New interstellar object confirmed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3I/ATLAS

@silverpill @bengo "We’re now entering the “extinguish” part of “Embrace, extend, extinguish”

He means that an unspecified large corporate player, who adopted AP at some point, is now moving past the Embrace and Extend phases to literally Extinguish the protocol or the smaller competitors using it.

I'm the first person to support him in banging the drum about this all day long, if he could point me to where this is happening. Alas, insta-block instead of explanation, strongly suggesting BS.

@silverpill @bengo I see spec contributors having a disagreement over compatibility/priority between AP and other specs, but where's the EEE? The OP even outlines 3 different options from his POV to start the discussion on it.

The person who inexplicably blocked me right after I asked for details made vague accusations about EEE going on, and I'm still just trying to find out what they were talking about. :/

@silverpill @bengo "To maximize interoperability, consumers can accept all three representations."

Same as with the original post, it would be useful to link to actual proposals in the form of an email, or repo comment or pull request. I see only a single contributor for that wiki page, so I still have no idea who proposed what and why it's harmful. But I'd really like to know.

@bengo @socialcg Posting vague accusations without any concrete information and sources is very bad form. Linking to the actual information is literally what the Web was made for.

TIL: The Boeing Starliner lost 4 out of 5 thrusters during its approach of the ISS. They had to reboot the system twice, before they got enough thrusters back, and they weren't able to cancel the maneuver either, because re-entry would have been too dangerous with maneuverability. So they actually risked crashing the thing into the ISS.

I guess being stranded there afterwards was a rather relaxing experience for the astronauts, compared to that ordeal.

After having participated in this space for so long (Web dev for ~25 years now, identica user at the time, Mastodon instance since 2017), I have to say it's difficult not to conclude that most fediverse developers actually desire fiefdoms and admin control, and that that's also why Meta is fine with ActivityPub.

Please prove me wrong, or at least tell me how I can see this in a different light!

I don't care about the details of any instance mod/admin drama. This would all be mostly unnecessary if your identity and posts weren't tied solely to a domain, thus entirely depending on whoever controls said domain.

The proposals and prototypes for portable identity and real portability of content are out there. But the @Mastodon devs don't seem to be interested, and the @swf's E2EE project (which would necessarily cover user keypairs) ended with no real results AFAICS.

Question for the home lab crowd:

Is there anything wrong with attaching a multi-bay, non-RAID, USB hard drive enclosure to a Raspi 5 with an NVMe hat/drive, in order to run OMV with the ZFS plugin on Raspbian as a home NAS?