why* there was a group of religious followers in that empire much like the flagellants of medieval Europe, only with oversized USB-C cables as the flails.

Show threadmyrmepropagandistMar 14

@dpnash

😆

Show threadDigital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 👽Mar 14
@futurebird OK, instead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3fAcxcxoZ8
Emo Phillips - Golden Gate Bridge

Emo Phillips 1987 Hasty Pudding Theatre HBO Special. Emo talks to a jumper and makes an effort to save a person's life.

YouTube
Show threadBen PfaffMar 14
@futurebird I initially read that as "interoperability railgun" and now I want one