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  • You write up a procedure for the setup of your server and any virtual machines contained within.

    Using declarative Distros makes the procedure shorter and easier to maintain in the long run.

    Then you use it to setup your system (fixing issues in your procedure along the way)

    Then wipe and do it again (this time should be done without issue or you may need another spin)

    Then slowly grow your documentation and what services you have running.



  • greengnu@slrpnk.nettoSolarpunk@slrpnk.netDecomputing as Resistance
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    10 months ago

    Well AI is the exploration of how to reason about how reasoning occurs. Which is why early on there was massive progress in areas such as constraint solvers and recursive problem solving (like SHRDLU) but once we started to try to do things that we don’t know how we do (like look at a picture of a bird and know it is a bird) things basically slowed nearly to a stop until computing grew to the level brute force solutions could be tested.








  • no, the government doesn’t serve the people it serves power.

    Unless power thinks you as a group are worth the effort, they will ignore your mailed documents, state you failed to file paper work and you now have to deal with (problems incurred due to not having completed the paper work).

    Paper processes are going away. Oh, they will keep mailing you stuff for a while but nations and states are implementing SSO systems and the scanning/indexing systems are disappearing. Replaced by “You scan and upload” combined with you extract the relevant bits so we can cut staffing again.

    But the point was, there are no good XMPP libraries that would enable a willing government to easily onboard that support. If there were, it would be a very different discussion.





  • ok, lets just assume xmpp is reliable enough to use. And a government agency is will to adopt it to prove that all out.

    What libraries for Java/C# are available under an FSF approved license that would enable one to securely send XMPP messages to the public?

    As governments don’t like being mailed or emailed anything. They want you to login to a thin wrapper around a database and perform basic data entry so that they don’t have to pay someone to do that data entry.

    They are only going to message you to deal with password resets or data entry tasks they want you to do (legally required renewals, reviews, etc).


  • greengnu@slrpnk.nettoIn Person Activism@slrpnk.netI own a fleet of white vans
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    11 months ago

    a liter of Urine in the fuel tank would disable them, so make sure plenty of restrooms are available.

    A $5 magnet and $30 of electrical equipment could cause the electrical systems to permanently burn out as the induced voltage might go too high. so you may wish to ensure electrical diagnostic equipment is properly grounded and not connected to electrical mains.

    Also be careful with unidirectional speakers, they can shatter windows and cause extreme disorientation in the drivers even if the children in the vehicle can’t hear it…


  • Well governments will use any open standard that can reliably contact individuals (as that is the easiest way to do their jobs) That is why the 3 most supported options are:

    • mail
    • phone
    • email

    They would use IRC, XMPP, Matrix, etc if they would reliably send you a message and enable them to reliably receive messages from you. The problem is that those options are not reliable.

    The other alternative is they provide a website (that they control) that you can login in to but it is then on you to routinely login and people are bad at that and thus few organizations even support that approach.