Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
Se unió el ago 2021
Concerns about #starlink
1) Yet another complex dependency about which we know very little.
Will it last?
What happens if there's a massive crash in space?
How will performance be as the number of terrestrial antennas increases?
What about the environmental, scientific and political issues of the implementation of starlink, and supporting the #mars colony project. As often, not for me to say, but once again in this work, there is the task of facilitating the making of an informed decision.
Yesterday I did some very "manual" tests of VoIP call quality with #starlink. Works 100%.
So, for the moment, it would seem like the perfect solution to remote communications. For #Rhizomatica/TIC this has been a major block for years. We have been unable to install local #2G #telephony service in quite some number of communities, due to being unable to provide reliable backhaul.
However, I do have some concerns about it.
@ummjackson
Hi Jackson.
How does my instance opt out?
Well, there's really not much to say about #starlink.
You take it out of the box, place the dish on the roof, plug it in. It takes a few minutes to find itself, align the dish and then it just works.
You do not strictly need the #Android app (I don't have a device that would run it) to get connected , although I suppose it might help on a site with many obstructions.
#LEO latency is, as advertised, low, RTT to space and back is ~40ms. Even when loaded up it's not that bad.
re: birdsite - cautionary tale
@ciaby
Hmm. That's actually a good question. Maybe we also want to keep our fediverses small.
Keith Whyte
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XLT Alert > 20 Years of Morgenrot Cafe in #btropolis 2nite .... 20 years of a worker-owned oasis cafe, that survived the grim pberg gentrifork ! 🍴 Good reasons to celebrate ! Plus it is in a haus project bought by a miet syndikat strategy, so it's off the immobilien marketplace for the next 99 Years ( at least ). if we live that long haha. ;))))) 🍾🍷#workerowned #kollectiv #anarchism #antifá #kiezkultur
Ugh, Thanks for the heads up to keep the heads down while footballs are flying.
Meantime, if we ignore for the moment the russophobia and writing an opinion piece to look like a Q&A interview, (let's not assume it's malevolent, rather just a device to make reading easier?) -
This doesn't give me nightmares, but could be some interesting predictions in there, certainly food for thought for those leaving twitter ONLY because of mr.musk.
I hear you can buy miracles these days..
But anyway.. oh shit.. There's a world cup coming? F*ck!, As if everything wasn't bad enough already, now football? Noooooooo
@ciaby
It crossed my mind this morning: -
I wonder has anyone even raised for discussion the possibility that twitter would implement #ActivityPub
Keith Whyte
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We're Sorry. Access to Twitter's slack channels is only purchasable with bad money.
Keith Whyte
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"Mastodon Is 'Antiviral' Design"
My essay on this: https://clivethompson.medium.com/mastodon-is-antiviral-design-42f090ab8d51
Twitter (and most big social media) is laser-focused on creating virality -- i.e. training the joint attention of millions of people on one hot post/meme/story/event happening *right this instant* ... and doing it over and over and over again
Mastodon really isn't -- for lots of rich and interesting reasons
It's why some emigres from Twitter find Mastodon so baffling
This place embraces slowness and useful friction
Keith Whyte
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Juhuu, he cancelado mi infinitum @Telmex! En @JobNetworks me atiende un ser humano amable. Por el contrario, el robot de @Telmex me quiere vender paquetes de videos (solo 99$ el primer mes) que en lugar de contestar preguntas y resolver mis problemas de conexión (3 días sin red).
Keith Whyte
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@HeavenlyPossum
I was surprised when I first found out that the history of Charles #Boycott is so little known. I have been met with solid disbelief when telling it. It seems to be standard lore in Ireland. I suppose that he is mentioned in school or something as part of standard curriculum.
Anyway, glad you found out about it and thanks for pointing out that cancel culture has been around for more than 100 years, although maybe deployment reserved for somewhat more justified cases in the past.
Keith Whyte
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I very recently learned that the term “boycott” comes from someone’s actual name: Charles Boycott. Boycott was an English land agent who tried, in 1880, to collect unpayable rents from Irish peasants on behalf of an English aristocrat landlord. When he failed to collect the rents, he tried evicting the tenants. The Irish Land League responded with a campaign to ignore Boycott’s orders and isolate him socially and economically.
They not only ignored his eviction orders and threw manure at his process servers, but refused to deliver his mail or sell him food.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott
It was pretty effective—the British government eventually had to deploy a thousand soldiers (naturally, because the state works for the propertied class and none more than the 19th century British state) at a cost of some £10,000 to harvest £500 worth of crops. Boycott had to be evacuated by the soldiers, who even had to drive him out, as no locals would agree to drive his carriage out of the region.
Imagine being cancelled so hard that your name becomes permanently associated with getting cancelled.
@esdin @andreasdotorg
This looks, at a glance, like it might be the code that generates that list.
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
Se unió el ago 2021
