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(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re
Writer (software and prose), epistemologist.
Fedi user since 2019 → fedi dev → quit fedi → [you are here].
I contribute (roughly at random, my brain is too ADHDified to stick with a software project for too long) to a lot of projects, and help upkeep some of the akkoma project's infrastructure (among others).
Besides that, I do some (interesting to me but probably not to you) CS research and make random things that I find useful/interesting.
I want software to be beautiful to read, and to spark joy at runtime, a bit like (some) writing (though my prose is not that).
Assigned "Tumblr Lesbian" by my gay wife, confirmed by fedi.
Sometimes my wife (Hélène) posts on my account.
If you want to know whose post a particular one is, you must pick up the honored internet tradition of identifying people by vernacular, punctuation, and way of thinking.
Old accounts: toa?sti?@mk.toast.cafe
Location: Alsace, France
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Joined: 2026-07-23 02:49:30
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Reply to @cell@shitposter.world
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-07-30 19:39:58)
@cell @twinspin6 my comment on moon was "that's moon alright" because he looks like a stereotypical american dad (cool version)
I didn't have many comments on you just :0 cell
—tosti
Reply to @cell@shitposter.world
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-07-30 19:29:12)
@cell @twinspin6 i don't remember there being any for you two... at least definitely not in that category —helene
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-07-30 19:05:50)
—helene
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(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-07-30 06:59:41)
when we met @twinspin6 while he was approaching I was like "is that him" and helene said "if that's him I understand why people at GPN kept offering him estrogen"
Reply to @lynn@smol.ch
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-07-29 19:44:08)
@lynn love europeans going "we should copy NA it seems to be working out great for them" while everyone that escaped NA to the EU is eyeing them like :akko_scared:
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-07-28 06:26:43)
😃 GOOD VIBES ONLY 😃
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-07-27 08:00:30)
oh yeah food today:
lunch: pinsa with cherry tomato sauce w/ spices, low moisture mozarella, spicy green pepper (the small kind), smoked provolone, and coppa
dinner: scrambled eggs (3) on a bed of smoked provolone, with avocado slices and smoked trout rolls, topped with oregano, parsely, and paprika
Reply to @cell@shitposter.world
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-07-27 07:55:55)
@cell gay (original meaning (happy
Reply to @toast@donotsta.re
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-07-27 06:38:22)
@fristi well that or just eating a single "huge" sized french taco (those are BIG)
Reply to @fristi@56k.dile-up.nl
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-07-27 06:35:58)
@fristi I think the worst I've done was eat 2 XL pizzas in one sitting (I got my paycheck after 3 weeks of not eating)
Reply to @fristi@56k.dile-up.nl
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-07-27 06:00:41)
@fristi not like that, no
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-07-27 05:53:24)
may have had a bit too much beer while a bit too tired :3d_blobcat_woozy:
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-07-23 21:43:19)
i was thinking of how to explain atproto best to tosti and the best explanations i found were "they're claiming they're trying to be a network where everyone has its own 9p filesystem" and "imagine ipfs but it's federated instead"
i don't dislike atproto but i just think it's not meant for social media lol
Reply to @sun@shitposter.world
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-07-23 21:09:34)
@sun @ignaloidas I mean the concept is blatantly ridiculous in that: how would it happen?
if local people pick where to run the tracks, they have no reason to duplicate them all over, which is essentially what I'm saying here
you might end up with some parallel lines that are a few hundred km apart but those are desirable anyway
Reply to @sun@shitposter.world
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-07-23 21:06:26)
@sun @ignaloidas yeah the japan model of privatization is notably region-based rather than "big entity that does it all" and has a few other special attributes that makes it mostly work out
you'll note that private/public are a moot concern under direction action, since the distinction isn't as strong as under the current sociopolitical model (+ profit motive is significantly reduced or eliminated which further messes with the distinction)
Reply to @ignaloidas@not.acu.lt
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-07-23 21:02:16)
@ignaloidas I'm not sure how you would "centralize" a railway per se
rail, roads, etc go from point A to point B
you could centralize construction of those, but as it turns out, people halfway across the world do not know what roads your area needs, what rail your area needs
so they either trust you to tell them (this never works out) or they decide for you (poor results)
germany is one of those countries that has multiple tiers, i.e. some roads are built and paid for by the state, while others by the region
there's a lot of politics going on to have the state build and maintain the roads that are in the interest of the region, all to have a single road that goes across many many regions, instead of two regions collaborating at a time and having a web (closer to the german rail network in some ways)
as for having to coordinate between many different entities : you have to anyway! they're just hidden from you. for example, france is well-known for having a star-shaped rail network, with a single state-ish operator (SNCF), but as it turns out they just divide themselves up internally
that's why (for example) Alsace SNCF (Fluo) is decent, while a lot of the rest is... not
the consequence is you get the worst of both worlds : people that have nothing to do with the region make decisions for it, but you also end up with decentralized handling
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-07-23 06:27:39)
the needs of most people are 90+% similar, so efficiency looks like applying economies of scale to these needs to require fewer resources
this is just true, in fact capitalism has come to the same conclusion, which is one of the reasons centralization is so common
unfortunately once you go in this direction you end up with secondary failure conditions
the capitalist one is very well-understood: since it demands growth, once you have met those needs, you need to find a way to extract additional value out of people, even if the whole planet is your userbase, so you have to keep changing stuff and making things nobody needs and get everyone to play along and pay along
even if we were to eliminate this, this same centralization also creates a horribly fragile system : global trade between specialized hubs is efficient, but when a canal is blocked the whole world feels it; resource distribution is controlled by the strongest, so when the loudest voices backed by guns demand a resource (and are willing to give something back for it too), nobody has any left; when the biggest banana plantation gets a virus, it spreads like wildfire and the entire species becomes extinct overnight
which is to say that some degree of smaller, duplicated, inefficient but distributed is required for sustainability, without even needing to consider other negatives (such as the rampant exploitation required to run these systems)
on top of this, the 90% similarity completely ignores the dissimilarity of the remnant. the greater the stack and engine of economy of scale, the harder it is to make any adjustments, meaning that while most of the needs of most will be met, no one's needs will be met in full
what's worse is that scaling is not a linear relationship, it is a curve. the amortized "cost per user" may flatten out eventually, but remains real, meaning that in absolute terms the costs remain astronomical but now the people delivering needs are infinitely removed from those receiving them. we
Reply to @cell@shitposter.world
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-07-23 04:57:16)
@cell @hannah you can have some weaker types of blue in there sometimes yeah, but it's not that common
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-07-23 02:44:40)
slop this, slop that, how about instead i get a sloppy for once —helene