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by kkfx 1y ago
No thanks. A valid and safe "age verification" (actually to be BANNED because meant as a way to pass internet censorship) could simply be: the State offer FLOSS and open-hardware IDs, we got a USB reader/built in in keyboard,
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by kkfx 1y ago
The NFTs that most people haven't yet understood are contracts, notarial deeds, and bureaucracy in general, which can be transferred from third-party guarantors to the "great public guarantor" of blockchain participants, all
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by kkfx 1y ago
Hum, set aside anything who TYPE a BTC (or any crypto) address instead of mere copy/autoscanning it?
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by kkfx 1y ago
Apparently the air start to change...
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by kkfx 1y ago
Essentially, Alphabet is launching its own blockchain for its own stablecoin. This wouldn't be a particularly interesting news if we only consider some current posts on HN about crypto's and Trump's announcement about scaling
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Alphabet launch GCUL supporting Hayek ideas of nth concurrent private currencies(cloud.google.com)
2 points by kkfx 1y ago|6 comments
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by kkfx 1y ago
LLM needs the web to harvest information so...
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by kkfx 1y ago
Honestly? We need not a successor of FHS but of filesystems, who are intimately tied package managers and installers. Zfs timidly start the change, with IPS (Image Package System) and BE (Boot Environments, as zfs clones), and we need to go
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by kkfx 1y ago
Another automaker looking to takes it's own life quickly...
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by kkfx 1y ago
It's for SEPA area BUT it's mandatory open only for PSPs/financial institutions cutting out end customers... Also most banks have a terribly limited support. Personally I use OpenBank APUs (PSD2/DSP2) for some banks (iro
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by kkfx 1y ago
Me personally I'm very satisfied by org-mode, but the main point is not org-mode itself but Emacs, or an integrated, end-user programmable environment. Org-agenda handle todos, but in the same notes I handle attachments, runnable live
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by kkfx 1y ago
The world is changing, yes, once upon a time, most innovation happened in person, because with the technology of the time, it was necessary to be there in person. But today's technology has made being there in person superfluous and in
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by kkfx 1y ago
We've been talking about learning organisations for years, and the importance of a documental culture has been clear for a long time. However, most companies have never truly implemented these models. Remote work forces them to do so
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by kkfx 1y ago
It's simply the proof anyone need personal ownership in a free internet instead of being dependent on giants on their own computer. It's curious how many in IT fails to see this...
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by kkfx 1y ago
Like GNU Taler, who born out of eCash, born out of an idea of David Chaum in 1982 (see https://youtu.be/DDsQCcuST6c for a nice introduction) there was - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondex (Mastercard
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by kkfx 1y ago
they are anyway needed and we also have YaCy as an example, and other distributed search solution. The point is that most do not participate so only commercial one get enough resources to be useful.
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by kkfx 1y ago
The fact we have PSPs endanger Democracy, because we could technically exchange eCash P2P, there is exactly ZERO reasons to keep up the banking systems, and banksters knows that well, https://web.archive.org/web/2024021
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by kkfx 1y ago
We are many, search engines are the mean to discover things because even with usenet it's impossible for a human to discover via URLs and links enough information on the web, that's the real revolution: links are useful but not en
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by kkfx 1y ago
It's a scale problem and a targets one: we are damn many, if we all want a fillet a day we haven't enough cows to satisfy such demand, and that's valid for essentially anything. So far we prove to be very skilled in doing ide
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by kkfx 1y ago
I think most fails to understand a thing: stablecoins are not "quick and simple eCash-alike", they are a way to re-dollarize the world migrating the power from traditional bankers to new ones. That's the end of the wild west.
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by kkfx 1y ago
The real problem is average mentality: many here for instance still want paper mail, the office, some also on call from home dress with suit and tie, complete with tie clip and shoes, in their own home! Efficiency is an oxymoron for them, b
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by kkfx 1y ago
What I fails to understand it's why no one seems to offer the most logic MUE which is essentially offering the full download/sync of all accounts maildirs, like with OfflineIMAP, than offer powerful local indexing like notmuch&#x2
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by kkfx 1y ago
IMVHO: cryptos rise because fiat money are considered less and less a trustable asset. People do not understand that behind stablecoin there is thin air, not differently than fiat money, but they trust more such thin air than the ones from
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by kkfx 1y ago
The cloud is someone else computer and the deploy solution alternatives are declarative systems like NixOS or Guix, finally adopted by a large community instead of wasting resources and enlarging attack surfaces by using container tech in g
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by kkfx 1y ago
Well... A personal take as someone who build his own domestic p.v. power plant with storage: - 99% of what's available on the market is NOT meant to be integrated, and that's a big break. I have and EV with a 400V battery and ther
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Servers and thin clients in every home is the future they stole from us(osnews.com)
26 points by kkfx 1y ago|11 comments
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by kkfx 1y ago
Since some years I bark that a perfectly possible future is a small machine room in remote workers homes, a distributed "cloud" for their employer, with domestic p.v. and aircon to complete the picture and in general a homeserver
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by kkfx 1y ago
Still not useful: facades remain exposed and so the largest thermal mass of the building.
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by kkfx 1y ago
Trees acts for their little thermal mass and large surface exposed to air, essentially IR radiation from the Sun can't much reach the ground or humans under trees (if they are large and dense enough) and the part of the radiation touch
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by kkfx 1y ago
Photoprism and Immich

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