I think I need to talk to my friend Luigi about this.

Well, those politicians will use the population as human shield and we couldn’t get to them, so the entire thing has to be cordonned off. I think encircling the entire island in a safety minefield, the entire perimeter and 50 kilometer deep, a anti-air curtain that covers the entire Island plus 200 km in all directions, cutting all communication cables going to the Island and a radio jamming system that neutralizes all communication devices with a power rating less then 5 terawatts on RF bands from 20kHz to 750 THz would be a good start.

If that does not prove sufficient to silent the sources of this informational hazard infection then we will have to take serious measures such as sinking the whole thing by about 350 miles deep into the mantle.

We need to cut off the UK from the global internet before this cancer spreads !

TPM isn’t arbitrary, it’s the path to a new from of CPU embedded, digital rights management that will marry your software to your cpu and make it non-transferable. The end goal being some successor of pluton where all code you download is encrypted and you can’t ever see it.

You won’t be able to jailbreak your PC in the future, just like 99% of smartphones.

So, like every other butter and oil, that’s why we call them hydrocarbon.

I imagine this “butter” doesn’t contain any glycomacropeptide, α-lactalbumin, β-lactoglobulin, serum albumin and immunoglobulins

I’ve never seen a place that charges you a fee only if you pay with a credit card. The credit card company rules say you can’t do that and they’ll threaten you vendor status the same way they threatened Valve and Itch.io.

Finally no longer having to work
It’s really been the absolute worst thing in life after “being a kid” and “going to school”

I know the setup is that if you don’t job hard enough
then something even worse is coming up
living in the streets, which is illegal
then living in the man made hell
called prison, which is just another kind of school

But this time, by seeing it coming,
turns out there’s a way to opt out of the bad bits !

Just because she’s being flirty doesn’t mean she’s into you
And it’s not fun to turn down someone like that
If they’re interested they’re going to have to ask
in writing and notarized to make sure there’ s no miscommunication

I didn’t like that movie back then, I thought it was too on the nose and weird.

But wow, this has aged like fine wine, that clip was amazing

When are we going to have actual violence against androids

I want to be a fly in that car
I’m assuming flies have ears

Everyone is selfish, molloch isn’t real,
it’s a thinking pattern that everyone is subject to
my friends admitted to using credit cards because
“at least they get rewards”
by personifying the behaviour pattern
you can demonize it
without calling your friends “greedy selfish bastards”
It is much easier to see it and understanding
that way than if you’re being attacked
and then become defensive about it

They’re all avatars of nvidia which themselves
are avatar of TSMC and the silicon chip
manufacturing industry. There are underlying
technological current are driving cultural movement …
Oh no “Culture is downstream from technology”
that is the most cyberpunk thing I’ve ever heard

CULTURE IS DOWNSTREAM FROM TECHNOLOGY

I couldn’t find it, but there’s a moment where

synthophobes are easily manipulated

molloch is the personnified logic of someone doing something selfish for their personnal gain, but when everyone does it, everybody loses. In this case the belief that one can churn rewards and come out on top with using a credit card but the result is that ALL prices are jacked by 3%, nullifying any apparent rewards, at best you can claw back a little bit of this corporate tax. But here’s the kicker, if you don’t have a credit card, the price is also jacked, because credit card company do not allow passing the fee to end customer. So non-credit card user, still pay the 3% tax, it just gets pocketed by the vendor. I cannot overstate how evil credit card company are. When I am Earth dictator, all credit card employees will spend time getting acquainted with a brick wall

You do understand that since vendors are not allowed
on risk of credit excommunication, pass the transaction fee to the vendor
It forces the vendor to put that fee in the base price.
Everyone pays the transaction fee
But what if you pay debit ?
you don’t even get cashback rewards
but you STILL pay that increased price,
On everything you buy
everyone without a credit card still pays a 3% tax

Credit cards are profoundly immoral

Credit cards should be illegal they are tools of Molloch and everyone loses at least a little from their usage. Credit card payment charges should be itemized on the bill of any purchase and also rewards should be considered taxable income over 1000$/year

If that is what I think it is then that’s sick ! Thank you !

Ok, sorry I don’t understand the problem, beyond the loss of modularity, that you can pick and choose different components for service/network/login/logging and timers but even if they were each distinct entities, would they really be less complex as a whole ?

These core system might even be more complex if they had to accommodate modular ways of doing things instead of relying on a uniform and consistent framework between them.

I agree from something like an embed system, like this openwrt WAP system that has just 4 megs of flash for the entire thing including a very complete web user interface, 10 meg for just these core services is giganormous and systemd is inappropriate. But for the average server and desktop with so much as dozens of megs of disk space, I feel the single coherent, reliable, universal systemd is pretty great once you learn it’s basic logic. I feel it’s actually less complex to use than what came before it, more predictable, more comfortable than sysv which generally lacked structure.

What do you mean no point in self-hosting it.
I do plan to host a private wikipedia instance, resiliency is it’s own point.
I understand it’s not necessarily economical to run private instance when I could use “someone else’s computer”
but I’m in a very burned out mood about “other people’s computers” and how often they stop doing what I want
I do want to run my own things, my own fully offline, pull out the internet and it still works things
If anything as prevention against capability regression

Ah ok yes I see what you mean, Poitiers has none and is clearly some big place While “Le Bourg” probably a rich place, has a whole bunch of them

Of course getting the density of Poitiers for all of Europe on 120 million for 3 years is never going to happen on this approach.

Even though 35$/month per hotspot is reasonable. It’s just not the right approach. In reality nearly every single building in Europe has an internet connection and wifi routers.

Since there is not really such a thing as “keeping the RF spectrum of wifi to oneself” The logical approach would have been to socially engineer the default that ALL wifi hotspot would offer any random guest, free throttled courtesy internet access. Something that the ISPs have fervently opposed, something industry has made sure would not happen, at least not by accident. Through hardware design and the dissemination of horror stories. A more competent state would have used this money to just massage the existing infrastructure in opening up to their fellow citizens rather than try and build a parallel infrastructure with brute force money.

I hope they get their shit together and strong arm vendors into a more pro-social private infrastructure, since that essentially free at this point for all intents and purposes.