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I must be a psycho because I'm the only person I know who likes to drive in silence.

Sometimes I put music. But lately I've been preferring just silence to drive. It's been a tendency. Road noises makes me not hear music well or having to put it too loud, so the more that bothers me the more I've been just letting me drive without any background music/radio.

I've been reading about it. But at some point I found that the parent organization run a crypto scam. Supposedly is not embedded into the protocol but they also said that the token is used to give rewards withing the protocol. That just made me wary of them.

Though the protocol did seen interesting. It's MIT licensed I think so I suppose it could just be forked into something crypto free.

One genuine question.

What change did a diagnosis made?

I've known all my life I am in the autistic spectrum, it is clear as day. Never diagnosed and to be true, I don't see the point. From my perspective it would be like going to the doctor to tell me I have pale skin and that I need sunscreen when going outside.

I don't really think my life would change because one person told me what I already know.

I'm wary of external dependencies. They are cool now, but will they be cool in the future? Will they even exist?

One thing I think p2p excels is resiliance. People be still using eDonkey even if it's abandoned.

A repo signature should deal with "fake copies". It's true we have the problem that BitTorrent protocol is not though for updating files, so a different protocol would be needed. I don't even know how possible/practical it is. It's true that any big project should probably host their own remote repo, and copy it on other platforms as needed. Github only repos was always a dangerous practice.

That's true. I didn't think of that.

IPFS supposedly works fine with updating shares. But I don't want to get closer to that project as they had fallen into cryptoscam territory.

I'm currently reading about "radicle" let's see what the propose.

I don't get the bad actors spamming the download. Like downloading too much? Torrent leechers?

EDIT: Just finished by search sbout radicle. They of course have relations with a cryptomscam. Obviously..... ;_; why this keep happening?

Open source repositories should rely on p2p. Torrenting repos is the way I think.

Not only for this. At any point m$ could take down your repo if they or their investors don't like it.

I wonder if it would already exist and if it could work with git?

I love the fediverse.

But same as big platform issues and entshification ultimately comes from a small number of people owning the sites. Many fediverse issues comes from a architecture of a bigger but still small number of instance owners.

Fediverse is a BIG step forward. But it's true, instances are fragile, and a lot of pressure is put on instance owners and final users still have a limited amount of control. Though they still have the choice of becoming an instance owner, which is a plus.

I have only be in the fediverse one year or so. But I have already seen several instances fall and a lot of "instance wars". I don't think this is long term sustainable if we keep growing.

I have been thinking about it lately, and remember one of the most resilient protocols I have found. eDonkey protocol, unmaintained but still alive because users want to use it.

I think the "ultimate" internet/social network protocol could/should be something similar. Which mean truly p2p. Probably some kind of p2p storage and control. People depending more on themselves instead of instance owners.

There was a project about this (plebbit) but I looked at how was it's state after a post here and they have fallen intro cryptoscams :( so that's not going to make it. But I hope someone pick the torch of that idea.

I keep delaying because I need to renew my digitalID because eu petitions only accept dni-e as a form of digital signature which is the less used in my country as other forms work way better.

Anyway, I hope to renew my digital signature next week and sign.

I use as an advanced rubber duck for coding.

I know the answer is wrong but it gets my brain going into finding the right answer.

Like: "This is a ridiculous approach to make this. It would be much easier to just..."

Getting the wrong answer sometimes speed up the process, like some kind of dialectics.

Crow life is best life.

I economically support other foss projects. Not just gimp really, as I have not probe whatsoever, but I have this feeling that there's some development issues with it. It's not normal that people have been asking for a dedicated shape tool for decades and they refuse to add it.

Godot is one of the ones I think is going to grow bigger than commercial alternatives (like Blender) for instance.

Lately every big GIMP update would be a minor version bump in other projects. Gimp 1 to Gimp 2 was some of a big upgrade. 2 to 3 not so much. Great software. But some of the things introduced in 3.0 are just fixes and patches to try to merge some of the decisions made 20 years ago with the current expectations on UX. And it's still not there.

Yesterday I just did something very simple. Make a selection cut and copy selection to new layer. I don't know why but things didn't work as expected and the new layer had weird behavior, not allowing the use of the selection tool anymore and staying always on top. Not great UX for something that the user expects to be trivial.

I have never used any of those other softwares in more than a decade.

I still only use GIMP for image editing out of principle.

Still have to check every time for GIMP shortcuts because they are so counter intuitive. And there are so many counter intuitive things about it.

IMHO it have the same issue that Libreoffice. It was really made decades ago and never really updated. It's like that meme about workflows. In their efforts not to break workflows they have gotten behind in UX compared to other software.

Also development seems to be stopping to a halt with each release compared to other more modern foss projects. I suppose it's due an ancient codebase that's probably really hard to work with.

I use it. It can do a lot. But UX and development speed in GIMP is not up to par with projects like Krita, Inkscape or Blender (to name a few).

Great software still. But I get why people complain about it.

0.0045 per hour at 100%.

As we don't want to use all power let's say 50% power. So about 0.0028usd per hour.

Geoguessr most basic plan is 2.50usd month. The miner would need to be running 893 hours that month. Which is about 29 hours a day, wich is impossible.

With the miner running like 10 hours per week the developers would get the amazing quantity of 0.112 usd per month.

That kind of thing is used in malware because if you stole is actually real state. But for legit usage it's hard to justify without a dedicated operation.

Btw are you checking if your monero mining is really profitable? Last time I checked xmr mining was no profitable with any type of hardware unless electricity cost were basically free. I have both a beefy computer and a power efficient computer, checked with both and neither were profitable to use for mining.

Not everyone who doesn't want to talk about politics 24/7 is far right. In fact most are not. And people can disagree with you in some political points and, guess what? they can still not be far right. People be seeing far right in their own shadows nowadays. Stalin level paranoia.

Prohibition would reduce the number of potential people in that situation. For the people that inevitably would fall into drug abuse and addiction is where social programs come into place.

All the dangers you listed for prohibition are handled by social programs, decriminalisation of users and harm reduction. Here there are many places you can go to test your drugs for free to know if they are adulterated with dangerous substances or not. No question asked.

I don't know the waiting periods for these treatments. But they are irrelevant to prohibition/legalization, they are not going to get extra help or quicker help because hard drugs are legal.

All these being said I don't see any single thing that's worse here because hard drugs are illegal.

Also we have the example of tobacco. While legal here there was a time when ilegal tobacco dealing was very big, because it was cheaper. With hard drugs would happen exactly the same. Ilegal would be cheaper than legal so most points about reducing gangs and drug-dealing related crimes would be defeated.

Users are not criminalised, so they can get help. Help is free for them, and there are plenty of social programs to get them out of that world. There are free points for drug testing, so they don't use adulterated substances. Drug related violence is not a big issue here. There's the typical marginalised violence in some neighbourhood, but I don't see how making drugs legal would solve anything there. The only people being prosecuted here are drug dealers, which to be fair are making money by destroying people's life so they kinda deserve being declared criminals imho.

There would always be drug addicts, but I don't see how situation would be made better here by legalising those drugs. By keeping them illegal at least you reduce the potential drug users who would fall into that horror.

All this for hard drugs of course. Soft drugs should be legal, for moral reasons. Here they are partially legal. There use to be some places where you could legally get weed but they are in a gray area. Anyway marijuana is so common and personal use in your own home is perfectly legal. Thought I think in this case it should get the same status as alcohol.

Any morale principle must to be able to be universally applied to be valid. This translate in not asking for others what I won't do myself. And judging hardly those who ask for rules that don't apply to themselves.

That simple principle can construct a lot if you develop it.

Don't give them ideas.

I always thought that given that personal use of google street maps os free for the user. It would be really easy to just make a copy of that game for free relying on scrapping instead of api calls.

Insert chad scrapper vs virgin API user meme.

There are several issues with that.

First and foremost. Most people's devices are not powerful enough to make any money mining any cryptocurrency.

Also a cryptominer is not "free real state" it chugs the computer. The user would have a terrible experience trying to do anything with a cryptominer on the background.

And finally, there are many free software out there. Not everything is to be monetized. Some things should just be free. I have done plenty of free things for others to enjoy, it's not the end of the world, quite the opposite is quite rewarding.