links, etc there’s been some solid discussion on federation vs. open protocols lately. put another way ATproto vs. ActivityPub and the bluesky migration that seems to be underway now. these are some solid reads on the topic. How decentralized is Bluesky really? – Dustycloud Brainstorms Reply on Bluesky and Decentralization | bryan newbold | WhiteWind blog

links, etc Verizon advances its fiber network for AI workloads | News Release | Verizon this is actually a pretty slick demo of 1.6T. ciena seems to be slaying it these days on the DSP front.

i updated my mastodon installation the other day and it looked like everything went swimmingly. but, i discovered that they’d changed the structure of the docker containers. this was evident if i was using the docker-compose.yml that was in the repo and just blithely using that. but, durrr, i’m not. this seemed to chug along for a while with little/no apparent ill effects, but i restarted the containers the other day for something else and lo, the mastodon-streaming container was unhappy....

links, etc Shrine of the Mall Ninja – LonelyMachines i was reading article about how right wing culture fetishizes armageddon scenarios, which led to a pointer about an early 00s thread about the mall ninja. i suspect that @Gecko45 was not doing this ironically, but the results are priceless. albeit bonkers.

the only white paint pen that i’ve found that does not suck is the sharpie paint (fine) - oil based. meta location: minneapolis, mn weather: ☁️ (Overcast) +42°F(+36°F)