The Doctor

It’s a bit of history well worth studying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents

This. Embrace, extend, extinguish.

I guess nobody remembers the Halloween Memo, because that’s the gold standard strategy for gathering up and locking in users.

Why do we need to be mainstream?

Weirdly, John Markoff didn’t write this article. I’d have thought he’d have jumped at the opportunity.

Unless you’re a seasoned sysadmin, hosting your own mail server is going to be more trouble that it’s worth. It’s a lot of work, and when that was a common thing (companies having their own mail servers) usually they had dedicated admin teams (when they bothered hiring more than one admin, that is) to run it. It’s a lot of work.

I migrated my domain over to Protonmail a couple of years back, and it’s the best money I’ve spent in a long time.

I think I still have a copy of that issue someplace.

I think that’s one of those details that the original journalists didn’t pick up on, because they had a limited amount of time. If they’d been on any of the more active BBSes (or had net.access) and hung out for longer than, if I had to guess, a week doing research they might have picked up on it.

Or maybe their editors cut that part. Hard to say.

Atari SX212 modem. 1200 bps.

It’s probably between 60 and 140 pF. Those are the ones that you’ll normally find in crystal radios for tuning.

Alan Turing’s apple, I shoulda kept my big mouth shut.

Who do I have to let sit on my face to eradicate systemfail?

Honestly? I think Ubuntu’s userbase is about to get a lot bigger. The larger hosting companies (AWS and Digital Ocean are the two that come to mind immediately) support Ubuntu as a first-class citizen, so once the not-true blue RHEL distros take the hit migrations are going to happen.

Some of the older adventures (AD&D, first and second edition) were written as single-player modules, kind of like the adventure game books of the same historical era. They’re sort of like Choose Your Own Adventure books, but with RPG engines bolted onto the side controlling some of the paths taken.

Eich has a history of acting like a jagoff…

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/brave-brendan-eich-covid-19.html

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-affiliate-links-crypto-privacy-ceo-apology

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26868536

https://www.theverge.com/2014/4/3/5579516/outfoxed-how-protests-forced-mozillas-ceo-to-resign-in-11-days

https://cryptonews.com/news/brave-browser-courts-social-media-rage-with-covid-19-comment-8706.htm

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26868536

Robotic pets are the only kinds a lot of folks are able to have where they live.

It did a great job of discrediting opening anything for public comment thenceforth. Which I really think was the long-term goal.

What have you been posting that’s getting moderated?

Oh, you have no idea…

Yup.

I know it’s not, because that implies organization and planning on the macro scale, but this feels like end goal. The Net didn’t take off until commercial interests got involved (the first dotcom bubble) but ever since there’s been a steady pressure for everything to be either something to buy things from, or something for people to buy stuff from. No middle ground.