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Why are the Brave shills pivoting to shilling Nostr? What is Nostr's connection to Brendan Eich and/or Israel?

addendum 1 because body to short: why do they think such blatant advertizement isn't just going to make people distrust it?

addendum 2 because attached wrong file: oh nice we can delete OP threads if we mess up now.

Microsoft is the CIA. Pretty much all US big tech is. Windows is a global CIA mass surveillance program via monopoly capitalism. It’s completely impossible to make Windows secure, there’s no secret registry switch. The entire thing is compromised top to bottom, and under no circumstances should anyone consent to its use. Closed source spyware monopolies are a weapon of war against us by the bourgeois state.

Open source operating systems are software communism. If we’re not willing to build and use existing forms of technological sovereignty and anti-capitalism, then we’re probably not willing to do any other forms of communism either. I hate the “No ethical consumption under capitalism” mantra. How do we expect to get out of capitalism without building alternatives? I think a lot of leftists hope a revolution will happen then just magically replace all the corrupt and bourgeois components of consumerism, using the same uninvolved passive mechanisms.

Do we really believe a windows update will just drop after some election that restores our rights, trust, openness, privacy and dignity? It must be built and owned by the people.

The other thread hit bump limit and I'm addicted to talking about the birth of the ̶a̶l̶l̶-̶k̶n̶o̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶u̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶g̶o̶d̶ the biggest financial bubble in history and the coming jobless eschaton, post your AI news here

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posting my bespoke poverty setup that's been my kicking for over 15 years now
it runs gentoo btw
fortunately I've also been told this body was neither too short nor empty

What are some genuinely good phones that do not shit the bed after 3 years, and without software updates shitting it's functionality? I've been stuck with Samsung, falling for propoganda that it's long-lasting when in reality they've just added some new pointless OS updates that makes it slower to use.

Recently started a new project, it's a space-repetition system from markdown to CLI!

So far it's just a lexer and a parser, which aren't perfect, but are a little interesting, and a hash function.
The lexer yields tokens using re (which compiles to C) containing memoryviews over a mmap.
A larger regular expression is composed of smaller ones so they can be tested individually.
It should be quite fast, and use very little memory (for python).

The parser yields cards and is written as a state-machine, but in a "functional" style.
There are a number of parsers which return State, and they are dispatched to by TokenType.
They also accept a StateRepo which in this cases is implemented mutably, but could be immutable.
I was going to use pyrsistent for persistent datastructures but couldn't find any actual improvement in testability.

Anyway this thread will serve as yet another project log.

https://codeberg.org/jugaad/wikicards

i have set myself a new rule for my internet life: DON'T USE ALGORITHMIC PLATFORMS.

you know, the highly personalized ones, which merge the user with the algorithm into a single cybernetic system.

the algorithms…. they hollow us out. they control us. they are directly hijacking system 1 of our brains. and it becomes even worse. as longer you use these plarforms, the stronger your habits will become. and the algorithms are also becoming stronger with every year. at one point, you are unable to articulate your interests, because the algorithm took it from you. it knows what you like, but yourself are unable to put it into words. run.

there are two positions one can take on the issue of intellectual property, either you believe in it or you don't. either information is a material resource that can be governed and owned, or information is an immaterial resource that cannot be governed nor owned.

you can't criticize software vendors for restricting access to their source code and invoking intellectual property law to sue people who copy it, and then turn around and invent a copyleft license so you can do the exact same thing. you can't copy the source code from unix and emacs and violate their license to write unauthorized clones and then lock those clones behind your own license to stop others from doing whatever they want with "your" code.

words are not things and language is a means, not an end. the significance of a legal document is not in the text itself but in how the text is interpreted and enforced in a court of law. permissive licenses such as the bsd license can effectively be thought of public domain licenses because they contain no enforceable non-trivial restrictions that could conceivably ever warrant an actual court case, but copyleft licenses like the gpl can and have been involved in real courtroom cases and any civil litigation in any courtroom requires a specific plaintiff, and it cannot be "the people" as in a criminal case filed by the state. the plaintiffs in gpl violation cases are typically non-profit organizations like the free software foundation or the software freedom law center who act as legal representatives for one or more of the developers, and which developers get to be constituents and potential beneficiaries in the lawsuit is decided entirely at the discretion of whomever happens to be in the room when the lawsuit is first filed.

to illustrate the real-world ramifications of this, consider the busybox lawsuits filed against various companies by busybox developers erick anderson and rob landley represented by the software freedom law center. the cases were settled for undisclosed sums and these two developers got paid off, but none of the other hundreds of contributors to the busybox project, including the original authors bruce perens and dave cinege, were represented or given a share of the settlement or even contacted by the plaintiffs. so in practice, enforcement of the gpl does not really represent the open source community and all the contributors to a particular project, it only represents the tiny fraction of contributPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Use Dillo. It only has ~80,000 lines of code. That's smaller than some terminal browsers, even. Firefox and Chromium are like operating systems w/ 10s of millions of lines of code. That's why compiling Firefox on Gentoo is a fucking nightmare. With Dillo, it just takes a few seconds. And minus the proprietary js attack surface since it comes without it because it's a legacy browser with its own engine instead of using Google/Apple like Otter browser or Suckless Surf.