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leper khan posted:How do we revolt and switch back to plaintext web? I use retro computers a lot and I enjoy trying to do them modern things. It sucks how image/video based everything is in general. And how everything is now an app instead of a protocol. The original idea of Twitter was fun because it was text based and small content. Now most of Twitter is text as screenshots and videos. You could still do a lot of the things you do in life on a Commodore 64 over telnet if you just had good APIs or protocols and dropped images.
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leper khan posted:How do we revolt and switch back to plaintext web? here you go
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lobsterminator posted:You could still do a lot of the things you do in life on a Commodore 64 over telnet if you just had good APIs or protocols and dropped images. biggest nail in the retrocomputing coffin is the shift to mandatory encryption for everything can't port a half-a-million line crypto suite to your platform? go gently caress yourself good thing that the crypto libraries are heavily audited by all their consumers and never turn out to have glaring bugs or we might be in trouble lol
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Probably more to do with the fact that all modern ciphers make heavy use of 32-bit ALU ops although TLS and X.509 being heaving garbage fires doesn't exactly help matters. Gemini is nice but it has no provision for logging in to things. Because that would be "user tracking".
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sounds like a great feature
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gemini client certificates are how you would "log into" a service
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Internet Janitor posted:gemini client certificates are how you would "log into" a service As someone who's actually dealt with deploying and using client certificates for a globally distributed corporate workforce: lmao.
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leper khan posted:Developer eXperience which basically means time to market
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wanderer2323 2 minutes ago [–] PG is apropos for this forum, but beyond that he is plainly a good writer. I don't know who you consider 'amazing writers across our civilization' -- but whether it is Gracian or Scott Alexander, PG shares one thing with them, namely that his works will be quoted beyond the lifespan of his contemporary readers.
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my brain filled in wodehouse in that, which was a good move
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Incidentally, that's a comment from the discussion on a blog post by paul graham where it seems like the real thesis he wants to assert is "it's a good thing that people are getting obscenely rich from tech startups because they deserve it" but he's afraid to admit that that's the whole reason he wrote this thing so he wastes a lot of space padding that assertion in discussion about the historical and current rates at which startups are being founded to obfuscate what the main point is.
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artificialLimbs 0 minutes ago | parent | favorite | on: RMS addresses the free software community It is great that RMS is trying to explore his emotional capacity and relate to others! Shocking in these comments how many people believe that people are not responsible for their own emotions. No one can "hurt another" emotionally. It is up to each person to take the mature (and logical) stance that "I am responsible for my emotions". If something someone does or says "hurts me" emotionally, it is because I have chosen to allow that emotion, or I have not sufficiently dealt with the circumstances that have caused it to arise such that I am unable to process it in a manner which does not put the responsibility for its arising on another. I'm not saying that if someone shoots your mother you shouldn't feel angry or sad, but that the anger or sadness is not CAUSED by another. It arises solely within you. You can see that this is true because people react wholly differently dependent upon the individual. It is within human capability to positively act from a place of clarity rather than negatively react from emotion. It seems clear from this short page that RMS understands this. reply beep boop how can you possibly be offended just turn off your illogical emotions like any superior being 
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That is technically true from a cognitive therapeutic perspective, but not really the best example
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your mother is dead? agony is born of desire, man. that's what you get for wanting.
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How you think people on HN would try to defend RMS: "What RMS said wasn't actually that bad because..." How people on HN actually try to defend RMS: "It's impossible to cause harm to someone simply by saying something, so it's totally okay to use the N word and tell your employees they need to perform sexual favors for you our you'll fire them. Wait what was my point? Oh yeah, therefore RMS logically did nothing wrong."
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xtal posted:That is technically true from a cognitive therapeutic perspective, but not really the best example yeah it’s a terrible example from that perspective, because in therapy you distinguish between healthy and unhealthy responses to prompts. getting angry at a shitlord saying racist things to you absolutely is a healthy response. so is getting angry at a shitlord trying to coopt concepts from mental health and philosophy to make their bad behavior into everyone else’s problem
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leper khan posted:How do we revolt and switch back to plaintext web? this has been on my mind a lot recently, thinking we need a new protocol, and make new clients that just don’t have to do nearly as much and could be fast, no client side scripting, no movies, just some text and maybe simple pictures. no way to do invasive tracking above just like ip request logs, and holy poo poo this is like exactly it from just glancing at it so far
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kind of seems like someone read marcus aurelius and then said to themselves "welp, that's a complete philosophy that will give anyone in any time a perfect path to The Good Life, no need to read anything else, i wonder which fundamental question i should answer next" or, more likely, they read some ceo's ghostwriter's summary of marcus aurelius on linkedin
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Pardot posted:this has been on my mind a lot recently, thinking we need a new protocol, and make new clients that just don’t have to do nearly as much and could be fast, no client side scripting, no movies, just some text and maybe simple pictures. no way to do invasive tracking above just like ip request logs, and holy poo poo There's also nothing stopping people from creating and visiting pages with no javascript and they just aren't.
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Apr 12, 2021 20:39
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stoicism was invented by recently freed slaves to deal with them being nonentities in society and adopted by marcus aurelius to deal with the fact that emperors cant have any normal relations w anyone and that fact can p directly point to him loving up and bein the last of the five good emperors. commodus wasnt as bad as in the movie but he was p bad and prolly the second great example of artists actors and poo poo bein poo poo at government, which has held from nero to donald trump
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xtal posted:That is technically true from a cognitive therapeutic perspective, but not really the best example I was literally talking about that with my therapist less than three hours ago, it felt uncanny to read it right here (Although in my case he was trying to get me to accept that I can't hope to control _other people's_ emotions, which is a little bit different...)
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Stoicism is epicureanism for smug assholes.
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toyg 3 hours ago [–] The emacs virgin thing is just what one would expect from a ‘60s/‘70s hippie. At the time, intelligent and activist women were busy attacking sexual taboos, largely defined by men, including virginity. Turning virginity into a joke (and with classical-lit undertones) is the type of thing “boomer women” would likely appreciate. Alas, our modernity seems to be more prudish in these matters; so people react to this sort of thing very much like a pre-60s person; and RMS didn’t get the memo. reply
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:wtf is 'dx'? a miserable pile of qsl cards
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:wtf is 'dx'? its when the turbo button is on, op
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quote:this is cool! but I'm curious to see a git blame implementation. quote:You mean the most conflict driven and passive aggressive feature in any programming tooling?
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lobsterminator posted:You could still do a lot of the things you do in life on a Commodore 64 over telnet if you just had good APIs or protocols and dropped images. amen the only problem with that is really the crypto, and you can offboard that to a RPi or ESP or whatever; on anything slower than a Pentium, you should probably be using a TLS library that uses a separate channel controller to handle crypto, and interpose that between the retro system’s network and the rest (Thomas Cherryholmes spammed the retro world about doing just that with his FujiNet thing on Atari 8-bit a few days ago)
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Pardot posted:this has been on my mind a lot recently, thinking we need a new protocol, and make new clients that just don’t have to do nearly as much and could be fast, my friend Rob put together the base layer for such a protocol in the late 1990s https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-earhart-ap-spec-01 it’s basically the non-application-specific parts of IMAP, ICAP, etc. polished a little bit and with saner defaults than IMAP (8-bit clean/UTF-8 by default, no need for IDLE as an extension)
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epicurus was basically buddhist or the buddha was basically the first epicurean, take it whichever way you want
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both philosophies designed for poor peeps w/o mechanisms to make sure they stayed for poor peeps so rich peeps took em (the expropriations of the tang in the 800s carried out literal tons of silver and hundreds of pounds of gold out of the monasteries and freed tens of thousands of temple slaves) on the other hand, christ put in poo poo to mack on the rich and that didnt help any so who knows
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quote:dlkf 1 minute ago [–] me: ...so you see M >> N with a 95% CI, given our estimator is correct seeing as they're very different draws! dude in maga hat and a "dont mask on me" shirt: beep...calculating....calculating...boop
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"Once on the Brink of Eradication, Syphilis Is Raging Again (npr.org)"quote:You can yell about it, concoct vindictive policies to punish people whose behavior you don't like, dress up these policies by describing them in purportedly scientific economic terms like "subsidizing," "externality," "free rider," etc., but ultimately, this is a futile position to take. People are going to do what they want. hmm lets look at the replie-  quote:You are suggesting something like how mafia works. STFU and pay for your protection or else. quote:I reject the thinking that "people are going to do what they want" and we are helpless to influence their behavior so we should just accept whatever they are doing no questions asked and work around it with public policy if it causes a problem. The reason I reject it is because I would argue "what people want to do" does not spontaneously arise in their minds, but rather is influenced by popular culture, marketing, and more. ah yes uhhh endorsing abstinence with uhhh. sex. that certainly hasn't been tried before
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alexandriao posted:we should not work around bad thing with public policy
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computer, generate a comment from a peertube enthusiastquote:rosmax_1337 1 hour ago [–] quote:ralusek 1 hour ago [–] quote:marricks 1 hour ago [–] quote:
ill save you the bulk (it's 50% rants about cancel culture and freeze peach and 50% rants wanting people to shut up about their politics  ) but some sweet morsels from their historyquote:There is a clear line-drawing problem. Is all nationalism equal to nazism? Is all vaccine-skepticism anti-vaxx? if theres one ive never seen and definitely never been endlessly recommended on youtube, its white dudes whining about how hard it is to be white. thank you
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Breakfast All Day posted:if theres one thing i think when i browse to a webpage today to read a text article and it chugs along at 10 fps on my 16 core 4ghz 256gb ram computer, its "wow web performance is continuously getting better!" a lot of this is third-party code (ads, trackers, embeds) ad code is an enormous gently caress i'm not even talking about how they're spying on everything you do, i mean it's all terrible broken code that hasn't been touched since steve the intern wrote it 20 years ago because it ~just works~ and will never be touched again until a browser update patches a security hole the code was reliant on, then it's hacked at until it starts working again.
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every month i get sent a 150px jpg of a black square from a vp of BlastedUpYourAd with the text "site broke pls fix" well, your script is trying to hijack the page, and it failed because your code is broken. my advice is don't do that.
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tomp 4 hours ago [–] Sure but my point is that, while you could argue that decisions about some topics could be discriminatory by definition, that has nothing to do with AI (and saying that AI is at fault is pure anti-AI FUD). reply
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*as the robots overrun the last defenders in the warsaw ghetto* "Woah, woah dude. Look, I get that you're upset, but they're controlled by AI. They can't be nazis"
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"that sort of terminological inexactitude just divides us further"
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AI? More like BI (Humans)
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