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by floren 3y ago
I'm mostly on-board with your post but email is still pretty useful... as long as you're a good consumer and use one of the Blessed Email Servers. If you try to run your own, well, you'll have to deal with Google and their ru
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Usenet II(en.wikipedia.org)
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> It's a broader internet problem in general - "trending" algorithmic reinforcement stuff will push everyone towards the ONE TRUE BEST HOTTEST MOST POPULAR bbq/ramen/whatver place, when probably there's half
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by floren 3y ago
I built a hierarchical note-keeping system for myself and have been intending to add tags to it, but I've never gotten around to it -- because the hierarchy is generally "good enough" after I added two features: linking, and
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by floren 3y ago
My VPS with a gig of memory did fine when it got near the top of the HN front page, no caching proxy, just a Go webserver.
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by floren 3y ago
I think when the centralized owner of a site has decided to fuck up the site in a way that pisses off a lot of users, it's reasonable to look to solutions which are resilient against that. If a particular Usenet peer decided it wanted
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by floren 3y ago
I've sketched a few ideas for what you'd need to make Usenet, ah, usable given modern concerns (primarily spam and spoofing). The biggest takeaway in my explorations is: you could probably never really get mass adoption of a Usene
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by floren 3y ago
Do you remember how much the B volume cost?
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by floren 3y ago
> It's worth asking before anyone loses their mind about this, who made this change and why? [...] These decisions get made to maximize shareholder value Sounds like a pretty goddamn good reason to lose my mind. > the original fi
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by floren 3y ago
> A few days after the event, I heard from the manager at the housing complex where I stayed that a gratuity was in order to the police officer who had attended! Did he helpfully offer to collect the gratuity from you and promise to deli
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by floren 3y ago
> Certainly the web and its abortive competitors (like apple eWorld, and many others) made it clear for those not paying attention: nobody wanted to "walk" from Gap to Williams Sonoma in some virtual mall: they just wanted to c
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by floren 3y ago
> Also, at the time, people had freaked out about wearing cameras in public. (I wonder if I need to purchase some popcorn to watch how it'll go for this one, or if it's gonna be different.) My prediction is that it's going
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by floren 3y ago
The expensive services are expensive because they include alt.binaries.*, which are used for piracy. http://www.eternal-september.org/ gives free access to the text groups
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by floren 3y ago
"Vote against their own interests" almost always means "vote contrary to my preferences, the imbeciles".
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Enjoy your time there -- a lot of people complain about it but I truly loved RIT. I hope they've maintained some of the feel of the campus among all the development which has happened... I can't believe that the Riverknoll apartme
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by floren 3y ago
During my time at RIT, 2005-2010, you could apply for classes via a web interface, but if you wanted to actually get the good spots, you'd use the telnet interface. Specifically, you'd connect to a cluster of VMS machines (some
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by floren 3y ago
> Treating unhoused persons as a homogenous population is probably the original sin of modern American homeless policy It gives you some useful tricks, though. E.g. if somebody complains about the chronically homeless addicts assaulting
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by floren 3y ago
He said "I don’t think it is insane or inhumane to require people to work with supportive assistance ", meaning to have the people engage with supportive assistance. Not "get a job before we help you" but "talk to
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by floren 3y ago
One of the sneakiest EULAs I've seen: https://i.imgur.com/bWR8iw2.png It's titled "What's New At Blockade Labs", a title which continues to display even when you scroll down and find the terms of se
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by floren 3y ago
Oh that's daily around here still. Absolutely baffling to me, I could handle wearing a mask when I needed to but you bet your ass I was removing it as soon as I got outside because it's really quite unpleasant. I've got a nei
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Man, I live in the Bay Area, and my neighbors still do this shit .
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And then this class decides policy
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> Ultimately here that means solving some thornier problems, because it is an amazing but accurate stereotype these days that the person riding a bike in most cities is more privileged than the person driving. The former could afford a n
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by floren 3y ago
Specifically, info appears to come from ITS. Stallman hacked on ITS back in the day, and the first time I logged into an ITS system ( http://up.dfupdate.se/ , if you're curious) and used the online help system, I suddenl
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by floren 3y ago
> One of the most important lessons the Jargon file has for "how to become a hacker", is "don't take anything too seriously." Especially not the Jargon File. It largely comes from a particular period of time at M
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Stallman's pathetic devotion to the ITS online help system?
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by floren 3y ago
Drive down the rent? The article is all about how these parasites buy the properties specifically so they can raise the rents, you mewling bootlicker.
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by floren 3y ago
> By summer 2022, the pool water had turned a sickly green. High piles of trash littered the parking lot. Tenants complained to city officials about rats, mold, illegal evictions and the failure of management to properly maintain the b
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> “I’m sick and tired of working for my money.” That was when he decided to become a landlord, he said. couldn't have happened to nicer people
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by floren 3y ago
I'm starting to question that idea too. It seems like, just as often, these supportive environments on the web like to spiral down into an attitude of "ONLY this group supports and likes you; the rest of the world is hostile to yo

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