R. A. Dehi @radehi@social.cleverlibre.org

@mattblaze @lauren It already crushed your democracy; Twitter elected a reality TV star president of the US. Also it revived neo-Nazism. How much worse can it get?

@lauren Apparently they have a quarter billion daily active users. If goes failwhale for a week, how many will be left when they get it working again?

@mathowie I think US and European societies have been pervasively gun-centered since the 16th century; is not just a question of one year. Since the first nuclear war almost 80 years ago, guns have become a little less central to states, but states (based on guns) have at the same time become more central to society.

@mattblaze Probably a lot of them will start their own startups.

@louis You mean as a compilation target? Wasm.

@lxo I haven't actually used it but my understanding is that with WSL1 they implemented the Linux system call interface in the NT kernel, but with WSL2 are running Ubuntu in a VM

Is at once hopeful and terrifying. A company that doubles in three months usually loses its culture. Hopefully won't happen here.

@atomicpoet @jeffjarvis #Microsoft is much more profitable now than when it owned 98% of the desktop OS market.

Microsoft is arguably the biggest Linux distributor on the desktop via WSL2.

Microsoft owns GitHub and therefore the namespaces of most of the world's open-source projects.

Booting Linux on your new laptop depends on Microsoft's goodwill in giving you the signing keys for Secure Boot, and on some new laptops booting Linux isn't permitted.

The vast majority of Linux users run Android, where they don't have root and aren't permitted to recompile their kernel.

This isn't what free and open-source Linux winning would look like. It's better than a Windows monoculture would have been, but it's a much, much less free world than 25 years ago.

@kashhill Power corrupts. The Meta bribery terror blacklist scandal was a darker version of this.

@BE This is what it felt like in 1996 and 1997 when the masses got on the internet. In a sense it's what looks like when you succeed in changing the world: the changed world still has the same people in it.

@kate To me this looks like "WebKit is the new Internet Explorer", except this time it's getting buyin from the W3C *before* adding new features the other browser doesn't support, instead of afterward. I don't know if you remember document.layers.

@lcamtuf YouTube search provides better search results than Google search. If search for "foo" tutorials on Google, if "foo" is something you could conceivably buy, you often get the Wikipedia article on "foo" and dozens of foo merchants. Search on YouTube and you get actual tutorials (and, often, product reviews by shill channels, but still reviews that show a foo in real use). The HTML pages are often still out there but don't show up in the search results.

Also, videos are objectively better for learning about woodworking, where things like visual texture, motion, and three-dimensional relationships are important; but not, I think, quantum physics. For software it can be helpful to see how an expert user uses the software, especially if it has a GUI, but often a manual would be better.

@lxo Probably, but maybe it'll still be crashing. More likely a much smaller Twitter will have more or less stabilized by that point. Hopefully it won't elect another Trump.