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@Moonrise2473 Regardless of one thinks about "cloud" solutions, this is a good example, why you always should have an offsite backup.

@throws_lemy Hyperloop is a solution for a non existing problem. There are already fast landline based systems. You can go really fast on rails (see Japan) or you can use a maglev.

@schizoidman AliExpress already has got 2TB SD cards for 5 dollars, I guess soon you will be able to buy 4 TB from there for the same price as well 😁

(Never ever buy them from there!)

@Zerush @master5o1 Speed is not a problem. Acceleration is.

@briongloid I do have the opinion that people and companies can change to their better. At least it seems as if they are taking this seriously. I tend to give them a chance. But also I hope that the community will watch this closely and will come back to them, if they don't do it right.

@leraje @muntedcrocodile The architecture of their protocol is highly incompatible with the way ActivityPub works.

With their protocol you have got the PDS (Personal Data Storage) that stores your data. Your handle is a hostname, but normally it will not be the hostname of your PDS. In fact you can use any hostname that you have control of. Your account itself is described via the DID that will never change - and that doesn't contain a hostname. This means that you can move between different PDS without people noticing it at all.

In ActivityPub the data storage is on the same host like your handle and your account's URL will always point to the host where your data is located. Moving your account is by far not as smooth and highly depends on the system that you are on.

@TehPers @Kichae It doesn't matter where a project is hosted, it matters which group you are targeting and where you personally are located. So even if you would host in Russia, you won't be safe from prosecution, when you live for example in the US.

@Mysteriarch I deeply hope that there will be some connection to Matrix in the future.

@Suppoze @MentalEdge Well, that lead to my Facebook account being locked. And I wasn't able to unlock it, since the associated phone number was an old one.

@weew @mastermind I already subscribed to Nebula and Curiositysreams, but hadn't heard of that offer. Can you tell more?

@aberrate_junior_beatnik @penquin I found a nice page with statistics about the different messengers: engage.sinch.com/blog/most-pop…

It seems that only in the US more people are using iMessage than WhatsApp.

@Fizz @throws_lemy Well, there are accounts from deceased people. Their posts will then be gone.

@throws_lemy @noodlejetski The registry still is centralized, but the users already are distributed across multiple servers that talk to each other using that protocol.

@Hirom With "offsite" I mean either a different cloud provider or own hardware (if you hold your regular data at some cloud provider, like in this case).

@Alto @0x4E4F BTW: For astrophysicist every element except Helium and Hydrogen is metal.

@interdimensionalmeme There are different opinions about this. And luckily people can chose networks according to their specific opinions.

@cypherpunks I've got the feeling as if the author doesn't know about the existence of relay servers. With them, also a single user instance works really fine, I think.

@0x4E4F Yeah, see the Wikipedia article about "Metallicity".

@Powderhorn In our company, we have theoretically had a "one day at home per week" rule for several months now. In practice, people usually work about 3 days a week at home. This is partly due to the fact that there is a works council agreement for some of my colleagues that is binding and can't be overruled by management (thanks for German labor law!).

@FiskFisk33 @remotelove Yeah, I find it rather interesting, that DMC was able to built a car that had none of the issues more than 40 years ago - which means that it is a doable task. So Tesla simply ignored it.

@TheBaldness @ono On my current monitor I have got 50Hz with 3440x1440 with HDMI and 100Hz in the same resolution with Displayport. Guess what I'm using 😁

@notepass No. In difference to regular scaling you can see the host of your account. These are separate systems that communicate via Bluesky's protocol and not via the regular scaling mechanisms.

@Dirk @MrScottyTay Also I think that one should ask the question, what Meta could do with the data and what it is doing with the data of their users. For their users they use the usage data to present them a feed that the users appreciate. Also they use it to place ads inside of their apps. Also they use the data to serve you ads outside of their system on ad networks that use data from Meta.

All of this is technically not possible for Fediverse users.

@catculation I guess that he was totally happy, when nearly 9,000 workers (out of 12,500) at his factory in Germany voted for a new works council. I'm convinced that he didn't knew about German labour rights - now he does 😀

@Moonrise2473 @sirdorius Well, Elon is evil by accident. Peter Thiel is evil by intention.

@hedge Will be interesting to see, if there will be other servers, so that it really will be decentralized.

@Zerush Microsoft is a long time contributor to the Linux kernel. Also for some years now they are shifting their focus. They make more and more money with their subscription based "cloud" services that can be used with every modern operating system. They also use Linux quite intensively on their "cloud"-systems itself.

They realized over time, that you can make much more money with monthly subscriptions than with single time purchases. So they aren't that interested anymore in selling you OEM versions of Windows, but instead they try to lur you into monthly subscriptions for services.

@zepfhyr Elon is a person that is very susceptible for conspiracies that fit his world view and he propagates it loudly. Peter Thiel always stays in the background and acts from there.

@downpunxx @fin Well, it is possible without any problem, to create a "fire hose" out of Fediverse data as well. So when someone wanted to analyze your posts, then this could be done easily with the Fediverse as well.

@heavyboots No, I don't speak about any front end tool. There are API endpoints, relay servers and so on. These all can easily be used to receive a lot of data.

@yogthos The articles ends in "While SpaceX’s reusable rockets have slashed satellite launch costs to US$3,000/kg, some scientists have estimated that an electromagnetic space launch system could drive those costs down to a mere US$60/kg."

This is a comparison to a launch into an orbit.

@Microw @dumbass No. He wouldn't be happy with ActivityPub as well. He imagines a social network where no one can perform any moderation. He favours Nostr for exactly that reason. Bluesky has got moderation (just like the Fediverse) - which he dislikes.

@helenslunch @pressurized Yeah, there had been no "Guardian Council" nor a "Supreme Leader" like in Iran. The political structure itself in the "Weimar Republic" had been democratic.

@IllNess @schizoidman I'm looking forward to alternate keyboards. When I tested a Framework device, I had the impression that the keyboard had been a linear one. I made the experience, that I need a tactile keyboard.

@IllNess @Grass My X230 is now more than 10 years old. At some point in time I will need to replace it. Then a Framework device would be the best choice - but only when they improve the keyboard or there are third party keyboards that better match my needs.

@davel @merde Europe has got several fusion test plants: euro-fusion.org/

@yogthos And then the upper stage blew up, creating a debris field of more than 700 objects that now threatens satellites in the same orbit:
reuters.com/technology/space/c…

China has a really bad track record with their stages. They have launch sites where they drop the first stages on land - sometimes hitting or almost hitting villages (which is really bad as many of these stages use toxic propellants). Their upper stages re-enter the atmosphere in an uncontrolled way (most other rocket launchers do this in a controlled way and let them re-enter at "Point Nemo").

@sculd @throws_lemy They are a really small company. So their resources are limited. For example until they started the internal decentralization, they had got a single Postgres database for everything.

@loki @dawnerd Well, since the accounts are now moved to their specific hosts, you can use these hostnames instead of the generic one when using their protocol. The only action where you currently still need the generic bluesky host name (bsky.app) is during some account related activities.

The different hosts already talk to each other using the same protocol that is already in use for third parties who interact with bluesky (like alternate clients or custom feeds). The only thing that currently prevents "real" decentralization is the user registry.

From the outside it appears as if it all was some monolithic block. But this is only the case since the default usernames are using the bsky.social hostname. But in fact you can already use your own hostnames for your account, since the account is not locked to any hostname but to some unique hash. (Which is one of the advantages of their protocol and which we really should implement in the Fediverse as well to perform real account portability)

@yogthos Well, I've got the opinion, that infrastructure shouldn't be operated for profit, so I've got no problem with investing a lot of money in advance. My points are meant from a technical standpoint. And when I refer to the costs, then I mean this in a way that I've got the opinion that the money should be invested in other stuff as well.