Dimly Lit Corners

@ami_angelwings

:looks at her dextroamphetamine:

#ADD #Narcoleptic

@guigsy OR side step corporations and run our own internet on our own hardware as individuals, as communities, and/or as municipalities

@anon_opin

See also:
#Freifunk
https://stefan.schueller.net/posts/the-free-market-lie/

#Idea

Like Beaker Browser but not javascript

browsing, authoring, publishing, searching, sharing, editing, bundling, etc…

an author writes a page
a bundle is a collection of pages

article, paper, flyer, … as page type
blog, wiki, forum, … as bundle types

bundles can be merged into new bundles

authors, bundles, & pages are IDed with uniq cryptographically hashes

Resharing bundles you visit & subscribe

No servers, no domains

no css, no js

semantic tags

integrated (p2p) search

The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't

https://stefan.schueller.net/posts/the-free-market-lie/

#FreeMarket #OpenAccess #Fiber #PointToPoint #NationalStandards

#Phosphor #Apple #iOS #iCloud

"Free and open-source iOS device manager for macOS. Browse backups, export messages, extract photos, manage apps - no subscriptions, no iCloud lock-in."

https://momenbasel.github.io/Phosphor/

Strongly starting to suspect this is the intended outcome

"Age verification is literally killing the ability for kids and teens to excitedly participate and learn cool stuff and learn how to have digital agency."

https://chaos.social/@SylvieLorxu/116549440329775404
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#AgeVerification #OnlineIDChecks #GateKeeping #DigitalAgency #RightToDiscover

May #Reticulum become a default network stack on all #FLOSS OSes: BSD, Linux, OpenIndiana, Haiku, Plan9, etc :D …

And reimplement finger, talk, etc to use reticulum :D

@dillo maybe consider:

Absolute URLs are exclusively for hyperlinks to another webpage.

Webpages should have been restricted to load files only by relative URLs & never load any file by absolute URLs.

Also, per website style design was a terrible UX and accessibility mistake

#Stylesheets should've been something you install in your own browser such that "the web" would have the uniform look and feel you prefer.

Just a thought

#idea

#X12 as backward compatible #X11 + (opt) scalable vector graphics + animation + better isolation & security

#Y12 as better #X12 but compatibility breaking with #X11 + sync audio + over #QUIC

Linux is just a phase, eventually you will end up on a BSD

#UnpopularOpinion

As a species we really need to consider making UV-C lamps at the entrance, kitchen, bathroom, etc mandatory

( With movement sensors: switch off when mammal enters, switch on as soon as there is no mammal present )

And HEPA filters + UV-C lights on any air intake ^.^

#UnpopularOpinion

#Q: #Telnet over #QUIC?

——
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telnet

#Q: Where is the $599 #Linux/#BSD "Neo" notebook?

This is the first #AIWinter I'm impatient for

#Q: Why does the #Rust community tend to reimplement #GPL licensed code as #MIT licensed Rust code?

@Pierrec @ami_angelwings the words used in that passage are kinda hush hush tones of sexual exploitation & perversion #LostInTranslation

Maybe more like their version of what the #DoorDashGirl did

Given how #LLMs work, it would make sense to treat LLMs the same way as other stochastic way of divination and consult demons or oracles, like tarot cards, throwing bones, tea leafs, etc…

It's been a long while since The Holy Scripture had it's last expansion pack, but I'm sure the next expansion pack will at least contain a prohibition on making and consulting LLMs

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#MachineLearning #LargeLanguageModels #UnpopularOpinion

"#Pascal is for building pyramids — imposing, breathtaking, static structures built by armies pushing heavy blocks into place. #Lisp is for building organisms — nature's way of building a small, flexible system that grows, adapts, and evolves."
— Alan Perlis

#ACID: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability

#BASE: Basically Available, Soft state, and Eventually consistent

Every trade deal should start with free movement of labour and services

No free movement of capital and goods without free movement of labour and services

#UnpopularOpinion #FreedomOfMovement #Trade #International

"#Pascal is for building pyramids — imposing, breathtaking, static structures built by armies pushing heavy blocks into place. #Lisp is for building organisms — nature's way of building a small, flexible system that grows, adapts, and evolves."
— Alan Perlis

Use https://avin.github.io/sexy-qr/ to generate your own QR codes

——
Repos: https://github.com/avin/sexy-qr
#QRCodeGenerator #QRCode

I'm going to eliminate DHCP from my home lan

#Goals #NoDHCP #mDNS #DNSSD

https://zeroconf.org
https://www.multicastdns.org
https://www.dns-sd.org

#CachingProxyServer ?

#OverHeard

"I apologise for my mother, she tends to speak truthfully"

If you say you "NEED"

#MicrosoftExcel

"because it's more powerful"

Than you SHOULD actually learn to use #R

https://www.r-project.org

#UnpopularOpinion

If you "NEED" #MicrosoftExcel "because it's more powerful"

Than you really actually need #R

https://www.r-project.org

#UnpopularOpinion

#Question
#DearInternet
#DearFediverse
#DearLazyWeb

(1) Does the Apple MacBook Neo support virtualisation (Hypervisor)?

#HyperVisor #QEMU #VirtualMachine #Virtualisation

(2) Can you do macOS/iOS software development on an Apple MacBook Neo?

#Swift #ObjectiveC

(3) Can you do software development on an Apple MacBook Neo?

#ObjectPascal #Delphi #Ada #Lisp #Scheme #Racket #SmallTalkLang #SelfLang

#AppleMacBookNeo #Apple #MacBookNeo

#Apple should’ve ignored the (pseudo) AI hype

Continue #NeuralAccelerator hardware & #MLX software development, enable running useful LLM locally

Partner with Steam, make running #Games on #macOS & porting to #iOS trivially easy

Embrace a “local first, intermittent connections, eventually consistent” view of the future

Be an alternative to the “cloud first, always on, always connected” future everyone else in trying to sell

Focus on #HomeAutomation

#UnpopularOpinion #MachineLearning

#IMHO every #ContactsApplication should have a "Tea or coffee" field, with perhaps add some room for "Sugar?" "Milk?"

"Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class — whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy."
— Frank Herbert

#Government #NonProfit #Sovereign #NotABusiness
#Quote #FrankHerbert #Dune #Aristocracy

Oh wow .. that's so obviously better and should've existed forever

Had to Reinvent the #SailingBlock
https://youtu.be/2efa3epOGgY

#Pulley #BlockAndTackle #HoistingTackle #Polyspast #Katrol

“A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not on the branch but on its own wings.”

#proverb #metaphor

@whitequark Can't it log via #Syslog to another device on lan?

(I'm a complete PXE, NetBoot noob but interested )

Especially with "generative AI" being available I don't see how one can do any kind of objective "age verification" reliably, without some kind of (government or (paid) 3rd party) doing what is essential an "identity verification" or de-anonymization & some kind of permanent audit trail being created outside your control maintained by middlemen: government or third party

(And likely more #DRM & #DMCA bullshit)

#AgeVerification #DeAnonymization

Has #Scuttlebutt #SSB #SecureScuttlebutt already solved the infinite storage problem? Or does it still use a forever growing blockchain?

#RightToBeForgotten #PermanentRecordsConsideredHarmful

A #DieHard movie is at it's core a heist movie, with an impressive & clear villain as protagonist, civilian(s) taken hostage, bantering between the (accidental) hero (antagonist) & villain (protagonist), a ticking countdown clock + claustrophobic feel, a memorable musical score framing & informing the story, often with annoyingly rule following official(s) being useless & some comic relief characters

Any attempt to reimagine a (viable) #LispMachine would not just recreate what was, it would have to imagine what could've been and how lisp machines may have evolved since 1990s… eg: support for GUI, multitasking, WiFi, internet, World Wide Web, multi-gesture touchpads, touchscreens, multi-core cpus, 8 GB RAM, virtual machines, … just to name a few

Convince your friends to host their own email server a home and do help them set it up…

Then set up NNCP routes to and from their email server to your own self-hosted email server(s) and any of your mutual friend's self-hosted email servers

#CommunityEmail #FriendOfAFriend #NNCP #Email

@smeg #ProtocolsNotPlatforms

#NAT #NATPMP #RFC6886
NAT Port Mapping Protocol (NAT-PMP)
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6886.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAT_Port_Mapping_Protocol

#PCP #NAT #RFC6970
Port Control Protocol
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6970.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Control_Protocol

"If at all applicable to your intent, you must design your applications to embrace Store & Forward

Instead of demanding an immediate answer, your application should act as a patient participant. You create a message for someone or something in the mesh. The network holds it. It carries it from node to node, perhaps over hours or days, waiting for the recipient to appear. When they finally surface, the message is delivered"
https://reticulum.network/manual/zen.html#design-patterns-for-post-ip-systems

#Reticulum #StoreAndForward
#UnpopularOpinion

I'm looking for a "dumb" phone (4G or better) with great sms & email handling and a battery to be a (wifi 6 or better) hotspot for ~8 hours?

Kinda looking for a mobile hotspot with minimal phone/sms features :D

#Question #Suggestions

Dear Apple,

I'm disappointed you didn't bring back #OpenFirmware when you had the chance.

At this point, with the laws as they are, #CryptoCurrency doesn't legally exist, only speculative #CryptoAssets

#Question:

Is there any #BigEndian CPU still in production & continued development?

#RightToRepair should be enough but it's not because it gets (re)interpreted as

"a right to get it repaired by a licensed & authorise repair shop"

We need better!

We need a #RightToSalvage w/o having to ask permission or pay for authorisation

We need a #RightToInteroperability so things work together

We need a #RightToPreserve to keep our culture from disappearing

We need a #RightToEncryption to have a private life

We need a #RightToInformation to get the schematics, repair manuals, etc

@orsinium I know, they stole email from us claiming to combat spam and somehow there is still spam

==Email==

Maybe I only need to receive email over SMTP.

Otherwise email transfer using NNCP with known-trusted-hosts of friends and family?

Perhaps #FOAF even?

Perhaps as part of NNCPNET?

Maybe (text-only) #USENET also via NNCP?

Edit: bc I just found #NNCP and #NNCPNET and think this could be a solution

==Webdev==

I can use #RubyOnRails as needed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If I was the EU:

I'd get as far away from USA tech, economy, & thinking, become as incompatible as possible

I'd expand consumer laws: #RightToRepair, #RightToSalvage, #RightToInteroperability, #RightToPreserve, #RightToEncryption, #RightToHack, etc…

Rewrite tax laws so that you can only get a tax write-off on anything digital if you release it as open source

I'd massively invest in alternatives for the internet, which don't use the internet protocol stack, like meshcore, reticulum, etc…

@jima There is no incentive for the USA to support it, they have their IPv4, they are currently totally focused on themselves and actually hostile towards the rest of the world. They have no reason to go to IPv6 just to be able to connect to countries POTUS considers "asshole counties". Yes, these incentives could someday change… who knows? Even if the USA someday become less isolator, open minded, this will take a lot of time & may not happen before #TheJackpot, #TheReset, #WW3, or #Armageddon