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by blindgeek 6y ago
If you need proof that cryptocurrencies are evil, here's Tim May, one of the idiological grand-pappies of bitcoin writing about one possible use for cryptocurrency in the Cyphernomicon: begin quote 16.10.4. Will I be sad if an
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by blindgeek 6y ago
For a year of middle school and a couple years in high school, I went to a "distinguished" secular private prep school in Oklahoma City. I think there were 60 to 80 students per grade, with small class sizes, much smaller than pub
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by blindgeek 6y ago
"It's in the top 20 or so of world currencies, and it's still in its infancy (thus volatility etc)." My question, then, is how do we go about drowning Baby Bitcoin in the metaphorical bathtub?
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by blindgeek 6y ago
"There is fundamentally no way to reduce bitcoin or blockchain energy consumption, it is the very thing which enables decentralized trustless transactions and the quality required implies a minimum power use." Why would I want to
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by blindgeek 6y ago
I have some green sensibilities, but I'm more of a Post-scarcity Socialist. Backing a currency with a scarce resource serves no purpose other than to keep us serfs "down on the manor" so to speak. Standards of living didn&#x
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by blindgeek 6y ago
This is exciting. Wonder what it would take to add replying and posting? It is read-only.
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by blindgeek 6y ago
By all means, you should check it out. I live independently in a household with two other blind people. We use Be My Eyes alongside object recognition / OCR apps like Seeing AI. The two types of app compliment one another quite nicel
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by blindgeek 6y ago
Trump was also great advertising for Twitter, just like he was great for the news media. I'd argue that Big Media, Inc. is deeply complicit in the rise of Donald Trump. He was the goose that laid the golden egg. Additionally, the med
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by blindgeek 6y ago
As a blind person, I dearly miss the textual Internet as it was. The original Internet -- the textual one -- was perfectly accessible. The extra markup added to HTML to help screen readers was added because the web stack had gotten too com
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by blindgeek 6y ago
It's possible, though I doubt it. I don't have enough evidence -- anecdotal or otherwise -- with which to draw a conclusion.
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by blindgeek 6y ago
I'm totally blind (lacking even light perception), with optic nerve hypoplasia (ONH). Relevant link: https://www.pathstoliteracy.org/blog/living-onh-adult-shares... Relevant quotation from aforementioned link: &qu
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by blindgeek 7y ago
A few years back, Facebook and others were banning People with the name Isis. Anyone with more than two brain cells who had spent some time studying the humanities would not have made that mistake. I'd think that people who write cod
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by blindgeek 7y ago
To answer another question from the post: "But do I want to do this? Asking mailing lists admins to trust me again, with a new domain after the previous debacle, is a bit too much, isn't it?" I'm a list admin for a maili
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by blindgeek 7y ago
I have lots of warm and fuzzy feelings toward Matrix, but my take is that XMPP solved my basic problem over 15 years ago. The problem being: I want to talk to Alice, Bob, Mary, Jane, Fred, and Joe without having to install ICQ, AIM, and Ya
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by blindgeek 7y ago
Of course. Nothing in life is guaranteed. I'm sure the Buddha would tell me that "there ain't no such thing as permanent". Nevertheless, I've had my domain name longer than I've had my current phone number.
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by blindgeek 7y ago
Snipped out of context from: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ "However, over the past six years, we’ve also seen the user cost of switching between centralized communication services reduced s
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by blindgeek 7y ago
My biggest problem with messaging applications as a whole is that I need so many of them. I have a few contacts who are reachable with Signal, a few more who are reachable on Hangouts or whatever Google is calling its latest thing, and a f
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by blindgeek 8y ago
"Even boosters now seem to implicitly accept the assumption (accurate or not) that the internet is the root of multiple woes, from increasing political polarization to the mass diffusion of misinformation." I certainly don't
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by blindgeek 8y ago
When I was studying math, a lot of times, I got to take tests at home. Prof would email me a copy of the test in LaTeX (they used it anyway), and I'd mail my answers back in LaTeX or PDF. Worked well for us. I'd just slip out the
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by blindgeek 9y ago
As often as I've seen people get shell-escaping wrong, escaping rules probably aren't well-understood, regardless of how well-defined they are. Bourne shell's quoting rules are byzantine at best. There are ways to reliably a
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by blindgeek 9y ago
I do have a very good memory, but I cannot really visualize. I've never had any sight. I'm so bad at visualization that I'm baffled by the concept of a picture. How do people manage to cram three dimensions of reality into
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by blindgeek 9y ago
I use emacs with emacspeak for programming and a good many other things. For pure terminal interaction outside of emacs I use a console-based screen reader called Speakup. For graphical applications, I use a screenreader called Orca. I don
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by blindgeek 9y ago
So much this! I happen to be a blind software developer who has had just this sort of experience in years gone by. Web apps mean that you are at the mercy of the developers. Something can work one day and break the next. This is even more
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by blindgeek 11y ago
I think what really killed Usenet in the US was Andrew Cuomo's crusade against it. During the period from 1993 to 2008, I had Usenet from most of the ISPs I used. The ISPs started pulling the plug in 2008 or 2009. I was using text gr
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by blindgeek 11y ago
I'd love to be able to use more public transit. After all, I'm blind, in case the username didn't give away my secret. However, my city does not offer bus service on nights and weekends, and frequently places that I wish to
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Edbrowse: an editor and web browser with a UI based on /bin/ed(edbrowse.org)
22 points by blindgeek 11y ago|7 comments
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by blindgeek 12y ago
Have you looked at scsh (AKA the Scheme shell)? How does your work compare with it? It seems like your goals are similar, except that you're working in Lua.