@jamey as with most situations where one is inclined to give advice, consider asking questions instead:
"what appeals to you about it?"
"what potential problems are you worried about?"
"what have you learned so far?"
"what have you done before that's similar?"
not in, like, a challenging way -- really listen for the answers -- and either they'll satisfy you, or they might unsatisfy the other person.
iโve had a bad day and now my home internet is down and anyway let me know if you have any leads for a data scientist/analyst job i can do from portland
what advice should I give to someone I care about when they say they want to start a worker-owned coop and they clearly have no idea what they're getting into?
TIRED: me
WIRED: I dunno, a computer, why do I have to come up with something, didn't you read the first part
Worried about the dominance of big instances? No, really, this is quite natural.
As an emergent and self-governing system, it could be expected that the size distribution of #Mastodon instances roughly follows Zipf's law.
Does it?
At first you see the top 6 instances, and then the rest. But on a log-log scale the size distribution is close to a straight line, which would be expected from an emergent system.
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hi again everybody ๐ avocado remains a fruit toot toot
oh, and avocado is on the fediverse still, where they post pictures of the cat who lives in their tree. they're @avocado
For instance, this weekend I did my occasional "oh maybe I don't need spotify with all this independent freely licensed music, and I could use the public library instead of buying every book I see on Amazon". And I remembered I hadn't been to worldcat.org and somafm.com for ages.
I feel like we're in one of those moments where a bit less coding up new non-centralised services, and a bit more working out how people can discover and easily adopt existing ones might be good.
"... the astonishing fact is that this botnet was, inadvertently, performing brute-force attacks against SATCOM modems located onboard an in-flight aircraft."
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worf: *staring at a PADD, looking frustrated*
quark: quantum mechanics eh? have you read about the up quark
worf: what's up quark
quark: ๐
i'm blue is peak music
boost if u agree or disagree or will think about it for the next month
Do not punish the behaviour you want to see.
TIL the Internet Engineering Task Force has a "DISPATCH" Working Group, which exists entirely to help people find the right IETF Working Group to talk to
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