I don’t give a shit about the political views of the creator of the software i use. I use Omarchy, i use Brave… it works great.

This is the point. About twenty years ago when I first met this guy I thought I HAD to convince him to upgrade to something more modern because, well, “new is better” I guess. Luckily he declined my offers and stayed with this system.

Now, this man is for me what would call a living legend. He bought this system when the PET was brand new, state of the art tech and was perhaps the first veterinarian in a radius of 100 km with a computer. From this point on he wrote himself tons of software for his personal use, modified this software for changing circumstances (and still does so!) and kept this system running.

THAT is permacomputing!

Honestly, the very best i got from a client of mine, a veterinarian who is about 80, he runs his whole Praxis on a Commodore PET (i mean, its a natural choice for a veterinarian), which he bought somewhere around the time i was born. His reason: “I don’t need no Windows, i need no Linux or anything other than the computer i am accustomed to. It does what i need and it will do so till the day i die”.

Looks like Cloudflare has some problems, I cannot access multiple sites…

I don’t say it would MORALLY below him, quiet the contrary, but more from a skill level. Acting so obviously would be just amateurish.

Wouldn’t that be below somebody like Thiel? I mean, he is a professional and this seems a bit too much “amateurish”…

This has Robocop vibes…

I would also recommend wiby which caters to the really small and old parts of the net.

And THIS is the problem. How long is PGP / GPG around? I have vivid (and fond) memories of a time in the early 00s when we did encryption parties inviting normal people to help them install GPG and teach them how to encrypt their emails. And people came to these events! We had an event in a community centre where we did over 200 installs on laptops of “average Joes / Janes” in a single day.

But somehow, interest in private communication fizzled out over the last decade or so.

No, its not because in the end even the most noble goals will lead to tyranny and suffering when carried out by fanatics.

Do you think the biggest monsters in history started their day by thinking “Well, today I will make the world a little bit worse… hehehe”?

He is breaking Rust, so i would not be that sure…

Perhaps, if anything, i think the prompts for creating the song MAY be copyrightable.

I mean, the song is not BAD, but somewhat… generic, “beige” i would call it. Something that can play in the background in a shopping centre.

Weeelll… back in the “good old days” of the GDR there was even machinery for unnoticeable opening and resealing envelopes to spy on the population…

Yup, i personally own various 32 bit machines that are completely usable in daily driving but the steady decline of supported programs to run on them is forcing them into more “retro computing” roles. Honestly, its a shame…