Oooooof. @baldur's take on the Jobs to be Done of modern software development is brutal.
The conclusion is pretty sobering too: that LLMs will become embedded in software development because they truly deliver on this promise of churn, and do it at lower cost than software developers.
@happyborg The sort of P2P that exists today have to rely on the hierarchical infrastructure of today IT:
📐 Tree of SSL certificates
📐 Three of DNS servers
📐 pyramid of connectivity when residential IPs are considered as sources of spam by default among big email servers
📐 many ISP do not provide service of stable public IP address
📐 most of computers are behind tree of NATs so hole-punching necessary
📐 Need to trust random anonymous nodes
📐 Growth of cryptographic keys size will bloat overhead
@happyborg Main problem with tokens is they are not payments a fiat currency, which means that tokens can be used to pay for utilities, rent, food, electricity, and expenses for keeping node running, and tokens do not provide options for "do it for living" about keeping node up running and updated
@SocraticEthics Peaceful protests works only of those who in power respect people will in principle, like "if 100K of 3.7M people protesting against something then it is bad.". As soon as those im power are occupational/colonial administration, peaceful protests do not work, and single way to make them to work is to make sure all members of colonial administration will own plastic bag in morgue.
Like the desktop computing experience. That’s what #socialmedia should aim for.
Choice of platform/OS doesn’t matter too much.
Plenty of apps to choose from and mix and match.
Plenty of user control but also convenience.
General functions and paradigms have settled.
Data is transferable over time and between computers.
Pick performance specs for your needs.
Connect to whichever networks/protocols you like, or just work offline mostly.
@maegul Sounds nice but possible only if it will be something local-first & p2p. Otherwise it is again something browser-based and require something you barely have control over - let it be some pod, PDS, or full-blown own instance of something hosted somehwere - a VPS or container in cloud at best, or just a few rows at PostgreSQL/Maria database among others.
Client-server architecture do not provide that level of control you described, IMO.
@aral Even if something "pods"-based, when you e. g. rent some VPS or something like Solid "pod", or some PDS as bluesky calls it, you still need it be hosted somewhere. At place that is not controlled by you. A place you have to pay for.
This makes such stuff already harder to adopt and decentralize.
Even if Places or other such project like this requires usage of the server-client model when you need some software running on your behalf on non-residential IP address.
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@aral Moreover, whole current internet architecture is based on pyramid. Servers on top, and you, "pity "internet user" (used this term to show how situation is bad), allowed only to consume data flowing on you from server.
Upload speed is less than any download speed.
Email send from "residential" IP address considered as spam by default, as I know.
Many ISP including my current, do not provide option of "white IP address" - public stable IP mapped to my hope PC-or router.
@aral There are few projects who try to move to mesh and peer-to-peer architectures, such as #yggdrasil or #veilid but they don't have any mass adoption among people - either nobody knows about them, or it has a high entry barrier (need some knowledge) or it seems to lack of known apps to attract people (as veilid is too low-level.
Utopia is closed-source, so it can not be trusted. Part of people there too concentrated on crypto, some are even look sorta dangerous..
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@aral As a conclusion, I would to say that even Small Web projects such as Places/domain/kitten not immune to get concentration/centralization disease, as it too require a paid resource at some servers.
Only peer-to-peer software that can work right from people computers can be immune enough from centralization.
And it also restrict what such software can really do and can be useful for.
And also sorry if my thread was sad or disturbing or non-interesting for you.
I cannot believe there are still witches out there claiming to be from a long line of “hereditary” witches since before Gerald Gardener. Cringe. I really hope none of the kids are falling for this.
The witch-cult hypothesis has been robustly studied for nearly a century, and has been thoroughly disproven. This is common knowledge within the Pagan community.
There were many growing pains along the way, but now, we've accepted that we are re-creating and re-building paganism inspired by the ancients, not continuing any hidden unbroken traditions. And that's okay. It’s actually really special, being the first in your line, and creating traditions that might last into future generations.
@Cat_LeFey Really, what is bad in trying to re-create witchcraft and paganism from the scratch?
To my understanding, all these ancient paganism and witchcraft and all other such practices was not created in one day.
There was no worldwide symposium of ancient eq ISO or ANSI who approved what witchcraft and paganism are. So, it all formed in thousands years if not longer, and there were someone who were The First ones. Those who tried rituals first time that worked for them.
@mastodonmigration He just means united state and church, billionaires and bureaucrats suppressing people rights and freedoms to stay in power forever. "Unified" means likely that democracy abolished, and those who do not praise Trump in approved manner will be sent to jail or mental hospital in Soviet manner
The elite have kept the world from progressing to hold on to their wealth. They’ve kept us all apart with their propaganda and gaslighting and stemmed the type of cooperative creativity that could have solved many of our problems a long time ago.
@StillIRise1963 Elite? Using "generic enemy" is bad. Please provide more specifics. Are you about billionaires? VC companies bosses? or editors of corporate/established media?
Why these people have strong influence ever?
Why we actually care what they say?
Is there a dependency that allows to controlled us?
Make use of #Lists, and when you follow someone make a habit of adding them to a list right then.
It's quick and easy:
Set up at least three or four lists. You can number them to arrange the list display order.
After you hit FOLLOW, click the three vertical dots and choose "Add or Remove from lists". This will bring up your lists and you can click to add the follow to one or more lists.
They will make your #Fediverse life so much better.
@SocraticEthics Yet another EXPERT talks about something he knows nothing about..... After reading " Georgian Dream, from being quite a progressive coalition in 2012." by this farking expert, I stopped reading.
The "Georgian Dream" coalition of 2012 was joined by single idea "We hate Misha!!!!".It was not a coalition with some better vision for country.
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