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I'm in a similar boat. Except I started with emacs so i could learn org-mode. i dropped spacemacs and went to Doom (which i greatly prefer).

In Doom, i get to org-mode with SPC-X. it's great. it's helping me learn emacs, too.

You're not describing free speech, you're describing the challenges of moderation.

I'd consider opting in to an identity that follows me between platforms so I could build a reputation.

same.

consider scuttlebutt.

.... and they came to believe that these very popular websites are somehow inherent to the Internet and to society in general. They're not.

Amen. And my feeling is that we would be better off without them. This is why i'm in favor of slow computing, slower network speeds, and slower lifestyles. (I should state that this is not sarcasm)

Canada has some good examples of this.

The almost free speech on the other side of the ocean seems to be working pretty well. You get to say anything that isn’t actively harmful to others, but you won’t be able to advertise bleach as a way to get Corona out of your system.

Alternatively, you don't go to jail for suggesting that anybody actually implied injection of bleach as a treatment for coronavirus.

When we have had presidents who were willing to condemn white supremacy, we tended not to call on CEOs to.

https://twitter.com/robsmithonline/status/131113297546835968...

This is only as true as saying that any personal attempt to minimize your carbon footprint is self-harm.

I sometimes wonder, when the mining energy question is raised, about the carbon footprint of all the servers and buildings and air conditioning in all the banks in all the world.

What's Bitcoin missing in technological or infrastructure terms that's holding it back? I'd wager nothing.

The technological solution to the slight incomprehensibility is a huge part of what holds back adoption.

Also, regulatory issues are considerable for a certain class of user that would probably like to take advantage of e.g. 1000x gainz.

I'm sure there are many, but cellular network coverage (industrial) and products to connect easily to it (consumer) both seem like limiting factors.

related? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet#History

Without meaningful information about the geographies of the participants, how this data would be valuable is not quite clear to me.

I read earlier in the year... early in the news about the outbreak, a skeptical view that suggested the reason for this 'epidemic' had something to do with the relatively new ability to apply fast genetic testing to a 'fairly common cold'

edit to remove the phrases: "pandemic" & "new normal"

love ur dashboard bro :)

A handful of mainstream publications and a bunch of basically unknown facebook folks are now the censors.

I share your concern. And, hasn't this been the case for as long as there have been centralized publications?

imo, as a builder of one, tiny house has such a low squarefootage that you can spring for high quality materials without breaking the bank.

it's easy enough to find 200sqft (that's a 20' cargo container's worth) of high quality unmatched leftover flooring from a sale.

Pine floors are terrible to maintain though.

'cut off your nose to spite the king'

avoid some other blackmail

remember the failwhale?

Coinbase is not decentralized.

i guess if i wanted windows, i could use windows... right?

edit for tone:

sry, that sounded saltier than i wanted. i actually went to linux because i was convinced that was the better way to do things, and i wanted to do things the better way.

i trust neckbeards over most others.

Thanks for the share from suckless.org. I'm interested to learn about init now :)

i went trying to learn how to make my linux box do something at startup.

as somebody learning how to use my linux, systemd clouded the discovery process of learning how to linux in the intended way.

i ended up using systemd, but now that's the thing i'm familiar with if i want to add some service to my computer... so it has infected me with some non-linux-y knowledge that won't go away soon.

good for him. hope he can hold out for a couple years...

exactly.

stay far away from bitcoin.

nobody should ever buy a bitcoin under any circumstance for exactly this reason

this is precisely right and why nobody should ever buy a bitcoin under any circumstance.

my first (only) financial advisor was a manager at RadioShack for 10 years before he got the advisor job.

relatedly, i once applied as a network admin at Ed Jones. They didn't have their shit together when i showed up for the interview, and gave me the questions for the financial advisor interview instead. it was an automatic process, about 100 questions that were some variant of "how good or bad do you feel about asking your friends to buy financial products you don't understand well, and will you also please ask them to recommend you to their friends?"

i didn't get the job. and i fired the advisor.

today i learned that (for some people) 'impostor syndrome` is a heuristic for cognitive dissonance.

That was already true before Covid

I think there's a lot of people who don't remember or realize this. And it bothers me that having conversations now takes so much effort to address that particular part of the context: "they were having econ troubles before covid was on the radar"