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  Webpages should NEVER have been allowed to load files from other websites. Allowing webpages to load objects from arbitrary locations killed the web. Webpages should have been restricted to load files only by relative URLs & never load any file by absolute URLs. Absolute URLs are exclusively for hyperlinks to another webpage. #Web #WorldWideWeb #WWW #UnpopularOpinion

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  #Bitcoin has a few serious issues the biggest being that the number of transactions it's able to process in an hour does not scale with the added processing power… adding "miners" only causes the algorithm to make it more difficult to process the transactions such that the number of transactions/hour which make it into the ledger (blockchain) remains constant. I hope I don't have to explain that this is nuts?

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  (0) Don't do it If you ignore 0: (1) Don't talk about #cryptocurrency (2) it's not an investment (3) USE A PASSWORD MANAGER (4) SAVE YOUR SEED/PASSWORD OFFLINE (5) Run a #FullNode over #tor & #i2p whenever possible (24/7) (6) Always control/host your own wallets (self-custody) (7) Keep your wallets offline, only use it to sign & send transactions via your own node (8) Avoid any which don't allow you to run a full node or mine your own: They are a...

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  #RightToRepair should be enough but it's not because it gets (re)interpreted as "a right to get it repaired by a licensed & authorise repair shop" We need better! We need a #RightToSalvage w/o having to ask permission or pay for authorisation We need a #RightToInteroperability so things work together We need a #RightToPreserve to keep our culture from disappearing We need a #RightToEncryption to have a private life We need a #RightToInformation to get t...

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  #Comment are the anathema of the web #NeverComment #BlogAndReBlog Write your own well considered reaction on your own weblog with a link to the original article #NeverReadTheComments #TheReadWriteWeb #WorldWideWeb #UnpopularOpinion

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  Proposal: Turn the #USPresidency into a 3 person college (btwn 30 & 65 yo) Head of Executive, HoE: All departments, SS, FBI, AG, domestic policy, (elected by popular vote) Head of Judicial, HoJ: Judiciary, Marshals Service, anything border & migration, Diplomacy, foreign policy, (proposed by SCOTUS, approved & appointed by Congress) Head of Legislative, HoL,: Library of Congress, Congressional-anything, Inspector Generals, CIA, DOD, etc, CiC when attacked, (approved &a...

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  @gwynnion@mastodon.social And your local device won't have ram or storage, it will all exist in the cloud, constantly monitored by machines, analysed by flawed algorithms, and used to judge you… and you will pay for it with your mandatory subscription fee which only gives you access to pre-approved & "appropriate" good apps and good data and a new advert every 20 seconds

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  Don't go to the USA for any reason https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-ebiORD9WM

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  #Q: #Telnet over #QUIC? —— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telnet

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  #Q: Why does the #Rust community tend to reimplement #GPL licensed code as #MIT licensed Rust code?

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  To get copyright protection on executables, the author should at least put the full source code repository under escrow to be released once the copyright term expires. Copyright only applies to something human created. Anything machine generated cannot be copyrighted, unless it's a simple reproducible transformation from something human created. #UnpopularOpinion