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I view the final two conclusions points, that people do not want to run their own servers and that we need to make software easier to build/run, to be one and the same. Is the reason people don't want to run a server because it's just so difficult and expensive to keep a computer online in your living room (remembering that a smaller deployment doesn't need 20 nines of uptime), or is it because the UX of running server software has always been terrible? Could an OS be made which makes running a server actually a friendly process? We managed to design OSs which made running apps on a _mobile device_ a friendly process, surely the same could be done here.

> Kazakhstan's crypto mining farms are mostly powered by ageing coal plants which themselves - along with coal mines and whole towns built around them - are a headache for authorities as they seek to decarbonise the economy.

Let's hope they stay shut off then.

I think fundamentally we're not going to see eye to eye on this. I wish you luck on your quest o7

Are you 100% sure that the "set of all changes we'll have to adapt to" is a subset of "set of all changes we can invent our way out of"?

I'd also challenge the idea that innovation happens outside of death and birth. It often takes a new pair of eyes to see a new solution to a problem.

Life (with a capital "L", the entire phenomenon, not the life of an individual organism) is predicated on death and birth in order to adapt and persist. Without death there is no adaptation, without adaptation Life will perish.

We humans sometimes forget we're a part of Life, but we are, and we benefit from death just as much as the rest of Life.

I'd like to think I'm someone who would fight to live, as is being discussed in this thread. But at the same time, in a situation like that where I'm completely unprepared to be shot at, I think immediately collapsing is probably the right strategy. If I keep struggling to escape I'm just gonna get shot again.

I'd always thought 1g was a single dose. Maybe the people around me are lightweights...

(legalization so we can accurately dose these things yada yada)

Even from a pro-crypto standpoint this offering is somewhat problematic:

> Once earned, they can track their earnings in their Norton Crypto Wallet, which is stored in the cloud so it cannot be lost due to hard drive failure.

From https://community.norton.com/en/blogs/product-service-announ...

So your "earnings", meager as they likely will be, aren't even properly given to you.

Not to mention it seems unlikely that a consumer-grade machine is going to earn enough from its share of mining to cover the energy costs. At this point you have to have some kind of extra-cheap energy source to be able to compete in mining. Although some people (e.g. me) have a flat-rate electricity bill with their apartment, so maybe some could take some advantage.

Compiz was one of those things I could show off to friends to prove that linux was actually way cooler than any of _their_ operating systems, but since then seems to have been completely forgotten about (at least by me). This was a nice blast from the past.

> I would like to see some good studies on shutters, because they seem like the sort of thing that will make a very real difference on window breakage in storms, but they're not a thing anymore and probably won't come back.

Having grown up in hurricane land, this statement stood out to me. Why did shutters go away? Why won't they come back?

The difference between "speculation" and "scams, fraud, and similar" is in the eye of the beholder. Lots of people find all crypto to be a giant scam, others find all of it to be a potential investment (hopefully with the understanding that the long-tail of individual investments in the space will go to zero).

This has basically been my experience with it... the actual act of typing out code goes slower, but my ideas are more fluid and I'm able to "see" the whole picture more clearly. I think the slowness is more to do with having more ideas and noticing more details and possibilities than otherwise, so I have to spend more time sorting through all that.

I've been 99% a Go developer since 2015-ish, and this is not something I've ever encountered, in general people just don't leave unused variables lying around. The compile time check does highlight logic errors frequently enough though, so I'm very glad it's there.

I'm all for shitting on apple, but does the orange dot actually obstruct anything? It seems to just be sitting in the notification bar being out of the way.

The reason I'm hyped about crypto (which in this article seems to be incorrectly equated to "web3") is because of the new possibilities it brings. The reason I put my money into stupid shit in crypto is because I don't know if it will work or not, but I'm excited to know if it will. Some of it does, most doesn't. I learn, progress has been made.

Imagine a whole new continent is discovered, and all the people back home are criticizing those who go there because it's not particularly safe at the moment, and look how warm and cozy they could be back in civilization.

No one's asking you to go to web3, stay here if you like. Hell, I found out today there's still people using gopher. There's room for all of us.

I refer to anyone trying to get me to use a particular product as "shilling", including marketing folks.

Steam on linux will automatically pull in protondb profiles for your games, so you probably don't even need to explicitly "check out" protondb at this point. Most games will "just work", with the exception of big AAA games with picky anti-cheat engines.

Wonderful, pure creativity and determination at work here. It's so cool to see what wild ideas people will follow through with.

A gemini client would be a cool next step for this:

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

PSA for all, you can go into your YouTube settings and disable Search History (and a bunch of other things? It's been a while), and surprisingly the algorithm more or less respects that. It completely neuters the algorithm, it won't target you worth a damn, and YouTube becomes a lot less engaging overall. Highly recommend for everyone.

Can you explain _why_ it's so important to you? I literally don't get it, but I've also always assumed Moore's Law would run out eventually, so my worldview has that baked in.

> Process scaling is coming to an end and it is a social imperative that we find a new path to extend the Moore's Law exponential.

... is it? Are our human rights at risk here? This sentence feels weird.

While I don't totally disagree, physical items add some practical issues due to their individual scarcity that digital ones don't have.

What actually happens when my car goes back into public domain? Is it just fair game for everyone? Does someone from the govmt come to pick it up? Would there be some kind of library-esque system for all public domain'd property?

I'm not sure what your link is supposed to demonstrate.

> I'm also not interested in hosting a music server for my friends, and dealing with all the tech support concerns that would come with it.

I didn't say _you_ are. I said someone you know is. We do exist, if you care to ask around.

Until they're not anymore. Let's get off this stupid ride, we don't need big centralized services to tell us how to consume the content we're ostensibly paying for.

Navidrome on a home server, hooked up to a big ol hardrive, ultrasonic on your phone connected to navidrome (offlining supported), support artists you really like by buying their shit off bandcamp, rip everything else cause let's be honest these artists aren't seeing stream money anyway.

People will gripe and complain about how much "work" it is to maintain these things, but let's be real: every single person in here has at least one friend who'd be willing to host something like this for them. What it comes down to is that we're in the habit of relying on big tech companies rather than the folks around us. But habits can be broken.

What's the actual harm done by fraudulent volumes? I've been around crypto for a long time; I basically just ignore trading volumes on most exchanges, and go off other signals. I see this kind of thing come up now and then, with lots of hand wringing about the fraudulent nature of crypto and whatever... and I just don't get it. You can't trust the volumes, just move on.

I buy legal goods with them. Just because you don't _want_ to use them doesn't mean no one else does.

I've thought about doing this very thing! But given all the other interesting projects I have/want to work in domains I'm actually familiar with, this is one that I'll leave to an expert.

This article is completely hyperbolic, and seems to intentionally misunderstand what the goal of a service like Earn is (was?), based solely on a single one of their users having forgotten to add a newsletter to their allowlist.

For me, email _needs_ to be an allowlist by default. At this point, pretty much _all_ communication channels, be it calls, sms, or physical mail, need to be allowlist by default. There are too many people out there willing to do shitty scattershot marketing or exploit phishing for me to want to open my inbox to the world.

Earn, it seems, did it, and I wish they'd kept doing it long enough for me to hear about it. The fact that they then extended the allowlist into an "allowlist-or-pay-for-my-attention" is a neat feature that I probably would have enabled without much expectation of any real results. The real feature for me is the allowlist-by-default.

So yeah, this author is a dingus, Earn may well have _saved_ email if they'd succeeded, and I hope someone else tries.

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