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New blog post: Playing with model trains and calling it graph theory, https://11011110.github.io/blog/2019/05/02/playing-model-trains.html

Quick poll: #Vim or #NeoVim?

[ ] Vim
[ ] Neovim

@kaniini @owenthecat I’ve long said that if email were invented today, it would go absolutely nowhere, why? Because there’s no money in it as a system, because it’s federated, no lockin, no $$$, no business motive to advertise it, make it popular. The only reason we have email is because it became a thing before the commercial internet.

(yes, email sucks in many ways, but god, can you imagine if we didn’t even have it? if there was no federated, non-proprietary way to message pretty much anyone on the internet?)

an interesting example is VoIP. There are IETF RFCs for SIP, etc., and the way the system was designed it’s entirely feasible to run a VoIP server so that you can call an email address, so foo@example.com becomes a kind of universal identifier regardless of what type of communications you’re trying to engage in. the specs are all there, nothing’s stopping anyone from deploying it, but there’s no money in it, so nobody does, plus the chicken and egg problem that nobody else is using it.

so instead we’re stuck with bloody phone numbers, where unlike domain names you can’t even own them, they belong to your carrier. it’s 2019 and our best way of doing voice comms across the planet involves per-minute billing which was justified by a circuit-switching infrastructure that increasingly doesn’t even exist anymore (I hear lots of the PSTN is getting hollowed out on the inside and replaced with VoIP internally)

but there’s a lot of money in keeping the farce of per-minute billing alive, and no money in rolling out SIP, so it doesn’t happen. LTE/4G even uses VoIP internally but of course it’s to your carrier’s service and they bill you just the same, not calling email addresses.

it’s actually getting even worse with services like google/twitter/etc. demanding a phone number to even let you sign up. the phone number namespace is becoming more entrenched, not less.

i’m surprised the fediverse got off the ground tbh, but that’s a hell of a positive move.

Watch @krig talking about Let's Lisp like it's 1959 during #fossnorth2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F140RNyuKXg

Webrings should make a comeback
https://mxb.dev/blog/webring-kit/

New version! v0.1904.22-beta brings:
* 🔥⏩ Speed improvements in the UI interactivity, potentially 3x faster!
* Bug fixes and crash fixes

https://gitlab.com/staltz/manyverse/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#0190422-beta

Lemmy, a federated link aggregator https://prismo.xyz/posts/e77d3219-cac8-4b8e-8d04-748191e5541c

RT @xkcdComic@twitter.com

M87 Black Hole Size Comparison https://xkcd.com/2135/ https://m.xkcd.com/2135/

The quick & easy way to effective speaking – Dale Carnegie http://bit.ly/2Usu4cR

I have just released #hikari 0.0.1, my #cwm inspired window manager (now including documentation and a cleaned up repository). Get the code at my #darcs repository (you don't need darcs, you can download a zip if you want to). Currently only supports #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD. #Unix #BSD https://hub.darcs.net/raichoo/hikari

A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog written in Python https://github.com/tsileo/microblog.pub (/via #mastodon)

Your worry about the people npm has fired recently *is* helpful, though. Here are some people job-hunting today who are all excellent human beings. Maybe you'd like to talk to one about a role? 4/