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fruitycoder ,

Agreed, tax what the problem is not just one facet of it.

fruitycoder ,

I mean it supposed to be a currency, so the point is supposed you spend it on actually good and services like at overstock.com or whatever

fruitycoder ,

It's because we want all the dress and trappings but still want to keep our packages. Logical conclusion honestly /s

Cory Doctorow wants to wipe away enshittification of tech (www.theregister.com)

Doctrow argues that nascent tech unionization (which we're closer to having now than ever before) combined with bipartisan fear (and consequent regulation) either directly or via agencies like the FTC and FCC can help to curb Big Tech's power, and the enshittification that it has wrought.

fruitycoder ,

"You gotta go and join the union" but seriously tech workers hold a lot of leverage for now, it's why we can command pretty decent wages individually, but collectively with threats to start serious competition there is a lot more there there than hoping for the federal government to step up for the task.

No disagree on moving away from big tech though. You know open source, self host, support community and nonprofit orgs, etc.

fruitycoder ,

Why are we making such huge steps backwards. Didn't we get federated learned to reduce data collection like a decade ago?

fruitycoder ,

I meant more on the tools side of things like https://www.tensorflow.org/federated/tutorials/federated_learning_with_differential_privacy

With Gboard being user of federated learning to reduce data leakage.

fruitycoder ,

"I work in back, I see no smiles" days of career was super good for my mental health too /s

fruitycoder ,

I always ask for a hefty premium and tell that it's because its on site. Anything more than a week a quarter is on site to me too.

fruitycoder ,

Except in any defacto way, mainland has 0 control on the rule of law in Taiwan. They have their own taxes, military, laws, elections, etc, and again pay no taxes, follow no laws, they don't partipate in mainlands gov, and don't serve in their military.

There is even some international recognition, but mainland does it's best to hinder their diplomatic missions.

fruitycoder ,

I keep seeing more and more about the solar production in Georgia, USA ramping up!

It great to see the world really going into green industrialzation.

fruitycoder ,

The idea that businesses are only responsible to make profits is a newer one (can't say new it's been decades) and one that is trending away imho

fruitycoder ,

It's also easier to justify adopting newer tech in places that are less developed. If you made a billion dollar investment and are still paying for it, it's harder to scrap it and pivot.

fruitycoder ,

Reduce, reuse, recycle.

If I don't need it to work or live I don't buy it from places I know have a slave labor issue or any other ethics concerns.

Another thing that help, ad block. Honestly advertising is brain rot and why a lot of people feel a compulsion to buy land fill filler.

fruitycoder ,

DROS (DISC and Rust based Operating System)

fruitycoder ,

Thanks Brandon

Honestly I'll hope reservations and congratulations till after we see how it goes, but the fact it's a limited pilot makes me optimistic.

fruitycoder ,

Social Security number WAS NOT made to be an ID. It's not a secure unique number, it's just serial.

fruitycoder ,

Yeah small programs are easy to pivot, double edged sword in a political environment

fruitycoder ,

Using this dataset in court seems dubious. I think it falls under fruit of the poison tree doctrine but I'm a lawn chair lawyer (ie not a lawyer) at best.

EDIT: Fake screenshot about some facts from the Palworld development, very loosely based on a really interesting blog post from the dev that's linked in the post body. (programming.dev)

UPDATE: So, apparently it's mostly fake, taken from this article [translation] (where they even mention some kind of VCS)....

fruitycoder ,

This feels like a problem I just had a complex enough code base to worry about. I like rebasing because it feels more like I am committing when I intended, but if the deltas were too great it would be a huge issue.

The small more frequent changes not solve this too?

fruitycoder ,

It's wild how a good deal of decentralization and FOSS focused communities insist on having Discord be their primary center for community. Worst one is privacy focused communities...

I can't say that bridging them to matrix was a foolproof endeavor though

fruitycoder ,

To be honest, PWAs and static sites hosted on IPFS seems like a way forward to this. I do static sites every year for Mother's day, because I can make cuter cards than I could buy that way, for example. Are they good? shrug idk about that, but they are more personal.

Pushing for more distributed infrastructure is the way forward to me too. Even tech giants can't really afford to run the way they do without burning investors money and cheap loans (which having been drying up). Using things like petal.dev and hivemind.io for AI. Using IPFS for generic data storage. ActivityPub for async connections (like social media, git forges (Gitlab and Forjo moving forward here), and more!). Matrix for complex real-time p2p connections (check out thirdroom.io for one of the coolest examples of this to me). As well as WebRTC, WebTorrent which is used to good effect with peertube to create a p2p cdn!

All of this exists just as a solution to reduce the cost of running the web and distribute across the existing hardware and infrastructure that has to exist on the client-side.

In the cases where the backend HAS to be run on someone else hardware, you have volunteered, academic, and publically funded support to help offset public good support, but also things like the Ethereum virtual machine (EVM), filecoin, etc. Which attempts to provide an open market for providing some parts of the infrastructure where volunteering is possible, available or preferred. I only mention ETH because it's not POW and at least publically influenced with its DAO. POW is, and understandably, extremely low value in our current climate.

This helps reduce the centralization and therefore inevitable enshittification of these services too.

Getting money to creators through art funds, patronage tools like LibrePay, Open Collective, etc. and even Brave's reward systems are all good on the surface efforts to get funds to creators, but I personally prefer seeing more things to lower the labor and capital needed (and therefore cost) over just getting more to them.

fruitycoder ,

Wait you mean there's better ways to scale than deploying a whole new hardware and click ops your way through installs? /s

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