Brecht Savelkoul

@liztai Neither following nor replying seems to work for me right now: https://social.coop/@brecht/111249264338512469

I'm seeing the same issues on a test blog I set up myself.

@elizabethtai.com Yeah I set up a wordpress.com blog with a couple of test posts, but it doesn't seem to be 100% reliable yet. When I put the post URL in the search bar, they always seem to appear though, so that's a start. So I'm not giving up on it just yet, a fully function Wordpress on the fedi would be massive.

My take on Marc G.P.T. Andreessen's manifesto.

@dajb I missed that someone had picked up the maintenance of Pinafore, good to know!

@CommonMugwort I often find myself having to rewind several times whenever an anglophone podcast or audiobook mentions Dutch names or places. Which is weird, because I can generally understand it whenever they butcher French/German/any other language. I guess for some reason it lands different when it's your mother tongue.

@godfat @chasewnelson Yeah, it's a pretty confusing situation.

I also wonder were the loyalties of the ROC army lie in all of this. It's pretty hard to find good information about his in English, but I have noticed that the DPP in almost 8y in power has never appointed one of their own as Defense Minister. Instead they've picked a series of what appear to be KMT-sympathising former generals, the incumbent being a particularly obvious example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiu_Kuo-cheng#Language_dispute_in_the_Legislative_Yuan

@chasewnelson Isn't that kind of the KMT's entire thing though?

@Tattooed_mummy Right, I suspect that's the main reason why lots of them can't easily leave Xitter. Because of budget cuts in journalism in the last two decades, many of them don't have the time to actually go out to gather news IRL, and scraping public posts over there was a cheap way to paper over that issue.

That's why I don't believe that the fediverse is bad for journalism. It merely exposes the fact that so many newsrooms have been turned into terminally online Potemkin villages.

@Tattooed_mummy @babe Good to know I'm not the only one lol.

I decided to block them because they were a major source of low-quality (and occasionally hateful) garbage on the #China hashtag. That's a pretty specific gripe though, so I'm wondering now what has helped other people to come to the same conclusion about these instances.

@wuest @mcc I heard he first tried this with a BMW indicator switch, but it did nothing.

@lowqualityfacts Some people even use it as hooligan indefinite article.

@jon Yeah this is fast becoming the norm rather than the exception on Belgian trains.

@futurebird I've met quite a few veteran COBOL programmers at work, and I'm convinced they know more about programming than all Silicon Valley thought leaders combined.

@jon Maybe the best analogy would be Google Chrome/Chromium, which is open source, but way to complicated for individuals/small orgs to maintain their own fork, so fully depends on Google for maintainance and development.

@jon Building from scratch I'd be very surprised if that happens yes. Of course if it gets fully open-sourced you could self-host a fork, which might be good enough for most people. But it's not what I would call a protocol, just regular open source software.

@kjhealy Missed opportunity though that they didn't use the "Surname, Given Names" format on the cover.

@magsol @mhoye Just gotta make sure that candidate three wasn't actually convicted for crypto scams.

Although... Maybe you'd still prefer to take a chance on a crypto scammer who had faced actual legal consequences, rather than one who got away scot-free.

@heydon Whenever I think of it it tends to be along the lines of "thank fuck that cursed contraption collapsed centuries ago" or "if only it had collapsed two centuries earlier, we might have cured cancer or colonized the galaxy by now".

That said, I probably do have those thoughts often enough to conform to the stereotype somehow.

@RickRae Yeah, I mainly liked the fact that it can boot from an SD card, making it possible to put the OS on the card and mount its internal storage on /home, the way you'd separate those two concerns on a Linux laptop. I haven't seen any other device that supports that kind of setup (including the Pinephone Pro unfortunately).