Dagon @dagon@schelling.pt

@mark
Marketing and adtech pay for most of the things you want security, privacy, and an actual good job done on.

Integrity and honesty were never on the table, regardless.

Fuck. I'm captured. Please view further posts with suspicion.

Is it just a bug that I often see the Mastodon UI put a number on the notifications bell, indicating (to my mind) that there is something new, when actually clicking it doesn't show anything new at all?

I can't see that there's anything distributed or difficult to sync there, but I'm open to the idea that it's actually hard, rather than just mediocre code.

Periodic reminder (though most already know or won't hear): privacy is an illusion. There are no major communication platforms that won't ever be recorded, tapped, or covertly monitored.

The geekier among us can probably get close, but we won't bother because we know how big a hassle it is.

Fortunately, the _VAST_ majority of "private" messages are extremely low-value, and not worth the effort for a government/corporation/crook/voyeuristic-admin to deal with, EVEN if they have access.

@timbray
I guessed "no difference", mostly because if the answer were the obvious one (wired faster), you wouldn't have had the poll.

The detail that your bottleneck for both is your ISP makes this result fairly obvious. I suspect for local networking (to a file or media server), even your old cat5 can push 1Gbps, and your modern wifi between 200 and 800 Mbps (depending on location and random factors. I usually blame sunspots.).

Ok, this feels like it should be obvious and and I'm just doing something stupid (cf. "jargon file what's a spline").

How is quoting and replying INTENDED to work in federation? If I reply, it tags the author of the toot I'm replying to, but it doesn't seem to contain any link to the actual contents I'm responding to or augmenting.

How would a follower of either one of us (or the original author, if they're prolific and I'm not replying to their latest toot) find the context?

@eliza
Larry Niven codified this as the Kzinti Lesson in 1970: "a reaction drive's efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a drive."