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I don't know what to tell you. If you haven't noticed the overwhelming mass-production of engineered outrage over the last few years, then perhaps we don't frequent the same places on the internet.

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People ought to have as much a right to be as stupid as they want, as you have the right to be as smart as you clearly are.

I'm from one of the poorest countries on the planet, which is neither politically aligned with the US nor the Chinese, because it isn't geopolitically important enough. Though to be entirely honest, it's aligned with whoever throws money at it. I'm wary of the economic moves the Chinese are making in my part of the world, because they come attached with fat strings, which most people are willing to ignore for said economic benefits.

Nations aren't single discrete entities, so everything from individuals to collectives of all sizes within a nation will want to align with the US or the Chinese, depending on money, politics, ideologies, etc. I personally would much rather have the NSA read my emails, not the Chinese. It may be an unfair choice, but it is a choice.

> I think we are approaching a time in history where we are going to actually choose if we are human resources that are to be spied on and controlled by the political class or are we individuals.

I don't think you are right about this bit. The oppressor/oppressed duality is never going away, because it isn't determined by some kind of social realisation that we could do better as a species. It is determined by our biology and our drive to acquire resources. That kind of change won't happen until our biology changes.

So what? Well, we get to choose which side we allow to spy on us.

I mean, I suppose we could make an argument for all people being equal in all equal ways, but don't forget that the each state actor is driven by different sets of morality, politics and even philosophy, or perhaps lack of it.

The only conclusion we can derive is that this whole surveillance/spying thing will never stop, everyone does it and will continue to do it. It would be wise to assume that everything is bugged, everything has backdoors, and every hardware vendor has been compromised.

Bizarre title. Why mention Bezos when the article has nothing to do with it?

I agree with you, especially on the bit about making something entirely and fundamentally different. I do see an alternative that the tech-savvy will flock to, perhaps they already have by deleting social media etc. How do you get the rest of the internet population to care about using an alternative that respects their privacy though?

And it's not just privacy on the internet, but in meatspace too. Thankfully I'm still from a part of the world that hasn't gone completely digital, but there are annoying advances like absolutely needing a phone to have a bank account. Or having my face scanned for certain things.

I'm going to take a cynical stand and claim that the internet as the greybeards envisioned decades ago is just not going to happen. Or perhaps happened for a short window in the early 2000s. I don't see how we can just turn things around.

Something new will pop up in a few years, limited within hacker circles, perhaps in a medium beyond computers/phones. It'll have all the nice qualities that we seek such as privacy, encryption, anonymity, pro-free-speech etc, except that none of those things will last for very long. It too will have it's own eternal September, followed up ad-tech/media/government screwing things up. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Any new kind of "internet" that depends on traditional infrastructure that is under the control of states/corporations will end up being exactly like the one we have now.

FZF/rg combination is so much snappier than Ctrl+P on my vim setup!

As I stated, I made a decision to not have kids for other reasons, not because I want to save the environment. But the decision to not have kids will have more of a positive net effect towards saving the environment than any other lifestyle changes I can make right now.

I'm not doing anything directly through work or activism, but I have made a decision to not have children(albeit for other reasons), as have my siblings. I guess that will have more of a long-term impact than recycling, going vegan or getting off of fossil fuel.

I've seen a few of his games featured/analysed on agadmator's youtube channel[0] and Praggnanandhaa is really really good. Very excited to see where he goes in the next few years.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-52He4PF-NA

Last couple of years have led me to err on the side of caution and assume that pretty much everything I use has backdoors. Also, Slack is so bloated that it doesn't even make it to the shortlist of the communication apps I'm looking to use. I understand that many workplaces require it, which is probably not fun. In any case, we should all assume that work related information is always retained, and someone has access to them even if the product is all about "privacy" and even if your bosses "would never do that".

I like your question about actual work. I suppose anything that helps pay the bills should count. So I definitely agree that bring a social media influencer should count as real or actual work. It's just that there's a "bad taste" element to the profession, similar to how people may react to selling MLM beauty products or Herbalife. I suppose Herbalife should count as actual work too, at least to the people who get sucked into selling the products. But I also see why restaurants/hotels and food vendors might react negatively to influencers who try to get free service in exchange for exposure that may or may not exist.

I had the same 4-5 hours sleep issue until I started to exercise/run regularly. Being a recovering addict/alcoholic, I usually avoid any dependencies, which is why I can't start taking a substance, even if it helps with sleep. In any case, are you getting regular exercise?

The goal was never to end extremism or fundamentalism. Conflict is very very profitable to all sides except the common person. I guarantee that a lot of elite Iranians prefer war and conflict over peace, just like the US.

Anything from these brands will be decent - Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic, Audiotechnica, Shure. If you're not actually producing music and just looking for casual music listening, anything within the lower price range($100-$300) should be alright.

Avoid Sony, Bose etc. Especially avoid Beats, they're a total scam.

Also, a lot of it depends on how much of it's culture China is able to export. I could see certain places accept the Chinese language, ideologies, arts etc. in exchange for greater trade/economic benefits. How openly and rapidly the world accepts/imports Chinese culture(and not just it's money) will determine if it has a legitimate hegemonic future.

For learning to actually "play" any instrument, I'd recommend starting out learning some songs you like. The theory/effects/gear stuff develops in parallel. Songwriting will help too, even if it's something simple.

Depend on your taste in music, learning songs from classic synth era can be very useful too, whether it be prog-rock or anything else. I'd recommend songs by Camel, Allan Parsons Project etc.

Once your ears gets used to learning and playing whatever you hear off records, jam along to some classic Vangelis or something like that. Improvising is key to learning to play without sounding "stiff" if you will.

I agree with this. I mean, a lot of psychedelic trips made me feel that I was "one with the universe", a transcended higher being or something bizarre like that, but at the end of the day they were still just trips. I also imagine that a lot of my views back then were shaped by excessive obsession with people like Terrence McKenna and other thinkers like that. Maybe I would've tripped differently otherwise.

I honestly preferred the predictable nature of opiates/meth or the other prescription medication I was on. Drugs in these class are pretty honest about what they're offering.

In any case, you're right about the "lots of drugs make you think you're smarter than you really are" bit.

You may like the "Pasta with Italian Grannies channel" channel. I recently discovered it and it's the best.

Somewhat tangential, but how many internet users(except us old-timers) really make use of domain names in their use/workflow these days?

I wonder if there's some research on this. I'd assume that most of the internet population have their smartphones/app ecosystems for getting to Amazon or even looking up hypothetical Brazilian tourist info through Google.

I understand why both sides want the TLD but I'm not sure what significant usefulness it has other than property rights regarding domain names and the future of how these cases will be settled.

I suppose I'll have to settle for a black Squier lookalike now! Which admittedly doesn't sound bad at all.

All these lists are great but as someone who comes from a place that has no respect for free thinking and the right to free expression, the only indicator that matters to me personally is a "freedom of speech index".

Peace doesn't mean much if it's enforced by the collective to silence the individual through the threat of violence.

Let's not forget that Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi led their Nations with greater "peace" than their successors.

I'm on my second year on a 23:1 fast. It's worked out great for me. I did the whole carnivore diet thing initially but introduced carbs and other things slowly. Now I pretty much eat anything I want as long as everything fits on one plate and I've cut down my eating window to 30 minutes instead of an hour.

It also seems to me that the possibility of a revolution, in any sense of the word, is getting more and more miniscule, no matter which angle you look at it, whether it's because many people simply don't care or are happy to voluntarily give up private information for diminishing doses of dopamine hits.

The thing about any major revolutionary change is that the initial seed is planted through breaking some kind of law. And if we get to the point where breaking simple laws is impossible because of the near-complete information the state actor has on it's people, things are likely to get worse.

I do see a bleak future ahead. And grim.

Apple is even a more unreasonable comparison. Do you build hardware and a complete software experience for the customers who buy your hardware? Well then no, you shouldn't compare yourself to Apple.

My primary dev machine has been running KDE and i3wm for a while. I feel like I get a complete GUI experience while having all the benefits of a tiling window manager.

The author likes Gnome because of it's UI looking like Mac OS, and that's understandable. KDE did look different when I first switched from Macs. But at this point, the only things running in my dev machine is a whole lot of terminals and maybe 1-3 browser instances. So KDE is almost hidden at all tkmes.

So "law and policy is just something a bunch of people decided was a good idea". What do you think ethics is? If we're going to be really strict, then everything about humans is "just a bunch of people decided was a good idea".

Or you know, we could worry about both the US and China? I come from a third-world country where my own government is looking to screw me over. There is some consolation in at least getting to choose who screws me over.