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This is a bit of a simplification, one that indeed not many will disagree with. The wider problem is that when governments and (non-profit) organizations did create alternatives fo…

Hi, co-author of the ODF spec (2006 ISO) here, I also got involved via NLNet to work with my local standards office to improve OOXML. The OOXML spec was offered to the ISO standard…

You can wait for the Librem 5 for a very long time, they haven't shipped any significant software update for a long time for mine and its in the state that if you turn on auto-susp…

Surprised this one hasn't been pointed out yet; "Passman" which is part of nextcloud and has plugins for all major browsers. open source, encrypted-while-at-rest and a cloud servic…

Reuters has been biased in their news telling for some time now. Not entirely unlike the rest of the mainstream media, I would suppose.

> the cryptographic (in)security of Yggdrasil addresses. Fair enough, I didn't catch that one. The addresses generated has changed already from 0.3 to 0.4 (which is the series we s…

If you are interested, I suggest you stop by on the matrix room and chat about the different topics. Its rather large and I'm not a developer on the project, just someone learning …

> their approach still spends 7 bits on the prefix. The Yggdrasil people are very clear that this is a research project. Not to be used in production, to be used at your own risk e…

The design behind yggdrasil is to keep as much the same as possible. I have some projects running on ygg using simple, existing, TCP-socket tech. Works great. So, to get the big is…

Using. Can't squat something that is officially discontinued. What is yours?

The protocol does not add peers, you will have to look for nearby ones yourself and add then in the config. If you add more than one, you might start routing between those nodes. P…

From your text; after configuring you need to restart the service. you can run 'yggdrasilctl getpeers' to see if it actually connected to any peers. Use https://publicpeers.neilale…

First of all, its is a research project. The owners are very clear about that and love to repeat its lack of any guarantees ;-) Personally I've been using it for a while and its in…

> So it's effectively Host Identity Protocol? The software is essentially a 'node', doing the routing. Whenever it starts it reads the config file to see if there is a private key …

Background piece; https://read.cash/@TomZ/mesh-networking-with-yggdrasil-e300d... > To understand what the value of Yggdrasil is, let's take a look at what we use today for network…

Notice I talked about Natural gas, not national gas. Gas is imported. Has been for decades.

> Since heat pumps are over 100% efficient You might want to check your numbers on that. Nothing is over 100% efficient.

Natural gas is the most eco friendly source of energy of the fossil fuels. The push for renewables is great, and those should become a bigger percentage of our usage. But until the…

As reported by a lobbying company. Not all numbers you read on the Internet are true. Here is another lobbying company that has nice numbers too; https://www.nvde.nl/nvdeblogs/hern…

The above comment may be very weird to people not living in The Netherlands as we all know that there is nothing wrong with natural gas, its one of the most eco friendly ways to he…

> it would be some variant of theft. The assumption you are making here is that the government has the right to steal that 60 million in the first place. Basically the reason they …

notice that the disingenuous statements came not from me, but from the parent comment who asserted (without basis): > With no incoming revenue [] I didn't want to be an ass to poin…

... they get the money you could have received.

> when it comes down to technical details, it is required for privacy to be default, otherwise it simply doesn't work. Absolutely, we are in agreement. The point I was making is th…