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This is the way.

Any big main meal is dinner, regardless of when you have it. A meal in the middle of the day is lunch, a meal at the end of the day is tea, a meal shortly before bed is supper. Any of them can be dinner too, but they don't have to be.

Breakfast is breakfast though. Dinner for breakfast is not an option.

My Christmas dinner was on the table for about 1:30pm, and I didn't start cooking it until 9am (with most of the actual work not starting until more like 10:30). I did a little prep the night before, but not much really.

It's not really that much work when you've got it down. It's just a roast. If you can get it on the table for lunch time most Sundays, it's not that big a deal to do it on Christmas day.

I reckon it's simpler than that. Zuckerberg has never really invented anything novel; Facebook was a straight clone of a whole bunch of competing social media sites (which just so happened to win the numbers war), and WhatsApp and Instagram were both acquisitions.

I think the Metaverse was Zuckerberg trying to prove to himself and others that he and he personally could come up with the "next big thing". The fact that he came up with something which absolutely no-one wanted (and most people barely understood) is a testament to why he never came up with anything ground breaking before, too.

Ads and monetization have ruined the internet compared to what it was. Early Internet was completely without ads, and things were run by people who were actually interested in the content presented, not in profits.

How early are we talking here? If you mean pre-Web, in the Usenet era it was standard practice to pay a subscription to join a Usenet server. If you mean the early Web, ads were already everywhere by the mid-90s.

Just started reading Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. I was a little sceptical going in based on the blurb (which is very sci-fi-by-numbers), but it's won me over very quickly; very inventive and very sharply written.

I too am addicted to likecohol.

There is (currently) only one living version of the Mastodon code base. It could be forked in the future, but it hasn't been.

There are other ActivityPub microblogging platforms (Friendica, Mbin, Pleroma, Threads if you count it) which users could also be running, and from the point of view of users it shouldn't be obvious what any other given user you interact with is using, but that's not got anything to do with Mastodon pull requests.

If in doubt, you can always play the old "Chosen One" card to hand waive that sort of thing away.

Mr "highest midichlorian count in history" Skywalker might get a free pass just because he's magic.

Which on balance probably means it was pretty lucky he did a redemption arc before he died, otherwise they'd have been stuck with an evil maniac in their immortal ghost club.

Every single time. I know how I'm supposed to read it, I know what it means and where it comes from, but I physically cannot read it any other way.

Worst name ever.

I hosted a meeting with about a dozen attendees recently, and one attendee silently joined with an AI note taking bot and immediately went AFK.

It was in about 5 minutes before we clocked it and then kicked it out. It automatically circulated its notes. Amusingly, 95% of them were "is that a chat bot?" "Steve, are you actually on this meeting?" "I'm going to kick Steve out in a minute if nobody can get him to answer", etc. But even with that level of asinine, low impact chat, it still managed to garble them to the point of barely legible.

Also: what a dick move.

That's a really interesting read (and worth much more attention than the pithy one-liners of people who just want to read the title).

On reflection, I think my take away is that Bluesky will always by necessity of its design be hosted and controlled by a single centralised company. But what their architectural model does allow is the possibility of a wholesale migration from one centralised provider to another. That is, it would be possible for a suitably resourced and motivated company to host its own mirror Relay and other components and have essentially a fully functional Bluesky clone. In the event that Bluesky ever "does a Twitter" and go into terminal decline, in theory this might mean that a successor/competitor could emerge and take on the network without loss of existing content.

I'm not sure that'll ever actually happen, but it's an interesting thought.

Strangely, I used to work for a bank in their "bereavement services" department; that is, the department that dealt with dead people's accounts.

If anyone notified us of a death of an account holder, and provided any proof (death certificate, coroner's report, police letter), the first thing we'd do is freeze the account. All payments out stopped, all cards cancelled, all withdrawals blocked. This was a legal requirement, because once somebody dies their money becomes the legal property of their "estate", and it's unlawful for anyone to remove money from the estate without following proper process.

There's no need to stop each payment individually. In fact, the bank really doesn't want you logging in to their online bank using the deceased's credentials and messing around with things for the same reason; unless you're following proper procedures, it's not yours to mess with.

Possibly it's different in different jurisdictions, of course.