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I am shutting down cantos.social very soon. I didn't intend to have a single-user instance - It was an experiment on my part to see if I could get an instance purely from an invite tree. I learned that you can't.
The way I see a lot of successful instances go is by having a compelling niche and open reg and _then_ going invite-only.
Anyway, a good run. I will be moving to @glitchf . I'll set up the account move so my followers shouldn't have to do anything.
QOTD:
“It's fascinating to me that my biggest contribution to the world was the smallest, accomplished in a single evening, and mostly over dinner.” – Rob Pike, on UTF-8 (https://hachyderm.io/@robpike/110890432036139629).
@[email protected] Just a few years later, the desire to make text universal was burning pretty bright, and Andrew Hume gave us a prod to make Plan 9 honor that desire. It's fascinating to me that my biggest contribution to the world was the smallest, accomplished in a single evening, and mostly over dinner.
I'm not saying it is this way, it's just fun to think about.
This divination would obviously only work if the reader were in the critical path of a predestined event. So it might detail your job and love life but not the covid-19 pandemic. Unless, of course, you're that lucky person who was critical to it happening and it was actually predestined and not just one of those things that happens.
IF causality can go both directions in time, and a future event can cause an event in the past/present, what would that look like? I imagine it would look like random processes coming together to make a result, like its antecedents were being arranged.
If one were to take a deck of cards and shuffle them, it wouldn't matter _unless_ they influenced the reader to bring about the future event in some way.
Therefore, divination with cards or other random things would work but only for believers.
This point by @scalzi from his blog needs so much boosting:
My personal observation about [..] liberals is that many seem to vote to “solve” things, and once they think things are “solved” they let their attention wander off to whatever else it is they are doing. Many [..] conservatives, on the other hand, seem to vote to “push” things in the direction they want them to go. They are in it for the long term. If as a voter you’re a “pusher” rather than a “solver,” you show up for every damn vote.
At the risk of sounding like one of those open-source crazies... Mesa drivers will NEVER do this to you.
We argue over whether or not having an app hacks system in a fully open driver is sufficiently transparent. Don't want that driver hacking around games behind your back!
The notion of scraping your web history in a GPU driver would never even occur to us. If someone ever proposed it, it'd get NAK'd so hard they'd be feeling it for a year.
For nearly 5 years, I've been trying to figure out what this adapter is supposed to connect to. It's still a mystery. Someday, the right person is going to see this post and they'll finally solve this puzzle.
Capn'Milgram-X-Spearmint
रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)
Faith Ekstrand
Matthew Sparby