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@Wilto@front-end.social - amused by: “Google participates in the web standards process the way a bear participates in the “camping” process.” 😂

@dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz “We aren’t socialists, we are just better at accounting” 😃

@theregister @lproven Liked: “Commercial software is an accidental side effect of cooperatively developed software.” 😀

@kfitz@hcommons.social This essay reminds me of Niven and Pournelle’s “The Mote in God’s Eye”. One might say that “making good ruins” is exactly what the (fictional) Moties did?

@timbray@cosocial.ca This is wild. And way too plausible. I didn’t begin to suspect satire until I read the responses. 🤷‍♂️

@jarkman@chaos.social @jonathanhogg@mastodon.social Several years ago, I played around with using Haskell as a substrate for a DSL. Used a combinator parser (Parsec) to spit out a directly executable “compiled” function. I’ve occasionally thought it would be fun to do something similar for CSG.

@jarkman@chaos.social @jonathanhogg@mastodon.social Would love to have my ear bent about Flitter at EMF 😀. Are you planning to do your talk there? (I guess there’s that YouTube you posted, but I kind of like live performance 😜)

@Lydie@tech.lgbt Or both?

@important_dev_news I hope this means we’ll be able to communicate with WhatsApp users without agreeing to Meta’s onerous T&Cs?

@jasper @philgyford When satire feels like reality… or is it the other way?

@zool@en.osm.town @SK53@en.osm.town I recall being around in those days, very vaguely in a similar orbit … it may seem commonplace now, but that article is a reminder of just how visionary you people were back then.

@simon@fedi.simonwillison.net I’ve been thinking about this article, and there’s one thing stuck in my mind: “Having figured out all of these tricks Fable... hit some invisible guardrail and downgraded itself to Opus.” It seems to hint at a future where what we are allowed to do with these tools is entirely at the whim of some remote (unresponsive, unaccountable) corporation. Which, given stories of deskilling effects, might just amount to controlling what we’re allowed to do 🤔.

@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social I’ve been reflecting on this. For the UK, wondering if we might consider a government petition that explicitly requests that all public (or publicly funded) services can be accessed and used without being forced to use any (especially any foreign) third party service?

@michael@backend.newsmast.org @tchambers@indieweb.social @newsmast@backend.newsmast.org How does one become part of / connect with this movement, rather than continue working in the “shadows” of the walled gardens? I looked for contact info on the article and web site, but didn’t find any. A friend and I are working on a system that I think follows very much the values you espouse, focused around grassroots culture (our “reason to connect”): https://www.culturereverb.co.uk/

@dcrocker@mastodon.social @dangillmor@mastodon.social Arguably, this is how Twitter worked, and Mastodon now works, for me. There is a bunch of people I follow, and their choices determine what I see. I miss lots, but there’s very little clickbait.

@jonathanhogg@mastodon.social @jarkman@chaos.social Ack. Having now watched, I think your Alpaca talk is a pretty good intro. I see some resonance in your approach with OpenSCAD (different goals, of course).

@kathimmel@mstdn.social My local family owned vet got bought out by Mars. As a result, I shall probably not consider having another pet. It’s certainly s big strike against.