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See, even Calvin knew junk patents were bad! :P

Well that could be considered the point where we lost our innocence, yeah. :(

Good point. On that note I am very happy having moved my home server from Apache to Caddy. The auto cert config is very nice.

More the latter :) ... if only we could all just get along and be nicer to each other. Sigh.

Oh, definitely rose-coloured, but I am thinking even before those days... like when access to Usenet was restricted to colleges and universities, dial-up BBSes ... and I didn't use Windows or MacOS at all back then. ActiveX and js didn't even exist back then. Boot-sector floppy viruses did, but those were easy to guard against.

Neat, saw this just after I posted to the thread. Gonna bookmark this!

I've heard Chromebooks are such a pain to put alternative OSes on due to their BIOs. Are there efforts to just reflash these things so they aren't beholden to Alphabet? That would be the most libre-resistance move: "Un-Chrome" the device permanently.

Hmm as I was typing this I did a quick search: https://libreboot.org/docs/install/chromebooks.html

...but that's only for ARM Chromebooks.

Oh, I'm really just pining for the days before the 'Eternal September', I suppose. We can't go back, I know. :/

This seems like a good idea.

I think it would be a good thing for there to be a class in elementary or middle-school, one entire semester, devoted just to reviewing the 'zeitgeist' of everyday technology from just before the Industrial Revolution to present-day. So kids could learn at a very high-level what people did each day in order to communicate with each other; what media was used by society; what terms they might hear referred to by their parents and grandparents... for example:

• origins of communication -- smoke signals to telegraph to telecommunications
• methods of data storage -- stone tablets, khuipu, papyrus/paper, punched-card/tape, magnetic tape, hard discs, solid-state/flash ...
• origins of photography, film, videotape and the various formats used to-date
• Media distribution: courier, newspapers, books, microfiche, radio, TV, early internet (RealPlayer, Flash), ...
• origins of computing, tabulating, touch on WWII and the origin of digital computing, then origins of the Internet

Just showing a video clip of how some of the older technologies worked would help youth understand what was going on and the meaning of many terms.

The details wouldn't need to get very deep, but it would really help to just see how things have changed, and where key terms in our language came from, and a sense of how the speed of knowledge and communications have changed over the ages and even within their parents' lifetimes. Something to give them a perspective on just how different their life so far has been from the generations before.

I'm basically reiterating a lot (but not all) of what was in the History of Computation class in University, but this would be a much, much simpler curriculum aimed at middle-schoolers.

So what's the floor here realistically, are they going to lower it to 30 days, then 14, then 2, then 1? Will we need to log in every morning and expect to refresh every damn site cert we connect to soon?

It is ignoring the elephant in the room -- the central root CA system. What if that is ever compromised?

Certificate pinning was a good idea IMO, giving end-users control over trust without these top-down mandated cert update schedules. Don't get me wrong, LetsEncrypt has done and is doing a great service within the current infrastructure we have, but ...

I kind of wish we could just partition the entire internet into the current "commercial public internet" and a new (old, redux) "hobbyist private internet" where we didn't have to assume every single god-damned connection was a hostile entity. I miss the comraderie, the shared vibe, the trust. Yeah I'm old.

A conditional "Yay!" to Costco. They're a big corp, but in comparison with the others these days, one of the most sane and least worker-hostile. At least last I heard, they had very good worker health-care and pension plans. And they still hadn't increased the price of that hot dog. I don't have a membership but the hot dogs still call to me....

I have no idea how ethically-sourced their inventory is though. Probably not better than the others, but I'll take what I can get for wins in this era.

I have a script that watches apache or caddy logs for poison link hits and a set of bot user agents, adding IPs to an ipset blacklist, blocking with iptables. I should polish it up for others to try. My list of unique IPs is well over 10k in just a few days.

git repos seem to be real bait for these damn AI scrapers.

If planning on being a serial killer, run a barber shop or something where literally thousands of people leave their DNA on-site, and your DNA is on literally thousands of other people.

At some point we'll just have to tunnel IP over DNS, and then they can't block traffic without destroying the entire internet. Not that it'll dissuade them.

I know, I know it would not be simple or necessarily beneficial in the short-term or maybe even the long-term. However, I'm tired of corporations being given all the rights of people, but never being treated like people in the legal system.

A person skips a mandatory court appearance, or fails to comply with a court order? Contempt charges, and jail until they comply. We need to do the equivalent to corporations.

Corporate equivalent? I dunno -- freeze their assets immediately and embargo all sales activity until they comply.

No problem, boot them out of the country and nationalize their factories. About time Canada took charge of car production and reduced its reliance on the USA and crappy multi-national car makers.

Hall and Oates, "Out of Touch".

This just shows that Valve/Steam is way too powerful in games distribution. Another example of over-centralization in our modern world. My initial thought of course was "just move to itch.io or something", but they claim no one will give them investment funds to develop games unless they can be on Steam, which is just insane.

Yeah, hard pass. Don't let an OS which has a walled-garden by default for apps get a toe in the door. Android is based in Linux, use that instead.