Notices by Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co), page 18
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2019 14:35:05 EST Mark Shane Hayden -
Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2019 19:06:59 EST Mark Shane Hayden @ink_slinger yeah that was odd. By any measure Uruguay is a prosperous, advanced nation. I guess they weren't buying what he's selling?
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2019 18:24:29 EST Mark Shane Hayden Uh...
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I guess it's best for me not to say anything and just go yell at a cloud or the damn kids on my lawn.
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2019 17:11:02 EST Mark Shane Hayden #Mastodon is heaven
#Gab is hell
#Pleroma is purgatory
Sorry that is the order of the fediverse we just have to deal with it
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2019 16:51:21 EST Mark Shane Hayden @marie_joseph @yogthos Google is the new Microsoft for much the same reason.
Their main accomplishment was a search engine, certainly more significant than flipping a little operating system, but from that point they have been doing nothing but acquisitions and expanding to meet demand, and find new surveillance vectors for more targeted advertising to sustain growth
So now all their software is turning into soulless garbage too.
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2019 16:33:10 EST Mark Shane Hayden @ink_slinger the author says "I write about strategies to turn fans into customers and customers into fans."
So...yeah if that is his target audience I think he is doing the fediverse a favour by telling them to ignore us.
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2019 16:14:48 EST Mark Shane Hayden @thegibson @lilithsaintcrow I would not be surprised if there were some celebrities active in the fediverse but they are incognito. Celebrity After Dark accounts but instead of lewds they just shitpost like normal people... which I guess from a celebrity's perspective might be lewd.
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2019 19:46:10 EST Mark Shane Hayden Elly 2
Judgement Day: The Second Coming of Elly
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2019 11:08:06 EST Mark Shane Hayden ... I like the container management approach for services of limited scope, but so many docker containers out there seem too big. I don't see the advantage of PostgreSQL in a container, or a Postfix/Courier email server for example. I prefer these as actual hosts providing common services across a system.
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2019 10:56:13 EST Mark Shane Hayden Yeah the concept is sound but is often (maybe even mostly) used as the wrong solution to a problem. I've always thought of containers or jails as "sandboxes"...just enough isolation to provide a consistent environment for a process or simple service.
Docker has been abused to turn the container into basically a VM that uses the same kernel as the host and almost nothing else. They often consume hundreds of megabytes. These might as well be VMs...
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2019 09:10:14 EST Mark Shane Hayden * it seems like docker has been an enabler of bloat and brittleness. Instead of managing dependencies they offload the problem to containers.
* docker created Yet Another Central Repository
Docker isn't ALL bad, but it is really suited for all the use cases it is applied to. It can be a nice way to make a lightweight dev environment, or on the opposite end to manage hyperscalable distributed systems of microservices, but often it just gets in the way.
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2019 08:24:35 EST Mark Shane Hayden @strypey
...* docker containers add an extra layer to contend with for monitoring and logging
* docker practically forces you to use Linux. For *BSD, MacOS or Windows you must run a VM to host the containers which defeats the purpose of efficiency.
* docker adds additional security concerns such as shared kernel, and if a common library needs patching then several containers need to be updated
* docker seems to encourage treating containers as if they are VMs
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2019 08:07:06 EST Mark Shane Hayden @strypey I can see the appeal of Docker from a deployment perspective but then things fall apart in other ways:
* There is complexity in managing persistent storage that catches new user's off guard. For example when mastodon.rocks did an upgrade that triggered a rebuild of the postgresql container and destroyed their database
* networking can be frustrating especially if you have particular needs like being fully ipv6
* uses less processing than VMs but often more disk space
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2019 21:55:19 EST Mark Shane Hayden @rick_777 an ad-blocker BLOCKER? Oh FFS it's like they're trying to fail on purpose! As was mentioned before "reader mode" seems to keep it tolerable. We need ad blockers that are more stealth, like a "let's not but say we did" mode lol
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2019 20:03:03 EST Mark Shane Hayden And that is how FB and Twitter will fall apart. Bullies playing the same games they did as 12 year olds and the bullied getting fed up until the leave or are kicked out after venting frustrations. The bullied go to home schooling or a small alternative school teaching the "federated curriculum".
Nature abhors a vacuum, so the most invisible followers become the bullied and the cycle begins anew.
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2019 19:57:45 EST Mark Shane Hayden This is how the busy teachers of FB Bird Jr High manage discipline. The many protestations of the picked-on are dismissed as they address beatings, vandalism etc. The bullies are only "joking" , or are just being jerks and you must ignore them. They aren't breaking rules, or if they are it is minor.
But that black eye...that's assault! Zero tolerance! You escape expulsion but are suspended for a few days. Seems pretty unjust, but rules right?
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2019 19:48:16 EST Mark Shane Hayden You are told that was an unreasonably violent reaction to having your ear tweaked. Such immature and antisocial behaviour is not tolerated and you will be punished. You protest. You've been picked on every day, all year and you just snapped.
Hey didn't you report this? Well, you have actually, but to no avail.
You are sent to detention the rest of the day as they consider whether to suspend you. The bully has his eye treated by a school nurse and goes back to class ...
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2019 19:41:01 EST Mark Shane Hayden ...also when you complain loudly the bullies, popular kids and their followers mock you for being a crybaby over some "joking", but the 100th time is no longer funny to you. This isn't working.
So one day, after having your ear tweaked yet again, you whip around and deck the bastard and give them a black eye. In front of all the class and teacher. Everyone gasps and laughs nervously. You are immediately sent to the principle's office ...
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2019 19:35:35 EST Mark Shane Hayden So day in, day out a group of bullies picks on pimply scrawny nerds like you. They do little things. Sneaky quick things when teacher isn't looking (which is often), like tweaking your ear or throwing paper wads at your head, or name calling. They do this often, all day long.
You complain to teacher, sometimes loudly sometimes in confidence. But in isolation each incident is minor so there is little punishment for the bullies, and it only happens then they're caught ...
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2019 19:28:47 EST Mark Shane Hayden Picture it: you are a junior high/middle school student, not popular, scrawny, shy, dealing with acne etc...
But your school has 2 billion students. The teachers aren't only underpaid and stressed and usually clueless about the goings on outside the classes they teach, their classrooms are as big as football stadiums, so of course they are clueless. When it comes to discipline they respond to incidents in isolation, without context
Welcome to "FB Bird Jr. High"
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