No way. Impossible. Of course convenience never has a price tag.

/s for typical users of today’s Web

I mean, neither does the Web by now.

AI stands for Ambitious Indian

(Just plagiarizing the joke about that company that went bankrupt)

You’d have good games and no bullshit on your PC.

It’s an easy proxy.

That’ll be really slow.

Except it’s fucking awful to wait for buffering over Tor or a VPN

BTW, who even had the brilliant idea to block pr0n for French of all people?

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.

I think they have already switched and went back at some point?

Encryption is easy, safe key exchange and extension (or whatever it’s called) for messages longer than the key is harder to make right. If every pair of people on the planet had a common ethereal endless source of entropy, then all they’d have to do is encrypt messages with it and provide address in that source.

OK, I should go offline for some time

Frankly movement is all that matters. Too deregulated looks like cryptocurrencies, too regulated looks like PSTN which every phreaker could own, because it relied upon laws for its defense, not technical robustness.

There’s no system that remains working when just kept standing, all that matters is that we can quickly rebuild any part of it. Which is why modern legal systems and modern Web suck so much, they’ve lost that trait.

I like GNU Taler, and I would like there to exist not just such a payment system, but also an electronic currency system without blockchains (global synchronization is a pain), unfortunately currencies are not like most applications.

I also wrote two smartass paragraphs completely wrong after this, and now thinking about it - Taler is as good a solution as possible. It’s basically what can be done. You can’t decentralize an issuer or a bank, except for the BTC way. If you can, then you can’t plug it in seamlessly , you need some synchronization (would be a shame if a failed transaction made it into Taler as passed).

If I understand that correctly.

Gosh. It’s year 2025, I’ve achieved nothing. I was blabbering on these subjects in year 2011! I’ll be 29 in less than a month. But so cool that someone is making the humanity better.

That happens to every currency, BTC is more volatile than many, but things can be priced.

Also until twiddling is made illegal, prices can be set by some other currency or some function, and be calculated in BTC from that, and displayed on electronic price tags for example.

A lot of scams are dependent on the presence of regulations.