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by rakoo 3y ago
We're not talking about the same thing. You're talking about why the dollar will be stable (and I totally agree with you there). I'm talking about why you and I can do business in dollars, and that was the origin of the discu
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by rakoo 3y ago
And I can also say that your view is less context than a personal biased view on the situation. Mixing up Hamas and Palestinians as if they're all the same. Excusing Israel's response as just and proportionate, meaning that shelli
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by rakoo 3y ago
And what if Russia had been colonizing Scotland, then Wales, then half of England, only left disjointed pockets of UK residents not allowed to vote, being watched 24/7, being beaten, harassed and killed by settlers under the watch of R
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by rakoo 3y ago
Bitcoin as a speculating tool lives as long as speculation can live. Bitcoin, or any cryptocurrency as an actual currency exchanged at large scale will not work, or at least not in a democracy.
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by rakoo 3y ago
Cryptocurrencies slow down the rate of data not because of spam but because a slower rate means a higher consistency across the network: cryptocurrencies' goal is to agree on a consistent state with peers who do not want to negotiate.
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by rakoo 3y ago
Exactly. If I'll have to depend on someone else anyway (and I will), might as well build trust because a life being cautious about everything and everyone is not worth living. Only those with already vast amounts of money can afford it
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by rakoo 3y ago
Absolutely it is: it is based on the trust we all have that the government will do whatever it takes to guarantee the value of a dollar. Me being able to commerce with you in dollars and not, say, in old zimbabwean dollars rests on the shar
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by rakoo 3y ago
Cryptocurrencies only help where no one can trust anyone. But if that's the case, I claim that such a system is not viable in the long term.
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by rakoo 3y ago
Filecoin is "easy": it is trivial to verify that the blob you stored is the one I wanted you to store. There is no trivial way to verify that you indexed what I wanted you to index, or that you reply what I wanted you to reply. I
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by rakoo 3y ago
My current fiat currency is absolutely based on trust that the State will uphold any disagreement, even though I know it is not benevolent. I also don't understand your point. The current world is not what I want, so let's make it
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by rakoo 3y ago
Note that it's not a distributed tracker, it's an indexer/tracker/search engine that uses distributed resources (the nodes in the dht)
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by rakoo 3y ago
What you don't understand is that "I don't trust others" is not a terminal statee I'd rather build trust again, create human connections, or rather, put them in front because there are always connections; nothing wo
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by rakoo 3y ago
You have to look beyond the surface. Cryptocurrencies work specifically to address a system where no node can trust any other node. If I cannot trust any other node, why would I fetch anyone else's index, or ask them for the results of
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by rakoo 3y ago
Virtual DOM has always been about ease of programming, never about performance. Since this model has existed, all the work has been made to gain more performance but still not fast enough compared to direct DOM access.
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by rakoo 3y ago
They're slowly but surely reinventing OStatus (< https://indieweb.org/OStatus >), which ended with ActivityPub. Surely if they go the same path they will end up with the same conclusions.
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by rakoo 3y ago
The fediverse is a large and diverse enough social media that you will not be able to traverse in your own lifetime. Follow the links to the artistic, human-made, not-for-profit, "authentic" content. There's more than enough
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by rakoo 3y ago
I completely disagree. Capitalism-led internet entities are fake, that is absolutely no surprise, that's how capitalism works: producing more and more garbage to make you pay for it in one way or another. But there are vast fields of t
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by rakoo 3y ago
Stop following for-profit entities, start making human connections and keep them human. All of this has one and only one source: capitalism.
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From their doc, immutability is used for avoiding data races. Deadlocks are avoided by only starting a procedure when all dependencies are ready.
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by rakoo 3y ago
> By externalizing costs onto server owners, the same way they do everything. I mean that's the whole point of the Fediverse, a federated network of independent nodes. Of course the nodes take care of the functionality.
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by rakoo 3y ago
I used to use a rss2imap script that put it all in my mailbox, so I could read entries from everywhere. I stopped when I realized I don't want to be beholden to my computer being always on. Now I have a server doing this + a good UX th
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by rakoo 3y ago
FreshRSS, works well directly from the browser, desktop or mobile. What I like about it is that you can gradually work your unread list: if you're in a specific feed and mark it as read it switches to the next feed only with unread ite
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If the RSS server lies to me, then the RSS content is garbage, signed or not.
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...and this is why 99% of developers will defend for-profit companies stealing data, enabling mass genocides and foregoing all privacy: because everything must become the next big XXX .
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by rakoo 3y ago
Oh I do agree and I wish more people did like you do, which is my point: instead of discussing what billionaire ego island gets richer, let's just not use their tools and discuss together what we want as a society. If the cost of AI is
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by rakoo 3y ago
Contrasted to making Sam Altman even richer ? Or Sergei and Larry even richer ? I don't see the difference. Not meaning it's ok to go the Amazon way, but that it's not ok to use any of those
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by rakoo 3y ago
I'm one of the persons who blocks the bridge, not because of privacy concerns but because it bluesky, specifically. I do not like the idea of for-profit, vc-backed entities being given data, or any kind of decision. We all know exactly
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by rakoo 3y ago
Bittorrent is free, as fast as my network collection allows, and verifies integrity. I disagree that it falls into your description.
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That's Friendica. Bluesky apparently will be available in next release
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by rakoo 3y ago
Don't bother coding, there's already Friendica that does everything old Facebook does and even more. What matters is not the code. Never has been.

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