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by blitblitblit 6y ago
You can paint lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. Wish there were other browser engines besides the Chromium monopoly.
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by blitblitblit 6y ago
Unlikely, it's the world reserve currency. If markets panic, stocks drop, cash becomes more valuable and is held. You can always hedge with crypto and gold if you want.
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by blitblitblit 6y ago
Hackers, EMPs, Solar Flares, Squirrels... it's always good to have a local backup and not have everything on the net.
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Counteracting alienation with technological arts and crafts(viznut.fi)
1 points by blitblitblit 6y ago|0 comments
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by blitblitblit 6y ago
OpenOffice does not have nagware asking for donations, and they aren't in the business of creating "Commercial/Enterprise" editions and "Community Editions" as LO is doing. Sounds like LibreOffice is trying to
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by blitblitblit 6y ago
> Github. Which, as we know, is your resume. There in lies the problem. Encouraging people to put their resume on centralized platforms (Be it Facebook, LinkedIn, or Github) is putting your entire career at risk. It's better to have
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by blitblitblit 6y ago
This sounds horrible from a privacy perspective. DeGoogle!
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by blitblitblit 6y ago
Sadly yes, because no one has managed to keep the P2P CoralCache alive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Content_Distribution_Net...
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Zeronet why we should take it into account?(medium.com)
3 points by blitblitblit 6y ago|0 comments
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by blitblitblit 6y ago
He should get a ZeroBlog mirror up on ZeroNet. Meanwhile we can all thank Archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20201029194008/https://karl-voit...
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by blitblitblit 6y ago
Greenwald is a highly respected investigative journalist, I wish him the best on his new endeavors.
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by blitblitblit 6y ago
> stop dragging books into libraries that are known to be burned down in a couple of years for sure. Spot on. We should be encouraging users to redecentralize and use distributed open systems. Not walled gardens.
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by blitblitblit 6y ago
One example would be it is not possible to even make a PR request on Github as half the GUI no longer works in non-WebComponents browers. If it were open source we could perhaps see what WebComponent feature they think is missing and implem
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by blitblitblit 6y ago
Where is Telecomix when you need them?
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by blitblitblit 6y ago
> Now users have to learn GitHub and author raw HTML! Ignoring the fact Microsoft's Github has recently had DMCA insanity, a proprietary frontend, and recently enforced Webcomponents (effectively removing UXP devs who were forced to
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by blitblitblit 6y ago
The best, and worst, timeline folks!
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by blitblitblit 6y ago
Next Step: Implement Truecolor in linux console (fbcon). It is partially done, but the remaining work requires "large amount of code". https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/cec5b2a97a11ade56a7...
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by blitblitblit 6y ago
So can we revive any of these also abandoned alternatives? * Tiny X (Still Xorg just barebones and faster) - https://github.com/tinycorelinux/tinyx * Xynth - https://github.com/alperakcan/xynth *
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by blitblitblit 6y ago
Right you can move all non-RIAA content to an open platform. Or if someone wants to live dangerously setting up a PeerTube instance outside of RIAA jurisdiction would work just as well.
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by blitblitblit 6y ago
> The tech can exist. I urge you to (a) think about a long-term solution, and then (b) devote years of your life to making it a reality. So a few ideas... 1) YouTube alternatives already exist (Libry, PeerTube, DTube, etc.) 2) It should
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by blitblitblit 6y ago
This project really needs more attention. Would have resolved the issue we had earlier today. Some others ideas: * Write a client in C, JS sucks * Make a web-frontend for this so average users can jump on quickly.
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Googled has tightened restrictions for login(bkhome.org)
2 points by blitblitblit 6y ago|0 comments
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by blitblitblit 6y ago
> It feels nice knowing that it cannot be taken away from me by anyone. Just make sure this stays science fiction. “It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the
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by blitblitblit 6y ago
The copyright trolls are encircling Archive.org ever since they briefly offered the National Emergency Library. They need all the good vibes we can send them, please donate!
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by blitblitblit 6y ago
Time to revive GitTorrent? https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent
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Reop – Reasonable Expectation of Privacy(flak.tedunangst.com)
1 points by blitblitblit 6y ago|0 comments
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by blitblitblit 6y ago
C is hard to write properly, easy to compile, and lighter than Rust in the final binary size. Gets slightly complex when you start adding lots of third party libraries to link, but nothing out of the ordinary imo.
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by blitblitblit 6y ago
Notcurses https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses