First of all I just want to say that I completely agree with all of the technical things you talked about in his question but I think you kind of miss his question.

OP doesn’t wanna be on SS7 (the thing that gives you your phone number), neither do I. I’ve just come to the conclusion that when it comes to infrastructure and paying for your goods SS7 is the only realistic option I have.

There is no distributed communication network anyone can just connect to. And the dream of leaving WiFi access points open for free (or for some kinda crypto-pay, e.g SkyNet) is just a dream, individuals have to invest in it and nobody wants to or take responsibility for it.

Here are some rules:

1. Somebody* has to build the radios and computers that our phones connect to and has to build them all over the world (*doesn’t have to be an individual, could be a company or government)
2. You gotta pay to use it (whether it’s with a billing account where they have your full name and house address, or crypto)
3. It’s gotta be the easiest option

If we can come with a solution that fits these rules we can do away with the SS7 cellular protocol and have a truly anonymous network.

I have no fear of implementing anything I’m asked to in typescript go rust java c# f# or nix… They’re all the same tool just kinda different in some places.

I mean… Sure it can look alittle different in the database but I’d assume 99% of my Internet footprint is plain text

I entirely disagree, Go has some of the most straightforward and meaningful syntax I’ve ever used.

TBH I kinda agree with the states here… I started watching porn waaayyyy too early and it’s fucking me up… without a doubt… I shouldn’t have seen all the things I looked for and now I gotta put up with it.

But I also agree with PornHubs decision. There is no way to verify age without exposing your identity. There isn’t even a way to trust a 3rd party to verify someone’s age.

There really isn’t a middle ground, the only way to protect kinds (like little me) is to block the porn. But websites go on and offline every few minutes, VPNs and Tor are free and hard to blacklist.

How do we censor internet porn?? ¯⁠\⁠(⁠°⁠_⁠o⁠)⁠/⁠¯

I mean if it’s just a private server for just the people he knows then I don’t get why this would be a concern, but if it is to mitigate family drama then rocket chat definitely has end-to-end encryption https://docs.rocket.chat/use-rocket.chat/workspace-administration/settings/e2e-encryption

Rocket chat is like slack but FOSS… haven’t tried it myself but it could be something

Age or experience? Because both are funny

How expensive can “reputable” be. I got danhab99.xyz for like ¯⁠\⁠(⁠°⁠_⁠o⁠)⁠/⁠¯ $20/year?? Who cares

Learned how to use zoxide. Makes my terminal so much friendlier

I know carnivores plants are plants, but I never really thought of a venus flytrap’s flower.

I’d like better multicolumn support in general… I like using my android tablet but the UI components are huge

Golang

Go modules backed by a robust standard lib and Go’s interface system makes doing a tonne of high performance work super convenient. Also multi threading at the language level makes way more sense.

Fuck I fell for it… gg dominos

I think it’s called a positron. It’s just an anti-negative or positive excitation of the electric field.

Wait isn’t that exactly what a mortgage is?

So (feelings opinions)

It sounds like owners are taking on a whole lot of risk just so the banks don’t. If that’s the case then is the equity actually good enough to merit me being the banks money armor?

And 80% agree with the equity argument, I just can’t help not have hope for the future and am literally asking who is gonna buy my house in 40 years? Less kids are being born, this country is falling into Republican hands so can’t rely on selling my house to immigrants now can I?

I feel like Americans have known why we’re here for so long and now this generation doesn’t. I can’t tell if it’s for a reason someone is keeping secret or if the answer doesn’t exist bc we’re not supposed to be here anymore.

Literally why is this necessary on a technical level. I’m a web developer, whenever I need my JavaScript to access a resource I have to spell out where to find it. I’ve never had a need to scan the browser or the system to make shit happen so why should I be able to in the first place.

Most Linux package managers sync the list of all packages they can download. I wonder if some sort of system like that can be used to federate web searching.