True, but I was just getting over how ugly it is… Now they want us to go through the agony again.

I feel like it’s some kind of a conspiracy to tire out the community developers so they don’t have a time to bring the quality of life upgrades in custom android distributions anymore. Or I just became too old to to adapt to the pace of life itself. idk…

edit: on the second look it’s not actually that much of a change. I think the wallpaper choice has made it more ugly then necessary.

Still peanuts compared to Parlor 6 - 2450€ for a diy kit, 3690 € for the assembled thing.

I see the price as $21.91 in the search result page. After clicking on it, it returns error 403.

land is still within the borders of a country unless they are on some unclaimed island somewhere

There will always be a bigger bully laying claim on any interesting piece of land. See the conflicts in Ukraine, Myanmar, Sudan, Taiwan, Palestine… It doesn’t mean their claim has any moral basis.

only if they totally forfeit the right to any services, privileges, etc.

Fully agree. Right after the governments gives up their monopoly on certain services, and stop cheating the market by nationalizing the land for certain kinds of projects. It’s hard to compete with an entity that can just steal the land and negotiate the price later.

That goes against the entire history of currencies.

How come? Decentralized currencies were in place long before the dictators enforced their own private currencies on to all their subjects.

Nobody will host our verbal outbursts for free. It’s either your money or your soul. Go money!

When do you people stop pretending this is about the environment?

horizontally-organized social media system

Even the fediverse feels like a bunch of hierarchies. Some have a council with code of conduct on top, some have a benevolent dictator. As a user, you have very little say in the relationships between the large instances. It’s easier to become a sovereign instance at the moment, compared to the dark times of twitter and reddit, but as soon as the large instances decide not to federate with the world by default, you’re back to square one. It’s very similar to citizen vs country, and country vs country interaction.

half-century old, horizontally-organized global computer network

I’d say that only Tier 1 networks are horizontally managed. The name itself implies a hierarchy. There is an organization on top granting AS’s to legal entities, and assigning IP addresses to them. An average ISP customer has absolutely no say about what happens higher up in the hierarchy.

Sure, you can try to bootstrap a flat network, but that has it’s own disadvantages. And I’m saying that as a member of a project trying to build a meshnet using network protocols with more or less flat topology. (Disaster radio, Meshtastic, Reticulum).

The society won’t work without hierarchies. The important thing is to not forcefully involve other people in your hierarchy.

Nobody wants to organize horizontally.

If a bunch of potheads can destroy an ideology unintentionally, how viable was it in the first place?

When I first discovered DLSS/FSR, I thought it was a miracle. It allowed my antient PC to run Horizon : Zero Dawn reasonably well.

Then I tried it on the steamdeck, just to be shocked how horrible it looks. Turns out the magic ingredient was my myopia. I just couldn’t see the imperfections while sitting 2 meters away from the TV.

The choice of pictures accompanying this article is somewhat disturbing. First is a windows desktop with a penguin on top, the second is a gnome app launcher exclusively showing android apps.

While you can’t force people not to see things they WANT to see, it would be possible for a certain relay to moderate the content it deliveres to its clients. I feel like it will become a huge feature pretty soon, since the global feed is a hot garbage already.

I think we’re going backwards. Back in the day, we were grabbing and indexing the data directly from DHT.

It may have an oposite effect as well. People who trusted them before may doubt them in the future.

I know the medical system is largely shit, if your diagnosis can’t be neatly put in a box, and treated by a pill, but fake doctors are not the alternative for bad doctors.

Unexpected input 😏

It wouldn’t be the first time a military would blow up something in orbit just to see it go kaboom.

But wait! There’s more. My favorite space fuckup is the West Ford project. What’s better than crushing the existing satellites into million pieces, you ask? Skipping the satellite phase, and bringing up the millions of pieces just to releaae them into orbit deliberately.

The West Ford project conducted by the MIT Lincoln Laboratory for the US Air Force in the early 1960s was a notable example. The project’s purpose was to create an 8 km (5 mi) wide, 40 km (25 mi) thick band of tiny copper wire segments in a near-polar orbit around the Earth as a passive radio reflector for military communications. In the first attempted deployment, in October 1961, the payload failed to disperse as planned. Eventually, seven small objects from the failed attempt were catalogued as orbital debris. The objects, with radar cross-sections between 0.06 m2 (0.6 ft2) and 0.6 (6.5 ft2), are still in orbit at an altitude of about 3,600 km (2,250 mi). A second West Ford project deployment attempt in May 1963 carried a payload of 480 million copper needles, each 1.8 cm (0.7 in.) long and 0.00178 cm (0.0007 in.) in diameter. Project planners expected solar radiation pressure to deorbit the needles in only a few years. However, only one-fourth to one-half of the needles dispersed as planned. Most remained in clumps that were more resistant to orbital decay. Eventually, 144 clumps from that attempt were identified and tracked; forty-six of them remained in orbit in 2013, but only nine of them had perigees less than 2,000 km (1,240 mi). Individual needles are too small to track.

The History of Space Debris - Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

I don’t need this, I don’t need this, I so need this… I mean I don’t… fuck!

Yes. I live comfortably thanks to those who fight. I’d not fight if I were them, but I would also not FORCE anyone to fight for me.