Notices by Peter Bindels (dascandy42@mastodon.social)

@aral The big problem with Threads is that it's too big to fail. The same problem we have already in many places. If allowed in, they'll decide what can and cannot be shown. When they defederate with your instance, you'll be missing most people, and when they break rules you're not going to defederate them, because it's like sawing off the branch you're sitting on.

Break the link proactively to prevent them from getting to such a point.

@aral @Edent Interesting, close to what I have in mind.

Missing:
- Replacement for the tether your phone has to Google/Apple
- Replacement for what people rely on from major tech companies: whatsapp (IM, calls), email, calendar, address book etc. Can't drop whatsapp when there's no usable replacement.

And up to a point, missing an alternative mobile phone OS. But I can understand limiting scope.

@Edent Let me know if I should write up the detailed design somewhere.

@Edent What if you were to run that on a tiny device that's connected to your internet connection, with a global bounce server / address for people without incoming connections? Make the devices link directly to each other, make your own hardware link to your home server.

VPN to your home from anywhere, use IM / phone / cloud storage that's at your home. No giant companies needed at all.

@nixCraft Heck, send them an invoice for your time.

@foone @immibis @whitequark Didn't that one fold over passwords to fit in 7 chars first?

@foone @whitequark 7TB memory, ssd or harddisk?

@foone I'd be surprised if you didn't. Any Brain too?

@foone Maybe even some retro viruses like NIH / Chernobyl.

@foone With three phase, right?

@foone I'm writing a Git clone and I wasn't aware it would do background stuff. That's not how command line tools normally work.