I had this idea a few months ago, and found a thread discussing the same thing from several years ago. Seems like nothing came of it.

I currently use Syncthing to keep a lot of items synced across a few of my devices. It’s completely decentralized and fully encrypted. Instead of synching files, what if it could be used as an instant messenger? No central server to interrupt service. No single point of attack. No more requiring a name or phone number, just exchange a QR code to begin communicating.

I think this would excel at group messaging, especially if some members are out of service occasionally. Reconnect, and all messages get distributed.

There must be something out there that already works like this, but I don’t know of a serverless system.

So, delay until February, when they disband NHTSA.

Dammit, there goes my degree.

A lot of people are offput by having to choose a server before creating an account. If that could be automated somehow I think Mastodon would be more popular.

If going outside and looking up is one of my favorite things, I’ll wear the patch. Also, she couldn’t focus with that eye anyway (no lens, no iris), so no depth perception anyway.

Or remove the eye and go glass. Even a contact lens could be used to limit the light intake. I’m calling bullshit. Insurance companies suck, but there’s more to this story than just that.

Sounds like PTSD to me. Your fight/flight mode is getting switched randomly to flight. For me it was “freeze”.

"Looking up and feeling the sun shining on your face is one of the simple joys in life, but Jennifer Sanders was deprived of that sensation for nearly 15 years. "

“The mom of two suffered an orbital globe rupture in her right eye in 2010. Ninety-five percent of Sanders’ iris was destroyed, half of her retina was detached and her eye lens had to be removed. She had no way of regulating how much light was getting into the back of her eye.”

I don’t understand this. Why wouldn’t she wear a patch?

It’s canned in a factory that reeks of old cement and lubrication.

Downtown of a small town in the middle of winter, late at night when nobody’s around. Cold enough that the snow squeaks under your feet as you walk, but no wind at all. Just the memory of the smell of sub-zero air makes me think about a destination with warm walls a nice cup of hot tea waiting for me.

There are no more rules.

I just want a really good homescreen widget that shows a month view, and a widget that shows a task list I can check off as they’re complete. Right now I’m using Business Calendar, but I’d switch to open source in a heartbeat if any of them offered this.

We aren’t going to stop being prejudiced against each other until we meet other species to turn our prejudices outward.

I saw him in Marquette, Michigan in the early 90s. The only thing I remember about the performance was “don’t call Natives ‘Native Americans’. America sucks. Just call them Indians.”

Marquette’s pretty much the backwater of Michigan, he must have been working on new material.

They got frightened when people reacted poorly to cops killing people again and again and again …

Why yes there is, from the 19th century. But it’s not about abortion, so surely is unenforceable.

To Kill A Mockingbird

And read the book.

But billionaires are the only source of jobs and if nobody is there to buy yachts how will the trickle-down economics work?

Maybe you’re in the wrong communities. There are a lot fewer people here than on Reddit, so you’ll run into the same people more frequently.

I’m not sure what concessions you’re looking for. If someone is being a troll, or just boneheaded, block them for a month or two or forever.

Good for him, Kevin is one of my favorite people.

I really miss Smodcast.