knightly

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[–] knightly@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Bittorrent is best for static data, building it into a p2p social media protocol would be pretty hacky and would scale poorly unless it was only used for sharing media content.

What you're looking for is a friend-2-friend network with onion routing, that way you only connect directly to people you trust and messages for others get passed along to the recipient through the f2f network.

[–] knightly@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Such things already exist, but I can't get anyone to try out Retroshare ( http://retroshare.cc/ ) with me because it isn't modern, polished, effortless, and mobile like corporate media.

[–] knightly@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's not "less traceable", bitcoin is a public ledger, literally every transaction is documented on the blockchain for anyone and the IRS to see.

[–] knightly@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago

Site reliability engineer here, your application is both alive and dead until the monitoring server pings its health status API.

[–] knightly@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Eh, I haven't seen a set of neopronouns that seems like it'd start catching on with non-queer folks. Singular "they" is still controversial among prescriptivists and it's over 500 years old at this point.

[–] knightly@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago

Came to make a similar comment.

My enby gender dysphoria manifested at puberty as a constant mild depression and I just lived with it for 20 years 'til I found out that hormone treatment can be just as effective for enbys like me as it is for binary trans folks.

Over a year on HRT and I now regularly experience happiness even without any obvious trigger. My baseline mood has improved so much that literally all my friends and family have noticed and commented on it.

I obviously can't say that this will work for everyone, but I hope my experience will be helpful for any enby eggs out there who haven't considered transitioning because "hormone therapy is for trans people". I let that line of thought keep me from the joy of becoming myself for far too long.

[–] knightly@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I wish there were decent neopronouns for enbys.

[–] knightly@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago

Doesn't look like anything to me.

[–] knightly@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

The article suggests microwatt levels of continuous output.

Good enough for IoT devices, low power radio transponders, and the like.

[–] knightly@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It doesn't read like a professional hit to me, more like a vendetta by someone with a background in the military, intelligence, or organized crime.

A professional hitman wouldn't use subsonic 9mm on an unmodified glock. They'd pick a .45 and mod the gun to cycle properly on -P ammo.

[–] knightly@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago

What rational person would willingly become the CEO of a health insurance company? Every denial of coverage might incur such a vendetta.

Ditto the addictive or wildly expensive proprietary pharmaceuticals. I'm genuinely surprised that it's almost 2025 and we're just now getting to the corporate assassinations phase of our cyberpunk distopian timeline.

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