Notices by Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social), page 32

If you want more hints as to what I'm thinking, I gave a presentation on this which contains some of my thoughts earlier in the year https://dustycloud.org/misc/mmose.pdf

Here's the crux though: I think making a decentralized social web that's hard to censor but focuses on protecting users is *critical* for the survival of freedom and autonomy of everyday people, *especially* in this political environment.

So I have an announcement. I sent an email to my work saying that I wanted to be able to focus on my work on taking advancing the federated social web to the next level. Read: better security / abuse resistance, richer interactions, virtual worlds.

How will I be funded to do this? I don't know. I do know that the state of the political world scares me enough that I feel I have to do this. If you want to support me: https://www.patreon.com/cwebber

Wish me luck. More updates soon.

@bob it's so frustrating to me that many people who think that blockchains are the only distributed system these days don't know about the actor model

thesis: drawing a strong distinction between client and server probably has caused many of our social technical ills

Chinese government allegedly inserts tiny chip which backdoors networks all over the place https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies

@aral @ekaitz_zarraga @Shamar W3C is in general heavily influenced by its corporate members. It's rare to get something like ActivityPub through which doesn't have corporate backing. I wish this weren't true.

hello this is your computer speaking, this is a simulation and the reason for quantum uncertainty is because the engineers wrote an optimization where certain levels of detail are only calculated lazily through probabilistic approximations if and when necessary to compute

@cwebber
As usual,tvtropes has a page on that

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MenGetOldWomenGetReplaced