Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

i just set up a new domain and it has https and it was free and easy and using standard debian packages (nginx, certbot), and cron

this used to be horrible and expensive. tysm
@letsencrypt

If nothing else, Mastodon seems to be pretty convincing evidence that an edit button can work. I'm not seeing many cases of it being abused the way many worried it would be.

Bad actors are the problem, not the tools. Get rid of the bad faith people, and we can have nice things.

#philosophy question: do you think information can exist outside of an interpretation structure? for example, is the ink on a page “information,” or is it only once it enters a mind? (this is not really about the nature of cognition or any of that, we could be talking about chemical signals and insects, or protein markers in cells… just using text/reading as an easy example)

it's one of those cases where every single problem is easily fixable, except there's another layer underneath that prevents that easy fix from working. That layer also has an easy fix... except there's another layer underneath that

Hell, yes.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/1919392/spacetop-is-the-first-laptop-without-a-screen.html

I wish we would dream new dreams instead of yearning to retreat to a nostalgia-infused trad-core digital culture. New dreams matter, because this lost internet is a lie. Its aesthetics and traditions were conceived in the halls, offices and garages of the very companies that control, surveil and ruin the world. Why would we want to go back to the start, knowing where it goes and how it ends?

TIL that the scp command does not, by default, compress files it transfers, and that you need to add the -C flag to make it do that, and by doing that I have sped up my transfer speed about 40x, and without this knowledge I have probably wasted literally days of my life waiting for things in the past.