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My company requested a "headshot" and this is the best photo I can find.
@evanEvan Prodromou If you agree, then I think you should be promoting and endorsing more kindness and productive criticism instead of threads like this that push people away. You have a major voice here, be a part of pushing a positive culture.
@quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja 
@dansup I have a major voice because I'm ride-or-die for ActivityPub. That's my role.
You and I have different roles in the social web. I think yours is really important, and I'm glad you do it, but it's not mine.
We can achieve a lot together even if we don't agree on everything.
Das Netzwerk Verbraucherforschung hatte mich 2024 zum Vortrag über Luxuskonsum geladen:
Angesichts der globalen Polykrisen müssen wir Luxus neu definieren, konsumfrei + für alle:
Schöne Landschaft, Biodiversität, saubere Luft, sauberes Wasser, Ruhe, Sicherheit, das wäre Luxus.
Imagine having to actually say this shit:
The measles vaccine prevents children from getting the measles.
It's 2026 and we've all resorted to speaking to each other as if we're all suffering from severe cognitive impairment.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-the-kakistocracy-became-a-quackistocracy
🐶🗼Is there anyone here from #Berlin who has a dog and has travelled to #Paris with their furry friend? How was the experience in the city? Did you find it too crowded? I read that public transport, cafés and restaurants are as good as in Berlin, but dogs are not allowed on the grass in many parks.
Finally, has anyone taken the Berlin-Paris train? Would you recommend it? I don't like the idea of leaving the central station at ~7:00 a.m., so maybe taking a train that departs a bit later, but has a connection with a few extra minutes seems better to me.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/116087571530458888
This is such an interesting thread as it exposes the friction between ATProtocol/ActivityPub. Clearly, there are some cultural issues.
It's important to understand and I say this often to our own desktop projects - we are always stronger together than apart.
We are not competitors. We are allies.
Understandably we might compete on investment and volunteers but those sort themselves.
A #YunoHost package for #HolosSocial relay server is underway!
This will make it super easy for anyone to deploy their own #Holos relay on their server. We're going to contribute to the packaging effort and would love some help!
If you're familiar with YunoHost packaging, feel free to jump in:
https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/holos_ynh/
The AI bubble will burst immediately after it permanently destroys the consumer electronics market
生成AIが手がけた音楽の学習元を特定する技術を開発 ソニー、開発元への対価要求に活用 - 産経ニュース https://www.sankei.com/article/20260216-ARFF5HB2YBMGVAJVRO76TPMXF4/
＞ソニーグループが、人工知能（AI）が手がけた音楽の学習元となる楽曲を特定する技術を開発したことが16日、分かった。音楽業界では生成AIの活用が広がり、AIによる著作物の無断学習が問題視されている。ソニーは新技術の活用により、曲の使用に伴う対価をAIの開発元に要求できるようになり、収益を音楽制作者に配分しやすくなるとしている
いいぞ、どんどんやろう 
You know that “stop forcing AI into fucking everything” graphic that went around on here?
I bought the t-shirt. I get a lot of compliments on it.
The only negative response was from a friend who works for McKinsey. She read out the “everyone hates it” and said, “do they really, though?” as we stood near the check-in table for an event, and three people in line turned around and said, “YES!”
@evanEvan Prodromou @dansup I'm not gaslighting anyone, Evan, and I would hope that you would know me better than that after our conversations.
You can throw stones back at the Fedi's bet around Meta and all the other companies that promised ActivityPub integration but never delivered. What are we even doing here?
@evanEvan Prodromou @dansup The number of developers and communities who've been pushed out of the Fedi because of this elitist mentality should be alarming to any builder in this space. Are we ever going to learn to do better, or are we going to continue pushing more people away?
The vibes aren't good, Evan, and I really hope you're aware of that, because vibes make or break a community.
Imagine having to actually say this shit:
The measles vaccine prevents children from getting the measles.
It's 2026 and we've all resorted to speaking to each other as if we're all suffering from severe cognitive impairment.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-the-kakistocracy-became-a-quackistocracy
it's easy to go "oh it's just like uber and they'll raise prices eventually" or "oh it's just california ideology" or "some of these firms are run by fascists so they all are" but reality is more complex than that. and that complexity matters
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OH: Unbeaufsichtigten Kindern wird NixOS auf den Laptop installiert!
@dansup @quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja
Pushing a separate protocol has undoubtedly hurt the entire distributed social networking movement. It was done intentionally.
It shouldn't have worked. ActivityPub should have been more widespread by the time that ATProto launched, so that a competing protocol would have no chance to split the network.
But we weren't, and it did. It's at least partially our fault that a house-brand protocol has been such a serious threat.
@dansup @quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja
I think there is a lot to applaud in the ATProto community in terms of the growing openness, the standardization of part of the stack, and the great work engaging third-party developers.
@dansup @quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja Anuj, this is unfair.
There is a significant difference in intent and governance between ActivityPub and ATProto.
It's perfectly reasonable to point out those differences, just like the atproto.com site points out technical differences.
@dansup @quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja
Pushing a separate protocol has undoubtedly hurt the entire distributed social networking movement. It was done intentionally.
It shouldn't have worked. ActivityPub should have been more widespread by the time that ATProto launched, so that a competing protocol would have no chance to split the network.
But we weren't, and it did. It's at least partially our fault that a house-brand protocol has been such a serious threat.
now like you can think that you shouldn't believe them, etc, or that this position is taken in a non-serious way... but that's a very different kind of thing!
OH: Unbeaufsichtigten Kindern wird NixOS auf den Laptop installiert!
Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans
Link: https://electrek.co/2026/02/17/tesla-robotaxi-adds-5-more-crashes-austin-month-4x-worse-than-humans/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051546
Stephen Colbert says CBS forbid interview of Democrat because of FCC threat
Link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/stephen-colbert-says-cbs-forbid-interview-of-democrat-because-of-fcc-threat/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051793
The fediverse is anti-capitalist. The fediverse is anarchist praxis. The fediverse is not a protocol. The fediverse caries an ideology of communal care and mutual aid for our fellow humans. The fediverse should never be neutral on ideology. The tools we are building provide infrastructure for communication but they also shape that communication.
Britannica Online, 1994; via 'Using the World Wide Web', a 1994 book by William Eager
@b0rkJulia Evans
Relatable
#Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/australias-social-media-ban-is-isolating-kids-with-disabilities-just-like-critics-warned/
#Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/australias-social-media-ban-is-isolating-kids-with-disabilities-just-like-critics-warned/
pronouncing RSS as Arse
I love finding quality apps without any upselling, enshitification, or bullshit whatsoever: https://www.wired.com/story/fairscan-simple-app-for-scanning-documents-on-android/
I’m not Filipino, but I felt like one today when I ate spaghetti and rice together.
Russia's economy has entered the death zone
Link: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2026/02/16/russias-economy-has-entered-the-death-zone
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051603
I personally believe the most logical, and long-term sustainable solution with the most control to the "Android becoming more closed" threat, is to fund and support 
@postmarketOS and alike initiatives.
a fully decentralised solution developed by the whole FOSS ecosystem together is infinitely better than depending on the whims and generosity of big tech companies.
And, they still get to support the ecosystem by committing Linux/etc patches upstream, it just has better power balance in the end.
Just a little warning about editing polls on Mastodon: if you edit any of the options that people can vote for, it resets all the votes back to zero.
So, if you're posting a poll, make sure the options are correct at the start and don't edit them later (unless you're okay with resetting the votes).
This reset is apparently to prevent people being fooled into voting for something they don't want.
Das Netzwerk Verbraucherforschung hatte mich 2024 zum Vortrag über Luxuskonsum geladen:
Angesichts der globalen Polykrisen müssen wir Luxus neu definieren, konsumfrei + für alle:
Schöne Landschaft, Biodiversität, saubere Luft, sauberes Wasser, Ruhe, Sicherheit, das wäre Luxus.
I’ve watched this about a thousand times and now you can, too. This is my anthrm for this decade.
Year of the Honse
had a dream about an absolutely mad taxi app called "payback". it was wild west themed, and the driver and rider photos were set up like wanted posters. it was also ridiculously expensive, where you had to pay whenever the driver got more details about your location, and for reasons i can't recall, the driver sometimes had to pay you. we paid $33 and the driver paid us $12.50.
the driver got to where we were but couldn't see our precise location. we had to send photos of our location and send them to him in a "hot or cold" type thing. eventually he got really pissed at us and cancelled.
at that point, we were offered the titular "payback" options. twice per day, you can "swipe" from a driver. you take $10 that they were owed and get $5 of it back and the company pockets the rest. you can also "strike" once a week, and the driver would lose all their pay that they'd earned so far for the day (you wouldn't get any of it though) and they'd be "struck out" for the next 24 hours and barred from driving.
I’ve watched this about a thousand times and now you can, too. This is my anthrm for this decade.
@b0rkJulia Evans Is #HackerNews culture really that bad? I'm not on it but follow one of the #YCombinator bots that share viral articles they talk about on the #Fediverse.
@dansup
Are others fighting to survive or dominate ?
Big ups to whomever at Vicks designed this humidifier, which features a water tank that makes it physically impossible to drain all the water out of it. Someone is out to replace Don Norman's masochist coffee pot
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