polly @gracie@witches.town

@enkiv2 like these

had a friend who'd been in the music scene since forever, when i came up with outlandish band names he'd say sth like yeah it's been done, in 1978, their gimmick was wearing scuba gear onstage

there's something really incongruous about youtube ads on motorcycle emptiness

@bob @ebel the mirrored data has to be identical else checksums fail; it's resistant to being taken down, that's all—it's not federation but a more robust form of centralisation

which is not something i'm against; it's a question of ownership of the means of production

@ebel @bob mirroring isn't federation, there's still central control; who signs packages?

facebook isn't federated just because it has cdn failover

distributed storage isn't distributed power

@ebel call it tinfoil but i reckon they realised they couldn't control it

shoutout to comune collective's kune

@theycallmemo hm that'll be tricky without slightly doxxing myself given where i am; i'll try to post some snowy bins or something

@theycallmemo *hugs*

it's snowing here

@theycallmemo hm sounds like a job for a hug?

@Concerned_Commy soz the hug it is *hugs*

@Concerned_Commy will you accept a hug instead?

@bob @cykros @alanz @mayel @ebel
it's centralized in the sense we're talking; imagine what a federated repo would look like

@ebel you got me thinking tho

remember google wave? why did they kill it, because it wasn't the facebook they were looking for? maybe; it turned out to be a great way of organising activist communities (in which capacity it abides)

power, capital and monopoly

@ebel yep the gpl has been an extraordinarily successful weapon for us; i think we need more than technical solutions tho—people like gmail the same way people like levis and cocacola

@amphetamine i dance in her cold embrace, i carry her in my innermost heart like a shrine; she's a comfort, i've known her so long

she's not going anywhere; but nor am i

@ebel @mayel @alanz @cykros

not even convinced it's centralisation that's the core problem; i mean savannah is a silo, the debian repos are a centralised resource …

the problem's capitalism, as usu, corporatisation rather than centralisation

there's a thing that happens that we react to in different ways; we can be angry, which is appropriate, or sad, also appropriate, we can be afraid … some of us want to be alone

going to call myself out—the reason i withdraw is so i can inch closer to it myself, without anyone seeing

i love my solitude; but this, this is not right

we all respond differently; but if you're like me, please, please reach out rather than in

* an autographed Shonen Knife tshirt

Today calls for serious magick. I shall therefore be wearing a Shonen Knife tshirt to work.

Oh It's snowing