oldfart

joined 1 year ago
[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Centaurs of the '80s

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

XMPP. Simplex.

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They pinky promise they don't maintain these relationships. Maybe even they really don't. But they have the ability to, if they were to change their mind, and that's the problem.

Use secure protocols which don't give anyone that ability.

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Private trackers have REQ section for asking for content and setting a bounty.

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's not the same at all. Archivebox would do the trick if it was pre-populated with every page Google Search has in its index.

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Fuck them, but it's not like anything changes for people who currently watch ads, or who pay for Premium. It's us who they're fighting, and we don't generate any income.

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee -2 points 2 months ago

But I don't want to learn. I want the machine to free me from tedious tasks I already know how to do. There's no learning experience in creating a Wordpress plugin or a shell script.

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, phones are a lost case.

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

I'd like to use good GUI programs designed for using with a keyboard, but it seems touch UI is the main theme for bigger developers these days, and keyboard is an afterthought at best

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee -3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Thankfully, the normies are moving away from computer and maybe the ecosystem will heal in our lifetimes 🤞

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

They're not that tired of life yet. Give them 15 more years.

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