@jankoekepan @HTHR I think the answer to the locality problem is something like a "Platform Cooperative" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_cooperative

Seems to be working out pretty good so far over at https://social.coop/ tho this kind of thing lends itself better toward digital services due to it being easier to bootstrap bits vs IRL operations.

@clacke There are some tricks that minecraft uses because it's limited in height - they can use RLE and change the xyz coordinate byte order to make it more compressible.

A technique I'm looking at are using space filling curves since i'm more interested in fast access to local changes, but they also seem to function well for fully 3d arbitrary chunk streaming.

Mostly asking this stuff because I thought people might have other thoughts.

My interests are developing massively scalable game worlds, so anything that has good support for scaling stuff out (like akka) would be a boon.

My interests are mostly in not reinventing the wheel here, so i'd rather not learn entirely knew languages like erlang or haskell if I can avoid it.

I just realized that I'm basically trying to live blog a quest to improve the quality of my farts.

I'm tooting about it as I go.

I'm going to be shitting myself... for SCIENCE!

https://are.na/block/1621113

For background and history on the concept of sending data, first check out this stackoverflow question/answer set, which includes a great diagram on what it looks like to 'call' another computer https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/68790/how-does-a-signal-travel-down-a-telephone-wire

And then take a look at how they ran telephone wires, set up microwave towers to handle longer distance, and eventually an entire world wide network http://www.telcomhistory.org/vm/scienceLongDistance.shtml

Then try this exploration of how it shifted to telephone-over-internet (+beyond?)
https://medium.com/@aantonop/why-dumb-networks-are-better-f0b94c271b76

@djsundog

"In the 1950s, to be a product engineer was just listen to the client, build a product. But we didn't really understand the downstream effects of that. The reality is now we can see the disparate effects of small decisions. How do we redefine an engineering ethics where, for example, the environment is a stakeholder and considered equal with the client?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU1vstn99m

I spent most of the evening curating content I've collected on twitter about vagal nerve stimulation.

Yes... My internet search history is full of search terms involving how butt sex can cure hiccups and the odd sexual interest of john harvey kellogg inflating people's bladders to induce vagal stimulation.

Enjoy:
https://are.na/ultimape/vagus-nerve-vagal-response-stress-breathing-pooping-and-dog-butts

@Balor @clacke @rw

Just came across my radar: https://hackernoon.com/the-sec-called-about-our-ico-i-answered-8cbbd31568ec

Worth reading if you wanna get a better idea of where the SEC's head is in all of this.

Thank you mastodon for being open source. For not having annoying tracking, or advertising. Thank you Ostatus and GNUsocial for providing an open protocol and bootstrapping a network around it. Thank you other software in the federation for doing what you do. And the people behind it all: thank you for being you.

Also:
When discussing Mastodon in outside networks, consider linking to https://instances.mastodon.xyz/ and mentioning the #fediverse.

Lots of people jumped over not realizing this is an offshoot of gnusocial and that each instance/node has a code of conduct. https://mastodon.social/about/more

Federation idea is likely foreign to many people. I've been explaining it like how everyone can get a different email address, or mailing address IRL.
@copiesofcopies

@johnhenry One of the long term failures states of federated platforms could be a centralized corporation - ("google") takes over and effectively centralizes it. Network effects of an app means they become the defacto content server. IIRC, this is how xmpp died and why some core developers chose to go with something non-federated. This is why Telehash exists.

Still really cool though. This reminds me of gnusocial.