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Ah yes the "look at what brown people are doing to our cities" accounts... One of the main reasons I am not on there anymore.

I like the ending. Classic capitalism story.

I have not looked at different offerings for block storage but object storage has been very cheap. Say the Wasabi account gives me a terrabyte for $7/m with egress included. I am not sure whether it is possible to setup the self-hosting solutions to use that rather than VPS block storage though.

Ah, I felt something like that must exist, thanks for the pointers.

Comcast and others have been using the corruption of our representatives to push for bans of community ISPs.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/07/16-u-s-states-still-ban-...

But from the quote it seems that for reasons unrelated to the language itself?

One of the main problems with raising too much is that you stop caring about product-market fit and can go on tangents that do not make you competitive. This is quiet common afaik.

As they say - name checks out. I have been really into the idea of cooperatives lately. It is a topic that deserves more light seeing the extreme centralization of corporate wealth. Sadly most non-legal info about co-ops out there always goes back to Mondragon. There needs to be more media about non-corporate organizations. US farming and electrification was largely driven cooperatives, for example, but one rarely hears much about it.

Off-topic about the Nassim Nicholas Taleb opening: Does anybody else feel like he just restates obvious things in a more formalized and somewhat pompous way? I do not mind formalization but I feel like I am supposed to swoon over it as if some profound truth, that was not already implied in our every day thinking, was being revealed.

I think the point is that if stuff is energy then energy is flowing into the wrong things and is not equally distributed. So we have enough of "stuff" but a lot of it is the wrong kind and access to that is not democratic. Rephrased again - inefficient human organization and outdated systems of values are what is slowing us down.

Read it. Love it.

For those not in on Twitter lore I want to point out that the post is written by a well known white nationalist/neo-nazi dog whistling account.

I have not read it yet, I must admit, but I like Baffler and planning on subscribing. Thanks for reading and the feedback!

Well he wrote the techno positivist manifesto and is one of the biggest voices in "growth" domain.

Another review: https://thebaffler.com/latest/whats-the-matter-with-abundanc...

I've come to loath Mark Andreessen as just an out-of-date reactionary who cannot take it that culture around him has moved on. Apparently he is also big hypocrite:

> Two years after Marc Andreessen published “It’s Time to Build,” The Atlantic’s Jerusalem Demsas uncovered that Andreessen’s town of Atherton, CA had planned to do just that — build multifamily homes! — but was met with ferocious opposition from, well, a venture capitalist by the name of Marc Andreessen. As he and his wife wrote in a letter to the mayor and town council:

>> Subject line: IMMENSELY AGAINST multifamily development! >> I am writing this letter to communicate our IMMENSE objection to the creation of multifamily overlay zones in Atherton … Please IMMEDIATELY REMOVE all multifamily overlay zoning projects from the Housing Element which will be submitted to the state in July. They will MASSIVELY decrease our home values, the quality of life of ourselves and our neighbors and IMMENSELY increase the noise pollution and traffic.

Better question, I agree.

Who invented cancel culture?

You are taking large movements with at least tens of thousands of participants and cherry-picking actions of a few people, you are contributing to the free speech problem by making false associations.

I misspoke - it is not used often compared to Russian. I have read that Wikipedia page before, yet I have not heard the term used in my 20+ years in the US and people do not know what I am talking about when I use it.

But what I am alluding to is that that account signed up just to leave that Russian-sounding comment. And now it has been flagged. Russo-bot.

You must be Russian, there is no term "yellow journalism" in English really.

I recommend this reading about where the valley heading. If you are not squeezed for work, you will be. Developers are becoming more disposable. Maybe you are not feeling but it's happening.

https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-industry-amazon-microso...

How does AGPL work in the context of a non-compiled language like Python? Honest question.

I am starting to understand why "Abolish the ICE" has been a slogan, sounds like a cesspool of heavy-handed extra-judicial lawlessness. Another key slogan phrase: Do not open for the ICE.

Wanted to note that uBlock works on Firefox mobile browser too - it is excellent.

Really the most useful feature in Redis to me is TTL - so easy to cache things and not worry about them being too stale. The second most useful is that you can attach something like BullMQ to it and get cron/scheduling for a couple lines of code.

Oh I see. I knew "lenses" existed but as you say it's a multi-step process to use them and not from the browser search bar.

I keep being confused by this. People mention that Kagi has all these features but I never see them, do I have to up my subscription plan?

I have been extremely excited about cooperatives and doing research but good info is scattered (suggestions welcome!). From what I learned I will echo what you said - laws are stacked against cooperatives. In general the corporation, a structure that is centuries old, gets preferential treatment in all situations. It is like human development has been abolished in that domain in the 1800s and that is the status quo.

I disagree. Stern corporate demeanor is a disadvantageous to a group that is trying to show personality.