Engage the core.

No, no. Don’t you dare go to warp on a workout joke!

By now it’s probably a really smelly paperweight, and Bitcoin Man would be bugging them endlessly even to regain ownership over that 🤷

I think we’re living the best ending where it’s never going to be recovered, and this dude is flailing ever more futilely at courts…

Bitcoin man Florida man Piltdown man

It’s an ongoing cycle…

Yeah. Someday, in the ruins of the world, you may come across the decrepit remains of a man, held adrift only by the sheer momentum of that one time he was near The Big Win.

“Come 'ere m’lad,” he’ll tell you, gesturing vaguely with one rotting arm at the debris of human settlements, “help me dig for my hard drive of lost fortune tokens.”

I defo have a lost bitcoin somewhere, too. Can I just pass start and cash in my Monopoly money somehow? Where do I sign up with my anecdotal evidence?

“Bitcoin man” is the new “Florida man”.

housing, food security, climate crisis

I would never want to rely on corporations’ willingness to support those things. Corpos should, however, be heavily taxed so that the actual state would have money for those things.

In an ideal world (hey, let me dream!) those funds wouldn’t instead be siphoned into defense budgets.

You said it yourself — you’re new to self hosting, and CasaOS fits what you want to host. As a starting point for getting rid of hosted services, go with that for a start.

Sure, you won’t immediately be getting your hands dirty mucking about with dockers and stuff, but you will have your working home server. For learning and experimentation, I second @[email protected]’s plan B — use another machine to test building the same setup on a base Linux system.

If you’re like me you probably have an old laptop lying around that wouldn’t be great as an always up, day to day server, but as a testing environment to mess around with docker containers it should be fine?

I dunno, over the course what, six months? A year? And since there’s been an influx of Twitter users they’re probably frantically liking every old follow/er they see to recreate their network.

Also, on Bluesky likes influence the algorithm more than it would on the fediverse, so who can blame them for gauging the ecosystem?

I use Baïkal on a no-frills webhost. It’s been running for years without problems.

That, and she doesn’t still wear the Bajoran nose ridge prosthetic…

Cool. Now use the data to get them all blacklisted on dating sites, that should reestablish some semblance of balance.

Actually, I think the publisher expected something more along the lines of this vapid waffle… 😆

For sure! That’s why I hope this book opens more conversations with Sirtis and others about their experience, whether it’ll be in a Visitor-penned sequel or elsewhere.

Specifically Sirtis would be interesting, because she so definitely was put in the “female box”, while her real (or convention appearance) persona is much fuller — and outspoken than the often docile role she played.

Sounds like the publisher approached her to do a coffee table fluff book, and then she added her own critical feminist special sauce 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Ooh, now I want to read the stuff that didn’t make it into the book, and the interviews that never got made for different reasons. How many copies do each of us need to buy for a sequel to be commissioned?

Can confirm.

I think Fedi Garden does a good job of making it accessible, but I still think that curated list needs updating.

None of the automated find-me-an-instance sites have really convinced me, but I have an okay niche server for my interests, and if that folds I’ll probably host a GoToSocial instance just for myself…

Yeah, but tech journos are so far up Big Tech’s cloaca that they can’t imagine any platform emerge without a business plan™. Couple that with their unreflected admiration for anything they’re told is The Next Thing and you have the gushing bit you quoted.

No, I use only the platforms I wouldn’t want to see get lost eventually. But I see your attempt at a rhetorical gotcha, and I want to recognise that, too.