Society will frame this as self-sacrifice. They won’t recognize that you’re trying to survive long-term. They’ll pretend blindly following commands would give you better chances of survival and health than a “refusal” that leads to 6 months of unemployment. They will sacrifice your health and well-being in the name of reframing what you’re doing, pretending you’re the one sacrificing your health and well-being to protest your choices not being exactly what you want, when you’re actually just trying to survive while offered choices that aren’t viable.

Or maybe you actually are intentionally protesting. Nothing wrong with that. But a lot of people aren’t

I’m not accepting the premise, that’s why I use nostr on the internet and actual library buildings off the internet.

But it is mandatory, whether that’s acceptable or not. Authorities in the US aren’t gonna suddenly change their mind when it’s your local librarian instead of the Internet Archive trying to run things differently from the corporations. The librarian needs better infrastructure to stand up to the authorities and break away from the corporate way

Then the libraries would have to pay for hosting, so they’d have to be the ones selling user data to advertisers and stuff. Hence the extra degree of separation / “plausible deniability”

If the hivemind cared about actual important priorities (instead of just the desire for low oil prices), then the Internet Archive would face more pressure to improve its infrastructure and the authorities would face more pressure to leave the Internet Archive tf alone.

Nostr can fix this someday

We also haven’t tried every possible configuration of atoms to see if anything creates a portal to an infinite energy dimension or a perpetual motion machine or something we can use to make our own stars

The sources are just people who know saying it, like me. The designers wouldn’t publicly admit it or anything.

Cell phone range is impacted by ground obstruction, the curvature of the earth itself getting in the way, atmospheric effects

The closest satellites are about 160km up, where a 3G transmitter can reach when it’s looking straight up with no Earth and less air in the way

The companies that designed the 3G standard and manufactured some of the phones also do military contracts for stuff like the radios in spy satellites, they knew what they were doing

It also stands out as intentional because making the range go beyond the curvature of the earth is just crippling infrastructure, wasting battery and putting millions of people in danger (can’t call 911 with a dead phone)

Lower-power devices with mesh networking would have made more sense with the powerful processors and high usage phones were getting by the middle of the 3G era, but the “cellular” design is much more convenient to monitor

The authorities are trying to crack down on user freedom to decide what software we can run on our own systems, especially on mobile devices. Later in the road map, this project should be trying to replace app stores. A large portion of GitHub users today are just downloading Android APK files, but that demographic will probably be an even higher percentage here. So the CLI will probably end up being for the power users, not most users.

If mainstream users are given an easy way to download before they’re given an easy way to seed, they’d make it hard for the network to distribute the load. So it seems important to start out beating Radicle’s desktop app with easier seeding, not let that be a weak point. This is also why I didn’t mention future mobile app plans sooner (desktop is inherently better for seeding)

There should be no built-in wallet functionality, just a built-in profile data field to enter wallet address links. A lot of Monero dev bounties call for the wallets to be built-in for ease of use, but I wanted to have that internal complexity avoided here by linking to external wallets.

I’ll have more bounties in the future and I was actually concerned about only having one place to post. Thanks for the tip 🤙

It’s definitely designed to be able to send signals to satellites, and there are satellites designed to pick up signals from devices that aren’t designed to reach them.

But, they can also just see where your car is going visually, and get any audio/video from inside with your phone that connects directly to cell towers, so you might be right that no satellite is actually ever spying on your car’s 3G modem.

I am glad the instance is back online after the outage this morning. Thank you for allowing instant sign ups 👍

Sure, in the prime timeline. But in the pocket universe alternate timeline where time travelers went and executed the perpetrators, I’d say the instructors’ concerns were addressed

There is precedent. Hitler was taken out by a pretty big fascism enabler

That’s awesome, reminds me of a common historic setup where cable cars were used kinda like that (heavier on the way down)

It could be an OK idea that just wasn’t explained right. Maybe he just wants regen braking but with one wheel for charging and the other wheel + separate battery for power at any given time. Energy would come from pedalling and hills. None of that was explained though

You can power lights or a phone charger with a dynamo connected to the wheel and minimally noticeable drag/resistance. You can recharge a drivetrain with regenerative braking which requires high end motors to use the motor like a dynamo

It’s not free energy, but there’s at least one bike called the Pi-Pop that works this way in order to spread the energy demand from hills across more distance for the rider. It’s an electric bike you can’t plug in, it only charges from moving

Cars are all spyware now but if you choose a bike to avoid that, the spyware in the cars will not be used to blame the person who kills you instead of blaming you for riding a bike

There is a tiny number of cars available (mainly certain years of Nissan Leaf afaik) from right when batteries were getting kinda good but this stuff wasn’t all added yet

I bet the authorities can still pick up the telemetry with satellites. Of course, they can also just see the car.

Wow, so we’re not even in the top 30 when you count tied countries

That works too