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Im a fan of third party, open-source Reddit apps on Android. Joey for Reddit is cleaner, leaner, and fairly intuitive.

Thank you for addressing the only point on this list which shows any promise - a renewed commitment to Trust Busting.

I have a similar take on technology - new industries are nice, but without some serious push, each is going to take time to get started. If we wait for the "market" to drive solar panel adoption by itself, foreign competition is going to choke out domestic firms.

This list lost me at more Supply Side "Economics". Both US political parties have been trying variations on this theme continuously since 1980. As far as Im concerned, this is the problem, not the solution. The same goes for disingenuous Corporate Libertarianism, German-style subsidies, and whatever other model you can invent to pretend this still works.

The real solution? Workers need to tell their bosses, "F%$k You, Pay Me." In all seriousness, driving for Uber or Lyft is just a way to devalue your vehicle for pay that rarely keeps pace with such and gas.

Inflation continues, even as workers see their pre-inflation average wages remain constant. Its almost like the economy doesn't really include us anymore.

Your economy is struggling? Maybe you should pay us enough to participate, boss.

But listen - someone has to babysit the datacenter, just like taking out the trash, or fixing people's plumbing.

When even low level retail job listings demand A Burning Passion!!!!!11oneoneeleven for the terrible job?

They're trying to find the people who would do this work anyway, without getting paid for it. Why?

So they can pay us all less. When we work partially for the privilege of what we do, money matters less... and we can get away with expecting less.

Anyone else? Is too busy fitting this mold to even be able to ask for a raise.

And that statement still holds.

Mastadon meets Dropbox, with a content navigation interface thrown on top?

Thats interesting.

Most non-mainstream media makes you dive through the 501-C##'s papers, ICANN whois records, etc to find out whose voice you're hearing. And then you gotta dig like a shameless conspiracy theorist to find out what that means about what you're reading.

Socialist media tells you who/what it is. Right there in the title.

Why the distrust for Workers' Rights?

Uhm, google removed that "dont be evil" motto from anywhere and everywhere in their website.

You can totally run Linux on a Surface device! Its drivers are in the 4.16 kernel, maybe earlier.

This new product is being pushed as a "revolution" that, by the subtext of the sales pitch, is supposed to "solve all your cybersecurity problems."

Sorry, that defense doesnt hold in this case.

Im sure you can contact Medicure on some .onion website.

Note that aws runs on the Xen hypervisor, which has a new critical security hole pop up reliably every six months.

Taking matters into our own hands becomes an option.

Extensions get to modify the same about:config in FF as the firefox internal settings.

Some extensions dont work after a year of being undeveloped, because the API changes. Is this really a bad thing? Opensource software uses patching as a "heartbeat" to discern whether a project is still developed or not. Hackers find holes over time, and when devs no longer fill them, the project needs to be left for dead.

Why should browser addons be any different?

I guess its a different philosophy - if the devs leave a browser addon for dead, the users should too.

Once every couple of years, the API changes and cleans out dead addons. Im not sure this is often enough.

But the best addons stay. NoScript. Adblock Plus or uBlock Origin. httpsEverywhere. The best Canvas blockers. These stay up to date.

What is missing?

You sound like someone who has never experienced poverty.

Meanwhile, the original prompt of the inciting content has... Two days' hotel stay of savings.

That's what this is about. The lack of meaning, the alienation after being told "we could be anything we want" when we grow up, to having no choice but to settle for careers in "whatever almost pays bills" since the collapse of 2008.

We're bitter. We're ashamed of where we've been and what we've done to survive. And you know what happens when we get over that? We get angry, we may get political. We might even snap.

If we're technically minded? I'm mad that I dont see more hacktivists.

You are neglecting the hidden sources of consumer-side competition, and their effect of driving up prices:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-19/foreign-i...

That sounds like a nice hippy colony you had there. My experience was different.

Winter kills people. Summer kills people. Have your shelter from the elements planned, or you wont make it. The Homeless Shelter doesnt have the resources to help you all day. And they only let everyone sleep on the floor for the coldest 3 months of the year, when Christmas donations make feeding everyone ONE meal possible. When that runs out, or by county statute, you're on your own.

There's always someone that keeps the light-sleepers awake during those months. There's always someone bringing a virus in to that shelter. And there's always the one who needs to get voted off the island for everyone's safety - and sometimes he gets to stay, which keeps everyone awake except the security officer. Sometimes there's even the person who should be in a nursing home, but cant afford it and will defacate on theirself, and let it run down the floor. They can't help it, and we only get tapwater to clean it with.

So you make other arrangements where you can. If you had your wits about you and enough resources, you could get by on a daily basis. Those "criminals" were just fellows looking for their next meal, same as me. I didnt bother them except as a "heads up," and they returned the favor in both ways.

Same with cops - who, after enough analysis from this perspective became just another gang. The "heads up" I gave them were just of a different sort - fast food menus or coffee are things you'll have in common. Always have "normal" conversation ready for cops that isnt snitching - running & hiding only makes them chase, and you're going to have to walk near / with one eventually.

Always smile and wave to the cop. I dont care if you have a kilo of coke in a trojan condom up your ass, wave to make the man with a gun think you're friendly when he simply drives past and ignores you. You want to be human but forgettable.

And that's just the lay of the land - you better know them - cops, gangs, geography; be friendly rather than a nuisance around their turf. Even the hardest of them usually appreciates some manner reciprocity and a genuine nature from the lowest among us.

Then again, I didnt have access to suits. So I looked homeless, even with as much of a job as I could keep. All my money went out the moment it came in - ITS DECEPTIVELY EXPENSIVE TO BE HOMELESS SAFELY.

In order to not get picked up by the cops, I needed to move around A LOT.

Friends - fellow "travellers" and otherwise make survival possible. Need a ride to get out of dodge? Need folk medicine to survive, need a meal? Better share, so you can be shared-with. And you usually dont wanna be known as homeless, just a "slob".

At the same time most of those fellows in the same situation are going to be drains on your resources, not worthwhile investments of your time. Do you wanna eat, or just stare at someone else who's hungry until you punch each other? But you need to know that guy's name, have him like you enough to not try to steal from you.

Need to see a doctor? Need a dentist, a shower, a hot meal that isnt convenience food or similar junk food served by a soup kitchen? You better have a job that makes these possible - if not, you're screwed. And thats rarely a ticket out to a liveable life.

So every motherfucker has their lotto-ticket dream that they know is gonna work out. Emotionally, this keeps them alive. It doesnt matter what it is, or if its realistic. They're not gonna take "no" for an answer if they can help it, regarding that. This is how people fucking snap - they run out of ideas they think they can work.

Or worse - they settle in, and accept their lives as the perpetually ignored. They can last for 30 years, but they usually dont make it through the next winter.

Even cheap folk medicine became a terrible expense, and neglected health problems become untenable. This is what gets us all, eventually. And then someone steps in to help if you're lucky and young, after usually irreparable damage is done, and what's fixable costs a fortune.

Local "assistance" agencies requiring folks to be homeless for a Full Year to qualify for any help made it worse. But then, requirements that folks have their last address within that county, and not leave the county to seek opportunities elsewhere? Just makes it worse.

You get three hots and a cot - after trying and failing for a full year, tied down to the place you keep failing in. That year of failure breaks most people in some way.

No, not everyone is entirely out of options. But so many of us kid ourselves - we turn it into a "choice," when it was really just the only way to escape an even worse situation of similar poverty - that was my story.

I had kept the same job for years before, and through my time on the streets. It was the hardest time there, feeling ashamed around those people about my... "lifestyle". Its still painful to look back and see how I just... Changed.

Dont get me wrong - I kinda miss parts of it. Getting off work and being free to play and code, to wander, to learn whats around me in a new spot to explore. The stargazing simple dates, and

But hey. Tell me more about your bougie homelessness.

Communication? Sure. Decentralized works well enough. Diaspora?

As far as privatizing the physical infrastructure: your hardware should be yours. Anything past that should be common carrier/ISP. Need an alternative? Good luck.

Decentralize the cloud? Owncloud works on most hardware.

Decentralizing payment software? What do ya think bitcoin is supposed to be?

But decentralizing DNS... Yeah... That's a challenge. Probably not gonna happen non-maliciously for a long time.

Anyone else think this smells like explorers passing through, noticing some odd savages on a blue planet, and then trying to discretely edge away faster?

When we know that these so-called "influencers" are bought and paid for? It really reduces their effectiveness.

Now that we know it happens, having plausible deniability will only spread a culture of distrust on social media sites.

Then again, is that really a bad thing? Humans using their electronic presence as billboards really is some dystopian cyberpunk fodder.

Are you sure? Because ChromeOS is just a Gentoo fork where google replaced the package manager to support their binaries instead.

Programs running in memory just stay running, even if you update the files that are those programs. This is how Linux works. Restart them when you need the new version.

Its clean. Its easy. I kept watching netflix as firefox compiled (~30 mins), and got to close the browser after the next episode was done, and open the latest Firefox to monkey with the new settings.

Any of that growth gonna trickle down to workers or nahh?

I think the post is referring to some idea of "glamour" or the lucrative nature of a rapidly emerging field.

Meanwhile, both demand that the employee spend all day telling a computer what to do.

How about getting his workers off of public assistance? That should be a few drops in the bathtub of his wealth.

But he "wants to help the poor". I call bull on it until he helps his own employees.

I think "adventured" shows you what we're dealing with.

There is no respect for the fact that some members of our society continue to enjoy certain advantages. When you're the one who recieves such, this is subtle.

Telling people about the racist history behind zip codes can be a hard conversation. Telling white people about the way black families have "the talk" about being careful not to spook police, or white people who call police simply for being black... That's a hard conversation. Telling my fellow white men about how women have their own version of "the talk" about walking down the street alone in more communities than you realize... That's often a hard conversation.

The talk about how the poor deal with more expenses, more physical pain, less power to demand basic humanity from shittier bosses... As a car-dweller with a full-time job on the East Coast, I've had to deliver it repeatedly.

Nobody helps, unless you can earn the trust of others in a similar situation. And car-dwellers move around too much to make those relationships.

Nobody had these hard conversations with me growing up. I had black friends, activists, girlfriends that informed me about how my own neighbors live. I didnt always take it well at the time, but I did grow from the experience.

And no matter how much we rage about it on twitter in our safe little bubbles, nobody that needs this revelation is going to hear it anywhere but in person.

The subgroup of Conservatives whose ideology boils down to "screw you, I got mine" is just Sociopathy claiming Righteousness via deformed Capitalism. These people need to be called out as the anti-patriots they are.

Ergodox EZ lets you pick which keyboard switches you prefer. Its another crowdfunded split keyboard, but fully opensource.

Cherry MX Brown switches are normally recommended for very light activation pressure and "super-fluid motion". That is an option available.

You can order parts for yourself, make it yourself, and everything. It is opensource hardware, built around the "teensy" opensource controller. But it ends up cheaper just to buy the keyboard unless you want to build something custom.

While it sports up to 32 custom layers, it does lack a dedicated hardware module for a mouse. It is completely programmable.

I only mention it because I love mine.

Agreed. The kind of technocratic musings as the original post have been around since the industrial revolution.

And wouldn't you know it, the people who embrace this kind of rhetoric usually happen to be either Fascists, Corporate leaders in search of power masquerading as "charity", or even Racist Nationalists.

The OP doesnt talk about what it takes to avoid these sorts of "human hacking" - robust education including rhetoric and debate, but also in sniffing "sponsored content", advertising, and bulls%!t. It takes independent news sources not beholden exclusively to profit, but who can trust that quality, independent journalism will earn a living, and find a public that trusts such news.

It takes remembering our history - through the labor movement and World Wars, we dont teach the lessons we learned, and so we suffer.

Neglecting that solutions exist isn't even nihilism. Its depressive navel gazing. Yes, the solutions are hard. Having a civilization at all gets hard from time to time.

You know, if we're gonna do that, "Honeypot" and "Honeynet" have to go. They actually still mean things in parts of the English-speaking world that are seriously racist.

Hey, if the author dislikes "master/slave" in computing, maybe s/he can get us all to use "manager/employee". Functionally, there is very like literally when things go as planned. Oh wait, nevermind, we dislike word-mincing.

Maybe server/client? No, that isnt always accurate.

Words change. Perhaps we'd prefer "Roman"/"Slav" dynamic? Oh wait, the Romans took so many Slavs as slaves that their word for "people" became the Roman word for "slave".

"Foundational" / "Associate" could work well. Like the way "associate" in a law firm used to mean something. Now even the bagger on their first day at the grocery store has "associate" on their tag.

I dont care. Just make sure it communicates heirarchical data as is necessary to discern such in practicality.

Coincidentally, the idea of this natural conversational limit at Four surprises me. Sure, it is challenging, if you intend to participate (without just being a spectator). I'm used to Six as the described hard limit for this phenomenon.

The professor would then muse down a tangent about "six archetypal roles". But remembering this about human active memory and reasoning capabilities flushes things out a bit more.

The question wasnt even about "vapers". The qurstion was about underage vapers.

I've known vapers that would pick up a pack for the blizzard when they expect to get snowed in for days on end. Some of them quit vaping (and smoking) by the end of digging themselves out.

Ive known vape shop owners who were regular daily cigarette smokers in between vaping 0 nic. That's the most damaging thing possible - give that sticky tar glycerin to attach to in new ways. Give that glycerin new ways to get stuck in tar. And layer it up!

I may not like it, but I respect Britain's cutoff for tobacco leaf products. If you were born 2000 or later, you will only ever get to buy vapes. Not cigars, not cigarettes, not hookah nor dojah. They're banned from you.

Where the US is close to banning the cleaner nicotine option (salt nic vapes aside), Britain chose to ban the stuff that seriously clogs lungs.

Apparently the Libertarians that think such a revolving door is a "good thing for people's careers", but forget about why those regulations exist in the first place.

The real gimmick? That it would be "non-addictive".