I’m more about separation of addressing data and data model from addressing services and service model for storing and processing it, to make those uniform, because in uniformity lies efficiency and redundancy and ability to switch service models, and uniformity inside proprietary services is already achieved, so in this case uniformity works for the people.

I mean, that’s probably what you meant, I’m being this specific to fight my own distractions and fuzziness of thought.

Middle-East involves plenty of mountainous areas, and the reason many of those are arid is because water, ahem, flows down.

Also in a flat dry desert one can replace pumping water up with raising heavy things up. I think. More wear though.

You mean when the bubble bursts and there are lots of people who worked on this available on the job market?

I’d expect them to be big data specialists, mostly knowledgeable in Python and matrix operations, narrow optimizations needed there, and not very competitive for other typical tech specialties.

They’ll just have to become data analysts, assistants in labs working on things like genome analysis, and so on. Perhaps medical RnD will get a boost due to all the willing slaves, LOL.

They were smart, those oiled fish-eating goatfuckers. So maybe yes, that - and also sortition and ostracism.

I can imagine one - maintaining adversarial interop with proprietary systems. Like a self-adjusting connector for Facebook for some multi-protocol chat client. Or if there’s going to be a Usenet-like system with global identities of users and posts, a mapping of Facebook to that. Siloed services don’t expose identifiers and are not indexed, but that’s with our current possibilities. People do use them and do know with whom they are interacting, so it’s possible to make an AI-assisted scraper that would expose Facebook like a newsgroup to that.

Ah. Profitable. I dunno.

Their kind never leaves the chat, it’s a professional habit

Nah, a logical OR in their favor is not how democracy should work.

Frugal tech idea and degrowth are more capitalist than a handful of monopolies owning you in every orifice and billing you for it.

If by “capitalism” we don’t mean paleo-industrialism of XIX-century aristocrats with monocles and child labor. If we do mean the “free market with protections for property, rights, safety and anti-monopoly regulations yadda-yadda” moderate-normal-classical model.

In Freenet you replicate random blocks from over the network. While this thing is like torrents, you replicate what you download. At least that.

That is true, these are perspectives. Nobody knows the truth, only a projection if it upon their world.

It’s just that by that they are claiming that it’s their perspective which decides what will happen.

In other words, they are saying “so whatcha gonna do”.

No fundamental difference between censorship for being an anarchist humanitarian and for sharing CSAM. There’s a hierarchy, the top of which either decides to ban you or press someone else to ban you.

If the hierarchy is voluntary (as in paying attention to deletion\ignore messages signed only by those authorities you chose yourself), then both CSAM and anarchist speech will be shared.

Best you can do without enabling censorship is to choose what you replicate (Freenet doesn’t have that, hence CSAM flourishes there, with this thing it might be less convenient - you’ll have IP addresses of all the pedos ; sharing CSAM is a crime so it hurts them, being an anarchist is not so it hurts anarchists less ; though some way to achieve pseudonymity with still only storing what you want would be good).

There is that.

American democrats, though, irritated me more until I’ve started noticing Republicans. They have that “parties switched in 1960s” myth (only parties’ ideas on race switched, while the main ideology of the democratic party is not too different from “progressives” of 1890s, those guys who advocated for prophylactic lynchings ; and it’s the same about Republicans, whose “anti-racist” ideas were just as Christian fundamentalism based as their today’s projects), and also the “popular party” myth (while even in appearances being something to the top of which only people born with a silver spoon in mouth can get).

At the same time the “free speech” stuff over there seems to mostly be about “they in their totalitarian countries (or pockets of society dominated by the other party) are lied by their propaganda media, and we here are free and are told the truth”.

Not sure it’s entertaining, it looks depressing. But I haven’t lived in the US.

As usual, it’s the implementation that matters.

Someone jumped at me for comparing EU and MAGA to Stalin’s and Hitler’s regimes, quote, “arguing in newspapers whose worker class has been liberated more”. Like they are not equal at all and all such.

I’d say it’s all about funding from Moscow. They are sort of shareholders in Russia’s resources, including its population that can be used to staff an army.

And if they play their cards right, they can take a share of the resources of their own countries, which they, looking at both Russia and MAGA and Israel, really want. Nation-states have a lot of resources. And it’s visible how one can have those resources maintaining a semblance of legality and with no revolution happening. People are ready to kill for much less, even risk death for a chance at getting much less.

Divide and conquer - I don’t think so. “International brotherhood of thieves” is more like it.

“Team red-blue vs team black” (meaning liberal-democrats+commies vs fascists) is past us, “team red vs team blue” (meaning commies vs liberal-democrats) is past us as well. Even “team empire vs team rebel” is secondary. It’s really “team thugs vs team suckers” now.

Yep, such positioning is not as epic as people in the interwebs would want it to be! It actually smells of piss. But that’s just how it is.

There’s such a thing as botulism ; so - once the toxin causing it has formed, it doesn’t matter that you kill the bacteria that produced it with boiling the water. The toxin itself survives much harsher conditions.

I think it’s not the only danger which you haven’t considered here.

At this point this starts to mildly reminisce Stalin’s USSR and Hitler’s German Reich arguing in newspapers whose worker class has been liberated more.

Suppose I agree, but the plant is cool.

Mega-NPP maybe?

Not really, there’s an OR logical element present in our world.

Divide et impera, applied to engineering. For 80% of things this fast cool solution works, for 20% the simpler one works. The aggregating element to make using both in their own situations transparent reduces reliability just a bit, but the efficiency gain is visible.

And the “80%” and “20%” solutions can further on too use such unifying elements to aggregate different solutions for them. To improve efficiency without additional failure points (except for aggregators).

Nobody does that because the “80% solution” producer wants to capture you, they don’t want alternatives, they want power, and it’s a honeypot.

It’s up to you the customer to understand this. In the classical model. Also see customer associations, which are like unions inverted. Isn’t it funny how we have big businesses organizing, but not labor and not customers? While for them it’s much more important.

As you can see, the aggregator is very important here. We need standards, so that all social media would compete with other social media in one interoperable world with standardized interfaces, all search engines would compete with other search engines in one interoperable world with standardized interfaces, all file hostings … you get the idea.

Technology is developed by people to fulfill their goals, more interest - more power - more developed technology.

Hence big tech is where it is, and meshnets-p2p-cipherpunk is where it is.

SpaceX does launches and Starlink does satellite internet.

I think all the Musk hate here misses that moment - SpaceX does what it’s intended to do which is amazingly cool all by itself, Tesla made electric cars more popular, and Starlink made satellite internet more popular.

These are good.