whatevermatt's comments

On: Getting a bit creepy

[whatevermatt]

What do we expect when we take free candy from strangers? Of course it's creepy.

This is just another reason to curate the things we let into our lives.

On: Twitter to developers: no new Twitter clients

[whatevermatt]

I was about to upvote you until you used the word Gruberism to describe a phrase that is probably older than he is.

[RyanMcGreal → whatevermatt]

Gruber refined the meaning so that it applies to such a move by anyone other than Steve Jobs.

[icarus_drowning → whatevermatt]

Of course its older than he is. I was referring to his apparent affinity for inserting "dick" in front of everything.

Pedantically nitpick much? ;)

On: Twitter to developers: no new Twitter clients

[whatevermatt]

To expect enduring openness from a privately-owned medium or enduring stability from a single point of failure is naïve.

On: Twitter to developers: no new Twitter clients

[whatevermatt]

From the announcement:

- Display of tweets in 3rd-party services. We need to ensure that tweets, and tweet actions, are rendered in a consistent way so that people have the same experience with tweets no matter where they are. For example, some developers display “comment”, “like”, or other terms with tweets instead of “follow, favorite, retweet, reply” - thus changing the core functions of a tweet.

While I don't like the idea of 3rd-party services treating Twitter as a white-label medium, it's hard to believe this is coming from the same service that is famous for letting its users establish convention, and then supporting that convention. (@, #, etc)

(Edit: s/email/announcement/)

On: Raising a Botnet in Captivity

[whatevermatt]

"To our knowledge, this is the first such realistic experiment."

I find it hard to believe that nobody has tried this before in a closed lab setting. Perhaps the scale (3000 installs on 98 machines) is the differentiating factor. Or perhaps the others were kept quiet.

[benkant → whatevermatt]

I read this wondering why it's news. I'm certain this has been done numerous times before. Unfortunately I don't have any links to back that up.

On: Unhosted - Freedom from web 2.0's monopoly platfor...

[whatevermatt]

My, how times have changed for FLOSS. The project aims to "help keep Google, Facebook and Apple in check" with Microsoft making not so much as a blip on the radar.