Awakened to the historical and contemporary socio-economic and political realities surrounding colonialist and native populations’ ruling classes’ manipulation, subjugation, and exploitation of marginalized peoples who were and are deemed as the “others”.

When did the Internet come to reflect society?

When it became ubiquitous to industrialized societies. 1995-ish, in my opinion.

Were we always distrusting mean and vindictive before the net?

Absolutely.

Are we really that bad?

Without a doubt.

“The world is far better and worse than you can possibly imagine.”

“You may have me at ‘better’, Dr. Sattler, but you can’t hold a candle to me on ‘worse’.”

• Contact, by Dr. Carl Sagan

I have to say, you have a very robust vocabulary.

I’ve heard it as, “Nothing will materially change until the plutocrats fear for their lives.”

The Origins of Virtue

by Matt Ridley

Ironically, luddites against space exploration in this era call for the dismantling of a titanic field of science that is both directly and indirectly responsible for the very device from which they shart out their oh-so-learned opinions to the rest of the world.

Follow Creators, Not Platforms

Ironically, due the nature of the language used in their complaint and its similarity to psychological operations conducted by COINTELPRO, @[email protected] seems “shallow and politically motivated”.

I agree with your sentiment, but I’m compelled to point out that their “billions” is in the valuation of the preferred shares of the corporations they control. If they were to sell to get their billions in cash, the value of their portfolio that analysts purport they have would plummet to pennies on the dollar and very quickly.

Billionaires take out loans using their appraised assets as collateral when they need a couple tens of hundreds of millions in cash.

These billionaires’ egos literally write checks their bodies can’t cash with tacit approval from the Fed and SEC.

Naturally, I could look it up, but what is Azure Linux?

Is it a fork of RHEL? Cloud Linux? FreeBSD?

Edit: Here it is.

In a similar approach to Fedora CoreOS, Azure Linux only has the basic packages needed to support and run containers. Common Linux tools are used to add packages and manage security updates. Updates are offered either as RPM packages or as complete disk images that can be deployed as needed. Using RPM allows adding custom packages to a base Azure Linux image to support additional features and services as needed. Notable features include an iptables-based firewall, support for signed updates, and a hardened kernel.

I talk about participation in another comment, coincidentally.

The “political class” of an anarchical state as I’ve described would be rotational.

We in the United States have “Jury Duty”, where the average citizen is required by law to be selected to be part of a “jury of peers” on legal cases if the defendant exercises their right to a trial by jury.

Jurors can be struck down (relieved of their duty) for many reasons in the jury selection phase by attorneys, the judge, or submitting documentation on why they can’t perform their duty.

A corollary compulsory service or duty could be applied to the positions in the three branches of government we have in our current constitutional structure.

We would effectively shift from being a constitutional federal republic (on paper; in practice, the current form of government is a plutocracy) to a constitutional aleatory republic. We would have representative governance, but they’d be subject to review, competency approval, and votes of confidence.

One could also imagine ranked-choice voting and mandatory direct referendums regarding crucial policy decisions. Lobbyists must present their legal proposals to jurist-representatives and the general public, mitigating the efficacy of monetary influence in political speech and advertising.

Taking the definition at its etymological root, all anarchy means is “without rule”.

In my head-canon, that doesn’t necessarily mean the lack of laws, state, institutions or governance; the implication is that there are no citizens or individuals with permanently elevated authority in the polity of government. Without rulers.

Many, of course, disagree with this mostly on the basis of practicality, but I’d like to think it’s another way to describe the concept of “No gods, no kings, no masters, no slaves.”

Is everyone in commercial software development finally saying, “Fuck it, we’ll run the shit ourselves”?

I’m an infrastructure and devops noob here; take my words with a grain of salt.

I need GPU clusters with ECC VRAM for research and found it’s cheaper to just have my own high-ish performance compute in my own office I paid for once than pay AWS/Azure/GCS/etc forever or at least everytime I want to train a custom DNN model. Sometimes I use Linode but it’s for monitoring. But I can run shit at will and I have data sovereignty.

Has the paradigm shifted back to developing and serving things in-house now that big tech vendor-lock/tie-ins have so many dark patterns that scalability isn’t cost-effective with them? Or is it just my own pipe dream?