There's something really interesting about the constraints given by plain text that you would lose with What You See Is What You Get (or, the ever-unfortunate acronym WYSIWYG) controls. I almost think what you get in that case is an unfortunate mindset-shift towards What You See Is All There Is (or, an incredibly dope acronym, WYSIATI).

the Universal Blue project has got a great suite of distributions:

https://universal-blue.org/

they may have been, yes. back in those days, a CPU with multiple cores were meant for the server or enterprise workstation market and priced accordingly.

Celerons were consumer-grade budget kit.

There were zero multi-core x86 CPUs, server or otherwise, back in those days.

that's cool we also have a few thousand drums of DDT off LA's shores. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_ocean_dumps_off_Southern...

This all comes from an era where the prevailing thought was the solution for pollution is dilution.

Hey my dad used to wipe the stuff of tomatoes before eating them right off the vine.

I’m mostly ok, have the normal number of arms and legs. Only had one tumor, and just a few endocrine issues. Nothing major, it’s all good.

:/

Adults are learners too.

X.509 certificates

They specified a lot of stuff that ultimately didn't get used but ITU is still my favorite standards organization.

To the extent that it can be considered an "organization" the IETF is definitely a better Standards Development Organization than the ITU. Most importantly because the IETF is for people, and I'm a person, whereas as a UN Specialized Agency the ITU is for UN Member States and I am not and will never be a UN Member State.

They both publish their standards for free.

The ITU has a slight edge in that their published standards are generally of a higher quality and easier to implement.

I care about utility not about nominal designations.

Yeah, I don't see it. I looked at a few cases where there's close overlap in the work and mostly what I see is that the ITU doesn't want me looking at the draft stages of documents, which I guess isn't crucial for your implementation work. I couldn't see any particular higher quality though I suppose if you like PDFs and hate text that might go in the ITU's favour.

A "social network" is a concept that goes far beyond computing and the internet

can't reveal too much too soon but someone out there is quietly trying to make "At least one major national government or major city will launch an official presence on BOTH Bluesky AND the ActivityPub Fediverse in 2026" happen.

Much like the motion picture industry, there are hardly any original ideas anymore.

how about following the well-architected framework and building something with a suitable level of 9s where you can justify your decisions during a blameless postmortem (please stamp your buzzword bingo card for a prize.)

We vibe code everything in flavor of the month node frameworks, tyvm, because elixir is too hard to hire for (or some equally inane excuse)

I look forward to the eventual launch of a new and improved version of your app using electron.

What’s the point in having 64 Gb of DDR5 and 16 cores @ 4.2 GHz if not to be able to have a couple electron apps sitting at idle yet somehow still using the equivalent computational resources of the most powerful supercomputer on earth in the mid 1990s.

We also plan to incorporate a full local llm, to ensure we fill the memory up. It will be used to direct people to our online knowledge base, which will always be empty

Make sure another LLM summarizes pages upon loading, but doesn’t load any content before that completes. Each page should have a few megs of JS tracking scripts siphoning the users CPU to create massive logs on AWS that nobody will ever use to improve anything.

Oh and put everything behind the strictest cloudflare settings you can, so that even a whiff of anything that’s not a Windows 11 laptop or iPhone on a major U.S. network residential or mobile IP gets non-stop bot checks!

Conversely, a community means nothing if they flit from one "best practice" to another