"i hate how the current system is, i see some other guys have something that doesnt have these issues, what the other system needs to do is make their system exactly like my current, so that I dont need to spend ANY effort myself"
The normies are what makes Microslop money, though. We need to get the normies onboard in order to fight MS' stranglehold on computing. Gatekeeping isn't the right move here.
I can't delete my comment now, but I think you're right. I don't consider "take it or leave it" to be gatekeeping, but when the world's biggest corporations pose a threat to software liberty, distros becoming more palatable to average users is strictly a good thing.
Not that I'm even involved with distro development anyway. Probably would've been better to let the real OS engineers have the discussion on that one.
Agreed. Every single user that stops using Microslop products and embraces open computing environments is a net win for software freedom. And I want open/free/libre software to succeed.
I wonder if we know enough about any of these systems to make such claims. This is all predicated on the fact that this tool will be in widespread use. If it is somehow widely used beyond the folks who have seen it at the top of HN, won't the big firms have countermeasures, ready to deploy?
I often contemplate whether our modern data storage techniques are inscribing us into a forthcoming dark age. Will data archaeologists 3,000 years from now know what to do with these blocks of glass? What is the probability that this storage medium lasts as long as the claim?
What ideas truly endure a span of 100,000 years? If every fragment of human knowledge is worth preserving, shouldn’t we have devised a pertinent storage method at some point within the last 300,000 years? What makes this moment in time so exceptional that we are now endeavoring to preserve its information at a depth and beyond a lifespan any human can fathom?
In spite of these questions, I am in favor of this endeavor. It's exhilarating to think that we possess the technology to secure our data for thousands of years to come. This could well be a pathway for humanity to unify around a project that imparts enduring significance to our collective intellect.
Nonetheless, the challenge of dependable communication with the future remains. How will our efforts be perceived by future groups? How do we ensure that there is an instruction manual that will prevent our data archives from only having the property of a block of glass to future agents?
Should we start a new data storage religion? Religion seems to be a durable source of information survival, but I'm limited to examples within recorded history, which is only a few thousand years. This could be my own eon's bias, but if something's written and it's durable, people in the future will lose their shit when they find it, even if it's a shopping list. idk store the glass in animal skin inscribed with metallic ink in a universal human language that's durable throughout time & bury it under a conspicuous mountain in the Atacama.
"Had he waited half a year he probably could have gotten a $10 billion discount"
It's Twitter, so it had to have been bought by impulse. If there was only a way to parlay that impulsiveness into a profitable product.
I’m confused when people talk about this. If he had waited a year, wouldn’t the price of the stock he sold to pay for Twitter also have gone down? And the interest rate on the loans he got would have gone up? Curious if anyone has done a second order analysis on the purchase timing.
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