it’s a storyline thing :)

RIP Red ♥️

I wish we could just signed diffs and stop with the whole “make an account literally everywhere” mentality.

the email-list only folks are like 3/4s right; federation isn’t a solution to bring decentralization to an already decentralized system, it’s to just stop thinking that every saas has to “own” your stuff, and keep it behind auth and secrets and a big heavy database.

Interesting fact! If you’ve had an arch machine for a while, it’s possible you didn’t know that parallel download support is available, because it’s a config option hidden in pacman conf.pacnew (I know I didn’t realize it until months after, lol).

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman#Enabling_parallel_downloads

muppets from space is both one of my favorites, and contains the travesty that is whatever happened to Fozzie’s writing.

my 2c:

that we live in anything approaching an Adam Smith style capitalism at all. The scope of regulatory capture, anticompetitive behavior, cartel building et al in the current corporatist handwave means that prices can never go down, competition can’t really unseat incumbents and so on.