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Cake day: 2023年7月20日

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  • Social media is a big part of the problem but still a symptom of the same systemic issues that phones are a symptom off.

    Modern Phones are pocket-sized personal computers that are heavily restricted in what users can do, heavily tailored to what consumption our corporate overlords want to maintain (social media being an example, predatory games another).

    Just like social media (facebook) is near impossible to avoid because all your local businesses don’t have a website and only inform and communicate trough a social media page (thanks my partner still has an account) you cannot simply not own a phone because scanning qr codes is now often a required part of participating in society, often unexpectedly.


  • Ignoring the funny, here is my interpretation to 6 meetings in 24 hours for executive elites.

    For a corporate drone this would be a hell of day for others:

    Wake up like everyone else

    • first 2 meetings are short 15 minutes things and there only contribution is being present.

    • 1 of them is boring and goes on longer but they have to leave early to catch the next meeting.

    • the next meeting is a 2h lunch meeting in a super fancy restaurant where each party tries to get the other agree on an unbalanced deal.

    • 1 actual long boring meeting in the afternoon where actual work is done.

    • final meeting with close allies over fancy dinner, mostly recalling relevant things that happend today.

    End of the workday like everyone else.









  • This is actually an indication of how bad it really is.

    Compared with someone who really is part of the elite, everyone who isn’t a millionaire is bottom of the ladder. You can own properties and go on global vacations and still be part of the poor class

    If you would take the total estimation of combined US citizen owned money and redistributed evenly per household then every single US household would have over a million.

    There is a common fear that socialism and redistribution of wealth implies you will end with less because most people believe they are better off then the majority and don’t want to share, just think about how twisted the people that propaganda comes from must be if a theoretical million is perceived as losing.


  • Hardware does not need a steep upfront costs.

    You don’t need a nasa pc to run nextcloud, larger businesses routinely trow away machines that are beyond what you need. Chances are family of a member already has some machines they where going to trow away. Your hardware priorities are most cpu cores with as much compatible ram.

    The advantages of having your own hardware is you can run multiple local servers and let members experience without additional costs. Imagine it like a private mini internet run by members that only is accessible at location.

    I highly recommend proxmox as a server os which has 1 line helper script commands that create a whole nextcloud installation and others automatically, its also very easy to backup those.




  • We need to split clients from providers.

    Invidious and freetube could diversify to accept multiple alternative sources besides youtube content.

    If the content exists on multiple platforms the user could set a preference and orded or backup providers.

    As creators make a switch to smaller platforms the users who use these clients are unaffected. It works similar to our fediverse, a community can just change instance and everyone can still access it the same.

    Creators could test migration by posting to multiple providers themselves. Those reliant on YouTube money specifically could premiere on youtube and after some time reupload elsewhere.

    Those that dont rely on youtube money can do the reverse where the later youtube upload serves more as an ad to their alternative main channel.