elbci

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by elbci 9mo ago
> "How would you decouple from the US?" Depends who's "you": if you are China you just stop answering the US calls, if you are EU you print out "Subsistence agriculture" from wikipedia ;) And about &quo
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by elbci 9mo ago
Ha ha, funny. In all fairness it would be just as funny about PyPi or crates or whatever. The collapse of bazaar/dependency/abstractions development model is already a running joke. I don't have numbers but I bet more and mor
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by elbci 9mo ago
Eu is going for "technological sovereignty" by asking people how to install linux (you know, that USA based linux who banned Russian contributors for being Russian but suuurely wouldn't ban other europeans). And if they manag
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by elbci 9mo ago
So my cube-key will look to anybody else as a regular scrambled cube. If my kid finds it and solves it, I'm kind of doomed, right? So what's the plan, I'm supposed to remember the state of the cube? A admit I'm dumb and
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by elbci 9mo ago
This! Offering a "$5k 24h prototype" is like trying to sell a $500 WordPress theme at a pitch for "Amazon new website" - both expensive for what it is and orders of magnitude below what's required.
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by elbci 9mo ago
Inheritance moneyed CEO ;))
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by elbci 9mo ago
oh so now the word genocide is "devalued"... Since we're doing mental gymnastics, does "antisemite" still means hating perpetrators of genocide? How about holowcause, did it change from 'events long ago' t
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by elbci 9mo ago
> "they used petro oil money to lower grocery prices" Huh? Those criminals dared to use the country oil to offer affordable food to the people?! Criminals, I tell you, criminals!
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by elbci 9mo ago
We need supersonic airports, not planes. Spending 2h to board a plane for a 1h flight is just wrong
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by elbci 9mo ago
indeed war is when 2 armies fight each other while genocide is when unarmed civilians, women and children are murdered en masse. if residents of a ghetto say in Warsaw have access to kinetic projectiles like stones and empty bottles doesn&
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by elbci 9mo ago
"incorruptible Administration: Replacing traditional bureaucracy with validated, objective AI-governance layers." aaa... validated by... who? "Economic Load Balancing: A $10M hard cap on individual assets..." yes! "
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by elbci 9mo ago
Ah, NYT... it's years since I read anything in legacy MSM but it all came back now... the wall of text taking you all over the place from Truman to Candance Owen to Soviet Union, offering an unexplained explanation akin to 'religi
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by elbci 9mo ago
Well in all honesty Renaissance was like arabic research attributed to ancient greeks and served as "humanist revolution" to hide the real revolution: usury meaning being redefined by papal decree to get it off the sins list ;)
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by elbci 9mo ago
This has to be about some Europe on another planet because in Earth based Europe energy prices keep rising in double digit increments
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by elbci 9mo ago
I have this medical condition, I get an eye twitch every time I read "Privacy is eroding, capitalism is bad, corporations suck but no worries, I got a solution: here's my start-up..."
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by elbci 9mo ago
Yeap, as international law means nothing they will revert to sending family members as collateral to guarantee adherence to agreements, in turn this will speed the shedding of last "democracy" pretenses and make dynastic rule offi
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by elbci 9mo ago
I use a non-smart, non-internet phone but I do have a android phone in the car to make the multimedia/maps/whatever work properly - more and more stuff assumes you have a modern spyware device
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by elbci 9mo ago
p2p storage as in torrent or IPFS or whatever is the part that we kinda' solved already. Serving/searching/addressing without the (centralized) DNS is still missing for a (urgently needed) p2p censorship resistant internet. U
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by elbci 9mo ago
Ah, what a novel idea: extract data from users to figure how to better fleece them ..ahem "offer better services". Isn't this the main reason for intrenet?
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by elbci 9mo ago
"1984"? what do you mean it was about power changing truth on the go?! It was always about floral arrangements and cookies recopies ;))
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by elbci 9mo ago
same old lessons still unlearned... "Sapiens" LOL
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by elbci 9mo ago
I have high hopes for ternary
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by elbci 9mo ago
At least Trump made it all clear and simple: "I'll kill, bomb or kidnap your a__ because I can". No more "freedom $ democracy" BS before robbing someone
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by elbci 9mo ago
I don't get it, I upload my files to your site, then I send my friends links to your site? How is this not a single point of failure?
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by elbci 10mo ago
If you edit the post, maybe touch on how technology always promised liberation but only delivered more of the same class division, how luddites attacked the machines taking their jobs instead of attacking the social contract, how "art
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by elbci 10mo ago
90s: everyone can make a website 2000s: everyone can post on FB 2025: everyone can prompt AI Yet every time everyone who got lured into the hamster wheel got swamped by advertising noise and carefully curated "unicorns"
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by elbci 10mo ago
Summary: ppl are divided and I hope for world peace and universal happiness, i.e. I have nothing to say
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by elbci 10mo ago
Curing rubber barons - a talk at JP Morgan mansion
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by elbci 10mo ago
I disapprove of anything less than GPLv3 and I have apprehensions towards anything hyped (like Rust) but boy a new kernel is badly needed, in fact an entirely new FOSS ecosystem
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by elbci 10mo ago
I love your vibe but unfortunately I don't share your optimism. The interregnum between monopolies gets exponentially shorter as the money printing gets exponentially faster. What was maybe 20 years of "OK-ish" after say WW2

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