Be careful. Having ownership of your resources allows you to take your stuff, or sell it, and try something else somwhere else. If all the resources are communal, it is harder to escape if the things go south. One of the reasons why is it difficult to leave certain kind of cults.

Was this launch special in any way? I had no idea these effects are observable from this side of the planet.

Bad bot!

Multiple good hypotheses here. I’d like to add my own. The governments can be viewed as a modern iterations of religious cults, and there is no bigger taboo in a religious organization than questioning the basic dogma.

Try to question democracy in a democratic republic and you immediately get the weird looks, and irrational dismissal. 9 times out of 10 this self preservation instinct is good and beneficial to everyone involved, because giving a benefit of doubt to closeted authoritarians would be a mistake. That one time somebody really wants to have an honest discussion, it simply sucks.

Yes. Because the value if everything is relative.

You’ve just used the word “normie”. Why would anyone even read the rest of the post?

When you stop voting for maniacs messing with our monetary sytem, we can shut the bitcoin down. Until then, hands off my sudoku.

to educate themselves

In other words, to do their own research?

I’ll show myself out…

Serves it right! :D

The opposite. I’m afraid I will waste my life procrastinating, not even being aware of what it has to offer.

Yet somehow the same people can be trusted to select the best among them to make the rules for everyone.

I sense huge r/antiwork vibes. I hope it will be at least as much fun.

In my experience, this is not the case. It just says it can’t connect. Doesn’t specify how or where to.

Our backup server has a chatbot now. If that’s not throwing things at the wall, I don’t know what is.

Not destroyed, merely transformed. Human waste can be turned into fertilizer. Still no theft in sight…

We’d be better off going back to barter than trying to peacefully pry the system from their clutches.

Normal people would just start selling the beige shirts…

No need for doubt. There is no technology in place that would guarantee any kind of privacy.

For the current version, we are using a Mistral LLM (Mistral 7B) hosted within Mozilla’s GCP instance.

• https://orbitbymozilla.com/

Found myself replacing the broken file roller flatpak by the file roller from thr APT repo.

The desktop linux feels more and more like windows as time goes on. The things that worked fine for years are being broken in new and innovative ways.

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It took 3 hours and we already got to gatekeeping culture.

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