Niclas Hedhman @niclas@angrytoday.com

guys, when explaining the #fediverse to new people, just go with the simplest analogy, e-mail. worry about the specifics later. no i don't care if it's not completely accurate, you can make it more "correct" after the fact. you just need to put very basic understanding into new people's heads, you don't need to go

"oh well activitypub is a yoingus sploingus babingyi"

no just say something like

"say you were on outlook, and i was on gmail. we could still send each other emails right? imagine that, but with tweets instead of emails"

i've used this explanation dozens of times, and people always get it.

Imagine if George Soros had bought Twitter? Former Secretary of Labor, Little Robbie Reich, would be jumping up and down with joy, as would Musk's other critics. I don't recall the outcry when Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post, the most influential newspaper in our nation's capital. To the contrary, Bezos was applauded for bringing a more liberal perspective to that newspaper.

Can you guys please stop posting funy?
Cannot keep on favouriting everything.

@ehhh @TheVeryLutheranHousewife Most people don't understand interest and loans very well and they avoid talking to their kids about it because they don't want to look stupid. Each generation get a little dumber.

One of the unexpected joys of the fediverse over other places is the addition of weird domains appended on to everyone's usernames.

It makes the web feel like more than just four websites again.

It's both a signal of a smaller more intimate internet and also a larger and far more diverse internet at the same time!

@realcaseyrollins @lupyuen DMCA isn’t about removing copyrighted information but removing instructions on how to get copyrighted information. Which is why it’s a fucking abomination that needs to be thrown in the shitter.

@deprecated_ii @orionstjames Highly skilled PHP developer needed
Requirements:
・Must be younger than 25 years old.
・Must have at least 20 years of experience with OOP, Scrum, and Agile.
・Experience with HTML, CSS (but only if it's SCSS, no normal CSS allowed), JavaScript (but only if it's React and Vue, no normal JS allowed).
・Experience with Java, C#, C++, Python, Node.js, and Go.
・Experience with Zend, Laravel, and CakePHP, BUT NO REAL PHP, NOT IN MY COMPANY!!
・Experience with GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
・Experience with unit testing.
・Experience with mobile app development.
・Experience with Microsoft Office, Xcode, Visual Studio 2020, and Photoshop.

Nice to have:
・Has a MacBook Pro or a Windows laptop.

"Is RisingWave the Next Apache Flink?" (#RustLang)

https://singularity-data.com/blog/is-risingwave-the-next-apache-flink/

meirl https://redd.it/udd8a0 https://twitter.com/it_meirl_bot/status/1519535608250597376/photo/1

Also, there are many criteria to take into account when choosing what language to write a project in. Some of them unrelated to the language's objective qualities.

Yes, whether a language has static typing, if it's interpretted or compiled, performance, etc. matter.

But sometimes it's about how many people on your team already know it.

Sometimes it's about available implementations.

Sometimes it's about the tooling you already have in place.

And sometimes it's whether you like the language

Just a reminder that Twitter perceives the Fediverse as a threat, and their project Blue Sky is actively spreading FUD about ActivityPub on their website. https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/3-6-2022-a-self-authenticating-social-protocol

This is glorious. These are rotary LTE cell phones, USB-C charged, with mechanical ringers.

https://skysedge.com/unsmartphones/RUSP/index.html

h/t @RussSharek

So there's
Tusky for Mastodon
Husky for Pleroma
and Musky for Twitter, right?

why is xmpp with omemo one of the most secure messengers out there? it's because of omemo's killer feature: half the time even the intended parties can't even read the messages!