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by lifty 5y ago
So then you switch your domain to a different provider. Of course, the real trouble is when you loose the actual domain.
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by lifty 5y ago
It's almost impossible to get full digital sovereignty with existing widely deployed Internet tooling. For the domain part, something like Handshake could give us full digital sovereignty, but more people need to use it in order to mak
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by lifty 5y ago
Sure, you own the data, but you don’t have any control on what’s happening to it. Just like iPhone users, we own the physical device but we only control certain aspects of what it’s doing, and the boundaries are not set by us, but by Apple.
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by lifty 5y ago
I guess people had a sense of ownership of these devices and they feel that it’s doing some they they don’t want. If ownership means control, maybe in the digital age full ownership/control is not really possible on a managed device li
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by lifty 5y ago
It will be a review system, like on Amazon. Just kidding. I replied to the same question in a sibling comment.
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by lifty 5y ago
I’m not advocating for getting rid of the institutions that apply physical violence on behalf of the population. I’m advocating for more fairly distributing the strings of power. You still have to force the manufacturers to implement the ch
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by lifty 5y ago
We could mandate that all AI robots should load an abide by a digital constitution that has been cryptographically signed by a majority of the population.
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by lifty 5y ago
You're right. So what we need is strong institutions which are controlled by decentralised power levers. What I have in mind is cryptographic based control combined with concepts from liquid democracy.
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by lifty 5y ago
If we retain the same semi-centralised power structures for governing society, then I think it's unavoidable that we will face the scenario you mention. We need to decentralise governance and power in a massive way if we are to avoid n
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by lifty 5y ago
Is there a good argument for doing the scanning on the phone and not on the iCloud servers?
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by lifty 5y ago
You can use something like CalyxOS with a pixel 5
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by lifty 5y ago
Not necessarily. The scanning implementation can be similar to what they plan on doing on your device. I don't want them to do the scanning on my phone. If shit hits the fan and I become a dissident, I would prefer to have the option t
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by lifty 5y ago
It’s not a false sense of security, it’s a clear delimitation between theirs and mine; Debian package maintainers can also slip a scanner on your machine but that is a big line to cross on purpose and without notifying the user.
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by lifty 5y ago
K3s for example is more lightweight than upstream kubeadm because it compiles all the required components into a single binary. That also leads to considerably less operational complexity.
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by lifty 5y ago
I read that you can use the official Pixel camera and block access to the internet, only for that specific app.
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by lifty 5y ago
When the rules make it illegal to not pay tax then rich people will pay tax. The rules are made in such way that people can avoid paying tax, legally. So you should call your representative and make it clear that you want it, but I doubt th
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by lifty 5y ago
As long as humanity is divided and has factions that are in conflict, something like proof of work can be useful, because it allows those that are in conflict or don’t trust each other, to maintain a shared view of an accounting system (Bit
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by lifty 5y ago
Handshake ( https://handshake.org ) is a good option here which tries to be somewhat compatible with the old system.
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by lifty 5y ago
I’m surprised that Tenerife didn’t come up. It’s a Spanish island of the coast of Africa which gets great weather and a narrow temperature band all year round. Half of the island is quite green and lush because it gets a decent amount of r
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by lifty 5y ago
Once fusion becomes viable, desalination might become viable.
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by lifty 5y ago
That's a very attractive use of blockchain. It would be great if we can have accountability and traceability for all publicly spent money. It would also be nice to be able to trace all public contracts in a similar manner.
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by lifty 5y ago
So you work for one of the most valuable companies in the world as a software developer, making decent buck, and you are a failure? I think you are young and have unreasonable expectations. You’re doing very good in the grand scheme of thi
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by lifty 5y ago
You work at Amazon in IT? I don’t know your specific situation but you sure have a pretty defeatist attitude. That won’t serve you well. In my experience the most important factor for improving your career situation is finding opportunities
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by lifty 5y ago
Are you doing anything else interesting? Genuine question out of curiosity.
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by lifty 5y ago
Question is, would you prefer to re-write Spark in C or use GraalVM to get a boost in speed? It's not feasible to re-write everything from scratch.
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by lifty 5y ago
In true Oracle style, they will bleed you dry.
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by lifty 5y ago
Greece is truly embarrassing when it comes to data services, both for wired connections and data on mobile contracts. Why is that? Is the market cornered by some monopoly/oligopoly?
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by lifty 5y ago
You’re right, vanilla Kubernetes has a level of complexity that starts paying off at a certain cluster level. But the wide adoption of K8s also shows that people love the standardization and API it offers for orchestrating workloads even if
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by lifty 5y ago
Governments would have to source the specialised chips used to solve the Bitcoin hash function. While that's possible, it's not as easy as repurposing existing computing hardware.
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by lifty 5y ago
Onivim doesn’t use vscode. It’s a from scratch implementation that doesn’t use electron, but they do replicate the vscode plugin system so they can be compatible with it.

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