This is the point we disagree.

Small pockets of freedom can help, this won’t solve the global crisis, but will provide for the communities^[1] the needed force. Also, this can help groups to better organize and waste the least amount of money, effort and mind these.

Doing nothing right now will not change anything, and doing anything, even the small actions is the starting point for the next thing.

I’ll use myself as example, even knowing that this isn’t the perfect one, I started with the homelab because Amazon stole something from me, and I decided the that was enough. Now I can see that the hardware is cheap^[2], software is pretty much everywhere, federated or open-sourced (even better if it’s AGPL) and the next point is increase the range, for the smaller groups of people around the house, expanding for the neighbors to embark in this.

Sadly the post isn’t about this.
I do discuss the work-life balance, the egregious ways that big tech and major companies robs people from their lives. My focus is to provide a bigger area for the “federated way”, even knowing that using this term is already wrong…

But I mostly agree with you, just can’t see how coop will solve the deeper structural problems, will solve some of the problems, not all of the problems.

I couldnt have said this better.

I have never heard of NymVPN… and I’m impressed (I’m using a similar type of VPN), it’s interesting to see that more and more people are moving to the decentralized networks.

The crypto acceptance if a wierd point, since crypto for me is always a scam until it’s not. So the moment I saw the crypto thing I was like: “ohhh nice, another scam…”, but it’s closer to the freedom of nation option instead of the scam attempt.

But this is still a centralized thing, what I want is the Onion routing, but people invested in this should have a better degree of control, instead of pure anonymous users. But this is the tug of war in this (privacy vs control), the more private it is, the less control you have over it, and, to be honest I don’t know which point would be the best in this scale.

This is yet another solution for the money problem, but my focus isn’t on the money, but on the “who actually have a say” on the direction, and focus.

For sure, I would prefer national money over venture capital every day of the week, and twice on Sunday, but the problem is on the governance and not on the economics.

What is your definition of “free live”?

Almost the point, I don’t want to fragment a system, I want to federate then. Make more people using the system, focus on the protocol and make the system better. For example, Piefed, I’m writing this on a alternative face of the system, but because this is a federated, I don’t need to use the official front. At the same time, I focus on the showing the system for more people around me, and expanding it’s userbase (and money, but I was focus on the human instead of the money).

Federation, on my view is part of the solution. But right now the federated apps are solving a limited amount of problems, mostly connected to the social media, and social networks. The moment this moves from these domains to other like an ERP, or maybe a medical backoffice for general clinics, this is the point where the real gain can be seen, but this is (right now), pure utopia and dreams from my own head.

Totally. I started reading on the topic few months ago and got hooked in. It is close to the self-host, I would say this is the “next step”…

Why not solve the gun problem?

While the fine is just as “slap in the wrist”, nothing will change.

I would disagree with you. But I don’t have the time or mental capacity to discuss on the topic.

I decided to look who is the author. He is a fucking “ex-Instagram” engineer, already a shitty thing, he loves subscription while holding a company that benefits from this type of source. Again shitty. While he centralizes in him (and probably fucking some federated options), instead of focusing on the federated approach. Like usual from an imperialist and bulshitter, he does have something to sell with this post. Shitty person.

This is one of the worst articles I’ve ever read. The author’s level of stupidity makes me regret the time I spent reading it.

He’s so deeply entrenched in his own ignorance that he can’t see the signs of the broken system, the concentration of wealth, the erosion of privacy, and the loss of control over our data. Of course, he also overlooks piracy.

His errors are so numerous and profound that any attempt to engage in a meaningful discussion would require him to come out of his stupor.

Thanks for the reading, the original post was somewhat unhinged. It was a very long debugging session for the alpha thing, the AI tooling weren’t helping. And I was losing my mind over my morning coffee. But I fixed the little details.

I think the reality of the AI tooling for coding fall in the “middle”, it isn’t the 10x or 100x described by people, it’s closer to a 10%~15% performance increase in my humble view. With some better harness (like the PI that I discovered) I think this can be sightly better, but far from the 50%. I would say that if the increase in productivity decays over time, the amount of code generated I had to refactor and clean for most of the week.

But for sure the Claude was a huge disappointment, very bad quality for it’s price, and super slow for the needs of a “start up mindset”, let’s put in this way.