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Did you know the internet is carried around the world by around 800,000 miles of fragile cables that sit at the bottom of the ocean? It's a precarious system that is constantly breaking, and relies on a global network of ships to be on hand to repair them, and keep the world online.

In this long read, @theverge tells the story of the people doing that job, the struggles with recruitment, and what happens when "the world's most important infrastructure," falls foul of Mother Nature.

https://flip.it/h3sGp5

#Internet #Online #LongRead #Infrastructure #Tech

Apple’s green message bubbles draw wrath of US attorney general
- RCS and green bubbles in iPhone-to-Android texts play role in Apple/DOJ battle.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/apples-green-bubbles-targeted-by-doj-in-lawsuit-over-iphone-monopoly/

This is terrific...and much deserved.

Look, if you have to add extra code to ensure that your app or platform performs worse when interacting with a device or platform you don't own, or additional code/effort is used to prevent the other device/platform from working with yours, you have obviously undermined competition.

Welp, the ActivityPub plugin does in fact appear to work, so that has itself going for it. I’m not entirely sold on the idea of “status”ing via WP, but, we’ll see.

Also, the title on “Status” type posts, does not show on a WP page and neither does it show up in Mastodon. 🤷🏻‍♀️

https://www.gesslar.dev/2023/10/12/24/

#activitypub #mastodon #wordpress

So, WordPress added ActivityPub support

I’m just demoing it out and seeing what it do be like. Anyway, here’s a link in case you were interested.

Also, trying out this thing called “Post Format?” I dunno, supposedly it’s something to do with presentation and theming, etc.

https://www.gesslar.dev/2023/10/12/so-wordpress-added-activitypub-support/

#activitypub #wordpress