I think my way is far worse: I write in an unsynced plain text note app on my phone, and then when I need it on my computer, Share > KDE Connect > copy & paste into a text editor.

(I gave Joplin a quick try but didn’t like the non-WYSIWYG-ness on the phone.)

Mission failed: Just seeing his face makes me want to strap C4 around my chest and walk into the RNC.

As an administration, it’s a joke. As an exercise in evil, it’s right on track.

I do like the idea of a P2P system. I used to be on ZeroNet but there were just too few people and too little content to stick with it. I hope something like this takes off.

So AI is just three Netflix executives in a trench coat?

Just wave your arms and shout. They’re more afraid of you than you are of them!

Interesting read, thanks.

And TIL of the Beachy Amish, who absolutely do not go around on horsedrawn surfboards with Annette Funicello.

Basically, yes. EEE is a strategy developed by a dominant company whose revenue stream came from paid proprietary software and services but which embraced open standards with the goal of vanquishing the threat to their business model posed by that openness and maintaining/recovering their proprietary domination.

Does ActivityPub being open and used by many different projects & organizations pose a threat to Piefed’s business model? Is Piefed a powerful company that built that power on a proprietary model and seeks to preserve that power by embracing, extending, and extinguishing ActivityPub? With the goal of maintaining/recovering proprietary domination?

No. So it ain’t EEE.

Nothing better for jumping over the Make America Great Firewall!

TIL that Egyptian Islamic Jihad (who assassinated Sadat) merged with Al Qaeda in June 2001. And that Ayman al Zawahiri, one of the main orchestrators of 9/11 and bin Laden’s #2, come to Al Qaeda from Egyptian Islamic Jihad.

TIL that. Thanks. Now reading up on eusociality in hymenopterans.

I disagree.

Both from the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party.

• https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/live-updates-targeted-shootings-in-champlin-brooklyn-park-suspect-dressed-like-law-enforcement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Eyed_Handsome_Man

An obedient drone serving the monarchy? Cry me a river!

Harlon Carter, the racist vigilante killer who later led a takeover of the NRA and reshaped it in his image, was head of the Border Patrol at the time and a key figure in this.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlon_Carter

My software chops begin and end with: 10 PRINT “HELLO, WORLD” 20 GOTO 10

Good to hear devs are working on it.

Thanks for the info.

In the meantime, I opened a new tab, input my instance, waited for the home page to load, searched for ‘elena rossini’, compared the top two results (her channels?), went with one, looked at its list of videos and saw that it didn’t include the video in question, went back, chose the other account and discovered it has zero videos.

???

Saw your reply, tried new search: “Introducing the Fediverse”… 471 results with hers not visible among the top results. Ain’t nobody got time for that.

Looked again at your reply, copied that video link that you originally gave and searched… and it works! (Although… how did you get it? I can’t see it anywhere else.) Finally I can upvote it. Sheesh!

Also, tried searching for “[email protected]”

• a search term that I think you can only find if you have already found the video? Catch-22?
• finds the right channel (which is neither of the ones found in my original search)… but no videos… not even the one it just found when searching for that URL. Same when I’m on the page of the video on my instance ( https://peertube.wtf/w/64VuNCccZNrP4u9MfgbhkN ) and click on its channel name… no videos.

???

So, there’s a chance of me being able to eventually interact with the video… if someone else somehow finds an underlying URL and helpfully gives it to me and I then copy and paste it into my instance’s search bar.

Meanwhile with content on every non-fediverse social network, it just takes one click to reach and interact with it (comment, upvote etc).

A social network system that breaks the basic building block of the web, the link, seems to be shooting itself in the foot. I hope the fediverse comes up with a much more user-friendly solution soon.

Good points.