Dr. Edward Morbius ❌ @dredmorbius@toot.cat

@pnathan Would you be thinking of https://scholar.social/ ?

Yeah. Me too. Same thing.

Decided to #deletefacebook yesterday. I'll probably miss some family stuff but aside from that it was all junk.

You're so vain you probably think this #subtoot is about you.

Don't you?

DON'T YOU?!!

A law requiring computer/phone/tablet/console/ereader hardware manufacturers to allow a mode by which their product can be used without requiring any sign-in at all

I should be able to use and update a Mac without an Apple ID

I should be able to use and update my phone without a Google account

I should be able to use and update a Playstation, Kobo, whatever without signing in

And tech companies will never go back to that unless they're forced

@dredmorbius has a good point here: https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/CmWMzryBzP8

Think of electronically-driven cars as weaponizable, and you begin to get a clearer idea of the kinds of security measures we'll be needing soon.

...possibly starting with "don't let giant companies that want or need to be friendly with the government control everything".

Hey. So I don't really want to own an ereader, but there's some stuff I want to read that's only epub and I'd like to read it on the bus and while I walk, which my phone is real bad for. If I was looking for an ereader with a matte screen that had similar readability properties as paper (like, paper doesn't have backlighting or a web browser or whatever) what do you think I should be looking at?

y'know what. fuck it. i'll ask.

anyone know of any place that needs software devs who have mostly fucked around with storage/systems and a little bit of backend web development?

Okay! We now have Mastodon 2.1.3, thanks to the hard work and massive skillz of @CobaltVelvet (the secret ingredient of Plan 🅱) (well, okay, *formerly* secret...).

I probably could have done it myself eventually, but after a day of working on it I decided that expediency was the better part of valor. We can now move on to other things.

I've tested remote DM: success.

All tootcatamarans should let me know if there seem to be any issues.

Toot On ^.^

#tootcat

Anyone here know anything about existing san diego based mesh networks?

Wow, so the OSI 7-layers model was there in 1982 and dates back to 1977!

No wonder it bears no resemblance to the four-layer DARPA Internet model (link, network, transmission, application) that people *actually* use.

Interface Age, July 1982

But it does explain why 'Presentation Layer' was a term in 1983 - the ANSI North American Presentation Layer Protocol Syntax

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAPLPS

https://archive.org/stream/InterfaceAge198207/Interface%20Age%201982-07#page/n103/mode/2up

https://mastodon.social/media/4nKsCudrQSPsfuuadhg https://mastodon.social/media/_J4rWtfLeI5kJRdG2Go https://mastodon.social/media/59Xllup4OZcHJzGZma8

Welp: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/

> A fundamental design flaw in Intel's processor chips has forced a significant redesign of the Linux and Windows kernels to defang the chip-level security bug.

> Crucially, these updates to both Linux and Windows will incur a performance hit on Intel products. The effects are still being benchmarked, however we're looking at a ballpark figure of five to 30 per cent slow down.

> A spokesperson for Intel was not available for comment

Weren't they now.