@bob agreed. I also think that our gov't needs to stop subsidising 'startups'. They're a huge waste, and they make it easy for foreign corporates to buy up our best and brightest, with no benefits for NZ. Any gov't support for them is tantamount to supporting "trickle down economics". In other words, a bad joke.
old woman yelling some more at the cloud
you should probably ignore me, because I'm just the equivalent of aging COBOL programmer ranting at the kids and their super micros, and how they have no appreciation for the mainframe, but just you wait! the mainframe will have its comeback!
well it did, baby! in the form of Kubernetes.
COBOL didn't make the transition, but just like on the mainframe, you have full control over every aspect of the scheduling with Kubernetes. not that the hardware supports any of those features, slight drawback there. and when I say you, i mean you. Because of the three or so new IBMs, only one is actually willing to sell you its very expensive mainframe consultants, I mean Kubernetes engineers.
@xpil internationalized domain names (aka. IDNs) are a hugely difficult subject.
On the one hand, yes they enable these kinds of attacks.
On the other hand, speakers of languages using alphabets different than plain ASCII should have the technical ability to use their alphabets and scripts online in full capacity.
There is no good, clear solution, still. Using punycode solves the security angle, but dramatically reduces usability for anyone using non-ASCII script. I.e. most of the world.
New York Passes World’s First Electronics Right to Repair Law | iFixit News
https://www.ifixit.com/News/60893/new-york-passes-worlds-first-electronics-right-to-repair-law
@njoseph I first encountered views like this in the late 1990s or early 2000s, when the BigTech oligarchs were just starting what were to become their online monopolies. My first thought was "this is bunk". It's a very self-serving sort of narrative.
But it's worse than merely being self-serving. If we go back to Bostrom, complexity theory tells us that we can't know the distant future. The only way to get from point A to point B on the timeline of a highly complex system like the world ecosystem is *to run the simulation itself*. We can make guesses, but there is no mathematical shortcut.
So all this stuff about simulated people in the future is just guesswork based upon contemporary assumptions, which are likely to be wrong.
"... as a former longtermist who published an entire book four years ago in defence of the general idea, I have come to see this worldview as quite possibly the most dangerous secular belief system in the world today. But to understand the nature of the beast, we need to first dissect it, examining its anatomical features and physiological functions."
- #PhilTorres, 2021
https://aeon.co/essays/why-longtermism-is-the-worlds-most-dangerous-secular-credo
https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/116_the_dangerous_ideology_of_the_tech_elite_w_phil_torres
This was sheer cosmic horror! 5 year olds are running the world.
This podcast episode of #techWontSaveUs explores why billionaires don't see the climate crisis as a threat to themselves, unless it's runaway climate change where Earth might become like Venus.
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/tech-wont-save-us/the-dangerous-ideology-of-sCK7cMwFUpA/
"Breaking Boundaries" is a good documentary on planetary boundaries and the perils of infinite growth on a finite planet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Boundaries
Most discussions about the climate crisis are centred around emissions of vehicles and industries. This documentary explores 9 different planetary boundaries of which atmospheric pollution is just one.
It features actual climate scientists and conservationists; not people parroting the ideologies of billionaires.
A couple of friends have recently started a new channel in English with some climate philosophy and just premiered their first video: Kurzgesagt and the art of greenwashing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCuy1DaQzWI
#Kurzgesagt #greenwashing #climate #solarpunk #gatesfoundation
Bozhidar Batsov: Who Needs Modern Emacs?
https://batsov.com/articles/2022/06/01/who-needs-modern-emacs/
"The most important difference between a jail and a home is who controls the lock on the door. Most smartphone companies want you to believe that the gilded jail they’ve designed for you is the safest place to spend your time. Precursor takes a different approach. By giving you the keys to the lock, it gives you a home."
https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor
I'm gonna steal that phrasing.
Thanks to the wonderful @milan and his tube.tchncs.de , our https://solarisecon.org/ will be streamed live on PeerTube!
Saturday, May the 28th, CEST timezone:
14:00 - Real Solarpunk Technology
https://tube.tchncs.de/w/dckMS3s8t4iQ1DRMDdBk94
15:45 - Empowering Future Communities
https://tube.tchncs.de/w/gtAWuNwUGVAvcLyMYkDCj6
17:30 - Is Solarpunk Just Another Style?
https://tube.tchncs.de/w/mttsLKtY3ZprrAJN89Sng9
19:15 - What's Holding Us Back From A Better Tomorrow?
https://tube.tchncs.de/w/mB5oxCG7mH5FYbuUubN1uA
The device listing on the LineageOS Wiki isn't very helpful if you're trying to buy a new Android device supported by LineageOS. It was quite a struggle to find this ☝️ tablet.
https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
Today, I discovered a third-party website which provides a listing of devices with useful sorting and filtering.
https://lineageosdevices.com
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