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by xj9 9y ago
the good music is on the internet (no not on spotify) http://hypem.com http://bandcamp.com
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zfs can almost get you there. snapshots are p fast. interesting concept.
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i don't really see web applications ever being good mobile applications. to start with, jit compiling applications on a energy-constrained device is straight stupid. you should compile the application for me on some system that isn&#
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the web was a mistake. not as a concept, but as an application platform. the question i ask myself is: how do we take the Good Parts of the web and bring them to the native application side? how do we create an ecosystem as free as the web,
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yes, but what i said still applies. entrepreneurship is gambling with reasonable odds, right? hardware might be a longer shot, but at the end of the day its approximately random (skewed on the side of players with more money)
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pls stop you already have an html document and a browser that was made for browsing documents. why make another application that does the job of the application i'm using to access your documents? for fun, it get it, but as far
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unless you succeed, you fail
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:rolling_eyes: :joy: :joy: :joy: :sunglasses: in other words: kek i'll do what i want, thanks "need" and "what i want/can/will do" are totally separate things. i only need a few basic things[0], the rest i
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\> If we all reacted the same way, we'd be predictable, and there's always more than one way to view a situation. What's true for the group is also true for the individual. It's simple: Overspecialize, and you breed i
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collectively, yes. so the question is, where does the line between animate and inanimate lie?
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\> doomed this is the doomed timeline, i suppose. no need to be so, uh, defeatist about it tho. building a facebook alternative/competitor isn't impossible, just hard. took forever, but #ostatus is finally making some headway
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you compete with facebook by doing things that facebook cannot do. gnu/social and mastodon are one step in that direction b/c they are ad free on purpose and provide a much more personal experience via gift economy. sure, some i
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\> unfortunately i think you are missing the point. the idea is to prevent ASICs from taking over. if you could build one that could mine ETH or zcash, it would be a failure from their perspective.
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my point stands. more public money should be going to free/libre projects too.
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gift economy seems to be working okay for gnu/social/mastodon
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IA is better! https://archive.org/donate/
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yet it is the unix/text fetish that forms the foundation for toasters, smartphones/watches, clouds, and supercomputers you'd think that a superior alternative would be overtaking this clearly inferior symbolic text system mak
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free/open/libre software takes time and skill to create. more companies should probably be paying some kind of support or at least donating since they are no doubt using it to extract some kind of value from the market.
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it is, but computer isn't smart enough for the future to happen yet
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ever heard of fun? or learning? not everything needs to have the potential for monetization to be worthwhile; it can just be interesting. this is actually something that has been difficult for me to internalize, but i am much happier for i
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or do because open offices are stupid, maybe the ticking is soothing to me! if you value your control over the sounds that surround you, maybe you should push for a more private office setup?
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i don't avoid spy-tech companies to hurt them, i do it because i have a problem with being spied on. i also prefer to be a direct customer of the businesses whose services i utilize. it is important to me that our interests are aligned
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i've been exploring secure scuttlebutt for the last couple of days. very cool project built around a fully decentralized FOAF graph of peers publishing/storing/forwarding append-only logs. they even have some nice application
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Just Do It
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i'm extroverted and the only facebook product that i interact with regularly is messenger. i use it because my family uses it. i treat my wall (and instagram profile) as write only. i don't get notifications or interact with anyon
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ok, what happens when the bot decides it isn't in its best interest to continue to be your slave?
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https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1506/1506.06668.pdf
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better off using non-free software for mission-critical services it may be true that spanner is currently better than any free software option, but you are much better off contributing to a free software project that solves this problem
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what happens when the bot gets tired of being your slave?
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not criminals who get caught , no. a good "criminal" is invisible and manages to get away with their crime. these aren't people you hear about, because then they'd be failures.

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