Socialists are well-intentioned. They think that sharing is so great (which it is), that they want force everyone to share (and get along as a result). The problem is that once you force people, it’s not sharing but theft, so the result can never be everyone getting along because someone is always stealing from someone else.

There are two kinds of people: Those who understand money, and the poor.

The over centralization of computing to a few cloud providers is anti-fragile and a major #cybersecurity problem:

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I think the future will be localization of data back to owners but with cloud services connecting to it:

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I also think that #freedom tech (#btc, nostr, #simplex) commoditized in the form of nodes (like #umbrel and #startos) and other containerized workload hosts will be the model and/or fabric for a new hybrid of centralized, decentralized, and cloud/hosted computing that could actually simplify IT from the complexity of today’s approach.

SPL is inferior to KQL Splunk query language, SPL, is a giant turd. To properly use use it you must know how Splunk works, so it’s shit as an abstraction layer. With KQL it’s all in the query language. If you know it, you know it.

Keyboard mouse and monitor computing still has unique and fun experiences for learning #stem and forever-relevant skills. I installed a #debian 12 (cinnamon) #linux box and helped the #kids get their first ever user accounts setup on it. They were so excited. I showed the 11 year old girl how, in libreoffice draw, to insert a (heart) shape, fill it with color, and modify the edge line color/style and she’s off and running from there making signs and posters. The 9 year old girl chose a cheetah picture as her desktop. She runs like one so that makes sense. She started with the simple games like mines and had a blast. The 6 year old boy loves his spider man background image and firefox bookmark to fgteev… he wanted his password to be “the” 🤣 so I already had to put on my cybersecurity engineer hat to explain it needs to be longer and probably add his favorite number too. The 3 year old boy is probably a bit too young still, so for now he’ll just keep winning gp’s in mario kart on 50cc

Re-built my rpi from #umbrel to #startos #start9 because I wanted the greater control in the ui. Bitcoin Core is looking like about a week to sync. Is that inline with what others are seeing?