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Perhaps we could consider the chip shortage, and say that *coin mining is a bane on human existence.

Public transit isnt a thing you do to profit your city directly. You do it so people can participate enough to grow your tax base.

There is no public transport system on earth which remains profitable for long. In fact, that would defeat the purpose!

Such profit would add too much transactional friction, discouraging riders. The goal is cleaner cities and less clogged roads. The goal is enlarging the tax base with increased access.

Paid parking at the metro? Pfft, guess Im driving, and adding to the parking-clog. We're too big to be an overgrown suburb like this, but I guess that's what we are.

Strange... Workers band together to demand sanity, and things move.

They start quitting in droves, even at the core of several projects and. . . suddenly the change we want? Just happens.

It isnt even a concession. There's less costs involved all around.

Perhaps we're using the wrong metaphor - lock your doors. Congress wants to ban door locks to your home, your car, your gun safe?

Not gonna claim to know the situation of the folks you're replying to. And Im not gonna pretend these organizations operate for free - if you can reasonably afford it? Supporting them is a great patriotism / praxis / etc for internet denizens.

But I will say this - advertising and tracking has a long, storied history of being a malware infection route. The great boon for all of us from a free-tier DNS-filter service is the additional layer of virus and information protection.

Protecting each other, even inexperienced, or low-budget users? Is the best thing we can do to slow the propagation of malware and institutional information leeches. This in turn protects even the servers of potentially ill-informed or budget-constricted server admins.

We are dealing with internet epidemiology. Free-tier "covid masks" / DNS filters preserve more health than simply for the users actively participating. We have to be in this together, or we will watch each other sink.

Thank you for your time, and sorry for the longwinded Lefty- "Dwight Schrute"-ing. But this entire disclaimer felt necessary to me.

That sense of "ownership" in some small piece of the product? Helps build loyalty to the project, and the company. Seeing my baby with that brand name on it helps me feel a part of the team. I've left many a project that didnt offer me the loyalty of letting me fix my own mistakes (after some guidance).

Toe-stepping aside... How else are you going to develop this apparently inefficient coder without including them into the process of reforming this code? This isnt just about ego, this is about skill. This is about the code Im gonna write in the future. And here's your opportunity, written in our codebase.

Unless, of course... Im disposable as your coder.

Its almost like... Coders live lives of privilege even before they learn to code.

Imagine trusting the "Market" to make wise decisions.

I remember MySpace being a place where I could explore the ideas I wanted with people all over the world.

There was a clear, forum-inherited structure to most groups. It kept me coming back, day after day.

Google+ had a similar appeal - I dont know you, I dont care. I like what you have to offer, so I'm getting to know you.

Bridging that into meatspace relationships by frontloading them first? Was straining - I realized how little my peers cared for what they even do. Flooding that feed with game-spam? Negated the premise. And turning it into infinite-scroll of bad takes to drive engagement just turned me temporarily, but deeply misanthropic.

Turning online into afk relationships and friendships made all of this worthwhile. Facebook had that for a bit with their "events" features... But those got nerfed into being useless without an advertising firm's budget.

I, for one? Am happy to join somewhere that respects my time.

Yes. We should all trust anonymous strangers on the internet over... anonymous... Strangers... On the internet...

Can you vote with these RSUs? Or does the bank holding them get that right?

Because last I checked with mine, they really belong to the bank, and are used to fill in my balance sheet. No voting allowed.

The inciting article fails to mention the financialization of our ecomony - lets make more money for having money!

What do you mean these serfs cant pay $2,000/ month for a studio apartment while earning minimum wage?

Note that historically, this sort of behavior on behalf of markets has preceeded revolutions - from Irish Independence to Mao's Communist Revolution.

We can stop it, if we work NOW to make the economy actually distribute goods and services.

That's utter baffling madness! I wish that was some kind of joke instead of actually being a semi-serious explanation most of the way through.

As silly as it sounds? Marx wrote very little about government.

The most promising moves towards collective autonomy in the 21st Century are about abolishing politics as we know it, and engaging directly. From Chiapas Mexico, the EZLN is expanding. Rojava is convalescing into a functioning federation of semi-autonomous collectives coordinating defense against ISIL. And any economist who bothers to actually examine the subject sees that worker co-ops make unimaginable things possible.

Worker Ownership of the means of production - thats the game. Having Government as a MiddleMan didnt work out well - there's plenty of other options on the deep Left. It did produce shorter work weeks than we have in the US today, but freedom overall suffered.

But compared to what we have now? Freedom is a lie when you cant afford it under Capitalism. Even the freedom to achieve gainful employment is just another pipe dream to too many. You're gonna wanna let us in before we burn it down just to survive. It isnt up to me - Im not the one with power here. And that's another off topic discussion - the conflation of power with Freedom...

You think your Market System works so well? If you think Marxism is some kind of disease, rehabilitate us Lefties with paychecks capable of raising Families and paying down debt. Train me, and I'll earn it. Remember that poverty sets trainees back weeks at a time - the deeper the poverty, the worse it gets. But if you want the most loyal employees ever, you'll invest that time anyway.

That's the only way you can stop the wave thats coming. The American Dream was a Deal - and Ive put blood, sweat, tears, even smiles while missing funerals into holding up my end of the bargain. Meanwhile, I've never worked anywhere in the US that wasnt the proverbial Russian Nail Factory, and still been repeatedly homeless with a full time job.

You know nothing of how we live. Quit pretending you do to our faces, and then pretending we're all useless, lazy junkies when you're among your "friends".

I hope that Librem is still around to sell me a hat/shield to turn a decent & specific single-board computer into a phone.

I hope their around long enough for that sbc to be RISC-V based.

I am happy that they made the LTE connection an M.2 card that can be easily upgraded. But without a discernible upgrade path for the rest, this feels like it might not be enough for long enough.

With some rough finances, Im gonna have to save up. This phone will be nice enough at$700, and a Category ~15-ish M.2 LTE module should run around $100-$200.

I do want to see some reviews and tutorials though. A configurable web-app sandbox is absolutely necessary.

Lineage dropped support for a LOT of phones in the last 6 months.

When you show up, looking to do the legwork for a specific model, the community directs you to the donate button instead...

If Librem can keep their repos current? Im down to switch from a Lineage-deprecated phone.

Besides, a phone running a kernel that isn't 3 years old and terribly out of date? Vulnerable to Spectre, Rowhammer, and a host of other script-kiddie-hackable holes? So what if its "mine" for $200 less when it isnt mine and patched?

Apple did one thing well with iPhone that Android didnt - they kept themselves as a single point of accountability for how the phone runs, how it updates, how security patches get distributed.

A FLOSS phone needs to mimick that success.

This is a problem - too many people still refuse to acknowledge the reality of the depth of priviledges of wealth.

Do you get it? Yes. Do I get it? I've been homeless. Does hacker news get it? Eh... Look around at some of the comments, and notice that most of the folks actively engaged are on our level. And this isnt exactly a hot topic.

Having to scroll past this headline while they search for that next investment is healthy for those neo-feudalist deniers among us.

That's what this is about.

So, how are you gonna vote to fix this? That's not exactly a high risk, antisocial behavior. Some people even still consider such your moral duty.

Heck, join or donate to the DSA. Or your local Anarchist/Communist group that puts on a community meal. Teach your skills. Do something, anything other than just complain about how powerless you feel, and how nothing is getting done.

I for one welcome the future days when hacker news keeps up with the IWW - you programmers are about to end up like auto factory workers, and you need to know how to react.

Fuck it - wanna start a co-op VPN?

Why would you do such a thing? Creating masses of crippled, non-general operating systems out of linux?! For the actually unheardof performance.

Basically, you've taken the whole /sbin/init link out of the OS init chain, and replaced it with... A single binary you may remember.

To do this took a little extra work. Your glibc and any other dependency ended up in kernel space.

Single-use virtual machines obviously have the biggest boost, but other uses exist. Your kerberos-daemon isolated into its own vm on the network. Someone's gotta serve network filesystems. Apache servers for various websites you may host - the possibilities are endless.

The processor itself has a Massive timesink for isolating kernel-space from user-space (even root is just another user at this level, I'm afraid). Even Server-side admins have simply gotten used to it - every application, server, program Ever runs on that user-space.

So you have a bunch of single use VMs... and that much "context-switching" between virtual-drivers and memory allocation on one side, and the actual server the vm is for on the other. Now these VMs are running on an OS's hypervisor with the same context-switching performance problem!

So, we package each vm as a unikernel - shove each virtualized server into the kernel. We avoid that context switching.

Build that kernel lean enough, and sometimes the unikernel VM can perform almost at baremetal speeds.

What if we did the same for the Host OS - built a hypervisor Unikernel to delegate hardware and nothing else? zomg folks are squeeing with excitement about a new way to frame building a lean system...

But it gets us compiling in-house again instead of using COTS (commercial, off-the-shelf software). Got an old Gentoo-user hanging around that can debug kernel code, harden the kernel against attack, and compile it all lean?

That guy is who we're gonna need to figure out what goes wrong with any of this. Because Murphy's law is unreliably unreliable, yet ultimately absolute.

Looking at the glut of empty affordable housing in Oregon, compared to the mass of homeless people encamped behind a San Francisco Home Depot? I'm gonna have to call your red herring comment irrelevant to the evidence.

If it were only Oregon, that'd fly. But we have nearly everywhere in the country that's more than 1-2 hours' travel from a major metropolitan area.

While we can discount some farmland, there's a fracked-land house I can sell you in Ohio for as little as $5K, $10K tops.

The only internet available is dial-up. The planned $150/month 10Mbit-down/1Mbit-up cable internet deal for the county with Comcast fell through back in '11.

The only water is well-water - and you'll have to pay more for a filter system than for the house. The power company will charge you more than a mortgage payment to keep the place surviveably warm in the winter.

And the only jobs? The Walmart closed back in '11. And being from out of town isnt gonna help. But if you're nice to a guy I met at the Denny's about 40 mins from the place, he can get you $8/hour at the Walmart distribution center 90 minutes away on the highway.

Food? There's a Dollar Store about 20 minutes down the road at "downtown." There's a gas station, a McDonalds, and a couple of pawn shops and antique dealers that are effectively interchangeable - that's where you can buy "farnature" if you cant build your own from cord-wood that you buy from neighboring farms. And a gun store that popped back up after the Walmart closed. And the one church left, where the whole town will expect you. And the bar, called "bar's".

If you hear chanting on one Saturday night of the month, accompanied by faint light from the woods out back, that's just the Klan rally where the locals go to blame immigrants and African Americans for taxes still existing. Local Government has effectively collapsed from lack of funding. But the county Sheriff gets to use "Civil Asset Forfeiture" on unwary travellers to put his kids through boarding school.

The house itself? Is a shotgun shack. From the way you talk about people, I expect you have currently closets this size. If the fridge and stove still work, they're still from the 70s. The place probably would have been condemned if the 5-county inspector handn't passed on about five years back.

But hey, its almost the cheapest house in America. Its been on the market since before the housing collapse.

I see you are a religous acolyte of Friedman. May we be free of your ilk's grasp soon.

Those median cities have seen median rent rise as much as 50% in the last 10 years, without the rise in wages.

Stfu and pay your workers enough to live.

"Handful of rich, urban areas"

"Rich, Urban areas"

"Rich, Urban"

Considering the way that "urban" became a euphemism relating to low-income inner-city African Americans, I want you to stop and think about the way you're saying there's nothing wrong.

Here we are, universally gentrifying anywhere there's actually jobs. We apparently dont care where people go, or if there are jobs there to be had.

The regulatory scale of each instance may be local, but the effects are national, even international. Britain, Germany, the US, Canada, even France has serious problems with runaway housing rents.

Even those "median income" cities cited in another comment has seen median housing rent rise by 50% in the last 15 years while wages stay flat.

But since the responsibility lies with your city council, (and not, say, global international banks treating our housing as "investments" that magically never decreade in price, even after housing bubbles collapse!) this must be a local issue!

But who cares about those low-income people and where they're going. Let them eat cake! Are you the kind of person who cannot understand why young people want some Socialism?

Mostly? We mine minerals and refine them with:

Petrochemical sources.

Which, you might also worry about running out of, in about as short order as topsoil.

There was another commenter here with more expertise on actually growing things this way - they suggested that leafy greens were the only thing we could grow efficiently with this method. Which does have a certain air of "truthiness" to it.

Where do you think the plants' nutrients come from in those growing methods? Petrochemical plants also set to run out of resources. You're adorable.

Look at permaculture food forests and how they rebuild topsoil. While we still can.

Aquaponics demands a LOT more resources. Petrochemical fertilizers to dissolve in massive amounts of water... This does not sound like a way to sustain a society into perpetuity.

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As for topsoil - it has happened before.

Whether we're talking about multi-continental with the bronze age collapse, or we're talking corporate with the US Dust Bowl, people always ask - why didnt anybody do something?

You're assuming people knew there was something to do. You're assuming the people with those means were not instead racing to extract the most profit, just like an oil company.

One local-scale solution is really quite simple, but doesn't lend itself to industrialized single-crop agriculture. Look for "permaculture food forests" in you favorite search engine. Maybe see the results on youtube.

By planting pines with deep taproots, and cutting them off at 6' tall once a year and leaving the yearly growth to rot, you feed the topsoil from above. With the nitrogen-and-phosphorous fixing symbiosis at those same pines' roots, you feed the topsoil from below.

This process takes decades, instead of centuries, because it is deliberate. You can get a head start - now - for you and yours.

Welcome to Fascism, ladies and gentlemen.

No rights, no respect for due process, nobody to call for help.

"Papers, please" was an invasion back in WWII, and here we are being scrutinized in every modern-conceivable way. Nobody bats an eye?

Uhm... Why not just use git for that?

Anyone see the irony that its for gitlab, but posted on github?

So what does it do that git doesn't? Without answering that, it feels awkward to put forward a CLI frontend to a CLI tool.

LibreSSL worked hard to add a few additional ciphers before OpenSSL.

BoringSSL implemented TLSv1.3 years before OpenSSL did.