Funny how yall seem to like it shredded, I prefer half-transparent thin slices on a fat-fat piece of bread.

Yes, but with modern technologies where easily done. TLS, markdown-like markup, MIME, prompts for input.

Meshtastic, Briar.

A simple Web-like hypertext system without styles and scripts. The protocol can be implemented in two days by a complete idiot (I have my own Gemini viewer, I may not be terribly proud of it, but I like it).

One can technically put a trojan into your UEFI firmware. And from the description the law doesn’t specify which kinds of trojans it allows.

And - a hint - it’s called trojan because you don’t know you have a trojan when you have a trojan.

Reason one - both were kinda German, reason two - both were kinda fascist, reason three - you don’t say “no” when there’s no such variant in the poll.

The interior minister Gerhard Karner, described it as a “special day for security.”

This might be a Hollywood association with German accent, but feels like a really ominous quote. Like that sadistic guy in round eyeglasses in the Indiana Jones movie.

Battlefield 1942 for me.

Fook, I was going to write it almost in the same words

Sharks are cooler.

I would cut the shapes of prehistoric sharks in cardboard in my childhood. Have a pouch of those somewhere.

They were really beautiful.

I’m not doing that, just saying it. There’s no reason to idolize anything. Even idols. Antique Mediterranean was better for being as religiously pluralistic as rural China.

It makes perfect sense, the resistance of having Windows legacy software etc becomes smaller the more of that goes out of use, the resistance of everyone only knowing Windows becomes smaller with nobody even knowing Windows, and the resistance of corporate interests becomes smaller because it’s all in the Web, and the Web has been corrupted and Chrome works on Linux.

So. Listen to me carefully. If Linux domination happens without FreeBSD and Haiku normalization, then things are bad.

OK, so now it’s important to create collegial democratic project government for Linux, and freeze Linus in carbonite as a memorial. Before Linux has become too important, and before Linus lost his marbles to become a geriatric dictator.

Actually in the age of Android I think it’s already too late, but this should be done regardless.

Thx, will remember that

Thanks, but I have my very reasonable doubts

Personally, I don’t think billionaires should exist. Even the ones that I think have done cool things.

Yeah, it’s in the intersection of two “doubt” points making one “almost sure” point.

First, people getting power get spoiled fast, it’s not possible to resist, it’s as if I could have any girl I like and she’d like me and I knew that, just no chance to avoid a sensory burnout after a few months of, eh, feeling that. The possibility that a person can resist that is very small, people like Aristotle Onassis, maybe.

Second, if one person is worth, say, 12000 times more than another person, it’s important to ask whether they really are, or they can be replaced with like 50 of equals of that another person with proper organization and discipline. The possibility that they really are is almost negligibly small, there are a few people alive for whom one can suggest that and maybe more, but most are like those people we know and love.

I can imagine Gabe Newel being worth 100, maybe 1000 times me for the humanity, purely financially, but something of bigger orders of magnitude seems preposterous. Not even touching upon money affecting our relative legal power balance, where even factor 2 difference is just morally not acceptable.

Not that I’m of any bad opinion of Gabe, Steam is one today’s company that both doesn’t abuse its customers too much and does a lot of work on the positive side.

That includes some bad people too … Well, I dunno how bad, just a certain Larry Ellison still loves working, or so I’ve heard. Or Bill Gates.

Gabe Newell is better than many others, but this is true, the best man on Earth will become an absolute pissbag given power for continuous enough period of time to realize that.

And the best man on Earth is probably some volunteer medic in some African warzone, not a computer programmer and a tech businessman.

Gabe Newell is not a usual CEO though.