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I've been using my 2012 Paperwhite Kindle with Calibre and the experience is honestly great. The only thing I miss from the Amazon shut down is Wikipedia lookup and highlight/note syncing. Otherwise, I've steered clear of Amazon DRM for a long time so I didn't really care because I was already sideloading books with Calibre.

Who is "the author" these days? Is it Slime? I wonder what Rude and Bartbes and vrld are up to these days. Are releases still done on holidays? Are all libraries still named after sex themes? I was active for versions 0.4 - 0.6.

Why do laborers have to work for the right to live when capitalists only have to provide capital and are always assumed to be worthy? Capital and labor is combined to produce new capital. Yet we only expect labor to prove their worth. We're always holding labor's feet to the fire and killing them through policy that allows their poverty by assuming they are lazy.

There is basically zero consequence for capitalists when they decide to withhold capital from laborers. Therefore taking away labor's ability to generate new capital. They took down the entire rust belt by doing this. Why shouldn't we hold them accountable? Why does everyone blame labor and say welfare is only for people in poverty?

He ran a surplus by (In Bill Clinton's own words) "ending welfare as we know it". This was his description of the Personal Responsibility Act he signed. That attack on labor and bolstering of the financial markets was a huge contributor to our economic disasters. Keynesian was never meant to be a permanent solution to a growing capitalism system. And the Hayekian system we have now is just pillaging by neoliberals.

Am I reading this right that Matteo is saying providence is not important because there are lots of historical cases of not having providence of code?

Many contributions contain routine, non-copyrightable material, and developers still sign off on them.

Compilers change code in ways developers do not always track. Template generators create output from their own logic. Stack Overflow answers are often copied into codebases without much thought about licensing.

Hey. That's curiously similar to my instructions. Weird!

"Tell it like it is; don't sugar-coat responses. No em-dashes. Academic tone. Please do not go into detail unless asked to. Provide links for more information at the end. I am a software developer that uses Linux and GrapheneOS. I read Wikipedia, studies, and white papers to make decisions. I appreciate cited figures and facts from trusted sources."

Software has gotten considerably worse with time. Windows and MacOS are basically in senescence from my point of view. Haven't added a feature I've wanted in years, but manages to make my experience worse year to year anyways.

CPU vulnerability mitigations make my computer slower than when I bought it.

Computers and laptops are increasingly not repairable. So much ewaste is forced on us for profit.

The internet is a corporate controlled prison now. Political actors create fake online accounts to astroturf, manipulate, and influence us.

The increasing cost of memory and GPU make computers no longer affordable.

A Social Filesystem 6 months ago

Is there a community or forum where questions about ATProtocol can be asked?

Can you can spread your identity across multiple PDS repositories? Was thinking about creating a PDS that can store binary blobs to download, but not all PDS would like that amount of binary data stored.

UPDATE: found it: https://discourse.atprotocol.community