the_third_wave
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Comment · 1 year ago
"The cause of the recent crash of flight ADZRUS-666 has been determined to be a badly scheduled ad impression which covered all screens in the glass cockpit to show aan ad of a dancing hippopotamus in a tutu selling skin care products while the plane was on final approach in IFR conditions."
Comment · 1 year ago
Wikipedia lists whatever narrative the editors who have colonised that section of the site want to push. It is not a reliable source, this is something you learn in primary school.
Comment · 1 year ago
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Comment · 1 year ago
Matrix is overly complicated for the purpose and XMPP/OMEMO already are interoperable between many different clients. Just like all other communication systems it is the network effect which makes them usable. Tell your friends to install a client of choice and - for those so inclined - run a server or create an account on one. Keep your current W/app or Telegram or whatever active for now while you slowly move more communications to XMPP. Once you have contact with most of your friends and family via XMPP make it your default wat to communicatie, i.e. do not start conversations over the legacy apps and answer those who contact you over them through XMPP. You'll find that you'll end up using those legacy apps less and less. Keep them active if you want but don't initiate conversations over them and you'll be set for the moment using those services becomes untenable.
This is not just fiction, it is what I have done and am still in the process of doing, in my case moving from Telegram - I never used nor will I ever use things which requires accounts run by metafacebook or Google or Microsoft or any of the others.
Comment · 1 year ago
Conversations on Android and forks thereof are comparable to eg. W/app. This is not a problem, at all.
Comment · 1 year ago
We're not there yet, by far. Should that ever happen it will be circumvented just like nearly all technological measures are.
Comment · 1 year ago
Just run your own XMPP server in your own domain, use OMEMO for encryption and you're set. You can communicate with others on other servers, none of them 'publically available' and the TLA's can stare at all that encrypted gibberish 'till the cows come home. Even if they break into a single server they won't get access to the cleartext, for that they'll need to access the terminal devices - phones, browsers, etc.
This is how I've been communicating for years now, it works fine and does not feed any of the data parasites out there.
Comment · 1 year ago
Time to change your laws and/or prosecutors I'd say so those 'minor thefts' can and will be prosecuted resulting in fines which need to be paid - no ifs and buts. Get them early and get them (hopefully not that) often and you may be able to keep the majority of 'proletarian shoppers' on a somewhat less crooked path. If crime pays more people commit crimes, if shoplifting is not dealt with more people shoplift.
Comment · 1 year ago
Could you give some examples which refer to the activities you accuse him of? Examples of actual violations of the Constitution of the United States, that is, not just examples of him deciding things you happen to disagree with.
Comment · 1 year ago
You Grayscale people have it easy, at least you have contrast. As a person of Transparency I end up overlooked everywhere all the time.
Comment · 1 year ago
Gott ist tot! Gott bleibt tot! Und wir haben ihn getötet! Wie trösten wir uns, die Mörder aller Mörder? Das Heiligste und Mächtigste, was die Welt bisher besaß, es ist unter unseren Messern verblutet.
The average teenager who reads Nietzsches proclamation on the death of God thinks of this as an accomplishment, finally we got rid of those thousands of years old and thereby severely outdated ideas and rules. Somewhere along the march to maturity they may start to wonder whether that which has replaced those old rules and ideas were good replacements but most of them never come to the realisation that there were rebellious teenagers during all those centuries when the idea of a supreme being to which or whom even the mightiest were to answer to still held sway. Nietzsche saw the peril in letting go off that cultural safety valve and warned for what might come next.
We are currently living in the world he warned us about and for that I, atheist as I am, am partly responsible. The question to be answered here is whether it is possible to regain the benefits of the old order without getting back the obvious excesses, the abuse, the sanctimoniousness and all the other abuses of power and privilege which were responsible for turning people away from that path.
Comment · 1 year ago
...and as if on queue the narrative around climate "crisis" is woven into an article about a plane experiencing turbulence: experts say the issue is getting worse in an era of climate crisis. Do publications like the Guardian have narrative quotas they need to achieve?
Comment · 1 year ago
Certainly XMPP is not perfect but then again, nothing is. The extensibility does make it a bit of a gamble whether any specific server - which can be used for all kinds of purposes, many of which not related to human communication - offers everything a client program expects it to. Then again if your communication/discussion partners all make sure to use servers which support the essentials for the type of use you want to make of it - usually that'll mean those XEPs need for OMEMO, muc and maybe Jingle, the Conversations project publishes a list of what is needed [1] - things work just fine and you'll be communicating without the need for centralised (monetised, censored, monitored, ...) services. I've been running it for decades now, first as a backup "just in case" communication channel but for the last 7 years or so as my main channel to family and friends. We're using mostly the Conversations (-derived) client(s) on mobile, Gajim on desktop and Converse.js on web with servers running on different types of hardware ranging from SBCs (RasPi etc) to ex-lease enterprise hardware. The maintenance burden on the server software is close to zero with Prosody, it hardly takes any resources and has never crashed on me.
[1] https://codeberg.org/inputmice/Conversations#xmpp-features
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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36028049
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36093788
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36241247
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