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I don’t even think that’s trolling. If done well with listening to and responding compassionately to people, it might even be productive.

Now this is one of the most interesting things I’ve read in the UI space in a while. It’s particularly interesting that the author calls out theming and accessibility as high level concerns.

Because there are a multitude of clients that work with it. it’s open. It’s not a walled garden. You aren’t stuck in yet another horrid browser app.

Also for some purposes the lack of history can be an advantage. For a channel that’s real-time social interaction, people coming and going and only having access to the things that happened when they were there can be a positive.

It’s more a rhetorical device.

It invokes a Manichean world of the Good People vs. the Eeeeeeeeeeeevil Elites.

But it’s effectively content-free. The People and The Elites are just convenient containers for the speaker to pour the things they support and oppose into, and who gets to be ‘the people’ depends on who they’re trying to attract.

‘Cloud Storage’ is a bit underspecified. What are your use-cases, specifically?

Linode actually has a ‘cloud storage’ offering based on the Free ‘ceph’ distributed storage system’s implementation of S3.

I’m personally very fond of rsync.net, which you can access via scp/sftp.

They should cooperate with national governments in matters of information security (you know, reporting vulnerabilities and getting fixes out.)

They should not cooperate with signals intelligence unless legally compelled. There should be none of this ‘voluntary cooperation with the authorities’ nonsense. It subverts the entire idea of protection from search and seizure.

I liked Voyage to Arcturus. It’s early Sci-Fi, with the alien planet more as a vehicle for the author’s Gnostic thoughts than an attempt to build a coherent world.

The Coldfire Trilogy! I’m not sure if I like it so far. It hasn’t really grabbed me, but I’m giving it a chance to see if it does.