That’s why Seagate is the last word in the title.

You’d go broke. Of course it’s all Linux, family archives and DNA test data, BTC blockchain, backed up FOSS projects, archives of Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg and OpenStreetMap, and of course - POVRay renders.

I think both.

Danger in that world was on the sidewalks and unintended. Danger in this world is on the main pathways the most, and intended by its administrators.

Edgy vibes of that time seemed more like when you reinforce your right to call a president of your country a little removed. Or like how it wasn’t traditionally welcomed to physically punish kids in many cultures in the Caucasus - because teaching fear of punishment also piggybacks teaching fear of enemy. BTW, this was also a principle in Dragomirov’s writings on how teaching should be done in the military ; his approaches to actual warfare were kinda archaic even in his own time (basically “straight at them” bayonet shock attacks), but the parts on didactics are good.

The pop music I hated then and hate now.

So yes.

No, the kit was for PS2, PS3 could run distributions intended for it without modifications, I think (maybe with some firmware changes), but those were by enthusiasts, while the PS2 Linux was provided by Sony.

I first got into programming via Basic on the ZX Spectrum, and I do worry how future generations will get into it now they’ve all gone back to phones instead of PCs.

Maybe the future generations will realize the difference between “can” and “should”, and there’ll arrive a niche for simpler PCs. I hope.

Funny, I miss that exactly. The feeling of spring\summer air and the fragrance of jasmine\lilac\linden\freshly mowed grass and the clouds, and ICQ animations with cats scratching your screen and “hasta la vista baby” and all that, and the Web when it was actually hypertext on hundreds of pages hand-crafted all with real people.

And yeah, going to friends to play Tekken, and them coming to play SW: RotS. Watching “A Nightmare on Elm Street” in a summer camp. Older girls watching “Charmed”.

It also looked so cool and, a rumor had it, could run Linux (it could, but only the fat models and with a hard drive sold separately as part of a kit, and only a specific kind of Linux with Sony’s patches, and slowly as hell, but)

I thought “gnostic vibe”, but yes.

It’s not always true, but generally copyright violations are in the tail of the priorities’ list.

If the Russian alternative to GFW happens (apparently they are building that, but it isn’t satisfactory yet), I think the problem will resolve itself.

The irony.

Close down the shop you mean? Can you do Russia too? I think I’ve even heard state TV use Babylon V soundtracks once.

mean, they’re too sides of the same coin. Authority capitalizes on bigotry (and division, more broadly) to avoid accountability.

Not really, it seems sane, but not always true. Bigotry should be replaced with xenophobia. A phobia of any other group or opinion or anything you haven’t accepted before.

That is - when you call someone a bigot (suppose they are certainly a bigot, a confident Nazi) with the meaning that you don’t have to conduct yourself honorably with them, as if they were guilty just by association, you are likely doing same amount or more of xenophobia than that bigot.

So - EU and USA have plenty of xenophobia which doesn’t fit into their narrow ideas of bigotry. Much more than Japan or any East Asian country, in my subjective feeling.

And, if you have met some real-life nationalists, they might be pretty tolerant people in the sense of xenophobia. Having some idea of society they want to build, but no hate, hostility and dehumanization against you (suppose you are of a different ethnicity). They usually have a project of what the nation looks like, not a cleansing rage.

Those are a really distasteful association, but some of the “separate but equal” types I’ve met were like this too.

In general, the western idea of bigotry has lost its meaning completely. It started with Voltaire, Christian love, openness of mind and preference for resolving conflicts peacefully and with dignity.

Now there are lots of arrogant apes thinking they are enlightened people, sorting everyone around into groups by markers and deeming some unworthy of understanding, attention or honorable conduct. There’s literally nothing in them of the philosophical traditions of liberalism and humanism they pretend to follow.

That’s not what an enlightened human is. And since most people wouldn’t even understand what I said here, I’d say the civilization we took for the final step before some heaven in the 00s is over.

And yes, this means that acceptance of bigotry is clearly good, if it means acceptance of all other similarly divergent ways of thought.

Yes, that thing can’t

be built without very complex production lines in place, that’s a good enough reason

. I want to live in a free and humanist world, which means that such technologies are more valuable.

It is. It replaces one’s own choices with a collective’s common “choice”, and that is usually substituted with most loud and ambitious people’s choice from inside the collective, or the voices that those from outside prefer to hear from it. Bad all around.

Mutual aid and brotherhood are not collectivism. The philosophy that a group of individuals can be regarded as a subject is, possibly without regard for the comprising individuals.

The only reason Japan isn’t in the same boat as America and Europe (yet, far-right parties are slowly rising in popularity) is that they never got on the immigration train, so their population is mostly homogenous and there are few things for bigots to complain about.

I think you’ve incorrectly guessed what I call honeypots.

It has nothing to do with bigotry and everything to do with unaccountable authority.

“Still has something appearing to be a democracy” is how the EU was described five years ago.

Perhaps. But I’m charmed by how they describe Japan as a nation where omnipresent surveillance is still not considered normal. This wasn’t the case with the EU 5 or 10 years ago.

Fax is an analog system that can be built without very complex production lines in place, that’s a good enough reason.

Look at right now and consider that Japan still has something appearing to be a democracy. USA and the EU are in the “trade and denial” phase, countries like Russia and Turkey - the obvious, LOL.

That’s because Japan isn’t yet so compromised under the guise of progress.

And that’s very good. You need a newer and better technology for the same job, if it does the same job better. Not for a different job with new “wow effect component” baked in.

We use pencils, pens and writing paper still.

It wasn’t an option to have a “new and better” writing paper synchronizing all our records with some vault authoritative people have before. Now it is. Japan apparently has passed the test of people_not_ trying to move everything to that honeypot.

All hail Japan, can they please conquer us? Technically I live in a nearby country, except, eh, Moscow is kinda far from the far east …

Japanese people tend to make a big deal out of the “human touch,” especially when it comes to service, so I can see how companies aren’t jumping on to the hype. We’re also pretty slow to adopt change.

And that’s pretty cool, seems like a culture best suited for modern challenges.

I’ve heard\read there are many racist, paternalist, hierarchical and collectivist traits, but at the same time Japan apparently hasn’t hit those honeypots most of the humanity has.

Humans are apes desiring power, there’s no excuse under which you can give it to them. They’ll invent authority giving them right to judge you and think they are in the right.

Also why I absolutely despise the Silicon Valley - it’s many such people who think they are the elite now. I want that place detroited as soon as possible. Zuckerberg prosecuted for all the murders he’s committed (I’m certain there are plenty, a person with ASPD with such power just can’t be anything else) which are now unknown, Brin and other jerks playing “cooperating with legal elected authorities” while giving them something with no mandate whatsoever feeling themselves powerful - prosecuted for high treason, all these playing censorship and recommendation - prosecuted for scams on the scale of billions, yadda-yadda.

Cops saying this should be immediately sued for inciting hate or defamation or whatever against people who don’t want to be backdoored.

I have a right to not be surveilled, they don’t have a right to surveil me.

Anyway, I might all the time fly a weird trajectory between various ideologies, but they are all anarchist and Silicon Valley bosses are all thieves.

Yes, and that’s what I mean.

Representative democracy and bureaucracies are dying, IMHO. In the age of worldwide connectivity they only lead to mafia states.