Notes Notes JSON feed

With the MS outage, and other similar large outages caused by the giant hyperscalers, I wonder if companies have rediscovered an appetite for hosting their own critical services again. I now, that means companies will have to invest in people again but yeah, give it a think.

Peanut butter cookies dunked in hot coffee are one of my favorite things. Right up with with fresh sheets, Fridays at 5:01pm and special kisses.

I wish the US would fully adopt the metric systems like the rest of the world. I also wish everyone would just drop timezones entirely and go by UTC. I know it would be weird for people to get used to the sun coming up 11:44 and setting at 22:02 but people in the southern hemisphere are used to December being summer time.

Why on earth isn't election day also a holiday? Or why don't we match up our election days with an existing holiday?

Digital sovereignty is more than just avoiding US big tech. I hope the lesson we all learn is that we shouldn't allow ourselves to get locked into a platform. We as users, organizations and countries should highly value data portability and interoperability.

Don't just move to smaller European specific cloud services. Don't just move to small tech companies because they're the little guy. All these little guys want to be big guys. That's just how capitalism works.

Man how on earth does littleFedi run so much more efficiently than Mastodon? Like, what am I missing here? I can self-host littleFedi but I wouldn't dream of taking on self-hosting Mastodon.

I'm fiddling around with it here: @michael@social.michaelharley.net

Hello world. This is my first 'note' sent from my website. 😎