nukemaster

It seems odd that there isn't cheap black and white film. I think they sell cyanotype at the local craft store here. Maybe if dissolve that in acetone you could make cellulose acetate film with it?

Our law and freedom ends where the border begins.

Exactly! And once you bring back recursion in the new language you're without the tools and practices everyone has developed over the past half century. Everything is just so much harder.

Really what we should be doing is generating data structures in <whatever> language rather than creating new languages.

You just do everything over ssh. It's one of the reasons everyone still like CLI/VT tools so much.

I'd disagree:

The way modern Linux distros work is that a number of volunteers who pay attention to what's going on upstream package software for users and developers. When something gets weird these volunteers change their behavior and prevent the users from being harmed (the recent Audacity mess is a great example of this.) I don't think people pushing eg cargo/node/snap appreciate how safe this has made their OS and languages that rely on distro package managers (such as C.)

You get the safety that you might expect from an app store without actually restricting anyone's freedom. It's very much like a church with elders preventing people from being captured by vices and whatnot. Yes it has issues but it works shockingly well, much better than many of the alternatives.

Unlike a lot of people here I'm very pro crypto^ but at that rate you could get a very nice boat and just pay someone to maintain it for you. Most of the nicer deckboats cost a third-half of that new.

^(people gripe about a deflationary currency but we're all experiencing the pain of an inflationary one, and the ease with which crypto is converted lets people try out different ideas quickly, IMO it's still underrated.)

My Pinephone looks like that. Just run FVWM with the MWM theme.

Puppet has to be one of the worst peices of software I've ever used. The language is full of terrible ideas (lets get rid of loops since those confuse sysadmins and make the only replacement require combinators via the goofy custom functions) and the documentation is full of broken links. Hira data always leaves you guessing at what a value actually is. It's like JS, you can make it work but it requires a ton of discipline and effort and is just ridiculous.

If you need to write unit tests for your deployment automation then you might be over complicating it.

Many people don't appreciate the connections here and the degree to which the FBI and their friends are holding our country hostage.

Meh. People with 100M twitter followers have garbage opinions all the time. Some trolling would probably have the consequence of people learning not to believe everything they read on Twitter.

Smartphone OSes are clearly designed for abuse though.

The whole UI is practically built around full screen modal apps where the user scrolls through content. Installing community made software and maintaining things yourself is artificially made extremely difficult.

I could go on, but there is a legitimate problem with mobile OSes that previous PDA OSes didn't have.

It handles much of the styling better than elinks (especially pre/code blocks iirc.) I don't like its equivalent to link numbering though.

TOR is slow and unpopular, stuff like that and content addressable protocols like IPFS are probably where the next problems are.

Trolling can be extremely influential if the target holds some logically inconsistent view (which describes much of the urban California politics.)

Lol no. I don't know what it is with the fear porn over nukes. If you're more than 8 miles from the city that gets nuked you just have to stay inside for a week and you'll survive with a slightly higher chance of getting cancer. Your windows will probably get blown out and you'll have to tape trash bags over them but keep in mind that's a sonic effect; the wavefront from the blast is what causes it, not actual material from the site which takes much longer to propagate. Fallout particles are large and only suspend, not dissolved, in the air. So all you have to do to avoid it is stay inside and wait for the low half life radioisotopes to decay.

Given the awful state of most US cities a nuclear war could arguably improve the US.