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I've been researching altcoins, and RaiBlocks sounds interesting.

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Thanks!

In a forward-secure manner?

Lately I have been feeling we as builders had this responsibility to build the Internet that the world needed, and we failed. We were distracted, we got rich, we ignored or misread the needs of our fellow humans.

The walled gardens that we now find so insidious and creepy are due to our own failure to empower the users. We made HTTP, SMTP, XMPP protocols. Large companies brought these to the masses, in ways the masses can understand and interact with in their limited capacity... for a price.

Can we reclaim humanity's birthright? Can we build a vision of the world we wish to live in, that is accessible to and understandable by many? Or is our entire collective fate to become a monetized click stream of suckers?

This article names Google, but to me that is beside the point. Google is a large system set in motion by shareholders and market forces that has equilibrium. It consumes click streams and subscriptions, and excretes money, like others of its kind. Can such an organism ever serve the best interests of humanity all the time?

If you find yourself hating Google, better to look within yourself. Do you have the courage to walk away from these kinds of services and build an alternative, however humble it might be, that empowers and liberates your fellow humans?

I am still working on this in myself. My email is still gmail, I would miss some personalities in my G+ circles, but I am uncomfortable, and I find current trends unsettling.

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It's just a click. For it to matter so much whether I am clicking this link or that link with the right intent, that all this supposed meaning and morality hangs in the balance, that it could make all this difference, it all seems so absurd. Almost makes me want to disable ABP, Allow Scripts Globally (dangerous), shut my eyes, and just start clicking. None of it really matters.

Eh, I think I'm done with the Internet for today. Might run afoul the click police.

Same here:

  Linux (redacted) 3.2.0-41-virtual #66-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 25 03:47:17 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  [  413.309308] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000001781eef4e8
  [  413.310359] IP: [<ffffffff8108d605>] atomic_dec_and_mutex_lock+0x15/0xa0
  [  413.311025] PGD 1c4ec067 PUD 0 
  [  413.311680] Oops: 0000 [#6] SMP 
  [  413.312007] CPU 0

Edit: disregard the timestamp above, VM has not synced with NTP for some time.

One strong drink is enough for me, so I just tip 100% at the local place where I regularly camp -- whether I'm camping or picking up a drink. If your coffee shop is near a university, bring your regular barista something nice, some food, etc. during finals. He or she is probably pulling doubles. This is coming up soon...

"Personally, I regard it as rather sad that simply collecting such basic anonymous data about a smartphone or tablet could cause such an overreaction. Simply using the Internet, without extra effort to erase your digital footsteps, reveals far more about you than the information CM was going to collect."

Some users choose the extra effort to minimize their digital footprint. What I find sad is the trend in software and hardware products making that choice impossible to make.

I think Cyanogenmod deserves praise for listening to their users and addressing their concerns, even if they did not agree with them.

I mostly agree, but SQLalchemy queries and the occasional complex conditional could cause one to reconsider or start making allowances.

Quick project I made last night -- an SSH public key scanner. Mind your P's and Q's and only use this on networks you have permission to scan.