Fable has a 'security system' that just stops it when it tries to use the tool 'kill' to end a process. Which is nonsense and funny because in that situation it immediately invents a creative workaround to kill the process without 'kill'.
The Internet was originally designed to survive a nuclear war. Now we downgraded it deliberately to not survive a football game.
Decentralised infrastructure: good
Centralised infrastructure: bad
Good and bad for you, of course. For the big companies selling and controlling this stuff, it's vice versa.
Just stay alert and don't chain yourself with big tech dependencies. The reason Git is great is its decentralised nature. If you got so far, why cripple yourself by running your traffic through a single American company like Cloudflare?
Allowing scripting on websites (in the mid-90s) was a completely wrong decision. And an outrage. Programs are downloaded to my computer and executed without me being able to review them first—or rely on audits by people I trust. That’s completely unacceptable; it’s fundamentally flawed.
Of course, you disable scripts on websites. But there are sites that are so broken that they no longer work properly, since the developers are apparently so confused that they assume people only view their pages with JavaScript enabled.
It would have been so much better if we had simply decided back in the ’90s that executable programs and HTML don’t belong together. The world would be so much better today.
We should decouple the publishing of papers from academic careers completely.
Papers can't generate any reputation or money for the authors anymore. To achieve that, we must anonymize the authors.
All scientists get some (paid) time to write papers — if they want. What they write and if they publish it is not known to anybody. They are trusted to write something of value in that time.
Universities can come up with other ways of judging which professors they hire. Interviews. Test teachings. Or the writing of an non-public application essay, which describes their past research and discoveries.
In a normal and sane world, a scientist is a nerd about their field. They are highly interested in new thoughts and insights. When a new paper in their field is published, they try hard to find the time to read it. The reason is: every paper is written by enthusiasts who want to add something of value, new insights, to the discussion. Proving or disproving theories, adding puzzle pieces to the general picture.
That is the normal situation, which is the foundation of the progression of civilisation.
But some people install incentive systems to sabotage this. They are sabotaging civilisation itself.
Bad grammar is disrespect.
Underlings have to swallow that disrespect. It is just a power game.
The next level is simply to insult everyone, and everyone will still remain submissive.
There is always so much grumbling and nitpicking about this topic, which I don't understand.
The production of renewable electricity is skyrocketing everywhere, far better than predicted. And that's not because of clever politics, but because the technology is good and cheap.
This has only advantages for everyone. Except for a few fossil fuel investors whose profits are marginally reduced. We may even be able to limit global warming to three degrees, giving us a better window of opportunity to come up with solutions for large-scale carbon capture in the 22nd century.
What's more, photovoltaics is super interesting and great to tinker with—it's huge nerd fun.
Can't we all just be happy when we see headlines like this?
I love that Mark Qvist publishes his strong opinion, view of the world, and goals.
It quite smells like the hacker spirit of the 80s, mixed with a little spiritualism and anarchism. Very refreshing after so many other people are just disillusioned, worn out, angry, or frightened.
I took a deeper dive in Reticulum-rs. It is std. It implements 20% of Reticulum functionality. And it has 2 major protocol incompatibilities (like a different size for the MTU / Maximum Transfer Unit).
It looks like a quick vibe coded hack to implement a subset, tailored only for Beechat's own devices.
If someone would want to implement a full no_std Reticulum lib, they would need to start from scratch.
Reticulum is a production-ready full network stack. Cryptography and anonymity are first-class citizens there. It is transport-layer agnostic, not just tailored for LoRa. I like it, but is see two main problems that prevent the wide adaption, and they are related:
1. The library is written in Python. If you want to design phone apps, Linux server daemons in C, or embedded software (for example for the Lilygo T-Deck) this is a bad choice. Somehow doable (execpt for embedded), but no fun. A small lib with C API and C ABI would be better.
2. Most of the end user software has a horrible UI. But it gets better with software like the Android messenger Columba (https://github.com/torlando-tech/columba).
If we would solve 1., we would have more end user software.
Currently, there are 4 project who try to solve 1. by writing a Reticulum lib with a low-level language, everybody does it in their favorite language and on their own, of course: C++, Zig, Rust, Go
The Rust implementation from Beechat seems the most mature. But I did not see it used in the wild, outside of Beechat's own devices.
Reticulum is a full network stack with full user anonymity.
You can integrate it in every app that needs P2P network connections and that can live with a slow connection.
Reticulum is an alternative to TCP/IP and UDP/IP, using a mesh.
Meshtastic and Meshcore are mesh messengers, focusing on mesh text messages.