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· 2w ago

Proposal: Turn the #USPresidency into a 3 person college (btwn 30 & 65 yo)

Head of Executive, HoE: All departments, SS, FBI, AG, domestic policy, (elected by popular vote)

Head of Judicial, HoJ: Judiciary, Marshals Service, anything border & migration, Diplomacy, foreign policy, (proposed by SCOTUS, approved & appointed by Congress)

Head of Legislative, HoL,: Library of Congress, Congressional-anything, Inspector Generals, CIA, DOD, etc, CiC when attacked, (approved & appointed by Congress)

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· 5mo ago

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@dillo@fosstodon.org maybe consider: Absolute URLs are exclusively for hyperlinks to another webpage. Webpages should have been restricted to load files only by relative URLs & never load any file by absolute URLs. Also, per website style design was a terrible UX and accessibility mistake #Stylesheets should've been something you install in your own browser such that "the web" would have the uniform look and feel you prefer. Just a thought

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· 5mo ago

#Q: Why does the #Rust community tend to reimplement #GPL licensed code as #MIT licensed Rust code?

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· 7mo ago

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@lil5@social.linux.pizza And try to find a way to get back on to usenet… And consider #reticulum, bc we likely need to build our own network ourselves, local hackers everywhere, nodes connected by any means available, millions of local networks, at least occasionally inter-connected, using store & forward, delay & disruption tolerant protocols @gwynnion@mastodon.social

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· 6mo ago

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· 5mo ago

To get copyright protection on executables, the author should at least put the full source code repository under escrow to be released once the copyright term expires.

Copyright only applies to something human created. Anything machine generated cannot be copyrighted, unless it's a simple reproducible transformation from something human created.

#UnpopularOpinion

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· 7mo ago

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And it's likely a good idea to learn some electronics knowledge and how to solder (incl SMD) and weld … and get a 3d printer while you still can… Learn how to make a general purpose computer from literal scratch… Make a computer out of ESP32, Raspberry Pico, etc… Or find a hacker who can and make them part of your mutual aid network Join or start a local hacker/maker space

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· 5mo ago

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@mahryekuh NL has aways behaved like a vassal to USA

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· 5mo ago

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@miss_rodent And you can use different tool, like slower, store-and-forward protocols, eg UUCP/NNCP instead of SMTP for email with other communities, like we used to do before this corporate hell hole atomised us. @nelson

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· 9mo ago

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@cmccullough with rss feeds for updates

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· 7mo ago

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@ireneista maybe not (yet) v.v https://tech.lgbt/@trashheap/116144457608069538

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· 5mo ago

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@Unixbigot@aus.social yeah, I know

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· 7mo ago

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@lil5@social.linux.pizza Yeah agree about IRC, I would also add XMPP over tor/i2p I added Reticulum from a different perspective… more long term, LongNow? Not now exactly … Given how commercially mediated the internet is there is very little trust it will be available when needed most Hence, pointing to reticulum as a network stack which could be useful to build an alternative network of networks owned by individuals and communities which is a lot harder to break, stop, censure… it's just a thought

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· 5mo ago

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@UrbanCityCowboy@mastodonapp.uk And the Olympic Games 2028

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· 5mo ago

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@Pierrec @ami_angelwings the words used in that passage are kinda hush hush tones of sexual exploitation & perversion #LostInTranslation Maybe more like their version of what the #DoorDashGirl did

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· 8mo ago

#RightToRepair should be enough but it's not because it gets (re)interpreted as

"a right to get it repaired by a licensed & authorise repair shop"

We need better!

We need a #RightToSalvage w/o having to ask permission or pay for authorisation

We need a #RightToInteroperability so things work together

We need a #RightToPreserve to keep our culture from disappearing

We need a #RightToEncryption to have a private life

We need a #RightToInformation to get the schematics, repair manuals, etc

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· 5mo ago

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@amoroso Fully agree If you know what you're going to build because you've done it before, use Rust, Ada, Pascal, etc if you have no clue what youre going to built yet, use a more forgiving material, like Lisp, SmallTalk, etc as you figure it out ——

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· 5mo ago

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@amoroso Forth, Lisp, Smalltalk, Self and similar allow you to grow your own computing enviorment as you need it, adapting it as your needs change. It's software development as gardening not as engineering.

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· 10mo ago

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@ploum@mamot.fr they were paid both times. Paid to remove RSS, Paid to add LLM.

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· 7mo ago

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@UrbanCityCowboy@mastodonapp.uk Agree, & I'm trying to work towards the same @lil5@social.linux.pizza

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· 14mo ago

Webpages should NEVER have been allowed to load files from other websites.

Allowing webpages to load objects from arbitrary locations killed the web. Webpages should have been restricted to load files only by relative URLs & never load any file by absolute URLs.

Absolute URLs are exclusively for hyperlinks to another webpage.

#Web #WorldWideWeb #WWW
#UnpopularOpinion

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· 9mo ago

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@jk We need to move to a culture where it's acceptable to just say that something is feature complete and just stop changing it. Especially in software we should just stop at some point and call it done. "Since version 3, TeX has used an idiosyncratic version numbering system, where updates have been indicated by adding an extra digit at the end of the decimal, so that the version number asymptotically approaches π." [1] —— [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX#History

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· 12mo ago

#Bitcoin has a few serious issues the biggest being that the number of transactions it's able to process in an hour does not scale with the added processing power… adding "miners" only causes the algorithm to make it more difficult to process the transactions such that the number of transactions/hour which make it into the ledger (blockchain) remains constant.

I hope I don't have to explain that this is nuts?

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· 7mo ago

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@marsik@witter.cz @py2toz@mastodon.radio How would you self-assign a global routable IP address that you can take with you wherever you go? The beauty of reticulum is that it just works without complicated manual configuration, bureaucracy, policy, etc… See also https://mstdn.social/deck/@DLC/115102156573841828

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· 5mo ago

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@SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt I don't think so either, but they belong in the client? Not per website… Let the website declare the layout it prefers: Use semantic tags: text text code… Desc See Desc See

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· 5mo ago

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@dillo@fosstodon.org @SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt @navi@social.vlhl.dev Nav should imho inform the web browser's UI and not at all be part of the page

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· 5mo ago

#Q: #Telnet over #QUIC?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telnet

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· 7mo ago

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@gwynnion@mastodon.social And your local device won't have ram or storage, it will all exist in the cloud, constantly monitored by machines, analysed by flawed algorithms, and used to judge you… and you will pay for it with your mandatory subscription fee which only gives you access to pre-approved & "appropriate" good apps and good data and a new advert every 20 seconds

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· 5mo ago

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@Pierrec @ami_angelwings yeah so many bad, cruel, evil things people have done has been recorded in the bible

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· 5mo ago

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@ami_angelwings@urusai.social Give KYC rules, I'm afraid there isn't anymore.

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· 5mo ago

Don't go to the USA for any reason

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-ebiORD9WM

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· 5mo ago

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@florian @mwl @cstross https://mstdn.social/@DLC/116465706013821557

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· 2w ago

#Comment are the anathema of the web

#NeverComment #BlogAndReBlog

Write your own well considered reaction on your own weblog with a link to the original article

#NeverReadTheComments #TheReadWriteWeb #WorldWideWeb #UnpopularOpinion

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· 5mo ago

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@Unixbigot (1) Nice (2) so even *that* doesn't mean the same any more… (3) "The sky above the port was the color of the pixelated glitch background of the HBO signature" (4) Showing static instead of "no signal" has always been silly imho

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· 5mo ago

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@ami_angelwings@urusai.social oh wow Awesome

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· 5mo ago

(0) Don't do it

If you ignore 0:
(1) Don't talk about #cryptocurrency
(2) it's not an investment
(3) USE A PASSWORD MANAGER
(4) SAVE YOUR SEED/PASSWORD OFFLINE
(5) Run a #FullNode over #tor & #i2p whenever possible (24/7)
(6) Always control/host your own wallets (self-custody)
(7) Keep your wallets offline,
only use it to sign & send transactions via your own node
(8) Avoid any which don't allow you to run a full node or mine your own: They are a scam

#Bitcoin #Monero

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· 4mo ago

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@failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to @DavidM_yeg@beige.party @theleftistlawyer@mastodon.social I'm sure they consider "peaceful existing" as a "violent assault" to their world order and they will very much will operate under the apriori assumption of violent intentions, obviously guilty, and a dangerous social contagion they heroically protect proper civilised society from…

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