CanadaPlus

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[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 2 points 1 year ago

Absolutely not. Demographic data shows it's shit, income distribution data is best explained by a random walk process (neat graphic explainer here), and all the data on startups and investing show that there's no free lunch; capitalism actually does ensure everything gives the same steady return on average.

Every rich person won some sort of lottery. Even the bona-fide engineers are never the only ones that could have invented whatever thing - as technical person myself.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 2 points 1 year ago

Apparently they at least tried.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm guessing nobody checks anything at this point. They hear a rumour, they bomb it. And, of course, there's going to be a small but significant number of people on the Israeli side fabricating rumours whole-cloth.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 2 points 1 year ago

Honestly the less rights parents have the better, IMO. They need certain rights just to operate but man, some of them are very shit people.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm told it might be a 18.x issue.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I take it all the important stuff stays in America, though. There's a chance you couldn't even tell I'm Canadian if you met me, but there's still senior devs earning 60k up here.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

In every country but the US, really. Someday, big tech companies will realise that a person in any other Western country can code just as well for half the price, but for now they won't even consider it cause 'Murica.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It should be possible, right? It's not like we've gotten worse at coding. All the bloat is a function of people not caring, and to some degree different requirements.

I should check if lemmy.sdf.org is back online. Retrocomputing would love this.

Mentioning @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org, so I can find this easier.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hmm. Apparently there's some kind of federation issue. Good to know it works, though!

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did you get something back?

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lol, I'm already up and running. It's pretty good, and I can actually use my mouse with it in bash. Protip, it seems very important to use the right window size. It's good enough to do a lot of normal browsing, but openstreetmap understandably had broken controls. The only local issue is that I can't see what I'm entering into the URL bar.

It's also designed to run distributed, so you can use shitty bandwidth between a rendering machine and the display machine. I should try fitting it into a radio channel or phone connection or something, haha. I also wonder if it could be adapted to work with Tor Browser.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 1 points 1 year ago

Really? Is it open source, or are we just going by reputation of the developers?

I actually don't know much about the kernel they use, I was really just trying to emphasise the level of trust you put in your OS.

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