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Notices by Thomas Willingham (beardyunixer@soc.beardyunixer.com)
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@bob You're right - it won't centralise control, it will result in splits. But we're talking more what happened to Africa than what happened to Debian.
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It's been vaguely interesting to watch the whole ActivityPub thing. It's not about protocols, it's about control. I think most people have realised that by now, and indeed, the rhetoric from all the players has shifted in this direction over the last few weeks too.
Alliances are being formed not based on freedom, but based on who we want to have in control.
The manifestos range from "Give me control so we can make a safe space" to the more sinister "If you give me control, I'll give you some of it back". Nobody has yet stood on a platform of "Uh, wasn't this whole thing about letting individuals have control over their own everything?". It's sad that none of the players have stood on this platform.
It's even sadder that nobody seems concerned.
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If Gewiss could do it clean, so can Team Sky.
#VueltaAEspana
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Harry Potter And The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy A Trilogy In Five Parts Now Including Mostly Harmless.
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I see the new one here, and in the comments - but if I click through to your site, it's the new one in the vcard, and the the old one in the posts. Not sure why that happens. Michael did something to improve it a few weeks or maybe a couple of months ago, and it did improve things, but it's still slow in some places. OpenGraph is the last place of all to update.
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@bthall Sounds like an intimacy thing. Most people find it daunting to do public speaking. For somebody strongly introverted - somewhat counter intuitively - it's way easier to talk to a large group than a small group, or worse, an individual; because the bigger the group, the lower the intimacy.
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I found it surprisingly difficult to put into words without writing a thousand page essay...
It's not the video really. As far as 80's videos go, it's bad, but it's not that bad. The problem is the huge theatrical mini-opera style already pushes everything to the limit. The thing about Steinman is that he can get up to that line between super-stimulus and farce and stay just the right side of it, so even though you know it's ridiculous, you can still take it seriously.
Adding the video on top pushes it to just the wrong side of that line and the whole thing falls down under it's own weight.
And, of course, like Declan Sinnot once said "If you want to know what a song means the writer is the last person you should ask. They never get it right", but that applies to all videos, not just this one.
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Well, yeah - Hubzilla uses it's own pem (taken from firefox) and passes it to the curl wrapper (z_post_url() and z_fetch_url()) - I'm suspecting somebody has introduce a typo there, (or done something similar elsewhere). but I haven't looked at that in a very long time now.
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@bob Yeah, but by the time you know why you need it, it's a decade too late.
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@deadsuperhero If you want to talk about scaled and structural understanding of music, Bill Bailey played Fur Elise in A major on Sunday, and followed up with a death metal version of The Lady In Red.
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Learn to be comfortable in your own skin. And if you can't, skin somebody else, and be comfortable in theirs.
Thomas Willingham
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