The project is very interesting. After quickly browsing their website I understand that it's a kind of a framework to build fediverse apps. It's implemented in Elixir programming language and uses Postgres as a database. Looks like they are putting a lot is emphasis on community and cooperative aspects.
You are talking about civilizations, but it seems to me that a more appropriate word would be "empires", which in a sense is an antithesis of "civilization". Most people around the world don't have imperial aspirations, and yet they do live in civilized societies. That extends to most governments, today and historically. Perhaps peaceful societies leave less footprint. Empires need a lot of propaganda to justify their antisocial actions - things like monuments, colossal architecture, anthems, heroic poems. Naturally their spectacular violence attracts more of our attention. But I don't think imperialism was ever a norm.
Cooperation was achieved at a gun point. There is no solidarity even in communist regimes.
That's an assertion without any merit. Especially in oppressive regimes solidarity is what keeps society together. I understand that you are writing from USA, so I don't blame you for this dark and cynical worldview. My impression from a safe distance is that breaking of basic and natural solidarity and voluntary cooperation is an intentional effort of a tiny class of imperialists in your country. They want you cynical, hopeless and alienated. Don't give up the hope!
How do you know it's "due to slavery and violence" rather then "despite slavery and violence"? It seems more likely to me that civilisation is rooted in cooperation and solidarity, while slavery and violence is a cancer that grows on top of it, and hurts almost everyone involved.
The sentence is a bit vague, but I would read it differently. I think they mean "50% of queries made in France", kind of like 50% market share. That would be very ambitious though.
I'm pretty sure Greek food and culture is older than 35 years 🤣
Anyway, I'm in some kinda weird half-and-half place.
Like everyone else then.
We used to call them type A and type B personalities,
Who's "we"? A quick glance at Wikipedia gives me the impression that it's the American tobacco industry and "scientists" on their payroll. Hopefully you are not one of them.
Yesterday I was looking at a presentation of agenetic workflow in Eclipse Theia, a FOSS text editor / IDE. They were highlighting how it's internal commands are exposed to agents, and I thought that Emacs could be a great platform for this kind of thing.
That's certainly not true. We now have washing machines, dishwashers, refrigerators, kitchen machines, gas or electric stoves, food delivery services etc. All this makes carrying for others easier. Plus being more efficient at paid work could be translated into less working hours, thus more time to care for others instead of more money captured by capitalists.
Hey! We migrated !esc@lemm.ee (European Systems Collective) to !esc@europe.pub (as European Digital Independence News).
Thanks for maintaining this list. Very helpful!
Yeah. By now it's an old news, which is saying a lot about his fiscal and foreign policy.
I suspect it's not so much about chickening out, as about playing stock market. Every time he announces tariffs, markets go down. He cancels them - they go up. And who knows ahead of time what he's going to say tomorrow? Only Taco and his most trusted cronies. It's like insider trading on steroids.
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I imagine ability to fork, comment, open an issue or a merge (pull) request, do a code review etc from an account on one instance to a project on another. That would enable true decentralisation of software development. It was one of the original promises of Git, but was lost with the emergence of GitHub. With such federated network of forges each developer, or a group working on a project, could run their own server and collaborate with anyone else, without registering accounts on hundreds of services. I'd love that.