Well, I personally have a soft spot for the gopher protocol and the community that formed around it… it’s in a way the better internet

The answer is: Military

At the moment Europe is very much dependent on the US if there is really a bigger conflict on the horizon, and i bet Trump did not hesitate to play this card.

I would prefer to have at least the 70 year olds who have a profound understanding of the technology they want to regulate…

Honestly? It is.

Getting a understanding of what you do is something that is moving towards “lost arts” territory regarding everything computer related. Yeah, you will not get the solution to your problem THAT FAST, but if you find out why the thing you want to do did not work and understand how to make it work you will benefit in the long run.

Did someone looked at the military capabilities of the EU compared to the US? No? It thought so…

If you are a vassal (and - at least for now - we, the EU are) its better to appease your lord. A docile ruler is easier to topple than one who fears you plan something funny…

Do “the stuff” on the server, only serve HTML. In my first job we build a whole webshop with very complex product configurators that would today even run perfectly fine in dillo.

JavaScript is needed to actually build anything useful

Tell this to the people who build things you would call today a “Webapp” with CGI written in C.

I am pretty sure we do the same on the US (at least i hope so), the bad thing on the US side was that they were cought (thanks to the Snowden leaks).

Fuck the “average Joe”… i was there when the internet as a whole turned to shit because it was flooded with “average Joes”, hell… i even visited the smoldering ruins of the Usenet after the dreadful hordes of “average Joes” have finished plundering it. The Fediverse doesn’t need to grow too large, let it stay a bit under the radar… its better this way.

man I sure wonder what we’re on right now

A weird form of usenet reenactment?

If you only use software that is created by people you like… well… i guess your only choice will be an abacus…

I am no jew, i am a German christian and i recognize the patterns the so called “Palestine supporters” are using to spread their hate for Israel’s actions towards jews. You all who celebrate that this ship was turned away would have been proud Nazis back in the day. Think about yourself and think about where you would have stand in the 40s.

Funny you… you can separate Greece and its population, but the same rule doesn’t apply to Israel… really funny…

Are those soldiers or politicians on the cruise?

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In reality, what Chromebooks provide is a reinvention of the good old mainframe and terminal principle. In theory (like my recent - half joking - 9front comment) this is something that would be really easy to set up with nearly all Linux systems and especially immutable ones.

My take would be:

Put an sign up / sign in form as a “first boot” message in a distribution of your choice where you can specify (or have pre-filled by an organisation) a central server (could be something fancy like Nextcloud or something simple rsync based) where your whole profile folder gets synced to. After that: If anything goes kaputt just roll back the sync. Or “powerwasch” (to keep the ChromeOS terminology) the system to a clean state and re-sync your home folder.

In theory something that could all be implemented with a little scripting in an afternoon.

9front (with enough volunteers and a modern browser) could be exactly that.

Fascist, Nazi… all those terms have long lost their meaning… today the only meaning those words transport are: “I don’t agree with this persons worldview”.

Hypothetical:

What about a fascist state that has a dictatorial leader and centralized autocracy that has the sole aim to move its people (and anybody else) to a ecological sustainable state. Perhaps the hypothetical fascist leader in this scenario has seen that the necessary steps to avoid climate based collapse (and so the end of modern society) can never be applied in a democracy and uses his (or her) dictatorial powers to form the world in this way? Militarism, furcible suppression of opposition and so on would be very handy in such a hypothetical “ecofascist” society.

Still bad? Even if it “saves humanity”?

Why should they?