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Elon has already stated they will accept dogecoin as payment

One of the biggest hurdles I've experienced is that a number of large players in the industry (think G..argantuan) systematically flag private mail servers as spam almost as a matter of course and it's up to you to prove your innocence. There is a clear financial benefit for this sort of behavior as it pushes people back onto their services.

I really resonate with this

so why come here to contribute nothing to an otherwise interesting discussion?

Why do people have to comment here to say 'I have none' ? Why not just find a more interesting thread?

I'm a follower of Yahweh and his Son Yeshuah, I don't consider myself Catholic or Protestant and believe both of those faiths (while honoring God in their own way, are full of the traditions of man). I left Institutional Christianity some years ago and with other like-minded saints gather wherever we feel like it to worship, pray, eat a meal together and share communion. We try to share our lives with each other as much as the western world allows (planning laws make creating real communities hard in Australia).

My wife and I pray daily together, we read the scriptures and talk about what they mean. We ask the Spirit of Yahweh for guidance and we follow what He tells us to do. We actively try to help people in the community who are struggling, through food or white goods or whatever is needed. Every Wednesday night we open our house to anyone who would like to come and cook a meal together, some times this can be 1-2 people, sometimes 50+.

I guess I'd say yes if you asked if I were a Christian however the term is so confused nowadays that it's not very useful, I prefer to say 'I am a follower of The Way'.

I once worked commercialising a Data61 'innovation' that was so far from alpha ready it took years to patch up to be remotely fit for purpose. 80% of the premise proved to be commercially non-viable the resulting solution resembled very little of what we had been given. Honestly if the Govt had fixed tax for startups a decade ago(when everyone was screaming for it) we'd be a wealthy nation by now and CSIRO's innovation labs would be unnecessary thanks to thriving private industry sector. As it is most Aussie devs with any sense are now working remote or running Delaware companies to avoid this cesspit.

No it's gleaning.

"I’ve tried posting a couple of Twitter threads myself, but both times I did it I found it awkward and confusing. Honestly, I don’t get why people do it. For the likes? For the shares?"

This seems quite disingenuous, you clearly 'get why people do it' you just iterated the reasons you tried it yourself ;p

dude we (Australia) literally have all the uranium .. we're the ones supplying you

Why don't we just start off with OnehundredVer, to make the point that version numbers are arbitrary silliness and nothing whatsoever to do with marketing?

I've been a FOSS dev for 25 years and I remember when everyone else I worked with were avid linux/freeBSD users because 'we didn't trust the big end of town'.. over the years I've watched the vast majority of devs move to apple devices for all sorts of 'just works', 'shinier' reasons that just boil down to 'convenience is more important than privacy'.

Perhaps this is just the benefit of longevity but from my POV it was engineer early adoption and advocacy that made Apple, Google Search etc what they are, and it will be engineer early adoption and advocacy that dethrones these problematic companies from controlling the ecosystem..

Back 20 years ago, before the community filled with $_$ dollars-struck startup founders, software was built by people who wanted to use it.. rather than sell it. There are still some people doing this now, Look at Matrix network for instance.

What will it take for a grass-roots software industry to start building privacy-first apps and systems that don't suck, based on decentralised, distributed principles? We have the skills to build highly polished alternatives to these things, but it takes a determination to step away from convenience for a period of time for the sake of privacy.

How bad does it have to get before the dev community realise this? or are we in a frog boiling slowly scenario and it's hopeless?

friendly to coloured people, try not-the-USA? come join us in literally the rest of the world bro.

I've been a volunteer firefighter in Australia for 25 years, my father and his father were.. the understanding that wildfires do this is old, I remember my grandfather talking about big wildfires in his day creating their own weather.

I've been noticing in the media over the last ~5 years this narrative that climate change is causing this 'horrifying new phenomena' .. no. sorry. (PS: not a climate change skeptic, totally agree with the science, just not the media in this instance)

My grandfather is 92. I have a small number of relatives I fully expect will want more than their share, the things that may fetch some coin. I hear the more brazen ones 'Grandad, when you're gone, Grandma can't drive, what do you plan on doing with the car?'

I would dearly like to ask him for his harmonica. I remember sitting on his lap while he'd play Larry Adler tunes (he doesn't have the breath for it anymore). I don't think anyone else will care for it, something to go in a box to the thrift store I'm sure, but watching the looters plan their moments I can hardly bring myself to say anything, and so I'll just sit and make him another cup of tea.

Thanks for your story OP.

If you take out a hit on someone you have zero physical involvement. If you order troops into a certain death situation you have zero physical involvement. If you drive someone to suicide you have zero physical involvement.. Where did you get the notion you need to be pulling the trigger to be morally responsible for someone's death? I call that killing.

The other week they killed a SNES emulator engineer doing the same thing. (Yes I know 4chan and kiwi farms are different but it's the same old story). Law enforcement needs to get serious about tracking these kids down and putting them in prison.

As someone who's been part of a number of communities in SecondLife for 15+ years, this is exactly the problem that platform has had in becoming THE metaverse.

Despite technically having everything required to tick that box, development is shackled to the funding capability of a single company, land values are extortionary considering the cost of server hosting these days ($300+ for a 'sim' a month, when they shard them up 100s to a server).

The solution has to be a set of standard protocols and interfaces that can be implemented by anyone, just as 'the web' was. Every time I see a 'Secondlife killer' come along I judge it's success at taking out the incumbent on it's openness, and I'm yet to see a real contender.

As an Australian who has dived the reef I can tell you it's dying. Consecutive Govts have done little to help and some have actively let it deteriorate because under the reef is the world's biggest oil and gas reserve.. Australia wants to mine it and being a 'wonder of the world' is an inconvenient problem

nothing to see without loggingin?

I'm a Christian, and a nerd and so the intersection of that puts mW firmly in the amateur biblical historian camp. As a theist reading ancient texts in modern languages you have to do your research on methods of translation, sources, etc. In my 30 years regularly reading in this field this is the first time I've heard a contrary opinion to the essine theory.. And that pisses me off, I rely on good research of the kind Golb provides to be readily available. What Golb says here makes far more sense than a monastic group burying scrolls as a matter of course, especially considering the volume and diversity of the material. The exodus of Jerusalem provides a far more sensible motive for burying a library in the wilderness, Rome was intent on leveling the city and the culture. Historians should be happy and welcome contrary theory, assuming they are interested in truth and not fame.

I guess it depends on how you take his closing comments (which are clearly made elsewhere and edited in, how can we know he's even commenting on the same thing?) .. but taking them at face value:

'We humans are losing faith in ourselves ..' as a response to the desire to replace human creativity with tech, is a poignant comment that we should reflect on as we decide what to automate and what to leave up to humanity.

In a way I wonder if the story of Neelix from Star Trek Voyager would ease Miyazaki's concern for humanity. People eat his 'bad' cooking even though they can replicate perfect dishes, because there's something valuable in (sentient?) creativity.

Leave.

LOOK AT THE MEDIUM.

I pick up a book, it has HEFT. I FEEL satisfied with my selection in hand, that I have acquired a goodly amount of reading material on a subject or by an author who I feel is worthy of my time.

I open the book and skim the contents page, a worthy array of subjects that pique my interest entice me on but the MEDIUM prevents me from an indulgent glance. I understand inherently that I am expected to progress through the material with the author, at their pace before I can uncover the gold within.

I open the article 'The Erosion of Deep Literacy' in my browser. A PROGRESS METER appears on the right-hand side known as the scroll-bar telling me this article is longer than a three minute read, and that I have a LONG WAIT ahead before my progress is complete.

Immediately I want to know if the article is worth my time and without a CONTENTS PAGE to assure me I flick the oh-so convenient mouse wheel or thumb across my screen and scroll to the bottom with happy abandon!

JUDGEMENT BEGINS as I scan for hints of life; highlighted text, INFO BOXES.. PICTURES!? my guide-posts of worthiness are lacking and emotions set in.. Do I really WANT to spend fifteen whole minutes here?

Long-form is dead on the web of my heart, flicked away like a tik-tok meme that took too long to load... oh look, a butterfly!

currently exploring view-source:https://heydonworks.com/ by deconstructing the rendered source and injecting the output back into the body..

javascript-golf challenge: expose the content of heydonworks.com from the browser console using only javascript.

Wen I was in Kindergarten, my teacher called in my parents to tell them that I had learning difficulties. My mother asked why the teacher felt that way, her answer: 'He won't sit on the mat with the other children for story time'. My mother asked the teacher, 'Have you asked him why he won't sit on the mat? he usually loves stories at home.' She called me over in front of my teacher. 'Why won't you sit on the mat with the other children for story time?' 'I don't know how to cross my legs' I replied.

Children are people too, sometimes it's okay to talk to them.

Find a problem to solve before you pick a language to learn. If all you know is 'A little Python' then there's not much value in 'unlearning everything'.

I've been writing software professionally for 20 years and I've changed my 'primary' language 4 times, each time it was because I had a problem to solve that another language was more suitable for in some way.

I know the basics of perhaps two dozen more languages, and have had a stab at writing my own, but my advice would be.. stick at python, master it and then move if you have a need to. Perhaps learn a strongly typed language as well so you understand how they work as well.

It's about time we had terminal emulators that took font/size commands the same way they understand colour changes. There's nothing (today) stopping us from making terminals that support outputting a font-code before dumping out some art like this produces, then setting it back afterward.. Suddenly TUIs could make use of tools like this ..

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