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@moultano wisdom is irreplaceable and irreducible

@moultano @pee_zombie works only insofar as you've got either sufficient grid-scale storage, or else a comprehensive grid overhaul to make intermittent demand practical

@moultano well, for the whole "communication" thing to work, the representation at least needs to be standardized

idk if there's a *better* entity to be doing that than the Unicode Consortium

@moultano while granting it's not implausible on the scientific level

this "record cold snaps caused by global warming" sort of talking point is one of the reasons the whole thing smells funny to outside observers

@moultano @matthewgraybosch@mastodon.world if the idealists working on email had had any positive effect, I would expect that e.g. Apple's default email client would not be causing people to miss vital connections by spam-filtering the replies to their messages

@moultano @matthewgraybosch@mastodon.world tbh I pretty strongly suspect that the big players actively sabotaged email so as to force people onto their proprietary platforms instead, using spam as an excuse

the combination of intransigence and technical incompetence militates against any good-faith interpretation

@moultano Urbit has a pretty plausible story for anti-spam -- scarce, thus valuable, addresses which can easily be blacklisted (while being distributed in a decentralized manner to avoid gatekeeping)

of course, the downside is that it's Urbit

@moultano my guess is that the CA-compliant maximum dose is very conservative, so for numbers within one or two fold of them I tentatively doubt it's a huge problem

okay, so there's moa.party for duplicating your posts between Twitter and Mastodon

is there any easy way to view your timeline across both in one interface

the reason I tend to just default to mass-market mainstream solutions for stuff like this is that every alternative has all this stupid jank that I have to devote cycles to figuring out

okay

so apparently the Mastodon web interface has absolutely no way to access the search box if you're in narrow-screen mode, as e.g. a tablet in vertical orientation

and, in fact, no hint that a search box even exists