"Legacy code" is often code that you want to replace because you don't understand it. The problem is, before you can replace it, you need to understand it, and, once you understand it, replacing it is rarely the cheapest option any more.
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mastodon 4.7.3I'm JBQ / Djaybee, Husband, Immigrant, Veteran, Highly Sensitive Person #HSP. He/Him.
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Here starts the process to migrate to @jbqueru@floss.social - wish me luck!
Maybe I should just abandon this fediverse thing. If I can lose my connection to other people when neither I nor they have done anything wrong, maybe it's not that resilient after all.
EV drivers: "A challenge with EV is that there are too few charging stations."
Car manufacturers: "We'll solve EV problems with hydrogen cars."
You can't make that up.
First world problem: I've upgraded to a 32" monitor (from 27") (on loan from my wife @eugenialoli@mastodon.social) and it's a bit too big to run my browser full-screen like I'm used to.
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@david_chisnall I appreciate the humor, of course, but, damn, I have to agree, the list of use cases I have for Windows keeps shrinking, making it harder and harder to justify the annoyances, I use a variety of Linux distros as my daily driver and that makes me happy and productive.
Now, MacOS: Apple didn't manage to build portable development tools for iOS, so they build computers with phone chips, put a desktop-like UI on top of iOS, and ran their IDE from inside that.
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@paul @thenexusofprivacy @poundquerydotinfo Yeah, I'll try that if floss.social doesn't accept me. Thanks!
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@thenexusofprivacy @poundquerydotinfo Yep, I had read your post and associated links already, very informative.
The short notice is what's hurting the most right now, there's a mismatch between "we'll defederate within 24 hours" and "it takes a week to create a new account and a month to migrate to it"
@lahosken@hachyderm.io @ab@androiddev.social As far as I can tell their core is in Germany, with a few points of presence around the world (including in the US) that are there for performance but can be removed with no loss.
Sorry for the rant, it's just frustrating that my primary presence in the fediverse is in limbo with no clarity whether my account can be salvaged unscathed from this debacle.
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@thenexusofprivacy @poundquerydotinfo Yeah. While I understand that *importing* followers would be a clear non-feature, not being able to *export* them is an issue: it prevents me from comparing my list of followers now to what it would be post-migration, and therefore from finding out the former followers who'd likely want to follow me again but got disconnected in the process.
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@thenexusofprivacy @poundquerydotinfo Well, I'm trying to convince some instance to let me open an account to migrate to, the first one I tried didn't approve, so I'm looking for a second one. Since some instances are going to block fosstodon today, I don't have a lot of runway left.
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@poundquerydotinfo That's spot on. I can understand that there are some bad apples, which in turn can create some bad instances, but, right now, it's not the folks at fosstodon who are threatening my account, it's admins all around the fediverse who might make me disappear.
Hoping that I can get an account on another mastodon instance before mine gets banned... (I've applied for one, but I don't know how long it'll take to get approved).
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@mookie It's in the process of getting defederated, for a disagreement with the moderation team.
@mos_8502@studio8502.ca Yeah, looking for a way out while there's still one. Last thing I wanted to deal with right now.
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@ryne Well, I can see the macro argument that hydrogen is electricity storage (through electrolysis and fuel cells), with oxygen as a byproduct, and that on-site hydrogen electrolysis to match the production curve of intermittent renewable electricity can solve several problems at once. But we're not there yet, and we don't seem to be on track for that.
Right now, touting hydrogen cars now feels awfully premature, it's almost literally putting the cart before the horse...
@mms@mastodon.bsd.cafe We humans, when working on paper, prefer to multiply by writing down all the partial results and then adding them all in one multiline addition, which results in carries that can be larger than 1. For computers, it's easier to accumulate intermediate results as you go (and that's why the accumulator got that name).
@mms@mastodon.bsd.cafe even in decimal math, a carry can only be 0 or 1 when you add 2 numbers.
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@ab Ah cool. I hadn't considered them originally as I am trying to find a European instance... but then I realized that they're mistakenly marked as American when they're apparently not.
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There are some instances that decided that they'll block anyway. And, since it's not the first strike from fosstodon, better be gone than lose my fediverse presence.
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@thenexusofprivacy @poundquerydotinfo My understanding is that my followers list can only be migrated through the migration process... and, even if it could be done manually, fosstodon doesn't allow me to export it, so in the end it's half a dozen of one or six of the other.