Notices by kaniini (kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org), page 68

@Elizafox @CobaltVelvet charybdis++ will likely cause that to stabilize quickly

@Trev then creative finally caved and released a GPL driver a year after that

@CobaltVelvet @Elizafox

that’s really the killer feature of matrix, they have the ability to register for push notifications and then apps can relay those push notifications to the phones of their users through their usual mechanisms

@Trev then about a year later OSS4 was released with a driver that was non-gpl but foss

@Trev and assembled a website containing that info. then creative found out and sued me.

@Trev well basically i documented a lot of behaviour by tracing the pci read/writes of the binary linux driver

remember that time i got sued by creative labs because i tried to write a driver for my x-fi soundcard

there's smart activism and then there's dumb activism.

lets look at the windows OEM license issue as an example.

smart activism = buying a computer that does not bundle a windows license (librem, 'business-grade' dell/hp, etc.)

dumb activism = buying a computer and then calling up and demanding a windows license refund.

then there is fake activism, which is what the people on social media do.

activism requires strategy to be most effective, but more importantly, it requires actual work be done to be effective at all.

@Elizafox

mammon and it's design of translating messages into a representative state transform, i still believe is the appropriate way to make ircd handle extensibility.

a realworld example of what was learned from mammon can be seen in charybdis 4's msgbufs (which while still very tied to messages, is still a fairly flexible structure).

@Elizafox

yes, in general, despite ircv3's current hatefest, the charybdis team was actually the one most open to trying to prototype the proposed specs.

@mdfrg @awilfox @SLRock @vertigo

now, when it comes to the IRC paramilitary hierarchy, it is actually worse.

because if you get banned from #freenode, as an example, then other channel operators may ban you as well because clearly "you are a troll, you got banned from #freenode."

so this paramilitary hierarchy extends downward into the communities themselves, and the actions of the paramilitary hierarchy extend downward as well. for example, there are many channels that have `+b $c:#freenode` on their banlists, which means if you are banned on #freenode you are automatically banned from the other channels too.

that bad advice comes about as a result of overzealous channel operators feeling that they should "protect" their channels from people they most likely are never going to have any actual interaction with. because they are "trolls" afterall.

@mtknn

that explains so much about hypercard

@zer0her0 @awilfox

that part, i don't know for sure. but it does mean that google still controls the behaviour of electron.

@zer0her0 @awilfox

it is based on CEF which is based on Chromium which is controlled by Google.

turtles all the way down.