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If this kind of thing interests people, the esoteric languages wiki is worth losing some time to. https://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page

Most IP should be scrapped completely in the age of free and cheap information. I really don't have any sympathy to big corps making money from IP, and small entities are finding m…

I'm getting sub 100ms latencies across the continent with multi hop routes through public peers.

I haven't used tailscale so... I think so? Tailscale is pretty light on the details, and even their docs say that they have been reluctant to describe how it works. >People often a…

This is correct in the sense of peering, however hosts behind a NAT can simply connect to any other host on the network such as a pubic peer and then they can accept incoming conne…

The computer that you used required skills to use and maintain, and stayed at home. It is vastly different than a dumb (yes) internet appliance kept in a pocket all day long subjec…

Even on a street only trip I'd prefer an adventure bike to most street bikes, the rugged factor shouldn't be discounted when you're 1000+ miles away from home and outside of cell s…

Dual sports can usually withstand a few drops with nothing more than new levers, parts are cheap, and maintenance is usually easier than street bikes. I almost always recommend a s…

I don't consider a closed source browser on equal footing. Is there a safari equivalent to chromium?

In practice when Mozilla is the only real competition to Chrome and wouldn't exist without Google's funding, it's a conflict of interest regardless. All it does is make the situati…

Mozilla is also funded nearly half a billion dollars a year by Google, so that makes three that are controlled directly or indirectly by G.

Unregulated encryption will be out in the next decade, it's too powerful for us plebes to have. Things will be safer when only the paragons of infosec like big corporations and ban…

Based on the direction the web is going, it might continue to be true. Easily 90% of the bandwidth a typical webpage uses is trackers, battery/CPU drains, and assorted worthless fl…

IPFS mirroring would probably be ideal for simple websites like this.

Pfizer has a long history of criminal behavior. This was written in 2010. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2875889/

The vaccinated are still vectors for the infection of those who cannot be vaccinated.

>(and points out that the Trump organisation might be in trouble ....) Thanks for that line, I was starting to worry that there were things going on in the world that weren't about…

It's been my daily for not much longer than that, and almost every time I play with NixOS itself I get the sense of wonder and possibility in computers that I haven't had since I w…

Fascism or public-private partnership... It's the same in-group in power, protecting each other, regardless of which arm of the state (corporate, government, religion, media, unive…

>It doesn't work so well for I borrowed my coworker's computer for 5 minutes and want to use my own Vim configuration You could use something like nixos-shell[1] to spin up a headl…

>Is there some way I can boot-to-git-configuration? Yes, the NixOS installer is a live disk with all the features of NixOS. I have booted configurations directly from IPFS in the i…

This is Google making the first steps to block alternate/privacy centric interfaces such as NewPipe/invidious/youtube-dl. Push back now or never.