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...until the inevitable Mars colony rebellion...

> they lose 45% of the value of their labor to a corrupt government

That sounds like income taxes. :)

> "that crypto would be a boon for the lower classes seems to me to be extremely dubious"

Why? The lower classes are the most vulnerable to inflation. And even the poorest have cell phones these days. See TXT-banking in Africa. Or this example with Bitcoin: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tatianakoffman/2020/07/14/this-...

> "it would shift [power] away from governments and into the hands of the wealthy"

You repeat yourself. ;) There are certainly risks - 51% attacks, etc. I don't know if crypto is the whole answer or maybe part of it, but when you consider how much the current financial systems are controlled and rigged, it's hard for me to see crypto as not an improvement for the common people.

Thanks, I had found this once before but couldn't remember the name of it and have been looking ever since.

Sounds like it's Socialist for land, but free-market for everything else. Who knows whether that's good or not, but it's at least a different approach and more interesting than the standard "Progressivism driving the speed limit" that we're used to.

I've never understood all the love and excitement and attention that GNOME has gotten ever since Canonical got behind it and dropped Unity. All the cheerleading over what seem like really basic fixes that haven't been a problem on other DEs, like "now the single-threaded shell crashes to login less often! Horray!"

That's only intensified with 3.40 (Now hailed as "40" like a pop star using only their first name.) Apparently the top hot new feature is "horizontal workspaces"...mind-blowing.

Ooh, thanks! I hadn't ever heard of that, and was for some reason assuming "Hurd" kernel. I'll give it a try.

This is the first time I've heard "Libertarian" not mean something political. TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism_(metaphysics)

Sorry for the awful formatting. Odd things in the prelim 2020 data that surprised me: All leading causes of death were statistically unchanged; COVID just shoehorned itself into the #3 spot below heart disease and cancer, above unintentional injuries. I was expecting a huge drop in the "Influenza and pneumonia" category, but there was not. I was also expecting a noticeable increase in the suicide category, but there was not.

Cleaned-up OCR'd data from https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/leading-causes-of-death.htm in TSV format:

Year/Cause of death 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Total deaths 2712630 2744248 2813503 2839205 2854838 3358814 Heart disease 633842 635260 647457 655381 659041 690882 Cancer 595930 598038 599108 599274 599601 598932 COVID-19 345323 Unintentional injuries 146571 161374 169936 167127 173040 192176 Stroke 140323 142142 146383 147810 150005 159050 Chronic lower respiratory diseases 155041 154596 160201 159486 156979 151637 Alzheimer disease 110561 116103 121404 122019 121499 133382 Diabetes 79535 80058 83564 84946 87647 101106 Influenza and pneumonia 57062 51537 55672 59120 49783 53495 Kidney disease 49959 50046 50633 51386 51565 52260 Suicide 44193 44965 47173 48344 47511 44834

I'm skeptical since you spelled it "herd" (or maybe auto-correct strikes again.) But yeah, keeping your system free from the systemd cancer has always been a good idea.

Agreed - I should clarify that my Gnome gripes are mainly about how they failed to "get it right" with Gnome3. I don't really have any specific criticism of the old Gnome2 - Both it and KDE were too heavy for me in those days.

(I'm not the one who downvoted you, so have an upvote, but) I think they renamed their reference implementation to "Weston" to differentiate it from the Wayland spec/interface. Gnome implements its own, as does KDE, as does Sway. But I'm a simple person, and in my eyes even bare Weston is "good enough" in that "startx" sort of way...

(I'm not denying that possibility, and I'm only one datapoint, but) In practice I have only ever seen one DE (GNOME) with these "crash the world" stability bugs, and they also happen on X, which makes me think the problems are not with Wayland.

Yes! I've been using Sway for years and it's amazing! Very underrated.

And a "sanity-effective" alternative to Windows - I've found that running their officially-supported container has been a much better experience.

> Is this a GNOME architecture issue?

Yes. And always has been since like forever ago. I'm all for choice and diversity, but I've personally never understood all the love and excitement and attention that GNOME has gotten ever since Canonical got behind it and dropped Unity.

I'm certainly not it's target audience - running XFCE, LXDE/LXQT, and i3/Sway over the years - but it really gobsmacks me to hear the cheerleading over what seem like really basic fixes, like "now the single-threaded shell crashes to login less often! Horray!"

"There you go again..."

Not SQL, but https://pouchdb.com/ looks like a better version of this.

Also not SQL, IndexedDB [0] Seems like a well-supported [1] document database built into the browser would beat LocalStorage in almost every way. That's what I've found in my experience at least.

Maybe SQL just isn't the right tool on either the frontend or the backend?

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/IndexedDB_A... [1] https://caniuse.com/indexeddb

"The ioXt Mobile Application Profile [...] leverages existing standards and principles set forth by OWASP MASVS"

In a way DoD (STIGs), NIST, Mitre, SANS, OWASP are all different takes on the same general idea.

Any relation to https://dbeaver.io/?

That sounds dumb.

Not a Rust troll (never used it) but would this be one of those things Rust would prevent?

Upvote for the interesting idea (fellow PinePhone user), but see my other comment - The RockPro64 (also from Pine64) is probably a better fit since it's a SBC with PCIe and thus the ability to plug in NVMe which the OP was asking for.

I've never been very moved by the pi line for "non-maker" "server-type" stuff. Personally, I run a 4GB RockPro64 [0] in the NAS case [1]. Add a heatsink [2] and a beefier 5A power supply [3] just in case I ever want to add spinning drives. But for now I just use an NVMe adapter [4]. That's $148 total.

For $15 you can add Bluetooth and Wifi [5] if you really want. Instead I chose to treat myself to $21-$40 worth of eMMC5 storage for the OS [6].

[0] $80 https://pine64.com/product/rockpro64-4gb-single-board-comput... [1] $45 https://pine64.com/product/rockpro64-metal-desktop-nas-casin... [2] $4 https://pine64.com/product/rockpro64-30mm-tall-profile-heats... [3] $13 https://pine64.com/product/rockpro64-12v-5a-us-power-supply/... [4] $6 https://pine64.com/product/rockpro64-pci-e-x4-to-m-2-ngff-nv... [5] $15 https://pine64.com/product/rockpro64-1x1-dual-band-wifi-802-... [6] https://pine64.com/product/16gb-emmc-module/?v=0446c16e2e66

I always just put it behind an authenticating proxy.

You say "low-trust society" like it's a bad thing. And it probably is, at least the interpersonal trust that your reference cites. But it also makes the point that trust in government is much lower, which is much more deserved and less of a problem than interpersonal trust issues.

I wonder if there's any analogy to "zero-trust" in IT security[0] that seems to be all the rage now. Put another way, is it possible that the current situations could be a crucible that re-forms trust in a better way? (Like building some sort of "trust but verify" culture, along with whatever technology and social institutions to facilitate.)

Sorry if that seems overly philosophical - just musing.

[0] https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/security/glossary/what-i...

I'm surprised no one is mentioning IndexedDB [0] Seems like a well-supported [1] document database built into the browser would beat LocalStorage in almost every way. That's what I've found in my experience at least.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/IndexedDB_A... [1] https://caniuse.com/indexeddb

This is not the greatest answer, but one anecdote: I am looking at it as an alternative to MS SSIS for moving batches of data around between databases.

> "other developers are pretty unwilling to learn that chain of they didn't grow up with it."

Funny, I've been running into this problem while trying to switch people to docker. Maybe we're all a bit guilty of this in our own way.

There is a specific term relevant to this, which is applicable to many problems of misaligned risk/incentive, governmental and otherwise: "Moral Hazard"