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by hkt 2y ago
One might think that Trump had just beaten Lenin rather than Biden, judging by the rhetoric
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by hkt 2y ago
In fairness, and NHS didn't get tested at the ballot in 2016. There's a structural problem with parties of the "left", namely that they're hostages of their predominantly centre-right memberships. Labour in the UK h
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Did you hire her?
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by hkt 2y ago
This is both sanest and fairest: some roles in the UK civil service are blind recruited for the first stages for exactly this reason. IMO it should be standard.
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On the other hand, people can believe experts without being experts. Perhaps the French parliamentarians just listen better.
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by hkt 2y ago
And tariffs are the the act of a friend too? Let's not be silly. Trump's is America first: the upshot of which is everyone else can be a subordinate or a rival. Europe is wisely choosing not to subordinate itself to the US quite s
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by hkt 2y ago
The logical step here is what's alluded to at the end of the article: self hosting and doing things with FLOSS is impossible unless you're sufficiently one-of-us to get into the guts of software. We can only make this situation ch
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by hkt 2y ago
People have thought about how to do forward secrecy with PGP: https://sequoia-pgp.org/talks/2018-08-moving-forward/moving-... https://sequoia-pgp.gitlab.io/openpgp-dr/openpgp_dr/index.ht.
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by hkt 2y ago
Re: your first paragraph, this is exactly what Google does now. They maintain such an incredible pace of development and such a unilateral attitude that nobody can stop them from developing web standards even if they want to. When was the l
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Briar is a nice idea, but last time I used it I couldn't find peers, if memory serves. I tried adding a friend who was interested and we sat and waited for our messages. They never arrived. In the end, we went back to using DeltaChat.
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by hkt 2y ago
Mozilla's greatest contribution to the web could well end up being a fork of Firefox with an accompanying standard for html and CSS which halts the march of SPAs and curtails interactivity, cookies, etc. Call it HTML4+. It wouldn'
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by hkt 2y ago
Cue a flood of people euphemistically saying this is because it is a "small, homogenous" country
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by hkt 2y ago
See earlier on today's front page, another all in one mail server. It is much, much simpler than it was to do this. I've been self hosting email for nearly 20 years and the state of the art is considerably better now. Latency is v
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by hkt 2y ago
They've actually cracked PGP, and email is fine, especially between self hosters and anyone using chatmail. I've been using it for years: Delta really, really works.
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https://github.com/mjl-/mox/issues/242 They're thinking of doing this already and apparently have some pox/prototype code, and a user has suggested a thing in the meantime.
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by hkt 2y ago
Or, cheaper electronics emerge that don't include any independent rogue networking capability!
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by hkt 2y ago
Living standards are important, sure. So are democratic standards, and rich people often subvert them. There has been a long, long tradition of that in the US too, and everywhere else. Sponsoring their chosen politicians, being newspaper pr
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by hkt 2y ago
Media centrality somewhat matters
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by hkt 2y ago
Bless you. Keep fighting the good fight.
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I suspect the winner takes all nature of the economy might lead to a lot of those smaller companies getting borged, if they're even a little bit interesting and profitable.
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The EU is a market optimising machine in many ways, and the bigger the market, the more interested they are. It made perfect sense for them to intervene there because it affected a huge number of people. Similarly, I expect user serviceable
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> If Europeans can’t figure out new valuable things to contribute to the world, than their system isn’t as clever or morally righteous or fantastic as they think it is. Most Europeans have access to some kind of comprehensive public heal
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by hkt 2y ago
I pasted this into slack every week for years, every Wednesday. People used to ask if I was OK if I forgot.
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In a way, that's all of them :(
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Wasn't one of them reported as saying he was racist before it was cool? The whole problem is that the people around Trump (and even more so Musk) do genuinely appear to have Nazi ish beliefs. This is why their attacks on key parts of t
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by hkt 2y ago
> I think the nuance is between you and your wife and it is truly a pity if you feel you can't tell her that you need a rest Realistically, male weakness is repugnant to a lot of women. It is a huge gamble for anyone to show any wha
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by hkt 2y ago
We're all part of the ongoing negotiation of what words mean. If you want them to have significance, become a lawyer or a pedant. One of those fights the good fight to keep language as a valuable and viable communication medium in the
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A bit nitpicky, but I've noticed the same thing, especially in humanities and social science people who ought to know the difference better. Her point on dropping the ball is interesting, too: I'm a chronic ball dropper for christ
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Fair point, storage changes things. Being as I live in Britain though, I'm going to assume solar won't be much good for us in winter even if there's storage :) Also vaguely related, it is bizarre that we don't do more wi
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Nothing more than just using it. It is a normal email client but it can displace WhatsApp and signal in your IMs if other people you know use it. If you have an existing GPG key you can import it, if memory serves.

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