Clean machinery last longer.

If you want to do something do something. Others have shown how easy actually is if you are really willing to.

If not, saturating everyone head with bad news is not healthy for anyone.

I have this book. It’s a few Kb in size and I have already seed Gb of it. It has an insane ratio. I think I will never delete that torrent.

My kindle have not been connected to the internet since 2015.

If just for reading ereader is much easier on the eyes and amazing battery life. Completely different products I think.

It also has a Firefox extension that add download and subscribe buttons for Tubearchivist directly on youtube website.

Yesh numbers can be easily manipulated.

Netflix is “sold” along other services. Here many internet companies bundle netflix in their plans.

They don’t need to be attractive to the consumer. They just need to do a deal behind curtains with other companies and force Netflix on people by other ways. Numbers go up.

Of course.

http://alia.gob.es/eng/

Not pirated. But my country, Spain, released an open AI model completely for free. Everything is open. The training data the models and everything. It’s supposedly ethically trained with open data(I have not personally dig in the training data but it’s there published).

It’s focused on spanish and regional languages of spain. But I think it can also do things in English.

Not piracy per se, as it’s completely legal. But there’s something you don’t depend on any bussiness to run.

It could be different.

I’ve been thinking a long time. And I think it may be one scenario where a public ledger would actually make sense, aka a blockchain.

Instead of economic transaction, votes are casted. It could be anonymous using one way pseudonyms for the public key. So the caster may be able to verify at any point that their vote was correctly casted, but no one could know who the caster is. The signature keys could be issued by the government same as it’s already done in most european countries with digital signatures.

The ledger would be public and anyone could be able to verify the votes in a similar manner as most cryptocurrencies.

I really think there is not a technological barrier here. It’s not only more democratic but probably safer that the current way of casting votes. As it could be proven at any point that all votes are casted and valid without interference, no moron could say that “election was stolen” because it could be proven that it was not.

And with the idea of “permanent open polls” would mean that even if somehow your vote was stolen, you could just change it again. So any malevolent actor should need an insanely amount of work to keep constantly tampering election results (while nowadays the malevolent actor only need to tamper one election and their work is done for years).

People don’t vote because why bother.

You vote a representative that says “I will do this” and then they don’t do it. Representatives lie. And you can’t do anything about it within the current political system.

Or even if they don’t lie, nobody agree 100% with a representative. You may agree in some topics but disagree in others. And having to vote for something you don’t want to happen is very frustrating and many people don’t vote because of that.

We need a system where popular vote can make decisions directly.

The elections we have nowadays are already manipulated that way, so there is not a change on that regard.

People should not need to vote on every issue, you should be able to still delegate on a representative. But if on some things you don’t agree with your representative you should be able to vote it by your own way.

I remember a proposal someone made a long time ago. About a voting system where every delegate have a “power of vote” and by default is 100% percent. But whenever a voting is made in a representative chamber the vote is also open online. And people’s vote would rest value from the representatives votes. So if it’s a matter where a lot of people cares and vote directly the people’s vote would decide. If people don’t care and don’t vote the representatives vote would have more power and they would decide.

I thought it was very interesting.

Why not. A good system should be one that it’s easy and cheap to put a vote out. If the voting you put on its ridiculous, people simply wont vote it and that’s it

It’s not like that doesn’t existe now. I don’t know in the US, but in most european countries and in the european union itself people can try to raise a vote on anything, they just have to be backed up by X number of people.

Just make that easier, 100% online, and instead of sparking a debate of representatives, if the thing had enough support an online referendum is held and if people vote hes it automatically become law.

I don’t really see an issue.

We don’t have this already only for one reason. The people that would need to allow this (the representatives) would be the ones that would be jobless and powerless if direct democracy where to be implemented, so they won’t.

I’ve been thinking about this concept for quite a long time now.

4 years election cicles had sense in the XVIII century when the fastest way of communicating was letter delivered by horse.

But with internet it makes no sense that old fashioned system.

Forget about elections every 4 years, forget about having an official month of political campaigns that decide the fate of the country for 4 years, and the 4 years of the president doing whatever they want without consequences.

We have the technology to make a direct democracy. Every citizen should be able to vote on any issue or who is their representative at any point of time.

There is this bug in TIC-80.

When running the wasm version on firefox it has very bad framerate.

So as many before me I pulled my sleeved and opened the firefox profiler to see what’s going on. Well, the framerate has never been better. As soon as you turn off the profiler the framerate drops.

I thought I was going insane, until I saw that other people luckily found the same behavior. For now, the unofficial fix is opening the firefox profiler when playing on firefox.

Buying a 16 TB hard drive for… purposes.

I2p is not a more efficient file sharing protocol.

You may be thinking about ipfs, which is a file sharing protocol, but I wouldn’t say that is more efficient than bittorrent afaik.

Boardgames I found a discord room.ñ, it’s about the “boardgame engine videogame” but they post assets of real boardgames.

RPGs, there’s a Telegram group with a name like this mineral.

B&w around 2-3 cents/page, depends on the amount of ink coverage.

Then binding is free where I do it, and shipping cost. Maybe 5-10€ depending number of pages. I did like a bunch of books at once to reduce shipping.

Boardgames.

I am still to actually print them. But I have the files.

RPG books. These I actually have them printed.