Long term computer programmer, making my own library. American based. Far left politically. Politics centered around promoting use of paper ballots. Follows news about environmental collapse, political corruption in my country, human rights, science and tech.

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  • While I can easily imagine the USA splitting up, the fascists are in every community though.

    I like the quote from Sontag

    10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction. / Susan Sontag

    The problem with avoiding the fascists is that they are always everywhere at a low percentage; and a good society requires the equally low percentage of decent persons to convince the vast majority of people to not go rogue.

    This requires good governance in local areas; and that is a finicky thing indeed. If the USA splits up, who knows how that goes? I would not put money on any region being bad or good in two generations


  • Yes, it’s not hard for a full stack developer to make. Probably a thousand people already in the fediverse can, including me.

    But it cannot be hosted on USA controlled servers, and the developers need to find a way to be anonymous to USA offices

    Edit: also some other issues. Cannot put it as an onion service because most people in the USA do not use tor. This means regular domain.

    • register domain where cannot be seized
    • server must be load balanced or using something like kubernetes
    • heavy traffic costs money , how to pay bills without crossing USA banking system? And cannot expose payers or contributors
    • where to host?

    many people can build it, but most of us have no clue to the obstacles


  • Thunderbird I use each day on my Linux desktop. It’s ok, better than the others I tried.

    I have different email addresses I manage.

    There are probably dozens of ways to create a non Gmail email, depending on your tech level with domains.

    If you want a custom domain, just purchase one at any domain seller. Example liner.me , limer.name etc, there are dozens of things you can choose from and will cost very little to a lot depending on your choice.

    Then once you have that , most of the major domain providers offer email service without getting complicated. Or, you can go next level and take your new domain to one of many email companies where they hook you up. Or, you can do this yourself.







  • The Democratic Party shares equal blame. I think my more recent posts the last few years criticizes them without mentioning the Republicans because when trying reform sinners one does not try to save the devil too.

    But all my issues with them are moot if most of the country uses private companies to decide primaries and elections without oversight. And when most of the population have no issues with any of that.

    But like a little child I still hoped, and offered advice and tried to educate. Now, the time for such things are done.

    I’m pretty sure the democrats will win by a landslide next year, and there may even be a democratic president, but it will not change facts on the ground. It’s going to be a bad next few decades


  • For me, this was inevitable so can only shrug.

    Personally I would like a revolution resembling Ukraine, but not possible. And even if there were, most of the population does not understand democracy needs paper ballots counted properly, with recounts. So any revolution will ultimately be more of the same later.

    Some countries are simply not cut out for democracy, and I am grateful things as less bad than I imaged. At least there are no official death camps in this bill.

    I can only sigh and hope to keep out of political prison for a few more years ; but realistically will probably be arrested this or next year trying to protect neighbors .




  • So, I’m just sort of typing without thinking about it much. But Trump will never step down, it’s an impossible demand, but it’s incendiary enough for orange face to not ignore it. This remains in the press cycle because it’s personal to him, there will be constant agitation by police and agencies against the protesters who just stay or regroup.

    Assuming the original protesters stay the course, this will attract more and more participants because Trump himself, and the gop, will keep it in the news.

    This is a positive growth cycle; eventually the demand will be the entire White House vacate when there enough protestors, and it’s now a revolution, peaceful it may be