http://theviewfromhell.blogspot.com/2012/09/trying-to-see-through-unified-theory-of.html

"This is something conspiracy theorists typically don’t get: manufacturing fake realities is very hard. But subtractive simplification of reality is much easier, and yields just as much power." -- Venkatesh Rao, The Gervais Principle

i wonder how much worse things would be if environmentalism never was a thing.

maybe i should run a gopher site just because i can

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make the web open again

programming, 90% of the time, is plumbing. you figure out how to get crap from point A to point B in this form.

yes, yes, shill for decentralized networks...

@maiyannah @Gargron @rw @animeirl and hope is complicit: https://sealion.club/notice/2910485

LB: yes, even though we're sometimes a trash fire of discourse and anger i think we're on average still worth joining in on. you meet people, especially if you join in on a "free speech zone" imo

as it turns out, a lot of our technical problems were already solved ages ago. we just didn't really look back into the past :p

I might be a huge scrub here, but why is there an aversion to the GPL for applications? I can understand if it was a library that people want to link to...

> implying that iq tests measure much besides the ability to do iq tests

@ttuegel Eugen's going with just scaling this one up, it seems like. If there's going to be a push for federating out to more servers, it's probably going to have to come from the users.

@lambadalambda Mistakes were a mistake.

let's upgrade this thing and hopefully not gnutan it

@takeshitakenji turns out i did a stupid mistake writing the /etc/fstab. most of the PITA was shuffling resources around on Scaleway to get around their own UI not letting me do what I wanted.

@takeshitakenji @archaeme the answer is apparently "not badly at all"

I wonder how much being dead for 11 days screwed over all the pubsub stuff...

oh hi, i'm back