The way the supreme court is acting the chances of me living on the lamb in two years publishing illegal political 'zines on old ditto machines in people's basements is increasing far too quickly.
I like teaching math and having a mailing address and phone number.
There is a certain notion among tech people that adopting a certain piece of tech or even an idea would solve all of the world's problems. For one, L'Eunuchs people believe that if all software was "free" :rms2: software, spying on people via their computers would be impossible because of course everyone is a programmer capable of removing the tracking code from every piece of software installed. Or rather, this was the case until Goolag proved them wrong with Chromium. Chromium is open source, yet it will track you til the end of the world, and there is nothing you can do short of leading an uphill battle againt both Corporate America and the Chinese Communist Party.
Another example is the fans of P2P networking protocols, who claim that every single networking application can be replaced with a P2P counterpart, including their own mother. Consider the following scenario: I decided to unwind, turned every single one of my electronic devices off, put all of them into a Faraday cage, and fucked off into the woods for three months. Three months later I return and check my P2P Email. Where exactly were the messages I was sent stored all this time? Yeah...
Just as with programming languages, there is no Silver Bullet when it comes to designing protocols and applications. And of course just putting smart license text and requiring everyone else to do the same won't save you. Neither will CoCs, by the way.
@icon_of_computational_sin > Three months later I return and check my P2P Email. Where exactly were the messages I was sent stored all this time? Yeah...
On #NNCP? On the nearest node on the route from the source to you, insofar as the expiration settings for messages haven't deleted them.
Presuming friendly peers as you'd assume from a friend-to-friend setup? That expiration could just be set to never.
As for chrome it's very easy: Don't use it. Cheers 🎉
> See, because you need an always-on computer in order to really reliably use #decentralized social media
Bruh. #Usenet, #Fidonet and #UUCP (#UUCPnet) beg to differ (no reason you couldn't use #NNCP for Usenet now if #NNTP isn't your thing).
It’s so fascinating having an archive like the one I have for Tedium. Being able to look back at pieces that are both extremely weird and deeply personal.
@ernie This point extends perfectly well to the Free Software / #FLOSS community also.
I work on what I find fun and interesting. I have no illusion that #NNCP, #Gopher, #Yggdrasil, and such are suddenly going to become popular. But wow are they FUN to work with, and useful too. I blog for the same reason. I've written several books with major publishers, about topics I enjoy, but still, I find that writing about what I want, when I want, without a deadline is more fulfilling.
I just realized a lot of my favorite software is hard to describe. #orgmode: an outliner, but also a highly-integrated task manager and markup language. #NNCP, an asynchronous message passer -- and thing that can use USB drives as a network. #gitannex, a file location tracker and syncer that does a ton. #dar, an improvement on tar, that can be FUSE-mounted, sliced and diced, compressed and encrypted in different ways. #emacs, a live-modifiable mail reader & enhanced vim (with evil-mode) 🙂