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I read the first series from that on the wiki a while ago, and recently went back and read Five Five Five Five Five. I absolutely love the ideas behind antimemetics, this kind of eldritch horror and how to deal with it. I was slightly disappointed towards the end,

Still a great story either way, and a good read for free, I had no idea it was published independently, have look into it!

In theory, a benevolent dictatorship is a good system, that can cut through a lot of bureaucracy and enact good changes in a timely fashion. The obvious problems are who gets to be dictator and how do you keep the dictatorship benevolent.

If I could unilaterally make somebody a dictator and believed they would do what’s best, I’d do it. But I don’t know if there is such a person. To me it just seems like people believe in and trust certain public figures to agree with them, and enact the same changes they’d want.

works offline

Huh, that’s curious, that sounds impossible to make properly secure, since if you’re not verifying the validity of transactions with some trusted third party or ledger (I think it’s called that in crypto), someone could make a transaction, and then locally rollback their state to make another transaction to somebody else, which wouldn’t actually be valid.

I’ll have to read up on it if I remember, maybe it’s just half-offline, in that you can sign transactions offline if the other party is online to execute them?

Generally though, whether it’s “good” tech is a rather ambiguous question - I think it’s a good concept that has some ethical problems and big issues in practice, including social aspects of how it’s used. I think most people on the fediverse value decentralization to some degree, so a world where crypto didn’t end up being mostly used for speculation and scams could’ve been interesting.

Note that cryptocurrencies (typically?) don’t have an official exchange, the official thing is that you get compatible software, might need to download the entire history of the network, generate a wallet (which is a local cryptographic process), and allows you to issue transactions from that wallet (and presumably other funky actions)

Whatever you used that required 20€ minimum was presumably just some exchange… Though scams are very commonplace in cryptocurrencies. Probably a good idea to avoid them unless you have a specific need and you understand why you’d need specifically crypto for something.

Disclaimer: I don’t actually use crypto and can’t give you specific recommendations, but I think the technology itself and the idea behind it are cool.

I feel like discussing what consent is with your children is probably a must do, at some point, no matter what.

I don’t like the polite refusal custom, and call it out in good company, but it’s similar to tipping - it’s so ingrained in cultures that it’s hard to root out, and any attempts to do so can hurt good people.

Yes, but the problem is that it’s ingrained in culture, and most people are raised with that attitude, so if you raise your kid to act differently, you’re setting them up to be rude in the perception of others.

The post doesn’t say anything about feasibility/safety, so unless you can find dragon tamers for hire and a dragon-proof construction company, you’d likely end up dead and/or with an escaped dragon.

Also, it was about any pet in the world, so I guess that requires dragons to exist somewhere, sounds like a gamble on if they do…

This is AI slop

It’s a reference to a glorious image, not sure if it’s real, but it’s been around for a while:

My bios/similar are either empty or whatever I put there as a teen… Except for one where I put “Green Is My Pepper”, I should use that more.

Why not offer shopping lists at the supermarket? Could be the first aisle. Ready-made shopping lists, two for $1.

You know… Call me crazy, but something like that could work? Ideally just free, but checklists for the 20 most common items to help remind you what you might miss, and also possibly recipes (frequently switched) from things the shop keeps in stock.

Universities do not exactly have teachers.

Now, some professors might hate this, but hear me out… If somebody’s teaching, they’re a teacher, how about that?

Ahh, is it Not Quite Almost Christmas Time already?

If you want https it’s gotta be a external DNS record anyway

Not sure what you mean by that, but off the top of my head, you can get certificates via challenges that prove DNS control (rather than checking if the DNS points to your server), and you can get wildcard certificates so you don’t even have to expose the existence of subdomains.

And that’s ignoring the option of using your own CA, which only really works with your own devices, but for local access might be viable.

Probably because, to my knowledge, there isn’t a better/more ethical alternative than Linux, so the claim being made is extreme to an absurd degree. It proposes no alternative, and off the top of my head, I can only think of using outdated unmaintained versions of software, not using any computers at all, or switching to something very niche (is FreeBSD slopfree?).

Going to go with a video game: Outer Wilds. The game is very story and mystery oriented, so I don’t want to spoil it, as that can ruin the experience. In short though, it’s an exploration game where you get to do your first flight around a miniature solar system - exploring it freely without a linear sequence or quest markers.

The story is told in a nonlinear way, depending on how you explore it, and the way it comes together and the conclusion it reaches were amazing to discover.

save me from having to block em

I’m not sure, but I doubt getting banned stops you from seeing a community?

I’m a fan of thunderstore, having been there when it was made for RoR2. Not sure how I feel about the UI redesign, but it’s simple and as of yet unenshittified.

an unseasoned barebones window

That’d be because micro doesn’t do a window, or at least doesn’t need one. It’s a terminal text editor, which some people prefer in general, but it can also be used without a graphical environment - like when SSHing into a server or recovering your system if the graphical environment breaks. Or if you’re editing critical system configs with sudo and want to do it from tty with a simple editor to minimize points of failure.

Obsidian, featured in the meme, is on Linux, and for a while now free of charge (but with paid official plugins for syncing and web publishing), and I’d say is pretty good.

I honestly just take notes in sublime text myself, which is paid, but I’m paying for it anyways and often have it open in the background. It can store unsaved tabs in some session file, so I can just put unimportant notes in a tab and have them available to open later.

I also want to mention nextcloud notes, I don’t use it for much so I don’t know how good it is, but I have a nextcloud instance and use the notes for simple notes I want to be able to access from my phone.