Ken White

@sharoz That came in WHILE we taped. So next week.

May 4, 2023, 4:25 pm 1 boosts 9 favorites

@Popehat @sharoz Fate mandates that you always be ready to re-tape portions of the show. Tape Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, it doesn't matter. It will follow you.

@FinchHaven@mastodon.sdf.org @raccoon Not trying to accuse you of anything, just that I don't think he's doing anything bad.
I get the concern. Maybe a better approach would be some oversight/agreement in how these things are being done, but I don't think the move toward it is avoidable if Mastodon/AP are to be viable to a greater population.

@FinchHaven@mastodon.sdf.org @raccoon I don't see any malicious motive on Rochko's part. The distributed nature of Mastodon's instances was posing a huge problem to adoption. It's either funnel people to a default server and let them change later or risk forever being a niche social network. It may even be too late to change its fate. People want their service to "just work," and BlueSky has likely avoided Mastodon's biggest problem.

@dansup Not sure I get this attitude. I keep seeing people saying this service or another should adopt and federate but some people are opposed to the idea that some companies may do so? Is it not better that some do federate in order to develop the concept and technologies? Otherwise, what is the but its own walled garden, even if larger in nature? This would be like, in the early internet, being opposed that a company might offer ISP services to a larger audience and instead keeping it contained to the universities.

Mike Masnick ✅

Anyway, if you're at all interested in experiencing it (and, you should), I would recommend trying to find places to stay like… today. Many hotels opened up booking this weekend, and every one we had planned to try sold out almost instantly, despite ridiculous pricing. We eventually found a place and booked it, but rooms are disappearing quickly.

April 24, 2023, 8:45 pm 14 boosts 32 favorites

@mmasnick Just booked to ensure I have something. May look for another option but I also chose Texas. May do a train trip out of it!

Karl Bode

You can tell from the starship explosion the press isn't really incentivized to learn from a decade+ of mistakes, either. Musk's bulbous ego and a rush to launch on a dumb weed joke date resulted in him nixing flame diverters, which severely damaged the launch pad and engines, all portrayed by the press as a smashing success:

twitter.com/Tazerface16/status

April 22, 2023, 3:51 pm 116 boosts 149 favorites

@KarlBode I don't understand this line of argument since it was scheduled earlier. Not having the diverter system in place when it's been standard was definitely a mistake.

Whatever stupidity he's brought to Twitter and his childish character, SpaceX is actually one of his successes, not just a fluke.

One of the reasons I'm really drawn toward the decentralized/federated open source networks is that there is so much innovation going on. It's not perfect and has a long way to go but it's very exciting and quickly developing.

For example, it is very cool that I can follow Jack Dorsey's account from the by way of a bridge to :

@82341f882b6eabcd2ba7f1ef90aad961cf074af15b9ef44a09f9d2a8fbfbe6a2

Screencap of Jack Dorsey's account on #nostr by way of a bridge between #ActivityPub and #nostr via mostr.pub.