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rottingleaf

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  • Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservation

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  • It's a technical decision. There are so many things in life where you can lose everything in a moment without a fraction of your own guilt, and nobody can help you.

    Thanks to that technical decision BTC still functions the way I described.

  • Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservation

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  • I know it's not anonymous.

    It has the widest reach of cryptocurrencies.

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  • Is that different for non-libertarian paradise-building attempts?

    I swear, you guys just apparently decide nobody will ask the obvious questions, because libertarians are an allowed target.

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  • Libertarianism doesn't deny empathy and "pro social behavior" (as an autistic person, I rarely see it toward myself, not being liked and not making right faces - apparently not deserving of it, but OK ; it's already good if those "pro social" people don't consider it normal to steal from you when they don't like you), it actually relies on those more.

    The issue is that it's something that needs scale and consistency. You can't just assemble a bunch of idealists and crooks and expect them to make a working mechanism.

    I don't think there were many more successful attempts by left anarchists.

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  • BTC is useful though.

    It's very easy to judge from the EU, but if you are in Russia and need to pay for something in the interwebs, it's very convenient to have an imperfect, but kinda functioning system like this.

    (Idiots replying with "go rebel" or "change location" need not bother, I happen to have family, friends, dog, ASD and BAD, my sister who's on my support every time she makes a planning mistake can change location, I can't. I'm also not a Jedi chosen one to have useful options of "rebelling".)

  • Here's why Linux market share isn't going to skyrocket anytime soon

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  • These are why I use FVWM and set up everything by hand, better this than feeling helpless in a supposedly user-friendly environment.

    But I think under normal usable desktops, like MATE, you can do such things easily enough.

  • "You have no say in this at all. Federal law is supreme and federal law will be enforced."

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  • You can start rehearsing the rebel yell sounds of popcorn, sorry, of gulping and smell of jasmine tea in my room

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    Should we be wary of Red Hat?

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  • but no one else really had the resources to maintain it

    That's what I'm saying to not be true. Right now the project is controlled by RH, and they are not interested, but also don't leave it. Maybe if this weren't so, we'd see changes.

    Its critical infrstructure, they can’t just hand it off until they’re done with it (RH10).

    Yes they can, the same way they ship kernels full of backported stuff and patches.

    Xlibre is happening by one of the biggest community contributors, but honestly it’ll end up like KwinFT.

    The guy is unfortunately accompanying his fork with anti-vaxxer and alt-right statements.

    I think Xorg will keep existing. There are a few projects buried many times and still alive, one more.

    But RH is intentionally blocking the good things that could have happened without their "leadership" and imposing opinion that it's deprecated and on life support.

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  • The way they promoted PulseAudio, SystemD, Gnome 3, now Wayland. All that.

    Say, they do almost no development of Xorg, but they don't surrender the control of the project to someone who'd want to. They don't accept PR's, sometimes with responses that the project itself is deprecated or something.

    They intentionally keep control, to avoid someone picking it up.

  • How the US is turning into a mass techno-surveillance state

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  • Since a bit earlier or so I've read.

  • Putin facing new 'invasion' as 1m-strong antelope swarm destroys Russia's crops

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  • The previous one he felt, but took for a turd

  • Palantir Is Going on Defense

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  • Sauron used conversations and scenes to turn Saruman charmed and deadly frightened. Over the palantir, which was a device to see the future, the past, the probable, close and far away. Thus also a communication device.

    So basically their name refers to knowing things which are not their fucking concern. Not what you said.

    EDIT: Still, the way communication of Saruman and Denethor with Sauron turned them both mad - is a good metaphor of how lots of awesome technology was misused to almost ruin humanity in the last 30 years. I wonder if it's reversible.

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  • They could mean that they were a Unix user since 1991. They could also mix up years, which would be natural. Say, with 1993 or 1994. In any case you're the obvious RH shill here.

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  • This is a good example of RH shilling.

    Also not uncommon to see "community activists" popping up here and there, with no history at all, doing small things and then somehow participating in coordinated RH-aligned action eventually. Remember that moment Stallman was pressed into defense? Not that he's a very nice person, but the campaign was interesting in the sense that not many normal people participated in it, mostly such activists.

    Also Fedora and "well-built" - it's glossy and smooth-looking, but not "well-built".

    Also this

    from paranoid people new to the community who don’t understand how this ecosystem works.

    is a marker of RH shill too. They usually start with casually stating that everyone is fine with RH and the only ones complaining are noobs, nuts and troublemakers, we don't do that here. Except it's not true.

    Quantity of development doesn't equal quality. I personally think if RH were to vanish overnight, Linux would be fine. Of course nobody spends additional effort on projects mostly done by RH. If there's no RH, either the projects will be dropped for lack of necessity or there will be said effort from other sources.

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  • Amount of contributions doesn't equal quality, mind that. RedHat also does work to sink projects which don't fit their strategy for Linux development, and I want to ask by what right they even have such a strategy and try to impose it upon others.

  • We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink

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  • What "they made" 50 years ago is of little value now. Expertise matters, and it's lost with time passing.

    Still - yes. Nationalization is a bad solution because it gives the state power to nationalize. Seems a truism.

    Just let NASA work in its normal role. Instead of replacing that with SpaceX contracts.

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  • Nobody thinks about that, just about hitting the people they don't like. They don't think of consequences, they don't think that nationalization means humongous companies and wealth in fact changing hands in favor of people who already control the government.

    That's every fascist regime in history BTW - make your natural opponents hang themselves. Like in Russia in 1999 groups people most hurt by Yeltsin's regime were deceived into voting for Putin, because he managed to create that "Soviet intelligence agent" image, despite being continuation of said regime. Or again in 2004, when he managed to take credit for growing oil prices, which meant that said groups of people feared literal starvation less, and the factor they've grown by compared to 1998 was so huge, that Russia's level of life really didn't catch up, but that was enough. Hold people in misery, throw them bones, they'll be grateful.

    Also why most Russians gloated over Khodorkovsky, Berezovsky, other oligarchs being beaten by Putin.

    Cause the oligarchs seemed the face of that regime, except Putin was its soul materialized. They somehow thought that when he hurts all the oligarchs enough, things will be good.

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  • DOD is also responsible for what they accept.

  • Rep. Mary Miller loses it over 'a Muslim' speaking in Congress

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  • But social media are garbage because of the platform. It's just built the way to present it as how the users are.

    It's like saying that gasoline is not the cracking process, it's the oil.