Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

@MmeLibertine How did your call go?

Riding the Film, a 1937 instructional film about engine lubrication, absolute brilliantly presented for something so old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCtJlgtZnBY

Hopping in the old sidekiq pod to investigate TMA-1 (Twitter Mastodon Apocalypse) on Saturday

Also, as in meat-space they have a certain effect on people. It's..something. It's not healthy.

I'm seeing some celeb accounts. Here's the thing: Celebs are weird. Anyone on Twitter will remember around 2009 when they seemed normal, until they all networked up with their media mates and suddenly resented the proles being able to @ them.

Great 4-part series of Aging Wheel's Trabi engine rebuild. A 600cc 2-stroke. no pumps, no valve train, 27hp (but the car only weighs 600kg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq5jTB9S5GU

My worry is the future of the Fedi becomes a multi-tier system.
When Masto started out, its creator seemed happy for every other implementation to die, and it could be argued he encouraged as much (there is a parallel to systemd in all of this) and now there is might on his side.

So, they recreate the old world in the new, and have the infrastructure and money (I don't just mean .social, but some of its relatives) to steer the project in any direction they want.

This is a very good read (big thanks to @nolan ) that articulates some of the experience of the last few days.

https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/

It is not unusual to get a brand new server fail on a big feature update. Good luck troubleshooting it.

It is still surprising to me after a decade looking after these things just how fragile Windows Updates can be. They break *constantly*.

#sysadmin

ICYMI: Sepultura's Eloy Casagrande covers Metallica's 'Battery' in an absolutely eye-watering interpretation.
https://youtu.be/JVVUx2hJ5-o #metal

Enjoyed this breakdown of early Larry Mullen Jr's style on some big U2 songs. He said in 2011 that he was basically an amateur and would not have made some of these choices with more formal training. Funny how that works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO4_OuZHh1Q #music #mastadrum

His long crossing videos are absolutely epic if you like this sort of thing. LA to Hawaii on a 23' thing is just amazing.

Sam Holmes visits my old hometown on his 28' Cape Dory. He's singlehanded from NC to the Azores, to Ireland, West Coast of Scotland and via canal to the North Sea and the baltic states where he laid up for Winter. Now's he's going to Holland and I guess turning South in Spring...
https://youtu.be/p0n75eYj6v0

Well, #westworld got cancelled. The last season was the strongest in a while, but the show foundered in LOST territory around mid-season 1, and since LOST you can't do that anymore.

How long before we see the first automated blocking tool that farms blocklists? How Long before feature requests turn up on Masto's GitHub to integrate things into the ActivityPub implementation?

Don't forget the amount of money floating around. People have deep pockets and they'll pay to get what they want.

So we've already seen an instance-wide search engine. There will be more of this shit.

It is important to recognize where the demand for these things come from. A whole bunch of people came over from Twitter, the big #numbers accounts. They were at the top of the food chain, and they see themselves as the same here. For them, nothing has changed.

They will push for anti-features that ensure they can game the platform and remain at the top of the tree.