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Reason basically because like put in https://xkcd.com/1782/ there will always be at least one person (more like a group of nerds) still using it decades later.
Imagine claiming that email, IRC, phone calls, … will die.
Heck even Usenet (which has political centralisation) is a shadow of itself that refuses to die but it's still there.
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Mastodon vs. Twitter thing reminds me: Tech journalists challenge understanding that strongly decentralised network will outlive their competitors.
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I’m reading about ATProtocol so you don’t have to.

Instead of ActivityPub IDs (which are URLs like https://gleasonator.com/users/alex), they use DIDs (“decentalized ID”). What’s a DID? Absolutely nothing - it’s an 87 page document describing the format of a string that starts with did: and no implementation details.

The implementation is up to you. Well, there are some already. We have did:etho:Ac9aB5Fc04Dc1cB1789Af75b523Bd23C70B2D717 for Ethereum addresses, did:dns:alexgleason.me for domain names, and there’s even one called did:id:xxx for MasterCard’s proprietary/centralized(!) ID network. DIDs are in the format did:<method>:<id>, where the method can be a known method enshrined by the w3c, or a custom one.

So what’s ATProtocol using? A custom “work in progress” DID method called “placeholder” (did:plc:<id>) that… seems to talk to a centralized server?

Remember when Bluesky was under development for 2 years because they couldn’t figure out how to do decentralized identity. So what did they do? THEY JUST GAVE UP?

The did:plc spec is a vague “work in progress”: https://atproto.com/specs/did-plc

We cheekily titled the method “Placeholder”, because we don’t want it to stick around. We’re actively hoping to replace it with something less centralized.

So they still haven’t actually solved the core problem they set out to solve… are they going to resolve DIDs by talking to a centralized service? I suppose they thought since DID has the word “decentralized” in it, that’s good enough to move forward.

This is not inspiring confidence.

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My latest post is about everyone's favourite Wiki! It talks about alternatives to Wikipedia for doing more intensive research and why you should never give the Wikimedia Foundation any of your money!

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/wikipedia-is-a-source-of-political-propaganda/

New Article! - Useful Technologies/Techniques That Normies Don't Know About But Should

xianc78.codeberg.page/articles

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AAAAAAAAAND in today's "get the fuck off the already completely destroyed clearnet and move to the darknet instead" news...

WEF report conspires online "interventions" including content removal, warning labels to prevent kids from growing up
https://hozon.site/archive/1666853786/reclaimthenet.org/wef-interventions-removal-warning-labels-kids//index.html

World Bank consultant: "Digital slavery is not enough," suggests a need for access to data
https://hozon.site/archive/1666853813/reclaimthenet.org/world-bank-digital-identity-access-to-data//index.html

EuroKGB wants to know how to police reality in the dead universe
https://hozon.site/archive/1666853872/reclaimthenet.org/europol-wants-to-know-how-to-police-misinformation-in-the-metaverse//index.html

'AI-Powered' Music Mixer Responds to MAFIAA Copyright (which is a scam) "Infringement" Threats
https://torrentfreak.com/ai-powered-music-mixer-responds-to-riaas-copyright-infringement-claims-221026/
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There's been some campaigns to change certain terms in computing, and I think some of them actually make some sense, but one that's always irritated me is the campaign to rename 'master' in version control software, because it relies on etymological nonsense, i.e. assuming that 'master' must necessarily refer to a relationship which also contains a 'slave', when this is not the case in this instance

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JavaScript developers after NodeJS can’t sizecode, all they know is npm install react

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In the train, when an old woman saw me maskless (which I always am), she was looking very stressed out and was constantly checking whether there were any holes in her mask or not.
Than I sat down next to her, and she became even more stressed, so much so she couldn't stop moving like if she had ADHD syndrome.
Then 2 other maskless people hopped on the train, and she started freaking out even harder.

This is the levels of brainwashing we're still dealing with here, fuck you J-Gov, fuck you mainstream media, fuck you WEF/SDGs/UN for literally destroying Japan so hard that they've literally become unable to end the scamdemic...
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Me a few years ago: spending money on tech and crap I wanted
Me now: spending money on stockpiling stuff and grow lamps so I'm less reliant on Kroger
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I don't know who this Darrel Brooks is or was, but I'm glad because I get to ignore another shitshow and actually get things done.

This Link to The Past PC Port is amazing. It runs real smoothly and supports XInput controllers. It's probably the best port out there. I'm surprised that it isn't as well known.

CC: @coolboymew

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