Jens Finkhäuser ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @jens@social.finkhaeuser.de

Both #RedHat and the #Python Software Foundation have issued statements regarding #RMS' return to the #FSF. Within a few days.

But neither has yet bothered to respond to a #PSF member and #RedHat employee shutting down a discussion on project direction with a racist remark. Within almost two weeks now?

This is what hypocrisy looks like.

The issue itself is mild. The implications for the issue to people facing abuse more regularly is dire. The handling is abysmal.

Yeah, you can boost that.

Aspect of an #introduction.

I sometimes barge into conversations about decentralisation or distribution with "working on it". I am, in phases.

Right now the focus is on stable, efficient, fast, encrypted multi-path capable #p2p streaming. A mixture of WireGuard, some things popularized by QUIC, but mostly experience from Joost.

Next up will have to be some (optimized) other P2P building blocks.

After that? Depends. Really think something like planet scale 9p (#plan9). But that enables a lot.

Tempted to write a very, very simple JSON-RPC library. I have portable sockets, and I have JSON parsing, it would just take away a bit of boilerplate. Hmm. It's not something I actively need, but kind of sort of need.

Also, PSA, the line is "wie treu sind Deine Blätter". Both "grün" and "schön" are commonly seen, but only "treu" makes any real sense with the lyrics.

You're welcome.

Singing "O Tannenbaum" at the end of June because...

... it's the song my son currently accepts for falling asleep.

@NGIZero ... stacks better in case there are other ways by which we can benefit from each other. I'm sure there are, but that'll take more exploring than an hour's chat.

Just had a nice conversation with #gnunet developer t3sserakt about possible synergies with #interpeer - since we're going to be @NGIZero buddies, by the looks of it.

We pursue fairly similar high level goals by fairly diverging ways. GNUnet has a greater focus on being a framework for coordinating all kinds of different tech, so most likely we could plug some of interpeer's layers into GNUnet. I just need to make progress.

In the meantime, we want to understand each other's...

If you truly followed this thread, I'm sorry for you, but at least you're not alone.

Sarcasm helps, but it's a temporary fix.

Meanwhile, bespandexed heroes and gore-covered swordspeople keep regurgitating stories of how few people's grit will somehow fix it all, in an epic fight scene with shit hot CGI.

Without the CGI, no happy ending. There must be a fight every seven minutes. That's the art direction for the news cycle.

And I'm genuinely angry at anyone participating in the disinformation swamp, while at the same time wanting to help them out. But there are not enough spoons in several kitchens for that, to stretch the analogy a tad.

I am left hoping this will magically blow over (hah!), and wondering if it's even possible for me to give my kids the tools to navigate this shit.

No, these aren't dark thoughts for a holiday. It's unstructured rambling that I'd like to find some structure for, and this downtime has given me the best chance yet to spew something out.

Herd behaviour aka group organisation (with specialisation), the evolutionary advantage we've had, is trapping us here. Individualism and isolation sure ain't gonna help, either.

It sure feels like the post-factual present has the best chances at killing us all off yet. Not the nuclear threat, we're sort of powering through a pandemic, no. The environment is fucked, but before the waters rise enough, we'll have managed to lie ourselves into oblivion.

This thread is a lot more ranty than I intended.

Here's the thing that gets me: why?

Why is it that *now*, in 2021 at the tail end of a pandemic, in the middle of the information wars, formerly/otherwise reasonable people jump out of the woodworks and proclaim all kinds of contradictory nonsense as fact?

I kinda answered the question there. But the implication would be that people rely too much on current consensus for sense making, and that is not universally trustworthy these days.