Notices by LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)
-
Embed this notice
LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 14:52:23 JST LisPi @aral @kissane Well, to be fair there's the third option of living in poverty with whatever assistance one qualifies for (since basically nowhere has UBI or anything like a budget for contributors to the commons). -
Embed this notice
LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 02:10:24 JST LisPi @nyx @mia Always a bad time when the psychotropics get the memories bubbling back out. -
Embed this notice
LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 13:22:22 JST LisPi @mia Arch girls vs Debian girls. A few seconds in the future or rehashing the memes of years past. -
Embed this notice
LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 09:47:50 JST LisPi @Suiseiseki @birdulon @sun > If that's the goal, the game server will turn out proprietary.
It was proprietary. In reverse-engineering it, it is liberated, at least in function if not origin. -
Embed this notice
LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 06:29:19 JST LisPi @Rasp @spiralganglion If you derive income from the blog, perhaps.
In my case it'd mean I update it even more rarely because each post would cost me roughly a day worth of wages to afford it. (Going by commission rates of artists I follow, anyway.) -
Embed this notice
LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 04:00:54 JST LisPi @allison @lewdthewides Ah, so that's what Vienna did right then.
They also ensured adequate supply through public housing. -
Embed this notice
LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 03:49:30 JST LisPi @allison @lewdthewides Rent control does work to a point, though some mechanisms for it tend to work better than others. Vienna has done a pretty good job of it.
But yes, vaguely sensible land tax would also immediately kill the car-centric development model. -
Embed this notice
LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 03:41:37 JST LisPi @allison @lewdthewides
> I'm predicting 99+ weeks of unemployment payments at 100% of their previous salary. Might also see an early implementation of universal basic income. Politicians will be paying the public not to riot, and no one will care how much this will add to the country's debt
Amusingly, UBI would be more sustainable and actually have "positive" results inasmuch as the continuation of the system is concerned (no so much in the "abolish capitalism" positive aspects).
> I think it's going to be the georgists finest hour
That might be interesting. -
Embed this notice
LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 15:43:27 JST LisPi @icedquinn @rysertio Well yes, I was thinking "incompetently grabbed the first thing lying around" since just... buying IV bags isn't exactly an option I think, here. (Nevermind how stupid that is considering how far emergency services can be and how training people to treat basic things locally can be very important.) -
Embed this notice
LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 15:28:49 JST LisPi @rysertio You think one would at least bother to check that it's "normal saline" and not medicated. -
Embed this notice
LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 15:28:47 JST LisPi @rysertio Oh. Honestly that starts sounding like a deliberate suicide attempt.
The minimal competence required to understand the logical consequences of doing it is there, so going ahead with it anyway? -
Embed this notice
LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 16:02:02 JST LisPi @Suiseiseki @ongo Fairly shortsighted, I think.
Perhaps it was more difficult to learn of new things at the time, given the abysmal state of information networks. -
Embed this notice
LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 05:22:15 JST LisPi @mekkaokereke > You have to understand that at the time of the OJ trial, most of the United States still believed that Black folk were making all of the stories of police brutality up.
This really weirds me out, honestly. Even before the internet, it was pretty clear to me as a kid from both personal experience ("authorities" lie and cheat for their pride and ego, constantly) and books (I liked reading about history, incidentally) that the "authorities" are /usually/ complicit if not outright the most active party in such things. (Oh sure, those books usually talked about other countries, but what was so fundamentally different about mine? I had no concept of exceptionalism pertaining to my country, I didn't actually get the notion of exceptionalism and still consider it hypocritical nonsense at best.)
That an adult population would really believe that is depressing. Of course I think they knew that was bullshit, and they just refused to own up to it. -
Embed this notice
LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 21:22:05 JST LisPi @Polychrome @djlink At the same time, if you forego silly unnecessary things like folding clothes, washing machines have been mostly up to the task for decades now.
Dryers where you don't need to care and can put everything in safely (low-heat heat-pump dryers) are fairly newer, but they're a thing now. -
Embed this notice
LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 20:14:31 JST LisPi @Di4na I'm not sure why Free Software activists are presumed not to be part of this ecosystem. -
Embed this notice
LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 20:14:29 JST LisPi @Di4na Considering we haven't even remotely begun to liberate the hardware which is at the root of our systems, I don't think we have won.
Software was only ever the easy part, and even there the corposcum monopolies and their legislator cronies are doing their best to limit the effective Freedom of users (consider the criminalization of interoperability and adversarial interoperability). That they derive most of their tools from our labor intended to liberate in order to oppress is just a sick and ironic joke (and the best we could do in retaliation is just sabotage with results of indiscriminate harm, a profoundly undesirable notion).
But even if we managed to pull things back into the control of the users and ensure their software systems actually *serve the user*?
At the moment, the majority of us do our computing on hardware where any Freedom that software grants us could be pulled under our feet a moment's notice, should some hitherto unknown backdoor or vulnerability (what's the difference?) be activated.
Battles have been won, the campaign moved forward, but we're *far* from being able to just shout victory. -
Embed this notice
LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 07:31:12 JST LisPi @lanodan @trevorflowers @csolisr The problem with unions, at least here, is that they *also* often have paperwork red tape requirements. So they wouldn't meaningfully differ from government, and in fact might be worse since they often have harsher requirements on recency of employment, certification/license and whatnot. (Needless to say, there's a lot to fix.)
I think the overwhelming majority of people involved in stuff like I2P are pseudonymous, and for good reason since the project feels a fair bit more serious about traffic obfuscation than Tor. -
Embed this notice
LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 07:11:31 JST LisPi @lanodan @trevorflowers @csolisr That has a number of flaws, but most particularly an insistence on papers.
A lot of Free Software programmers do *not* have the academic certifications and so on paper do not have the "professional competency" they actually have. In some cases, due to a variety of issues unrelated to monetary cost, they *cannot* acquire said certification either.
It is also an issue for Libre work on politically inconvenient technologies (though it is equally an issue with pseudonymous authorship of some investigative stuff), such that alternative acknowledgements of specialization/competence might also pose a risk by flagging one as a target for feds. -
Embed this notice
LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 04:57:25 JST LisPi @Makura @yassie_j @halva Why is it even legal for some jackass to interfere with that? -
Embed this notice
LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 04:57:17 JST LisPi @Makura @halva @yassie_j No, I mean, the CEO should be exposed to criminal liability for interfering with legally-mandated work safety standards.