These ideas are gold! Thanks for sharing. I'm gonna noodle on an unholy mix of 2) and 3) since my dynamic DNS provider just asks that you login once every 30 days and a hash of a (valid) state ID or DL would be an acceptable burden I feel for issuing a domain (or subdomain even).
This sounds great in theory, and if you're capable of managing your own DNS servers already possible for US citizens (via locality domains). Who's gonna front the cost of resolving queries for these domains WAS my question... answered by user HumanCCF above: their sponsors and individual donars will (since they plan on operating the service as a "public good" I imagine with a strong technical team they could actually do it! I wish them the best.)
I definitely can appreciate the principles they're espousing even if I'm not gonna be giving them my dollars. More people should care about making sure technology serves humans, not vice versa :)
Locality domain (RFC 1480) rant: Who the heck is Multi-Paradigm Corporation and how come emailing [email protected] with all of my "T"s crossed and "I"s dotted to register a domain results in silence. No response, not even a "go away".
I know there's some localities where you have to have notarized authorization on city letterhead but they're mostly administered by the people behind https://www.about.us/locality-structure
https://locality-domains.pages.dev/ is a good reference if you don't have WHOIS installed btw. I can't vouch for how up to date it is though since I just query the database myself.
ARRL Field Day is the most popular on-the-air event held annually in the US and Canada. On the fourth weekend of June, more than 31,000 radio amateurs gather with their clubs, groups or simply with friends to operate from remote locations.
You could also explore approaches like what puppeteer-heap-snapshot does and extract the data you're interested in from the in memory Javascript objects that the canvas powered website uses to generate its contents.
Montessori vs k5... go! But actually what about skipping k5 and starting public school at grade 2 (unsure of what age that is for the non US school systems)
EDIT: I forgot daycare is prohibitively expensive. Whoops.
See integrating LLMs with knowledge stores a la RDF triples or anything else really if you leverage something like LLamaIndex/LangChain.
"If I were 26 in the 90s I'd be well off". Also don't necessarily worry about your career ending because "AI". Keep er movin. (And knowledge hoarding sounds gross)
maybe check out PICO 8. It's basically a VM (self styled fantasy game console) that runs on a bunch of devices and an active community. https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
A similar project that I'm eager to hack on (or maybe try my hand at implementing something similar in WASM) is the UXN platform. https://100r.co/site/uxn.html
And if we're already talking VM platforms to explore, there's no reason that someone who doesn't want to do software professionally can't get a lot of enjoyment from some basic syntax knowledge and making modifications to software they use every day (whether that's writing a userscript in your browser or exploring your favorite game via mods)
If you're an auto-didact my advice to myself would be: take a week to get a grip on the basics again (maybe read an algo and datastructure book or cracking the coding interview). Then grind leetcode. That's the service you're looking for : ) Or toptal.
Guanfacine is one non stimulant ADHD prescribed med that you might want to look into. For OTC supplements I don't think it hurts to consider N-Aceytl-cysteine (NAC) but it's not a cure all.
In the defensive security space there is also Kicksecure[0], which serves as the base for Whonix (a hardened linux distro that tries to provide strong privacy/anonymity via the Tor network). They have a wiki that goes over the desktop hardening features and tweaks that go into it.
"This is controversial, however, it is just a different philosophy. The user runs as administrator (root), apps may optionally run as a non-root user or in containers as a "crippled root". The practical outcome is that you never have to type "sudo" or "su" to run anything, nor get hung up with file permissions.
Note, current releases of Easy default to running Firefox as user 'firefox', and SeaMonkey as user 'seamonkey'. It is easy to do the same for any app, that is, run it as its own user, isolated from other users."
I'm thinking along similar lines (including physical mailing of smartcards or something similar). I like building AGPL software and take on commercial work from time to time. Maybe I should write an article ; )
Email is in my profile.
EDIT check out upspin.io project it's written in go and has a lot of thought put in