Eldritch

If you truly believe that, then why are you posting here and not working on getting there? There, where you would have no rights, especially to post somewhere like here.

Every single elected republican. Complicit in even more warcrimes. Just another day like any other.

I would argue that’s not quite correct. You can absolutely transfer HTML files over gopher, but you’re not going to be viewing it in the gopher program.It was very much designed to be what most people would be more familiar with in concept as an FTP server today, almost. Pretty much all you could view in app were plain text files. and no links between. Everything else was a directory of files to be downloaded.

Gemini is definitely a bit of an inbetween. It does allow for linking between documents, but otherwise keeps everything simple and small, much like Gopher did.

That depends on how you define the web. If you only call the web the web when it was named the web and not what it was before it was named the web. Then yes you’re correct that was before the web. The question is, is that a semantic or significant difference? ARPANET was still a web of interconnected systems. For an old goober like myself.who was using FidoNet net back in the mid 80s. And the actual internet in the late 80s, early 90s. I definitely remember Gophering on the Internet. Plenty of places still maintained gopher directories till the mid 90s.

Yes, the bandwidth would be the damper there. It’s great for transmitting just a little bit of data, long distances. But for any sort of bigger data we transmit regularly on phones and desktop. It becomes unfeasible, even low resolution images.It definitely has a range benefit, though that’s for sure.I think fellow Missourian Jeff Geerling had a video out a while back where he talked about using it to contact people below his flight on the way to open sauce.

Gemini space baby! What’s old is new again.

Definitely. The conditions that created this version of the web have been gone for some time now. We’ve gone from connections that were temporarily and required hours to download a few minutes of postage stamp sized video. To always on connections capable of streaming multiple HD streams faster than real time in both directions.

For my part I’m also looking in to purchasing and trying to set up a small Adhoc mesh Halow network and running a few services on it for myself and any others in the neighborhood that are interested. A small, free (after the hardware) anarchist wireless network. 16mbps can do a lot with simple services, etc.Plus, if a number of people in the area decided to adopt and contribute more nodes to the mesh, you could go faster still.

As we know it? It already has several times. How many of you out there are browsing the web using Gofer? The centralized oligarchcentric web that we know today needs to die and great new things are coming along to take its place. Returned to more sustainable collaborative websites and services. Like the fediverse.

The difference between us and them is that we don’t want to do things to hurt them. Far from it. We honestly want to do things to help them. When we do hate them, it’s not for who they are, but who they choose to be. And that makes all the difference.

Always have. Most of them have never met the people they’ve been taught to hate. Or believe for some reason that the few they know are some sort of exception. The token “good ones”.

Not to be pedantic or anything, but it is important when ever possible to point out that what we pay in for taxes or tariffs does not sit in an account or accrue any interest. When the government collects taxes or tariffs that money ceases to exist and is taken out of the economy.

You’re absolutely correct though, that the Congress is abdicating their powers. They will absolutely approve whatever funding no matter how much it damages the dollar to make dear leader look good.

It’s participation in a fascist fantasy to pretend that tariffs or taxes produce revenue like some sort of business sheet to be balanced.Even just unwittingly repeating it only helps their position and hurts ours.

Nah, it wasn’t astroturfed. Current gen AI is little more than automated theft ATM. A lot of artists had their work stolen with no compensation. And now have an even tougher time ahead, competing with the thieves than they already had before. A lot of the angst and hate has been knee-jerk and lacking nuance. Doing as much to alienate people from their cause as bring them to it. But it’s real.

What’s equally absurd however. Are those that naively think we could use AI against those already using it. They’re building farms that consume more power than major cities. With more compute than even large groups of average individuals will ever be able to muster. It doesn’t matter how much of a force multiplier it is. 10x return on a force of 10,000,000 is exponentially more return than a 500x increase on a force of 100.

Ai may just be a tool, but it’s not going to turn the tide in favor of the left.

The thing is there is no revenue from tariffs. The government isn’t a business. When you pay taxes or tariffs, that money does not go sit into an account waiting to be spent. The Congress might allocate a budget for certain departments, but it has nothing to do with how much is sitting in an account. The government literally creates money as it needs it and destroys money in order to keep the value of the money stable.

What will absolutely be happening is that spineless partisans in the Congress will approve unlimited printing of money. For his fascist pets projects which will crash the value of the dollar harder than it already was. Mark, my words, they’re already commenting how the value of the dollar has crashed to levels not seen since 1973. They are literally going to crash it all the way down to great depression levels in order to put on theater.of them pretending to help their pet morons. While only screwing everyone including their pet morons over.

They must not have criticized Trump hard enough, you know, violent left and all. /s

Hey, at least it’s not a war zone and a rubble pile like Portland. Where you can go out and enjoy a latte in this beautiful fall weather. At least if you can avoid the swarms of fascists.

Yes, I have a black and white brother lazer printer. That thing is a workhorse. Still gives problems every so often, but far more reliable than any inkjet printer I’ve ever had. And far less costly to maintain.

Oh I know. No shade on them for starting with inkjet. Long term though the lazer/LED printers are just the more economical and sustainable option. This is a welcome disruption regardless.

I think it’s a bit of a distinction without a difference. Lenin and Stalin both had their hand in it. Both spend their time as the face of it and are inexorably connected. You cannot really mention one without the other.

Also, success has many fathers while failure is a bastard. The important lesson to take away from it is not who started it. But that it was a failure. Just like capitalism has been.

Whether you call it Stalinism or Leninism, it did not serve the proletariat. It was brutal and horrible millions being sent to Siberian gulags or worse.

Yes, there are distortions around Stalin, Lenin, and their legacies. The aren’t coming from outside the ideology, however. It’s all from inside.

While it might be supremely hypocritical for capitalists and liberals to the level, many of these criticisms against Stalin, Lenin, and their acolytes. They aren’t wrong. Plenty of us anarchists, actual communists, and actual Marxists abhor what Lenin and Stalin did. How much they actually set back actual Marxism or communism. And how much we have to constantly, repeatedly denounce and distance ourselves from them. Even as they are often used to collectively smear us.

There’s nothing wrong with reading theory. I just wish that capitalists or those still clinging to Leninism/Stalinism/Maoism would think critically about both of these failed theories.

Agreed. But a start is a start. More of this please!

While I’d personally love to see an open color lazer printer more. (Less wasteful and more rugged) This is still fantastic! It’s always been a saying of mine that modern printers are the torture devices of our time. This could go a long long way to right a lot of these wrongs. I will definitely have to check this out.