I’ve thought of all these, but what I’m describing should be a comprehensive system in itself and at the same time have global identities and addressing of all content, so that data model could be applied, for example, for a sneakernet or for some situation where you’d have to synchronize data over delay-tolerant networks.

Most of all like Briar or Usenet or something else.

I would say the future is in pooling resources.

Like it happens with torrents. As one p2p protocol very successful.

Self-hosting not applications, but storage and uniform services. Let different user applications use the same pooled storage and services.

All services are ultimately storage, computation, relays, search&indexing and trackers. So if there’s a way to contribute storage, computing resources, search and relay nodes by announcing them via trackers (suppose), then one can make any global networked application using that.

But I’m still thinking how can that even work. What I’m dreaming of is just year 2000 Internet (with FTP, e-mail, IRC, search engines), except simplified and made for machines, with the end result being represented to user by a local application. There should be some way to pay for resources in a uniform way, and reputation of resources (not too good if someone can make a storage service, collect payment, get a “store” request and then just take it offline), or it won’t work.

And global cryptographic identities.

Not like Fediverse in the end, more like NOSTR.

Yes, one of the reasons I do this is so that people like you would clean the air.

And after 100 years of propaganda, we actually believe there never has been a better system.

If you mean the way a medieval village or town functioned, then this comparison omits the improvements of “capitalism” over it.

Person make chair, person sell chair, person eat - that’s if they are this village’s or town’s chairmaker. If not, they are treated as if they stole from the chairmaker. Teeth kicked in, banished. Something like that. The chairmaker’s role is transferred by inheritance or by apprenticeship from one person to one other person. Like a noble’s title.

The way medical practice works in some countries with English law, I’ve heard, still reminisces that, and the results are not liked generally.

Choices and social mobility and social lifts are not present in a traditional society. That village remains in one place over many years. It may grow or shrink, but there’s simply no need to allow cook’s son to become a chairmaker, or vice versa. Or if there’s is, the whole village may assemble and talk about such a decision once in 10-20 years. If he has two sons, then one of them works for the other, can’t be cook on his own. If he wants to be his own man, he can try and find an apprenticeship, if some other master doesn’t have a son or an apprentice. In other place maybe.

In a city it was similar, except, to scale the same “natural order”, guilds existed and not small families, but guilds’ heads would make such collegial decisions. Or heads of merchant families.

What you feel as oppression now is not really worse than what a medieval man felt, living all his life the same way in the same place.

I blame Marx for this misconception, he probably tried to play the “good old times” typical German card, but his followers, as a result, often believe that industrialization somehow made free people wage slaves. No. Try living in a village, today, in a western country. And then imagine you wouldn’t work or travel elsewhere, all your life would be around that small place, with the same few people and families year after year. Social lifts and social mobility, vertical or even horizontal, were simply unimaginable in such a structure.

If only this wonderful opinion were published someplace else than blogs.gnome.org and by someone who’s not a GNOME developer who are expected to lie by now.

X11 is not glorious past, it just makes sense.

Of course, when you freeze it in a certain state, only doing bug fixes, you can’t utilize its modularity and extensibility to fix problems that can be fixed in an alternative with actual development happening. But it appears the solution of finally making a fork has been found.

I welcome anyone to find fascism, nazism, conspiracy theories (if that’s about said freeze and refusal to break backwards compatibility in some things, then, well, that’s a fact visible for anyone on the web) here.

“Concerned” Trolling about the Accessibility of the Wayland session

So for actual complaints they just say it’s trolling and put quotes. That’s not a valid response.

You all need mandatory supervised access to the Internet from now on.

Maybe snowflake GNOME devs need that? I don’t use GNOME, so - won’t really feel the loss.

These are why I use FVWM and set up everything by hand, better this than feeling helpless in a supposedly user-friendly environment.

But I think under normal usable desktops, like MATE, you can do such things easily enough.

but no one else really had the resources to maintain it

That’s what I’m saying to not be true. Right now the project is controlled by RH, and they are not interested, but also don’t leave it. Maybe if this weren’t so, we’d see changes.

Its critical infrstructure, they can’t just hand it off until they’re done with it (RH10).

Yes they can, the same way they ship kernels full of backported stuff and patches.

Xlibre is happening by one of the biggest community contributors, but honestly it’ll end up like KwinFT.

The guy is unfortunately accompanying his fork with anti-vaxxer and alt-right statements.

I think Xorg will keep existing. There are a few projects buried many times and still alive, one more.

But RH is intentionally blocking the good things that could have happened without their “leadership” and imposing opinion that it’s deprecated and on life support.

The way they promoted PulseAudio, SystemD, Gnome 3, now Wayland. All that.

Say, they do almost no development of Xorg, but they don’t surrender the control of the project to someone who’d want to. They don’t accept PR’s, sometimes with responses that the project itself is deprecated or something.

They intentionally keep control, to avoid someone picking it up.

They could mean that they were a Unix user since 1991. They could also mix up years, which would be natural. Say, with 1993 or 1994. In any case you’re the obvious RH shill here.

This is a good example of RH shilling.

Also not uncommon to see “community activists” popping up here and there, with no history at all, doing small things and then somehow participating in coordinated RH-aligned action eventually. Remember that moment Stallman was pressed into defense? Not that he’s a very nice person, but the campaign was interesting in the sense that not many normal people participated in it, mostly such activists.

Also Fedora and “well-built” - it’s glossy and smooth-looking, but not “well-built”.

Also this

from paranoid people new to the community who don’t understand how this ecosystem works.

is a marker of RH shill too. They usually start with casually stating that everyone is fine with RH and the only ones complaining are noobs, nuts and troublemakers, we don’t do that here. Except it’s not true.

Quantity of development doesn’t equal quality. I personally think if RH were to vanish overnight, Linux would be fine. Of course nobody spends additional effort on projects mostly done by RH. If there’s no RH, either the projects will be dropped for lack of necessity or there will be said effort from other sources.

Amount of contributions doesn’t equal quality, mind that. RedHat also does work to sink projects which don’t fit their strategy for Linux development, and I want to ask by what right they even have such a strategy and try to impose it upon others.

NOSTR has NIP’s for moderated communities, I don’t remember how many clients support that.

I’m the people’s politician

Yes, and it shouldn’t be a user-facing thing to pick an instance. Also identities shouldn’t be tied to instances.

NOSTR is not populous enough, its content is mostly waves of repetition from Twitter, Reddit, even Fediverse, but they’ve done the relays thing right (you use an initial list of relays, then clients exchange lists of relays, simple and not the most efficient way, but still functional enough for Gnutella, BitTorrent etc). Except the concept of a pubkey being an identity is naive. But if your NOSTR identity is not as important as your Facebook profile or phone number, then maybe it’s fine to make it a pubkey. They have paid or limited relays too, which store only events from their members. I don’t remember how it’s done.

It has the stigma of being done by cryptobros for cryptobros, but the technology itself involves no blockchain.

I still don’t like NOSTR, they’ve made some things simpler than acceptable. I like how it shows that the relay model works and even scales.

First they came for porn - I didn’t care, because I had a couch, then they came for trans stuff - I didn’t care, because I had a couch, then they came for drugs - I didn’t care, because I had a couch, then my couch broke from active couchfucking and there were nobody to help me fix it.

Kubernetes seems closer to the top of the tower of Babel than to the basement. Part of it anyway.

If you keep it simple, then probably JSON is easier. In other cases too.

… for the very reason that Fortran you can grasp in an evening.

I was banned a few times for saying something like that if some politician of some country consciously does a thing which costs Armenian lives, or, say, “recognizes territorial integrity of Azerbaijan”, they are fair game for Armenians. That technically they make a choice they have right to make, or that their country has some interests, etc are reasons, but not excuses.

I mean, people are responsible for the actions they take. It’s not extremism.