Endymion_Mallorn

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Ah, someone else has played Singularity, I see. That was a really fun game.

Absolutely not. Kids should be kept away from social media as it exists now. Frankly, kids need to be supervised on the Internet as a whole, because there’s so much dangerous shit out there to hurt them.

That’s the secondary goal. I feel like there’s enough 3rd party tools to fix that, that I want the repairs done in the backend and trust power users and user-devs to handle the UX.

98SE would mostly work.

Wait, you didn’t just use PKWare zip & unzip? Or WinRAR?

Okay, that’s easy: remove all the LLM slop. That’ll start fixing it. Then get the ads out of the UI. Get rid of the MS account requirement, and make all updates optional. For a stretch goal, go back to making an OS that only does what the user tells it to, and doesn’t have any function to phone home without direct user input.

Or a distro using Wayland for higher end PCs.

I don’t have a problem with them selling ads. I have a problem with the insidious tracking that has become a part of those ads. Mojeek sells ads but doesn’t track you everywhere. Also, there’s SearX instances, which typically don’t sell ads or data.

They also don’t use LLMs. If you think Kagi isn’t giving away or selling your data, think again, because the LLM is doing it as a core function.

I’m not a fan of Kagi’s approach to anything, frankly. The fact that they’re charging money for a search engine, and using an LLM? Hard pass.

And your suggestion is instead… what? Exactly what the worst of them want to do to others? And you’ll tar the people who aren’t 100% evil bastards with the same brush?

No. Forgiveness, support, and education are the only way forward. It’s not about what we did when we ‘reintegrated’. It’s about the fact that when we did, we still denied them federal funds, no one set out to build industries or safe jobs for the average people, and no one made any effort toward education in the south. And, might I add, no one actually gave a damn about the racial tensions, except in those rare cases where they were affected. Instead of trusting that churches will handle it, acknowledge that they’ll turn into cults - look at how many literal cult groups there are in the southern USA when they were the only community support or education. Instead of saying “eh, you’ll figure it out”, realize that no, the average people will not. They’ll continue to be screwed over like they’ve always been.

Educate. Integrate. Yes, demand better of them, but give them the tools to become better.

The American Empire is in a weak state right now because of who’s in charge. We have only two ways of getting it back - an incredibly massive investment into global soft power, or a disturbing investment into forcing our hard power. Since that’s the problem we face, we’re even more in need of each other. We need to integrate for real, to acknowledge, defuse, and support. Because I’ll tell you something. I live in NJ. I love cities, and I get unnerved outside of a city on the scale of NY/NJ. My needs and my lifestyle are totally different from those of a person in a rural community. But we need leaders who want to support both - and not people who want to hurt either fellow Americans or foreign people.

Everything in the world is propaganda or advertising. You have a choice to believe it or not.

Yeah. I’m actually kind of upset that I have to type ‘noai’. That should be the standard.

Until there’s a physical product on shelves, I don’t trust that it’s not vaporware.

Matrix but with stronger community engagement, yes.

I use it occasionally. The problem is, most of my communities are on Discord. Plus, rooms not being permanent on the server means that bots have to be hosted by someone, plus there’s a severe lack of effective logging.

Basically, all the problems that later chat programs solve, I keep missing on IRC. I want persistent rooms. I want federation & bridging between servers. I need trustworthy remote logs. Since I know a lot of that has been handled client-side, I don’t understand why it can’t be implemented server-side with IRCv4 or whatever is next.

I live in NJ. Whenever I’m not hearing traffic and the like, I get spooked.

That’s your choice, but I don’t think leaving will do you any good. No matter where we live, human instinct will lead to conflict. And you can only do one of three things: run, and keep running; stay and get involved; or stay, and stay out of it until the last moment.

That’s why city voters, especially homeowners, have to go to council meetings and speak up. Call for a public vote on it.

Just remember your opsec. If/when (assume when) someone shoots the molotov bot down, make sure it doesn’t have a serial number that can be tied to you, or any data connection in its logs that connects to you. Don’t use your phone or any device you can’t immediately destroy (i.e. do not be tracked by the MAC either) to connect to it.

My suggestion, buy a cheap laptop from a pawnshop/cash converters type place, connect to the drone only from a Starbucks or McD’s. When you make the drop, either plunge the drone down into the fire, or get it to a safe location away from you that you’ll be able to get to without being tracked. Dismantle the laptop as much as possible, ditch all radios into public trash cans (preferably within an hour of normal pickup).