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Journal tomhudson's Journal: If you're on Diaspora ... 23

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Post your "diaspora handle" (for example, barbie@joindiaspora.com), and I'll add it to my slashdot "aspect" so others can just "click-and-add"

BTW - if you're wondering how to find someone on diaspora and you're looking for the link - there is none. Type their name, their diaspora handle, or whatever in the search box.

And while I'm out of invites, it says more will be coming soon ... so everyone else hang in there :-)

update: kimvette has 4 left after donating one to another slashdot user. If you ask her nicely ...

update 2 more here

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  • Can't wait to get an invite :-)
    • I'll put you on the list ... as soon as I get more invites, or anyone else has some ...
    • As you can see in the thread, kimvette has 4 invites left. However, your email isn't public. You can email me at barbie@xmlsucks.com, or barbie@alphagfx.com, and I can pass it on if you want.

      Yes, I know, spammers collect my email addresses. I don't care - Kmail does a great job of filing them in the right folder, and every once in a while, I take a peak to see what new techniques I'm missing out on. Lately, there's been a spate of url-shortened 3rd-party site spams using windows live and hotmail - usual

  • tqft@joindiaspora.com

  • Diaspora (Score:2)

    by Tet ( 2721 )
    You're kidding, right? After the astoundingly low quality of the inital source release, and the fact that they obviously hadn't designed it at all, they'd just sat down and started coding, why on earth would anyone want to use it? If they haven't designed security in from the beginning (and they haven't), it fails on its single advantage over facebook. So what's the point?
    • early unix [multicians.org]

      The idea of a free, non-vendor-supported operating system was new to them. I invited Dennis Ritchie to come up and talk to them. [after his presentation on Unix].

      We went to lunch afterward, and I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, "We left all that stuff out. If there's an error, we have this routine called panic, and when it is called, the machine crashes, and you holler down the hall, 'Hey, reboot it.'"

      My point is that thin

    • They have come up with a pretty impressive piece of work in a pretty short time after alot of pressure and expectations from the media and all of us. They call their release pre-alpha, and you argue about quality of code.

    • After the astoundingly low quality of the inital source release, and the fact that they obviously hadn't designed it at all, they'd just sat down and started coding, why on earth would anyone want to use it?

      What's better:

      * Let's get a basic system up, invite a few users and develop according to user desires, invite more users and develop to user desires, and as the community grows, the feature set will grow. As an added bonus, our source is open so if we tell you it's secure, you have the ability to prove u

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Tet ( 2721 )
        I think you misunderstand me. Facebook sucks in many, many ways. I detest it. I was hoping Diaspora might be the answer. They've proved it's not. Security needs to be designed in from the very beginning. Yes, you can tack it on afterwards, but you'll always end up with a half-baked solution. After all the noise they made, I (along with nearly everyone else) was expecting the former. Instead we got the latter. At that point, no amount of development driven by user desires is going to restore faith in a syste
        • Not to be to inflammatory (it's not Troll Tuesday, after all), but in reality. a lot of the security is ALWAYS going to be tacked on afterward, because the security problems evolve with time. Nobody has a perfect solution. "Security is a process yadda yadda yadda" ...

          Not only that, but if you're doing something different, then nobody has ever encountered that particular aspect before, so you're going to be doing a lot of it from scratch, and you'll probably not get it right the first time - and if you thi

          • Furthermore, there is so little functionality that security isn't really an issue at this point. Hopefully Diaspora will implement security and roles as the new corresponding features are implemented, and even more importantly, that unlike Facebook, those user preferences are respected and not reset to wide open when the hosts decide it's convenient, er, I mean, "enhance" the security model. The best feature I can think of adding to the security model is opting out of selling info to/sharing info with spo

  • richie@joindiaspora.com , thanks to kimvette. :-)

    • It's nice to be able to pick ANY user name - one of the advantages of joining early :-)

      • Yes, I often have to resort to using my motorcycle's licence plate, at least that's pretty unique as it's not a vanity plate. :-)

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