this is a good meme

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he followed up to simultaneously say he was joking while also doubling down 🤦

https://xcancel.com/theronster/status/1538239717032042497

it’s among the many OSes you can run in an emulator in your web browser at https://copy.sh/v86/

i posted some here 👀 3 years ago

that original tweet (archive) from February is now deleted; in case anyone wonders if it was because he reconsidered, no, 18 hours ago he reiterated it (archive).

The network never went down.

You say that but, everything I ever posted on identica (and also on Evan’s later OStatus site Status.Net, which i was a paying customer of) went 404 just a few years later. 😢

When StatusNet shut down I was offered a MySQL dump, which is better than nothing for personal archival but not actually useful for setting up a new instance due to OStatus having DNS-based identity and lacking any concept for migrating to a new domain.

https://identi.ca/evan/note/6EZ4Jzp5RQaUsx5QzJtL4A notes that Evan’s own first post is “still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that.” … but for whatever reason he decided that most accounts (those inactive over a year, iiuc, which I was because I had moved to using StatusNet instead of identica) weren’t worthy of migrating to his new pump.io architecture at all.

Here is some reporting about it from 2013: https://lwn.net/Articles/544347/

As an added bonus, to the extent that I can find some of my posts on archive.org, links in them were all automatically replaced (it was the style at the time) with redirects via Evan’s URL shortening service ur1.ca which is also now long-dead.

imo the deletion of most of the content in the proto-fediverse (PubSubHubbubiverse? 😂) was an enormous loss; I and many other people had years of great discussions on these sites which I wish we could revisit today.

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The fact that ActivityPub now is still a thing where people must (be a sysadmin or) pick someone else’s domain to marry their online identity to is even more sad. ActivityPub desperately needs to become content addressable and decouple identity from other responsibilities. This experiment (which i learned of via this post) from six years ago seemed like a huge step in the right direction, but I don’t know if anyone is really working on solving these problems currently. 😢

Lmao that my pedanticism could be perceived as BSD advocacy - fwiw, I primarily use GNU/Linux, I develop GPL-licensed software, and I think GPLv3 or AGPLv3 are good choices for many new projects starting today.

My opinions about the history and future of copyleft are somewhat complicated but I didn’t mention any opinions in the comment you’re replying to - I was just correcting your factual misunderstandings about the accepted definitions of these terms.

sometimes a footprint represents humanity

sometimes, but in GNOME’s case i think it is not intended to be a human foot but rather the foot of a mythological creature (a gnome). note that it has a squashed aspect ratio compared to a human foot, and also has only four toes.

apparently it’s also problematic in some cultures: https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/FootAndCulturalIssue

Extended explanation: I suspect the “back and forth” is likely a reference to the “poop back and forth” scene in Miranda July’s 2005 film Me and You and Everyone We Know.

RAM is the DNS of hardware problems

It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: Hexbear is dying.

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered chapo community when FediDB confirmed that Hexbear market share has dropped yet again, now generating less than a fraction of 1 percent of all reports to lemmy.ml mods. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Hexbear has dropped to a rank of 723,303, this news serves to reinforce what we’ve known all along: Hexbear is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent the-federation.info comprehensive ranking.

You don’t need to be the socialweb.observer to predict Hexbear’s future. The hand writing is on the wall: Hexbear faces a bleak future. In fact there won’t be any future at all for Hexbear because Hexbear is dying. Things are looking very bad for Hexbear. As many of us are already aware, Hexbear continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

!badposting@hexbear.net is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core posters. The sudden and unexplained departures of long time mods @ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net and @TomboyShulk@hexbear.net only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: !badposting@hexbear.net is dying.

All major surveys show that Hexbear has steadily declined in market share. Hexbear is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Hexbear is to survive at all it will be among dilettante posting dabblers. Hexbear continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Hexbear is dead.

Is this a spam campaign?

Five of the eleven comments so far (including one from OP) are all recommending the same service; all five are from accounts less than 2 months old with a one or two digit number of comments 🤔

i hope it doesn’t!

you’re wishing death specifically on people celebrating the anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany?

because it’s obscene

thanks i hate it

i was 90% sure 😭

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