Who wins the peering wars? Mastodon by a mile.

That piece flowed through a lot of servers to get here, and it was preserved at each step.

It's not an unlimited deal, there are still character limits, and rendering glitches, but it is remarkable.

Credit goes to the folks at Automattic for working so diligently to make the pipes work.

I asked chatgpt if the term "glass palace" had been used to talk about pre-PC computer data centers.

Short answer -- yes, see the screen shot for the rest.

I was just writing a post about how RSS and XML-RPC and Frontier did the things the AI companies are doing with their language support playing the role of our Algol-like scripting language, UserTalk.

That got me to look at system.verbs.apps table in my frontier.root, and what an incredible story it tells. so many stories. we got all those people to work together. that was the hardest part.