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Or, people are just inconsistent and not thinking about things beyond their politics. People will praise the Arab Spring organizing on Twitter without considering the implications …

Ah ok. Yes, I was mistaking Aether Pro. You have excellent docs!

Oh cool. I didn't actually try it myself, since I read in the docs that it would take a long time. Good to see it's quick. Urbit looks like a really interesting system with great d…

I was looking at your service recently while surveying the landscape of currently active P2P projects. Am I right in seeing that a monthly subscription is the only option to get a …

This is difficult to balance with having data be available when you are offline. If your data is local to a user's device (laptop, desktop, tablet, phone), then it's not online 24/…

Where are you getting an Urbit ID in 3 minutes? I am not super familiar with Urbit. But my understanding is that even getting a temporary Urbit ID (a commet) takes hours.

It's not strange if you view it through from their point of view. Rightly or wrongly, these people just want to see much less centralized moderation. And they feel unherd and oppre…

I don't see how these apps dont eventually get taken down like the Fediverse apps earlier this year. Eventually (probably once it's polished enough to be usable) the deplatformed c…

How do they enforce the code of conduct on E2E encrypted rooms?

This project seemed innocuous enough. And it's a shame Discord killed it. As long as services are centralized, platform owners keep doing things like this.

I realize most wouldn't. But I would accept that trade. HN is a rare exception. And, there would still be sources for tech news: personal blogs, company sites, LWN and other news s…

I didn't watch the episode. But, I don't think the effect of repealing 230 is in dispute. It would make hosting content you didn't write unfeasible. The questions is whether that i…

I agree the web as a platform for publishing static information is feature complete. You can publish basically any kind of static content you want (news, academic articles, persona…

The author mentions Sway and i3 window managers as examples of finished software. I'd be interest if anyone has more examples. What is a piece of software that is feature complete …

I pulled the trigger on remote years ago and took a about a 5% salary cut. The state I moved to has an income tax. However after adjusting for lower income tax, cost of living [0],…

I’ll be spending much of 2021 scouting new places to live - places that never locked down in 2020. So by the end of 2021 I hope to have decided where to move and living in an apart…

Yeah, I think people in this thread are really underestimating the ability for courts to over-apply laws that talk about commercial activity. If growing food on your own property f…

Tell that to the family that lost their job and is now homeless. Tell that to the people who've lost love ones to suicide, overdose, alcoholism. (see I can be snarky and unhelpful,…

Florida, Texas, and Sweden seem to be doing fine. Edit: also, the military, FEMA, and non-profits built temporary hospitals in spring, but they weren't needed.

Florida, Texas, and Sweden seem to be doing fine enough.

And yet they didn't stop the lockdowns once it was clear the stimulus was not going to happen.

Yeah, that would be perfect. It'd be disruptive to force everyone to pick. And, I'm sure there'd be some demagoging about which options there are & how they're presented. But, I ha…

I also really like this option. But what about the default? I expect there would still be significant disagreement between different factions over what is censored / labeled / prio…

The republicans want Twitter, Facebook, and Google to stop censoring (incl. down-ranking, labeling, etc.) mainstream right wing views. If they don't act more neutrally, the GOP wil…