How is this very post licensed and how would you know? Do #Mastodon instances dictate a #license on users posts? Is there a way for me, the #author, to assign one and pass the information through the #fediverse? Do I give away my #copyright in the moment, I press on "Publish!" below? (Or press C-c C-c in #Emacs#mastodonEl?) Can I limit #distribution e.g. to notforprofit entities? (Not that I wanted to. At least not now.)
Mastodon seems to be a lot more fragile than USENET; the whole PubSub thing seems to assume better connectivity than old-style distribution permits
This blog has been offline from ActivityPub / Fediverse for a few days, due to a bug in the WordPress Supercache plugin regarding (not) honouring the HTTP Accept header.
Back in the days of USENET, a node going offline for that length of time would not be a huge problem; the articles would be pushed or offered downstream to other peers, and dropped if they were deemed too stale (generally 1 week, often more) and all that would happen is a brief spike.
Yes, it’s a different world with different choices Alec, blah blah blah blah blah, but I am not impressed. If the ActivityPub architectures are not tuned in the expectations of delivering robustness of communication in the face of outages, it is going to (for instance) lose all account of protests in <some oppressive regime> where the in-country instances can only achieve intermittent connectivity in the face of state attempts to block communication.
It could be WordPress at fault, it could be Mastodon, it could be the ActivityPub spec or the recommended timeouts or who knows what cause; I cannot say and I am also not going to be the one to fix it because I also have bigger fish to fry.
But nor am I going to leave this issue unobserved. We need to talk about weakness in order to have it addressed.
US-Klage: Suchergebnisse bei Amazon.com sind bewusst so schlecht
Amazon zeigt immer mehr miserable Suchergebnisse – weil das Geld bringt. Wie auch automatische Preistricks zur Behinderung der Konkurrenz, sagt die FTC.
Today I watched Adam Tooze (bot account: @adam_tooze) on Jung & Naive (@jung@hub.netzgemeinde.eu). The video is available on https://onion.tube/watch?v=w4Y9SomH9Nc (for example)
A very interesting and informative interview by a person you could rightfully call one of the best in his field.
He argues that we don't really have any real #democracies on this planet since a genuine #democracy, where everyone is equal, would require to manage #property and #distribution of wealth in a completely different manner. For the benefit of society, and not a few money-nobles (oligarchs) and rich elites.
A very decent interview which I highly recommend to everyone. Especially those living in the US since a lot of it is about the United States. It touches on various aspects such as the economic system, the problems of #capitalism, #ClimateCrisis, #education, and a lot more. Coming from someone with a multinational background like Prof. Tooze, it should make for an interesting viewpoint.
Unfortunately it's in German, but I think subtitles should do the trick. 🙂
👉 Les tensions sur le pouvoir d’achat n’ont pas entamé le développement d’Action en France, bien au contraire. L’enseigne affiche toujours une expansion galopante selon les données récupérées par l’Informé.
Random thought about one tiny thing I love about #FreeBSD: #etcupdate! (IIRC freebsd-update incorporates something similar, but I always update from source...)
It does a 3-way compare of /etc (local, old upstream and new upstream) and automatically updates/merges configs, or, as a last resort, marks conflicts.
Unfortunately this won't help with /usr/local/etc (configs for #ports), but it's a start to have it for base and already a big plus over any #Linux#distribution I've seen so far.