<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> “people who bought X also bought Y.” There’s some seriously awesome parties being thrown somewhere. Someone in fake eyelashes and a sports bra has built some amazing shit and you probably want to wear safety gear if you get an invite.</p>

<p>Also, established a monthly donation to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.coop/@spritely" class="u-url mention">@<span>spritely</span></a></span>. Consider doing the same!</p>

<p>Finally worked my way through <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.coop/@cwebber" class="u-url mention">@<span>cwebber</span></a></span> re:-re: post on decentralization <a href="https://dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-bluesky-decentralization/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-blue</span><span class="invisible">sky-decentralization/</span></a></p><p>It&#39;s long and technical, but it inspired me to offer my own, admittedly simplistic, definition of a decentralized social network:</p><p>If a social app forces you to choose an instance before anything else, it&#39;s decentralized. If not, it&#39;s not.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/decentralization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>decentralization</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Imo in this case the problem isn&#39;t the term itself. I think Rust&#39;s variance is confusing in that</p><p>- Variance is already confusing by itself<br />- Suddenly people need to learn about subtyping relationship in a language without inheritance<br />- It&#39;s totally implicit, inferred, and no sign of its existence until you bump into a compilation error, where people don&#39;t know how to solve</p><p>We can&#39;t get rid of variance itself, but maybe the last point can be addressed.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@AlSweigart" class="u-url mention">@<span>AlSweigart</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson" class="u-url mention">@<span>gvwilson</span></a></span> To think they could have rewritten emacs.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson" class="u-url mention">@<span>gvwilson</span></a></span> How people choose to spend their short time on earth is their business, I guess.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> Thank you 🤩</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> some would say you didn&#39;t choose refrigeration, it chose you</p>

<p>ok, so anyone has a spare ticket for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/38c3" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>38c3</span></a> I could get? kthxbye</p>