Posts by tryst@fedi.imu.li
(DIR) Post #AjFjGrmgQZlKbhKmLw by tryst@fedi.imu.li
2024-06-24T12:18:06.465054Z
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@aiju i think the specifics on ownership depend on what sort of infrastructure. for something like rail lines - where building a second set of lines is a major barrier - some sort of collective ownership makes sense (though that doesn’t necessarily mean public/governmental ownership). if you can run multiple services on those rail lines, there’s significantly less barrier (no “natural monopoly” as they say) and so rent extraction has more checks and i think there’s more room for private ownership/operation/stewardship.
(DIR) Post #AjGUlQY8QmrgxlbUH2 by tryst@fedi.imu.li
2024-06-24T13:13:53.503896Z
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@Hyolobrika @aiju so my goals for collective ownership (really stewardship, but eh) would be having a clear-but-optional way for both the people using the infrastructure and the people doing the actual work of maintaining it to participate in the management of that infrastructure.so my preference would be something like a regional infrastructure-specific organization with owner-membership open to people living in that region (and possibly surrounding regions that would be reasonably impacted) and its workers. the specifics of decision making processeses, and what other stewardship options i’d favor, depend a lot on the infrastructure in question and to some extent on the population and geography being served.
(DIR) Post #Aky1YGrUZpOSKZPvwe by tryst@fedi.imu.li
2024-08-14T12:56:48.324248Z
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@icedquinn @lispi314 from a practical perspective getting rid of it entirely puts you back at that trade secret corporate espionage dystopia again,i disagree on that point, but more generally on the framing.the whole stated purpose of patents is to encourage invention and technological innovation. the claim is that they do this by promoting sharing via monopoly grants instead of secretiveness. whether getting rid of patents creates a trade secret corporate espionage dystopia is the wrong question - the question should be does removing patents increase invention and innovation?prior to patents you had a lot of trade secrets where people would hide everything. mathematicians for example kept a reserve stock of proofs to win competitionsfirstly, patents have never covered mathematical proofs and so any secretiveness amongst mathematicians is irrelevant :) more importantly, prior to patents (in the modern sense) you had royally decreed monopolies with indefinite term and ill-defined scope. much like modern day patents the incentive was to keep the invention secret until a patent could be secured - and no incentive to innovate because the monopolies were granted by product rather than process.however, there have been various industries and times that were not subject to such state-given monopolies. the record there shows significant innovation that drops off when patents are extended to cover the industry. that drop off is probably a combination of patents slowing innovation (by diverting resources from research into litigation) and by the field maturing and the low-hanging fruit being explored.see Against Intellectual Monopoly, in particular Chapter 8 about whether monopolies increase innovation and Chapter 9 on the pharmaceutical industry.
(DIR) Post #Al7FUxpq0ajQEUbGuu by tryst@fedi.imu.li
2024-08-19T06:07:47.407331Z
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@lispi314 @icedquinn @gentoobro @rheaplex QUIC jumps straight to cryptographically authenticating each packet - it provides a rather stronger check than CRC32 :)
(DIR) Post #AoVLrlI7xtbI8sCQIy by tryst@fedi.imu.li
2024-11-28T14:41:09.188343Z
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@lispi314 @amerika @scanner @mavica_again @IceWolf @teajaygrey Also land taxation systems don’t need to tax public places - indeed the underlying theory of land value taxes is that you’re taxing land because it has been removed from communal access.
(DIR) Post #AqDDATfpwnANQqUNFo by tryst@fedi.imu.li
2025-01-18T15:32:15.509517Z
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@nina_kali_nina the superior color scheme is, naturally, let the operator decide!and like actually decide, not just this dark/light binary we’ve somehow fallen into.(in my case, my astigmatism is overwhelmed by my light-sensitivity that manifests as a preference for pure black backgrounds, unusually good night-vision, and light-sensitive migraines)
(DIR) Post #AwMIfi0G4cwbkuEev2 by tryst@fedi.imu.li
2025-07-21T12:47:40.596470Z
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guillotines are authoritarian.if you’ve reached the point where you can round up the rich, perhaps hold trials, then lay them down one by one, and decapitate them in front of a crowd? you’ve already won, and are now showboating the power you’ve collected.it is understandable, even for anarchists, to fantasize about “our side” wielding such power, given the authoritarianism pervading our societies. but we strive to disperse power, not to wield it, and power fantasies do not promote that.if those fantasies are helpful for you in the moment? have them. write about them. talk about them. process them. but, if you aspire to disperse power, please keep them, and the symbols from them, out of your activism.
(DIR) Post #B2cwQiCaPnS8JdXqfw by tryst@fedi.imu.li
2026-01-25T00:33:21.234187Z
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@Hordearius @HeavenlyPossum I’ve been hassled by town and county law enforcement for:jogging by the side of a country road at nightwaiting to meet someone in a town park with a bicyclewalking my child home from the hospital when they were bornhauling water from a neighbour’s well (by their invitation)walking to a train station at dusk after hitchhiking failedaka, existing without a car outside a city.that last one involved a blinding flashlight to the face and their hands on sidearms while telling me to get out of town and demanding to know if i had a weapon.i’m sure these cops and their neighbours thought they were making their county safer too.