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Re:Exile Economics: If Globalisation Fails on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @05:07PM (#44881816)
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.
If you're not a crude materialist, you can believe in eternal soul. Shouldn't we honor the dead, in that case?
Each country central bank should have its own national payment processing system. Why is this not a thing? Spain has Bizum, for example.
Why can't cargo ships deploy floating solar panels to power the ship motors?
Re:The New Science of Controlling Lucid Dreams on Friday December 27, 2024 @09:03AM (#42522104)
Perhaps science and technology should stay out of the only remaining area of untouched human nature.
Re:NixOS Is Not Reproducible on Saturday October 26, 2024 @04:42AM (#41953485)
Ever since I started using Zig, making everything reproducible has never been as easy as just using the Zig build system.
Re:A deep dive into Linux's new mseal syscall on Friday October 25, 2024 @04:01PM (#41949086)
OpenBSD has had it since forever [1]. Why is such an obvious feature only reaching Linux now?

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

Re:Ribbonfarm Is Retiring on Saturday October 19, 2024 @09:46PM (#41892263)
Are bloggers required to meet a quota?
Re:Ribbonfarm Is Retiring on Saturday October 19, 2024 @09:39PM (#41892230)
Because people don't go surfing on the web anymore, they stay in the same facebook-twitter-instagram-netflix-amazon-reddit loop forever.
>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.

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.
Re:Making the Web Boring Again on Saturday October 05, 2024 @06:25AM (#41748874)
All my hopes are resting on Ladybird now.
Re:Mozilla grants Ente- a private Google Photos alternative- $100k on Saturday September 28, 2024 @01:46PM (#41681772)
I stand corrected.
Re:Mozilla grants Ente- a private Google Photos alternative- $100k on Saturday September 28, 2024 @01:42PM (#41681738)
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.