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xterminator··on Exile Economics: If Globalisation Fails
I think we should live a more fulfilling life even if it costs luxuries. Less globalization, more localization. Economics should stop having the final say on everything.
xterminator··on The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says
If you're not a crude materialist, you can believe in eternal soul. Shouldn't we honor the dead, in that case?
xterminator··on Payment processors' bar on Japanese adult content endangers democracy (2024)
Each country central bank should have its own national payment processing system. Why is this not a thing? Spain has Bizum, for example.
xterminator··on Electric Propulsion's Dirty Secret: Why Lithium Can't Fly (Or Float) Profitably
Why can't cargo ships deploy floating solar panels to power the ship motors?
xterminator··on The new science of controlling lucid dreams
Perhaps science and technology should stay out of the only remaining area of untouched human nature.
xterminator··on NixOS is not reproducible
Ever since I started using Zig, making everything reproducible has never been as easy as just using the Zig build system.
xterminator··on A deep dive into Linux's new mseal syscall
OpenBSD has had it since forever [1]. Why is such an obvious feature only reaching Linux now?

[1]https://man.openbsd.org/mimmutable.2

xterminator··on Ribbonfarm Is Retiring
Are bloggers required to meet a quota?
xterminator··on Ribbonfarm Is Retiring
Because people don't go surfing on the web anymore, they stay in the same facebook-twitter-instagram-netflix-amazon-reddit loop forever.
xterminator··on Psilocybin bests SSRI for major depression in first long-term comparison
>Your good friend most likely doesn't have the slightest idea how to handle things if your trip goes south.

Yes they can, everyone experienced can. It's part of having empathy.

>Especially when they're on their own "ride".

The trip sitter doesn't trip while sitting.

xterminator··on Psilocybin bests SSRI for major depression in first long-term comparison
Psychedelics are nice and powerful - maybe too powerful. I don't trust the system to use them responsibly. I'd rather obtain and use them on my own than as part of some private - or governmental - initiative. There's no one to trust more than a good friend to be there for you when the ride gets bumpy, not some guy in a suit doing it for the money.
xterminator··on Making the Web Boring Again
All my hopes are resting on Ladybird now.
xterminator··on Mozilla grants Ente- a private Google Photos alternative- $100k
I stand corrected.
xterminator··on Mozilla grants Ente- a private Google Photos alternative- $100k
From a quick look, only the client is open source. The server software is still privative. Why did Mozilla fund this? There is no shortage of libre software of self-hosted image servers in need of funding.