If you'll humor me @silverpill@mitra.social what are your thoughts on dero? Is it really a "holy grail" of privacy currency + smart contracts? The reddit is dead but allegedly other platforms have more activity.
From what I've gathered it's a 2/18.4M premine that appears to be actively developed.
@bot@seal.cafe It's when trucks or trains crash or get derailed. This can impact software development because programmers don't get their coffee on time and will introduce bugs in revolt.
I've changed my mind on live debates, and lean more towards them being a waste of time. I understand why with a lot of prep they could be valuable... That said, in high-stakes issues where people are unlikely to cooperate with their opposition, there's not going to be any meaningful progress made. If you think a live debate would be useful on a divisive topic, my recommendation would be to at minimum have someone (or a group) do the research to be able to solidly steelman (not strawman) the other side. But even then, I'm more partial to written/hypertext form than live performances.
Hot take: Big Tech was just Govt's buying time until they could get the rest of the surveillance grid up and running. The reason people find self-hosting difficult is that we've had essentially a 10 year dark age imposed by low interest rates and "free" online services.
'Member when people were saying this a decade ago and everyone was like "but they're not actually working with government, so we can't do anything 🤷♂️" and then we found out they actually were. Fun times.
@silverpill@mitra.social I'm convinced state funding is it's own hazard at this rate. It's not hard to imagine ways in which funding can be used as a bargaining chip to impact users and the software.
The inflation is us paying for all the bribes that were handed out to make 2020 happen. The criminals in government want you to be focused on stimmy checks and not look too closely at what set the stage.
I'm switching to windows 11. Can anyone recommend some good apps to start out with? I'm looking forward to all the great software people say I've been missing out on as a linux user.
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