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To be fair, from 2022. I would argue that moderation in Fedi is holding together reasonably well. There are a few popular instances that lots of people think are overly aggressive/…

ATProto is an interesting protocol and there is lots of room to argue about its plus and minuses (and about Fedi/Masto's), but lots of people are already doing that so I won't. My …

My pieces usually get flagged. Presumably I have annoyed some of the wrong people.

I'm highly unconvinced of the proposition that most homeless are severely mentally ill; the data I've seen doesn't support it. That's some of it, and also addiction. But a lot of t…

I'd like to see a few links to support your assertions in the first paragraph because, with respect, I have not seen evidence which supports them. On the other hand, multiple juris…

Well, healthcare is an increasing piece of government spending all over the world, and the population is aging, so politics and policy aside, that number is going to go up.

+1 on Newsblur. I use it every day and it has flaws but nothing that really gets in my way.

The tests for the go code at https://github.com/timbray/RFC9839 are in effect test vectors.

Yeah, for example it's how Java stores strings to this day. But I think it's more or less never transmitted over the Network.

Relevant: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-bray-unichars-15.html - IETF approved and will have an RFC number in a few weeks. Tl;dr: Since we're kinda stuck with Uncorrected UT…

That crossed my mind when I saw the piece show up on HN. But I think they're already running more or less at capacity.

You're right, but I didn't realize that till later. Except for the original "Parable of the Sower" was from Jesus not Olivia. But I also thought of Olivia's first.

A high-quality leather sofa these days is closer to $15K than $1500, ouch.

I dunno, my Wikipedia entry is about right.

Wow, didn't know about that, thanks. But the query has to be "timbray" not tim bray