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It's simple: banks don't want the people they've fleeced to realise that they no longer have a role in the present age. If you let legal tender be exchanged directly via a central bank (which is semi-public by nature), banks lose a huge amount of liquidity that fuels fractional-reserve banking through loans made to generate massive amounts of cash, and without these, the banks are bust.

I'm curious why people do not choose Radicle in FLOSS...

it's the best option after IllumOS (OpenSolaris) IPS integrated with ZFS. Far less powerful not imposing zfs (only well supported for root, swap, encryption etc), so not integrated in the package system and bootloader management (BEs, Boot Environments).

It's not reproducible bit by bit, it fetch the current version of anything, but it's still easy to reproduce enough, stable enough and complete enough, while classic distros need a fresh install every major release or facing issues an keeping a system in unknown state for long until it explode.

The nazi drop more and more the mask. Yet most still not wake up...

BTW France already have

- https://gizmodo.com/france-bill-allows-police-access-phones-...

- https://www.medias-presse.info/une-nouvelle-loi-de-programma... can't find one in English

Plus

- https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loi_renfor%C3%A7ant_la_s%C3%A9...

- https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet_de_loi_visant_%C3%A0_s%...

- https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loi_tendant_%C3%A0_renforcer_l...

Essentially China is already here.

Debian, like any other legacy distro, mush became declarative, because the '80s model of manual deploy and the absurd pain of D/I and Preseed must end.

The China gap is going to zero, yet slave masses still sleep...

...just as the kleptocrats wanted, to stop the spread of self-hosting and desktop computing now that society is tentatively starting to go digital.

You send emails to @gmail addresses most of the time, so... How you can avoid giving Alphabet (or some other giant) your messages?

The point of ownership is having your mails in your hand, on your iron, anything who can talk IMAPs or even POP is ok for that. For voice/chat etc Matrix or XMPP might be yours, so nobody could decide to ban you or shut the service down. You still depend on a ISP ok, but much less dependencies anyway. That's the point IMVHO.

While thinking that company X is better in privacy terms than company Y is honestly meaningless, you can trust them or not, you don't know what happen on their servers or someone else ones where they actually live on (like using Amazon o Microsoft cloud as a backend).

Honestly... No thanks. It's 2026, those who do not own a domain name should buy one an run their own Matrix/XMPP server.

Internet is not the web... And we do need to destroy boundaries to break walled gardens not creating new one for the joy of giants who knows their "oligopoly power"...

Radicle is a good answer, coupled with a reborn Usenet, maybe Nostr. We have like never before the ability to communicate and cooperate yet most fails to understand and implement that.

Nearly any of us could run an XMPP/Matrix server and federate with friends or Nostr/{0xchat,whitenoise}, all with audio, video, text, file exchange etc, yet less than 1% do that.

Simply people, techies as well, have forgot the meaning of personal ownership and therefore are owned by someone else.

While I use it in LaTeX I tend to avoid it in non-LaTeX contexts BUT even though it's much used by LLMs having switched to EurKey layout years ago I can type it on my keyboard as well as × and many others, so it's not such a perfect AI indicator.

I see no shame in that except a thing: devs should own their infra, instead of relaying on third parties. A thing too many still fails to understand.

For several reasons:

- Nostr is generally much lighter; it can even be served behind Tor without having a public IP, there's no need to maintain a web server etc. There are compact, self-contained relays like Haven, for example, which are a single go install-able app that includes everything needed on the server side, with practically zero setup.

- There are various clients, including mobile and web as well as desktop, which is enough to satisfy pretty much everyone's tastes.

- There's also an economic model that could be the future of journalism: everyone publishes what they want, and those who enjoy it can make micro-payments, if they wish, to support the publisher.

For now, it's a toy with many abandoned experiments, while Mastodon is a walking dead, having never really taken off. In other words, as they stand, neither of them is working. But Nostr has the potential to become the communication hub for many; for instance, there's already a Matrix-like service (0xchat and potentially whitenoise) that supports chat, audio, and live video, requiring only Coturn and a Nostr relay. There's also "long form" support, meaning personal blogs all on the same technology.

In other words, in a short space of time, on Nostr you can have:

- A personal blog-style site

- A personal Twitter/X

- Personal chat with audio and video

- Private notes if you need to jot something down on the go

- A search engine and address book that could allows with different access levels, a real address book usage for personal contacts.

Potentially all in a single, complete and lightweight deployment. There isn't the burden of federation, which makes many hesitate to activate it because, depending on who they federate with, they find a massive amount of resources consumed. It's essentially text, binary blobs, and near-real-time communications all in one. Haven is the first piece of the puzzle, MOAR is the successor in the making, but eventually, there will be one that integrates 0xchat and a web client, all-in-one.

The Fediverse hasn't achieved this and doesn't have the characteristics to do so.

Then again, if we're honest, the old Usenet did it better, but it's dead to most people, whereas Nostr is alive. People only dislike it because it comes from a crypto community, and many are biased against anyone from that world regardless.

We simply need open, decentralized or distributed platforms. Nostr is not that excellent, but it works, and have a potential to became "unified personal web platform", take a look at it.

I prefer no filters instead, for one simple reason: who watches the watchmen? If we had a digital identity on a national blockchain run by open-hardware home servers and FLOSS software, where every node exists by virtue of digital identity, meaning there's no risk of a 51% attack and everyone is forced to play with their cards on the table, I might accept a ZK proof. But that's not the case, and the privacy guarantees of private entities and the very subjects pushing for this verification make me say, quite simply, NEVER.

Because we know perfectly well that it's the precursor to mandatory SSO for everything, South Korea style, which is unacceptable and incompatible with Democracy.

On which hw? Because a smart-card (if open hardware and FLOSS) might be safe, certainly not a smartphone.

And what exactly would be the purpose of age verification? Because defining someone "mature" based on their age is pretty hit-and-miss: we have plenty of adults, even of a certain age, who it's hard to imagine have ever finished adolescence, for instance. On paper, they are absolutely of age. We also had a certain Alexander the Great, emperor of a large part of the planet at 20. We had 13-year-old Pharaohs active in government.

We also have gazillions of examples of apparently innocent rules being used to boil Chomsky's frog, one small temperature rise at a time. For the first time in a long while, I'm starting to sense a certain fanaticism on this topic here on HN, which sounds very much like the molecular agitation when water starts to boil.

If you like drink interested PRs dreams on sale yes, but reality is quite different.

The OEMs who have lied https://unctad.org/system/files/official-document/der2024_en... through their teeth about the lifespan of a well-made desktop to compare it to a smartphone are simply on their last financial legs; their Nazi wet dream doesn't scale. A society like that doesn't work. That's why they'll collapse just like their German-speaking counterparts did a few years back.

The West is collapsing to save four kleptocrats and their model of exploiting us all; nature doesn't give a toss, it carries on her way and so does technology. Dead wood can stay standing for a long time, in some cases it even becomes a fossilised trunk, but it doesn't evolve; it's still a dead branch.

If you think the current Office model will be replaced by some LLM, you're dreaming just like those who hope for it and are working to make it happen. Sure, plenty of jobs are no longer necessary and gradually mankind, if we don't commit suicide first, will end up only creating new knowledge while machines apply it, but this model only works if it's open, distributed, and diverse enough to be resilient and evolve. The current monochrome model can only flare up and die.

I've tested WriteFreely, Mastodon, Nostr, ... but all lack the basic to succeed IMVHO:

- being a single, simple application, without much deps, maybe go-get-able, pip-able, cargo build-able etc, WF actually is one of them

- offer a platform, meaning a blog, comments per posts, distributed identity, optional chat

We have many different projects who do so, but not a single integrated one.

Nostr is good for the infra, have a sufficiently complete relay (Haven) and a future one a bit more complete (MOAR), but lack a built-in client and a decent chat support (0xchat is nice, and very hard to deploy in a sovereign manner).

WF is nice but limited as a blog and have no comments

Matrix is nice for chatting, with a very complex audio/video support, with very little documentation, I manage to get it running, with LiveKit as well, but it's a pain. XMPP is even worse because it lack a complete client for all platforms and it's very touchy on DNS setup.

The defunct ZeroNet was very nice to host personal websites without a domain name and also behind NAT, but offer nothing ready made to use with it.

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Long story short we have the wrong tech stack underneath. We need to rediscover the old Xerox model of the OS as single integrated app, where anything can be combined at the user will, with ease. Emacs/LispM do better pushing anything in the config instead of relaying on a live image. But that's what we need. We have one mind, we need to combine out digital companion.

It's simply about time to own your digital life instead of being slave of someone else.

It's not impossible; it's their centralised model that is. It's unthinkable to have private platforms on modern mainframes (data centers) instead of distributed, decentralised services where everyone holds a piece (DHT) or whatever they want (e.g. Nostr/Blossom), and is responsible for what they do.

It's impossible to imagine having democratic societies where four fat cats know everything about everyone and most people know almost nothing about them, where information, instead of being scattered everywhere for resilience, is concentrated in just a few hands.

Coming from a company that profiles children with Classroom, sure. Coming from those pushing for age verification, just to shift the Overton window of acceptability towards mandatory logins for everything, the end of the open web and free discussion, all to better feed on slaves.

No thanks, ChatControl is a THREAT to Democracy, and the companies pushing it must be ELIMINATED from the market for reasons of national and human security, along with the politicians lobbying for them.

Considering that office suites are software from a bygone era, born from the idea of letting untrained secretarial staff use a PC as an advanced typewriter and calculator, the business and the squabbles surrounding them, which have absolutely nothing to do with FLOSS, are frankly laughable, if they weren't so pathetic.

LibreOffice (and any office suite) is a piece of software as massive as it is absurd, and those who use it don't even realise it, which is why there's so much business built around it. It's 2026; information shouldn't be managed in scattered files designed for printing and then used on screens anyway. It's high time people were taught how to actually use a computer, rather than playing around with software that hoped to make computers usable for those who don't know how to use them, and has done more harm than good in the process.

Simply eIDAS must works on smart-cards and desktop USB/built-in card reader, not mobile (cr)App.

BUT government do not want sovereignty more than they want snoop on citizens.

All to deny the fact that new deal is incompatible with dense cities. Sorry but do the math and you realize that the future is homes and sheds, not condos.

What's unrealistic is the widespread state of IT ignorance among the masses and the kleptocracy that profits from it.

Without this widespread ignorance, and with IPv6, a global per host, and without the disappearance and massive price hikes of RAM and storage, we could all have a home server running, for example, a family's personal services:

- contacts (Radicale/Baïkal/Davis/*)

- photos (Immich, PhotoPrism, ...)

- video (Jellyfin and the like, even Stash for those who fancy it)

- files in general (e.g. SyncThing)

- email (fetched via OfflineIMAP and similar, served via Dovecot+webmail for those who want it, etc.)

- federated XMPP/Matrix for family and friends

- ...

And even for the State, a national blockchain for digital identity (NFTs), contracts (e.g. property sales, etc.), and money, with a node for every family and consensus to regulate it, for maximum resilience and reliability, thus also enabling electronic voting.

But well, given the widespread IT ignorance, it's just a pipe dream.

In this model, we would have de facto teleworking, and therefore de-urbanisation, with houses and sheds with solar panels on the roof, batteries, and activities shifted to maximise self-consumption—thereby electrifying without loading the national grid, in a true and substantial transition that would otherwise be unrealistic.

Personally, that's how my house is, national blockchain aside (but with a personal lightning node anyway), and it works beautifully; it would work brilliantly up to ~45° latitude across the EU and slightly less (I think, I haven't checked the PV maps) for North America. Simply doing this would kill off the aforementioned kleptocrats. No cities means:

- no end to private property for the majority

- no dependence on private collective transport in the hands of a tiny few

- no fast tech/fast fashion with very low costs for the vendor but high costs for the customer and nature due to the piles of waste

- no ready-meal deliveries with tons of packaging

A resilient, renewable society (including the built environment) that can evolve but doesn't have the majority enslaved to a tiny few. This is why it isn't happening.

Yes and no, many are just bugs due to a crappy layered crapware stack started decades ago a "kept in sync" an update at a time... At least in the EU.

Read also https://shaun.nz/why-were-never-using-wise-again-a-cautionar... than understand why crypto (not stablecoin) shift is a need not because their are good (they are not much) but because they can't block us. Banks and fintech have dug their own grave with such behaviors, and they'll resist until common people will understand.

Heat pumps move heat, the small extra amount from the compressor does not change the game. On the other hand, things change significantly with the huge thermal mass of reinforced concrete buildings exposed to the sun, large glass facades exposed to the sun, and bare earth exposed to the sun.

Heat rises and dissipates from the atmosphere, so the point isn't the heat moved from a closed bit of atmosphere to an open one heading towards space, but rather the massive thermal mass of buildings constructed without ventilated facades, and fields and deserts without photovoltaic panels to stop the heat from massively warming the ground.

However, people don't like saying this; they don't like saying that it's the dense city that increases global warming and isn't ecological at all. They don't like it because the city serves to extract wealth from the many for the few.