Posted by the hackers:

Dear Google, please please pretty please continue to attack them. I so wanna see the fuck getting destroyed out of you

Have you been to Mexico City or (even more so) Guadalajara since the Pandemic? Multinational techs are investing and building up campuses like crazy. Reminds me of the go-go years of Bangalore in the 2000’s.

Mexico has a real possibility of moving up the value chain and gobbling up all the good stuff Trump is pushing away from the USA

Honestly curious how you concluded this

I work for one of the world’s largest proprietary software companies.

100% agree with you

Countries should fund open source OS, browser, mobile OS. It is in their best interest.

ofc this is Fedi so that’s just a list; there is no the list

so decentralized, so Internet

shit registration functions

… and there are some shit moderators here, just like on Reddit

… and there are some really high-value communities here, because of really good moderation – just like on Reddit

EDIT: But it’s Federated, and therefore much more self-healing in that decentralized Internet way

wildlife conservation

I met multiple long term romantic partners from this exact thing.

Plus even if you don’t find someone, any time invested in saving animals is absolutely positive karma you can feel good about, even if it was just cleaning cages.

Yeah, the newer thing to counter that is WebTunnel which came out last year. There’s considerably more setup than just starting a snowflake proxy process, and I am ashamed to say I haven’t set one up yet

This particular coding leaderboard matches my own personal experience. Llama4 is hitting ~15% ; Claude Opus4 ~70% (I haven’t used others personally)

If you really want privacy, use Tor which is free-as-in-speech-and-beer

In general real-time games are not great for Tor, because it introduces lots of network latency – which makes you safer

For most applications, the easiest way to Torify is via using SOCKS from the Tor Browser Bundle, which would let you simply pick Snowflake when Tor Browser starts up. I asked Perplexity for directions on running Minecraft over Tor, here ya go

a whole new country relying on the snowflake protocol.

That would put them in the company of China, Russia, and Iran. Getting unrestricted Internet to people in those countries is why I am among those who run a snowflake node on a dedicated VPS (the link also has a simple browser addon – it’s easy to support the network, everyone should)

Yes, these moves suck for UK youth. But, anti-censorship tools do exist, and volunteers like me want people who could benefit from them, to know about & use them.

any sane adult should never send a copy of their id to anything but the government, bank, insurance or employer.

100% agree, take my upvote

Even AF_BLUETOOTH sockets are… sockets, where one machine ("server’) opens to listen, and the other (“client”) initiates the stream

“Floppy disks” were 8 inches a side in my youth and went in the minicomputer

Then along came Newfangled desktop PCs with their 5.25" floppies

Tom Bombadil remembers first acorn and first rain drop

This is how you get under-18s to use Tor browser

My mistake

hold on I am still somewhat new to Fedi & not fully used to people being polite

ofc a lot depends on the precise definitions of terms, state corporatism is not synonymous with generally free markets operating under the regulation of a basically diverse inclusive democracy – but both are referred to as “capitalism”

The Monero community spent a long time trying to find a “useful PoW” function. The problem is that most computations that are useful are not also easy to verify as correct. javascript optimization was one direction that got pursued pretty far.

But at the end of the day, a crypto that actually intends to withstand attacks from major governments requires a system that is decentralized, trustless, and verifiable, and the only solutions that have been found to date involve algorithms for which a GPU or even custom ASIC confers no significant advantage over a consumer-grade CPU.

Imagine if it was people’s happiness and freedom instead of quarterly profits

1. Whose happiness and freedom?
2. How is it to be measured?
3. Capitalists honestly believe that free trade is the best albeit flawed way to do both of the above

It’s definitely valid to disagree about point #3, but then you need to give a better model for #1 and #2

I would give this reddit gold

Instant easy complaints help-i’m-oppressed-by-Capitalism today sound an awful lot like the instant easy complaints help-i’m-oppressed-by-Communism I used to hear from rednecks

Ask someone who starved & died under either system how obviously superior it is, you will find millions on either side