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Cake day: September 24th, 2024

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  • I get the argument, but email is also very different to the kind of open-web network that the fediverse resides in. There are problems the fediverse faces which email doesn’t like discoverability. The emails either come to you or they don’t. With federated social media, you have to find the content you’re looking for first. Maybe you use a search engine, or somebody gives you a business card with their handle and instance, whatever. Then you have to figure out how to view those posts from your home instance if you want to actually interact in any way. There’s browser extensions and stuff which try to make this easier, but that’s another thing that has to be explained and set up, plus not everyone is visiting from a web browser with extension support, or a web browser at all for that matter.

    It’s not fundamentally impossible to understand the fediverse, but there’s more of a barrier than email, which can be explained in a single sentence like “Your email provider gives you a unique address that anybody else can send emails to and vice versa.” I don’t think convincing ourselves that the fediverse is actually very simple is going to convince people outside the bubble that that’s true.



  • I absolutely was not expecting the Lilia reveal to be so incredibly satisfying. A couple of days ago, I wondered if anybody had listed all of her various outbursts in an attempt to put them in some meaningful order, but even though I was on the right track, this was much better than what I was imagining (I was guessing some kind of latent prescient ability locked away in a separate personality). I love Patti LuPone and they really did both her and Lilia justice here. Perhaps more than anything else, this will be the hook for a rewatch, seeing Lilia again in her true context.

    I simultaneously want the series to be done so I can start again and want it to keep going forever.



  • I definitely hope we get more backstory to William/Billy. I think the big question hanging over the series now besides Tommy is …

    spoiler

    Why is Billy “evil”? It doesn’t seem like killing Livia and Jen served any real purpose. I guess it’s supposed to read as something he did accidentally in a burst of temper, but that’s not much better. I get the sense that the show still wants the audience to like him or they wouldn’t be spending time on introducing his sweet boyfriend. But even with Agatha guilting him about it, we didn’t see much in the way of remorse. I think the show is too well-written to just have him be evil because he just is.

    For what it’s worth, I’m not at all convinced that Livia and Jen (or Alice, or even Sharon/Mrs. Hart) are or will stay dead, so maybe that’s the redemption arc. Perhaps at the end of the road, when Billy finds what he’s missing, it’s not Tommy but the lost members of the coven.

    Nice to get the payoff to the call-forward “A lot happened to me at 13, too.”



  • Yeah, this is pretty standard. Between the low production numbers and the fact that assembly is probably occurring in a country with stronger labor laws than wherever mass-producted hardware is made (mostly China), it’s going to cost more than something you can pick up on Amazon or AliExpress.

    There have been a few cases where open-source hardware like this has enough demand to get picked up by a Chinese manufacturer who makes a cheaper version through some combo of unethical labor practices, production scale, employing cheaper or cloned parts and/or dropping features, so it’s not out of the question that a cheaper version comes along, as long as you don’t mind the compromises to get it.