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This headline is alarmist ('far-left' sounds dangerous for some people). And 'nationalise housing' is just wrong.

This party is not far-left, it is just left. But that is not the point. My point is that a headline about anti-left alarmism hit the HN front page. This is unusual; the HN crowd keep their discussions out of daily politics most of the time. So, this has the smell of importance. Alarm! Far-left!

And this is weird because Germany is in real danger of electing a fascist government at the moment. There is not the tiniest chance of socialist projects coming to power, but the far-right is winning—except for Berlin.

And then an OMG-far-left headline pops up here. This headline was made to push anti-left fear, not to inform the readers.

Is this a walkthrough or a game design document?

As a walkthrough, it is nice. But as the foundation for the game designers, it would be a fun because it is so lighthearted.

No, this is American style (long dash without spaces—like this) vs. European style (middle dash with spaces – like this).

I don't think it is useful to detect AI writing. I told my AI not to use em dashes.

A huge usabilitiy step would be the operating systems (and apps) just supporting geo links.

Geo links are from a RFC and are plain simple: geo:52.512974,13.420131

Clicking this link should open your chosen local map app at this position.

But it does not, actively sabotaged by big map app players who want only links to their app.

There is a full no_std Rust implementation called Leviculum, Python-free, compatible: https://codeberg.org/Lew_Palm/Leviculum

It has a lnsd daemon which runs the full stack as a native binary and some firmware implementations (like for the Heltec T114).

Oh, the classic Tuttle <-> Buttle name confusion!

I always remember the movie Brazil when I have to interact with a stupid cybernetic apparatus like every big company, where simple programs are the brain and low-paid humans are the actuators.

Ads are an attack, aimed at your brain. They try to inject malware into your thinking, manipulating your worldview and your actions.

That's horrible, worse than attacking a machine with malware, damaging persons and societies.

Decades of ad propaganda have tricked people into seeing them as something 'normal'. But we shouldn't accept being under constant attack of brain worms.

I propose a sane rule for all humans: if you see an ad somewhere, or if you suspect a hidden ad ('influencers' trying to promote something), close the tab immediately and never return to that site.

No, that's not hell yet. The boss in this case knows their own limitations and asks the technical person to help. True hell is when the boss thinks AI most be more knowing than the human. 'But Claude said it, do it!'

If you understand German and want to know the history of Ramen, listen to this podcast: https://www.geschichte.fm/podcast/zs223/

Fable has a 'security system' that just stops it when it tries to use the tool 'kill' to end a process. Which is nonsense and funny because in that situation it immediately invents a creative workaround to kill the process without 'kill'.

C++ version of this game, using exactly the same original Comanche map and rendering algorithm: https://codeberg.org/Lew_Palm/voxelcopter

The Internet was originally designed to survive a nuclear war. Now we downgraded it deliberately to not survive a football game.

Decentralised infrastructure: good

Centralised infrastructure: bad

Good and bad for you, of course. For the big companies selling and controlling this stuff, it's vice versa.

Just stay alert and don't chain yourself with big tech dependencies. The reason Git is great is its decentralised nature. If you got so far, why cripple yourself by running your traffic through a single American company like Cloudflare?

Stay away fron Lasius! Lasius cinedus

Allowing scripting on websites (in the mid-90s) was a completely wrong decision. And an outrage. Programs are downloaded to my computer and executed without me being able to review them first—or rely on audits by people I trust. That’s completely unacceptable; it’s fundamentally flawed. Of course, you disable scripts on websites. But there are sites that are so broken that they no longer work properly, since the developers are apparently so confused that they assume people only view their pages with JavaScript enabled.

It would have been so much better if we had simply decided back in the ’90s that executable programs and HTML don’t belong together. The world would be so much better today.

Reform idea:

We should decouple the publishing of papers from academic careers completely. Papers can't generate any reputation or money for the authors anymore. To achieve that, we must anonymize the authors.

All scientists get some (paid) time to write papers — if they want. What they write and if they publish it is not known to anybody. They are trusted to write something of value in that time.

Universities can come up with other ways of judging which professors they hire. Interviews. Test teachings. Or the writing of an non-public application essay, which describes their past research and discoveries.

In a normal and sane world, a scientist is a nerd about their field. They are highly interested in new thoughts and insights. When a new paper in their field is published, they try hard to find the time to read it. The reason is: every paper is written by enthusiasts who want to add something of value, new insights, to the discussion. Proving or disproving theories, adding puzzle pieces to the general picture.

That is the normal situation, which is the foundation of the progression of civilisation. But some people install incentive systems to sabotage this. They are sabotaging civilisation itself.

Could they hunt down the werewolf wizard and defeat him or not?? I need to know how this ended.

The question is: did the fake numbers make any difference? Were the management decisions based on them better or worse?

Bad grammar is disrespect. Underlings have to swallow that disrespect. It is just a power game. The next level is simply to insult everyone, and everyone will still remain submissive.

If you look at the studies on which this post is based, you find out that the (very) positive effect of a Vitamin D supplement is only short-term.

The effect after taking the Vitamin longer than 24 weeks is not significant anymore.

If you look at the studies on which this post is based, you find out that the (very) positive effect oft Vitamin D is only short-term.

The effect after taking the Vitamin longer than 24 is not significant anymore.

There is always so much grumbling and nitpicking about this topic, which I don't understand.

The production of renewable electricity is skyrocketing everywhere, far better than predicted. And that's not because of clever politics, but because the technology is good and cheap.

This has only advantages for everyone. Except for a few fossil fuel investors whose profits are marginally reduced. We may even be able to limit global warming to three degrees, giving us a better window of opportunity to come up with solutions for large-scale carbon capture in the 22nd century.

What's more, photovoltaics is super interesting and great to tinker with—it's huge nerd fun.

Can't we all just be happy when we see headlines like this?

I love that Mark Qvist publishes his strong opinion, view of the world, and goals.

It quite smells like the hacker spirit of the 80s, mixed with a little spiritualism and anarchism. Very refreshing after so many other people are just disillusioned, worn out, angry, or frightened.

I took a deeper dive in Reticulum-rs. It is std. It implements 20% of Reticulum functionality. And it has 2 major protocol incompatibilities (like a different size for the MTU / Maximum Transfer Unit).

It looks like a quick vibe coded hack to implement a subset, tailored only for Beechat's own devices.

If someone would want to implement a full no_std Reticulum lib, they would need to start from scratch.

Reticulum is a production-ready full network stack. Cryptography and anonymity are first-class citizens there. It is transport-layer agnostic, not just tailored for LoRa. I like it, but is see two main problems that prevent the wide adaption, and they are related:

1. The library is written in Python. If you want to design phone apps, Linux server daemons in C, or embedded software (for example for the Lilygo T-Deck) this is a bad choice. Somehow doable (execpt for embedded), but no fun. A small lib with C API and C ABI would be better.

2. Most of the end user software has a horrible UI. But it gets better with software like the Android messenger Columba (https://github.com/torlando-tech/columba).

If we would solve 1., we would have more end user software.

Currently, there are 4 project who try to solve 1. by writing a Reticulum lib with a low-level language, everybody does it in their favorite language and on their own, of course: C++, Zig, Rust, Go

The Rust implementation from Beechat seems the most mature. But I did not see it used in the wild, outside of Beechat's own devices.

Mark's Reticulum implementation has a strong ideolgical background. Not just the oppositon to AI. If anybody is interested in what drives the developer, here's the manifesto: https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/blob/master/Zen%20of%...

Did you use it? I've never seen it used outside of Beechat's own devices.

Reticulum is a full network stack with full user anonymity. You can integrate it in every app that needs P2P network connections and that can live with a slow connection. Reticulum is an alternative to TCP/IP and UDP/IP, using a mesh.

Meshtastic and Meshcore are mesh messengers, focusing on mesh text messages.

A Yggdrasil link is an IP tunnel. Reticulum has its own network protocol instead of IP because IP would not work well over slow and low-bandwidth connections. I think tunneling IP through Reticulum would cause only headaches.

The Internet got its death blow in the Eternal September 1994.

But it was a long death struggle, bleeding out drop by drop. Who remembers that people had to learn netiquette before getting into conversations? That is called civilisation.

The author of this post experienced the last remains oft that culture in the 00s.

I don't blame the horde of uneducated home users who came after the Eternal September. They were not stupid. We could have built a new culture together with them.

I blame the power of the profit. Big companies rolled in like bulldozers. Mindless machines, fueled by billions of dollars, rolling in the direction of the next ad revenue.

Relationships, civilization and culture are fragile. We must take good take of them. We should. but the bulldozers destroyed every structure they lived in in the Internet.

I don't want to whine. There is a learning: money and especially advertising is poison for social and cultural spaces. When we build the next space where culture can grow, let's make sure to keep the poison out by design.