#firearms are spectacular in being a highly debated and politicized topic of which vast majority of people have zero knowledge and zero experience. Combined with public media image that has nothing to do with the real life use, it creates a situation worse than all the #covid virologists we had just recently, with the never-old taste of "you won't be safe otherwise". Meanwhile in #canada healthcare kills 30x more people by mistake annually than all murderes, gun or not...
Cryosleeper
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"This week, Sky UK started warning people who pressed the skip-ad button on their cable remotes that they would be billed an extra £5/month if they fast-forwarded past an ad. [...]
This was the utterly foreseeable consequence of giving vendors the power to change how their devices worked after they sold it to you, under conditions that criminalized rivals who made products to change them back."
Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/03/painful-burning-dribble/
https://chreke.com/little-languages.html
#unix piping will save the world, literally. When every car and airplane is bolted together by #code outsourced by a lowest bidder, we need to focus on tools. Tools that are often over-scoped and not designed to work together.
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2022/11/14/scaling-mastodon/
This. I still struggle to understand how exactly #mastodon federalization is useful for me personally compared to subreddits (centralized duplex comm) or RSS (decentralized simplex), and taking a legal look at it (gosh, a stupid service for exchanging bird-brain-sized messages is being used for causing billions of losses) makes things even more complicated.
Open source obviously gets a bigger leeway in case pf problems, but it doesn't make the problem go away.
#mastodon looks like a very interesting experiment in federalization but it remains to be seen for how long the "people do not want to run servers" rule stays broken. #bitcoin trade quickly degraded to just a few providers of critical info, #chrome is used by everyone solely because it's used by everyone and now dictates Web changes instead of following them.
#activitypub on the other hand, is a great idea. Do not make products - create open protocols instead. #unix piping will save the world.
Sooner or later the progress of #technology will bring us a social network able to handle user messages of an unlimited (in practical means) length, even if in 2022 it might sound like science fiction.