The same paypal that thought they can fine you for TOS violations?

Deleted my account, nothing of value was lost.

Always seems self-evident that equipment you don’t own and control isn’t going to work on your behalf.

Imo the future is federated and self-hosted. Maybe not for everyone, but for me.

It’s easy to forget amidst the art and architecture and military accomplishments of the roman empire that it was a particularly brutal slave state.

To be clear, most civilizations of the time had slavery in one form or another, but the combination of the fact that romans implemented chattel slavery where slaves were purely property, and the dictatorial powers the patriarch of the family had over slaves, women, and children in his family combined to have a wide range of permissible behavior towards those who didn’t have any social power.

Though to be fair, we need to also remember that just because a state didn’t have slavery didn’t mean it was a modern liberal democracy. Often, they didn’t have slavery in name but the lowest classes of society might as well have been slaves for the level of control they had over their lives.

As an example, after the roman empire fell many European states didn’t have slavery but feudalism tied people to the land and gave their lords overwhelming power over them meaning they had a similar lack of control over their own lives.

On lotide I click likes on a post and it lists who posted. If you make a post or comment with mastodon you get notified every time someone upvotes.

Is there anyone left in India who would have personal information to steal after this?

Parallel means that the voltage doesn’t get divided. If you connect two 24v fans in parallel to a 19v charger, then both fans will get 19v. They might run a bit slow since the voltage will be lower than expected, but it’ll be ok I think.

“Police in U.S. say technology is helpful[…]”

The same police in the US who need military grade APCs for reasons unknowable to the universe?

Searx is a other good option.

“how often do you think about the Roman empire?”

Well, reset the clock again…

You don’t need technology you when you have indoctrination. At that point every single other human being becomes a potential point of privacy violation to the secret police.

Your roommates, your wife, your children, your friends, every one becomes a potential data leak, and unlike digital technology, humans can look for dirty laundry in places cameras and listening devices can’t.

Meet people in real life doing real life things.

That’s not just better for privacy, it’s better for your life.

It’s harder, but no amount of followers on twitter will help you move a couch.

Matrix is a standard, so you don’t need to use synapse or element. I’m shocked at how well matrix Conduit works on trivial hardware.

The biggest thing you can do about it is self-host or purchase hosting from a third party that isn’t likely to sell or use your data.

My first book was to my son, it’s called “The Graysonian Ethic:Lessons for my unborn son”, it’s a number of lessons about life. I decided to have it published for a number of reasons including it’s the easiest way to have a book printed inexpensively.

I need to get going on my second book.

I want to make a pretty comprehensive computer course centered around the FreeBASIC programming language that doesn’t just cover programming, but what’s going on behind the scenes and the history of what’s going on. Gen Z and by extension Gen Alpha lack a lot of basics in computers because they’re so used to things that just work, so putting a lot of that knowledge of the ancients in one place I think would be useful.

In my book “The Graysonian Ethic: Lessons for my unborn son” I talk about how terrible the past actually was for the human race. Our dominance as a species was far from guaranteed. Besides the evidence of a genetic bottleneck, it’s already known that the human race has exactly one common ancestor, a woman named “Mitochondrial eve” who is the common female ancestor for every living human, and in addition to that there’s a “y-chromosomal Adam” who was the common living male ancestor for every living human. This suggests that the human race has been shockingly close to extinction on a number of occasions. (It’s true that you don’t need to reduce the human race to just one person for mitochondrial eve or y-chromosomal adam to exist assuming the descendants of those two just survived better than the others, but imagine how small the human race must have been for these two to have common ancestry of the entire human race, for there to have been few enough humans that the descendants of two people could have enough number)

It’s an important reminder that even if comparatively speaking times are hard, they aren’t as hard as they have been at many times in the past, and while we should always strive to improve the world we must always be grateful for how far we’ve come.

It’s pretty much undeniable given all the data that particularly in Western countries, but also in China and Japan, the population is about to collapse. It’s a natural part of a cycle of population growth and decline. Even though we have more than enough food to keep on growing, people can predict the overall cost of having kids, and have decided that they just can’t afford to pay that right now. As a result, we do have something of an economic boom in the short term, but in the long term expense of a population collapse.

That’s not such a bad thing. When the population shrinks, the importance of individual people rises, and the world tends to become more egalitarian. As the number of people increase, and the value of individuals tends to drop, leading to decrease in the value of individuals. If the future plays out the way that history did, we will probably see our kids or our grandkids living in a golden age where individuals have unprecedented Rights and freedoms because they’re so few of them.