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You were a trendsetter back then and are now, I guess.

postal services are awesome but tend to be forgotten. We need to use them more for personal, relevant things. Ideally handwritten.

The contemplative nature of reading paper is a bliss.

this core. Know your partner. Usually means about comparable sizes.

Few friendships between ants and elephants.

more than many other risks, e.g. falling victim to a terrorist attack.

Organize your life depending on humans, not corporations.

Only humans care once you're in need.

And pay for what you use. There is no free lunch, let other live, too.

This is why in civilised societies there is no vigilante justice, but courts and lawyers. This is inconvenient, but unavoidable.

how is it tin foil?

they are big and you are small. It's like walking over ants.

because it's about trust.

> I've bought an old (as in 70 years old) Singer 201-1 which only* sew straight stitch, but it does so beautifully, is easy to learn, to maintain and should probably outlast me

this is how tech descriptions should sound. Not just hardware appliances, but also pure software. Imagine e.g. a web service with such properties.

(Ivan Illich calls such 'convival tools')

for iOS I like MapOut quite a bit.

https://mapout.app/

what the bartender can do?

Sell it with a smile! (And enjoy to not bother with lawsuits)

thanks for oasis!

> route downloaded on their phone to work offline

I do it all the time and never met anybody else do it. Rather everybody happily relies on online maps.

Do you think widespread offline use is the case?

I agree that to most map and compass are rather useless, but still slightly more useful compared to a phone with drained battery or no network coverage.

The core values are very appealing to me.

what is the typical update routine a la 'sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade'?

sensible guess, isn't it?

a peer-based possibility to search in code. That's direly needed. Currently all takes on such are centralised, be it Microsoft's github, gitlab, STOF whatnot.

I once thought DOAP might be a thing, but a search engine bringing up code results (needs not be constrained to it) would be really nice.

Problem: funding. Maybe like this https://nlnet.nl/project/Gitea/

legislation should not be delegated to a stable, forseeable, small number of possible actors. Corruption starts spot on. In a representative democracy legislation is a people duty because it is about the rules for all of us. So we have to decide.

Still the effort is brutal and requires full-time. So we need professionals (for a period), because we also need the lesser motivated people's views.

Social media (as is today) is to fragile, to toxic, to susceptible to surveillance and censorship, to centralised and to non-inclusive (in sum: non convival) to be even helpful.

possibly as in ancient Greece at times - by lot. We have a similar situation with lay judges. For each district, exactly the same number of electoral districts and thus seats in parliament will be allocated. The remuneration will surely be interesting for many and who does not want can refuse. Draws will be made among all people living there. Including children (represented by their legal guardians in case) and illegal immigrants, former inmates and GAFAM CEOs.

Admittedly radical, but if we want to have a representative cast of the parliaments the most honest approach.

> This somewhat assumes that the purpose of democracy is to create stability and institutional trust at the possible expensive of freedom.

the expense is a fact.

You are describing the social contract, right?

that's not what I see when I look into our parliaments – they look very oligarchic and represent fewer and fewer professions and ways of life.

what is social media after all but picking a billionaire and his stuffy ruleset.

If we would empower the people to write on the web on their own behalf I'd say 'no', because that's the idea of the forum or the agora I guess.

IMO it's time to leave fb in the past.

I like monitored cgi shell script endpoints a lot, e.g. the one behind https://updown.io/44q5 is https://codeberg.org/mro/internet-radio-recorder/src/branch/...

are there irc2email bots?

yeah, like 'swimming pools only bear a danger of drowning when wet'.

Of course, the philosopher's stone has always been a great solution, hasn't it?

The technicalities can't be that hard, can they?

back in the day earth used to be flat. Easy math at least.

you are not alone. 1973 Ivan Illich wrote 'Tools for Conviviality'[1], 1995 Niklaus Wirth 'A Plea for Lean Software'[2] just to name two.

As to the industry, it has to stop before it eats up the planet. All it knows is exponential growth ever since (Moore's law underpinning all decisions) and eating up all resources (energy in the end). It tries to replace reality with virtuality, it's own mock of the former where it plays puppet master. It may not stop by itself but crash. Take care to not overly depend on it. The idea of permacomputing or the 'Low Tech Magazine'[3] may lead forward individually. Not for the industry, however.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tools_for_Conviviality [2] https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf [3] https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

it's awesome. If only the tooling were more offline, cross platform friendly. TCL is no easy dependency no more.

if it's not for Jane Doe it's not 'social'. Is it?

And I believe the self-hosting option inevitable. Including your own name (domain).