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by xj9 9y ago
you don't need to consider the entire set of humans, only those with the ability/drive to obtain enough power/influence to gain control over a nuclear weapon.
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by xj9 9y ago
increased risks of nuclear war you do realize that initiating nuclear war is suicide, right? the u.s. took advantage of the only chance of actually using one because they were the only nuclear power at the time.
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by xj9 9y ago
i've been thinking along these lines for a long time. i was originally very inspired by the plan 9 paper, but that model has a lot of weaknesses too. i'll admit that i don't have (m)any solutions, i've been busy with oth
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by xj9 9y ago
why would you jump all of the way back to prehistoric tech? a lot of modern (and fairly green) tech would be pretty easy to salvage. manufacturing some of this stuff is pretty involved, but i don't think we will have to start all the w
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by xj9 9y ago
same. we had a lot of content restrictions on my home network growing up, so i learned about tor and isolinux to get past them. tor was actually overkill in this case, but it was still fun.
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by xj9 9y ago
i said decentralized, not distributed. decentralization has plenty of room for centers, the point is not to have just one. having specialized service providers is fine, the problems start to crop up when we don't have real choices. for
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by xj9 9y ago
i don't know what else we could have expected. the internet that people have access to is no longer decentralized. we need more of this. more systems that cannot be controlled or censored by any one party. applications, devices, and se
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by xj9 10y ago
remember linux? centralization is good for conquering, but decentralized forces hold more permanently once they take hold (which can take a long time).
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by xj9 10y ago
tell that to all of the friends i've made here. it is very different from twitter somehow. you really do connect with people.
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by xj9 10y ago
do we really need a bunch of rich fucks staring at us while we're talking to our friends? how do you even make friends in that kind of environment? shouldn't social networks be, you know, personal? we haven't won yet, but we
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by xj9 10y ago
Mastodon and most other ostatus projects are free software, licensed AGPL.
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by xj9 10y ago
i'm not saying "that is not real communism", i'm saying they are all different schools of thought, which should be judged independently. Marxism Leninism Marxism–Leninism Trotskyism Maoism Juche Anarchist communism
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by xj9 10y ago
you are talking about some specific brands of communist thought. Mao had some ideas. Lenin had others. lots of other groups have tried different ideas to varying degrees of success. there are a lot of schools of thought who strongly disagre
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by xj9 10y ago
capitalism isn't done yet. it will keep being powerful and useful until we reach post-scarcity. capitalism itself is only a tool. for all we know, markets will always be part of our economic fabric. imo building cooperative systems tha
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Searx – search without being tracked(asciimoo.github.io)
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by xj9 10y ago
well, the world is better than it ever has been, but it feels worse. objectively, we all have a higher standard of living, longer life expectancy, and more opportunities for education than generation in (known) human history. what we (a
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by xj9 10y ago
nobody made one[1] [1]: https://chan.bbnet.io/
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by xj9 10y ago
tracking user engagement on a federated social network. its an interesting problem, because there isn't a central database i can ask for basic information like: login time, recent activity timestamps, or even usernames. i built a proof
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#fedstats – social federation statistics project(source.heropunch.io)
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Cofe of Conduct: A “Code of Conduct” for Adults(source.heropunch.io)
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by xj9 10y ago
being a drug addict isn't mutually exclusive with having other skills. I wouldn't have been above something like this if my salary (software engineer) hadn't been able to cover my habits.
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FreedomBone(freedombone.net)
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by xj9 10y ago
i've built large applications in both Vue and Angular 2 and i still prefer Angular. don't get me wrong, Vue 2 is really nice, but i strongly prefer TypeScript over any JavaScript revision. Flow is helpful, and Vue 2 has typings, b
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Time for Tesla to Listen(medium.com)
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by xj9 10y ago
you might want to go back an re-read your networking books.
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by xj9 10y ago
but you do save money every month after that!
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Defective by Design: Encrypted Media Extensions(defectivebydesign.org)
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by xj9 10y ago
of course, this isn't going to happen by itself. foss is famously bad at user acquisition and ui/ux. the interesting thing about federated (or federate-able) social networks is that they aren't designed as silos. i'm in
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by xj9 10y ago
forget twitter, gnu/social is the future https://gnu.io/social/
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by xj9 10y ago
I usually think, why am I on Facebook? I just want messenger to open already.

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