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Cake day: September 11th, 2023

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  • In basic training our barracks would get “white glove” inspections, where the drill instructor would wear a literal white glove and run his finger over surfaces to detect anything that wasn’t clean, dry, and serviceable. And I’m not talking about just the obvious places, but also things like under the benches in the showers, or up and in a wall locker ledge.

    The ultimate goal wasn’t to hand out demerits, it was to instill a sense of attention to detail in us. They asked us how could we be trusted to maintain nukes for example, when we failed to even find that stray clump of soap scum and pubes in the shower.

    So that’s all to say: If the boeing apparatus is so fucked that doors are falling off their aircraft mid-flight, what the fuck else have they missed?




  • design their own product from scratch

    I think you’re right, even regardless of the license involved. One of my profs in school had told us nothing is stopping anyone from writing a whole new Microsoft Word, feature for feature, button for button the same. And in fact, look at Libre Office - a MS Word clone.

    The missteps to avoid when creating a whole new clone are:

    1. Don’t rip off actual implementation code from the original and put it in your own product (this is a bigger concern w/ OSS since anyone can rip of pieces without giving credit)

    2. Avoid confusing users that your clone is somehow an extension/iteration of the original (e.g. ripping off branding, or sound-alike names)

    have it’s own network and just a simple plugin that can communicate with the fediverse

    Mastodon uses the ActivityPub protocol, which is an opensource API. The US supreme court has ruled that implementing an API is fair use, copyrights do not come into play here.

    So I think the only recourse for avoiding Meta and it’s Thread foray, is defederating it on a per instance basis.

    I fear this might turn real ugly, similar to how Google got in the browser game, dominated, and is now doing evil and shitty things like manifest v3 and WEI.