@thegibson what is a mastodon instance if not a data silo though?

edit: this was not an invite for people to come replying to me being defensive about fed

anyway friends, I’ll be at FOSDEM if you want to hang out

fedi sure is weird, somebody trying to flirt with me on signal from here just told me i should buy a new bed because i’ve had other people sleeping in it

like… yes??? also presumptive, much???

@ZiggyTheHamster i would try to get onto bicalutamide instead of spiro personally but cool

@sjvn thanks for using your weight as a fairly senior tech journalist to cover this very important and disturbing shift

this was an opportunity for our industry to say *no* to this protofascist bullshit, to say that we have confidence in our lawyers to vigilantly fight back against any form of retaliation.

instead CEOs are kissing the ring. disgusting.

i mean neat here both ways:

- neat as in the private sector engineering work to accomplish this was an incredible achievement

- neat, sarcastically, as in we should not have billionaire space barons at all

now we have two billionaire space barons, neat

@dysfun @icing the cloud companies made the mess, but i'm the one getting paid to clean it up, so who cares

@dysfun i may be a so-called """ducktape software engineer""" but i do have interests in more formal approaches to logic and software engineering

you have books about kubernetes on your bookshelf, i have gertrude jobes’ dictionary of mythology, folklore and symbols and homotopy type theory: the univalent foundations of mathematics on mine

we are not the same

@trendless has some real “$10,000 halliburton military thinkpad” energy to it

@hypostase @xerz in fairness they were forced to build out Electrify America as part of their restitution for that… of course the average EA charging site only has 2-3 months uptime before it spends 6-9 months offline due to vandalism ‍️

@dysfun @megmac it could be worse. it could be Koodo.

@megmac is this a recent development? i don’t remember this from when i lived in toronto ~10 years ago

@dysfun @megmac yes, they do

@xerz at least audi is somewhat confidence inspiring…

@megmac sure, but TELUS of all companies? do people legitimately go: “yes, i want my healthcare from my ISP which is constantly down”?

@cwebber ehh RK3588 is pretty ancient SoC at this point?

can some canadian please explain to me why TELUS are operating health care clinics?

@Strwpok cool, but MSNBC had trump on morning joe as early as 2009