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Paul @futurepaul

@JacksonSamurai @philurich Discord, Audible, and Cash App are probably my biggest must-have apps that can't really be replaced by an alternative. Anyway, step one is just getting off Gmail for my personal email addy so I have a ways to go! — PolitiTweet.org

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@JacksonSamurai @philurich Using a phone without google services or apple restrictions is my new goal. It def doesn't sound easy, but I think it's a good goal! — PolitiTweet.org

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@philurich @JacksonSamurai How do you feel about the Librem 5? https://t.co/JzGQdvhykF — PolitiTweet.org

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Some context for the unfamiliar: - Nintendo Switch and OpenBSD are Unix - Fuchsia is a senior talent retention project at Google - Redox is written in Rust - Android and Ubuntu are Linux / Windows 10 is Windows NT / macOS + iOS are Darwin — PolitiTweet.org

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Which operating system do you most enjoy using in the year 2030? — PolitiTweet.org

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In a Bitcoin denominated society it makes even more "selfish" sense to contribute to any software project that makes society richer as a whole, because every gain in GDP is a ++ to your savings account. — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's an epic argument that maybe the "contract" view of open source is limited and limiting. There's a reason that many developers consciously avoid GPL these days. https://t.co/SJhx6r6FAp https://t.co/kNQVxBfWSg — PolitiTweet.org

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@backlon I both fav and <3 this — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Jonathan_Blow: If someone wants to make software with the agenda of deeply simplifying the mess that we today call software, I will be… — PolitiTweet.org

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I've found it's difficult to extract myself from the products of shitty companies, despite my vague knowledge of how shitty they are. It helps to have a concrete incident to really kick things into gear: https://t.co/PA2QrF48Cm — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MehNitesh2: @futurepaul @345triangle Worth also knowing that they will also be making their own custom ARM cores for servers, could wel… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @345triangle: @futurepaul @MehNitesh2 ARM designs new cores that huawei licenses directly — the kirin 980 uses cortex-a76, for example.… — PolitiTweet.org

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@MehNitesh2 Thanks for the clarification! — PolitiTweet.org

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@345triangle @MehNitesh2 Ah thank you this is the part I didn't know! — PolitiTweet.org

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The "Outback" method to make tech free from China reliance: 1. "No rules just right" if you manufacture a tech product in the US. (That's no taxes, no regulation). 2. Extend policy to all US companies. 3. Shut down the government because it is useless and makes us less safe. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MehNitesh2 If this is RISC-V's big moment I'm here for it. I just don't want to get my hopes up unrealistically. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MehNitesh2 Hmmm I guess my assumption has been that ARM doesn't really provide a lot of new tech on an ongoing basis. Seems like the innovation happens at the edges — Samsung, Apple, Huawei, Qualcomm. Have I just been well marketed to? — PolitiTweet.org

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@MehNitesh2 Why would they have to reverse engineer it? They've already licensed and manufactured it. They must know it pretty well by now! — PolitiTweet.org

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If Huawei is such a bad bad boy, why wouldn't it just "steal" ARM IP now that it can't purchase it legitimately? Am I missing something? Is HiSilicon calling up ARM hq every day for tech support on how to make a Kirin? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ADFlintTech @bitstein I didn't get into the college I applied to. I might not have done the paperwork correctly. That failure saved me at least $160,000. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bitstein: My proposal for putting an end to student debt slavery is encouraging hyperbitcoinization so as to induce a debt jubilee. Add… — PolitiTweet.org

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@CarlosVixil It's one of my favorite books and tbh I forgot the ending. Just watch seven hundred hours of television on a wall-sized television until you eradicate knowledge about books from you brain. — PolitiTweet.org

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@agalea @Jonathan_Blow I think humans basically shrivel up and die without challenge. If you ride your bike to replace a distance you used to walk, you burn fewer calories than before. You have to bike further. If computers are a "bicycle for the mind" we should be aware of how far we're biking. — PolitiTweet.org

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@agalea @Jonathan_Blow That's the wildest part of this talk. He makes a good point that any abstraction that hides the underlying complexity has the potential for civilizational atrophy. Not that we don't ever abstract! But we really gotta watch ourselves. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Jonathan_Blow For instance, many of the most popular tech products are difficult to quit for various reasons. You've traded ease in the moment for longterm hardships and limitations. The product didn't make you stronger or more capable in the long run, it made you simply reliant. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Jonathan_Blow From a consumer tech perspective, I think we've fooled ourselves into believing "ease of use" is the most relevant indicator of a product's quality. Nowhere else in our lives is the best thing the easiest. Fitness, relationships, raising kids, creative work... — PolitiTweet.org

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This seems like a weird topic at first from @Jonathan_Blow but I think it's important. We tend to think we're the "civilized" ones because of the technology we can buy and borrow. But we have to build and master that technology to propagate and improve it. https://t.co/kWRRcbRh9b — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NickSzabo4: The Cantillon effect: "the first ones to receive the newly created money see their incomes rise, whereas the last ones to r… — PolitiTweet.org

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@westinlohne @thedextriarchy Is your laptop made out of a folding screen? Is the keyboard in the front? Do you have room for a winamp visualizer below your web browser? Didn't think so. — PolitiTweet.org

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Is this what you were describing @thedextriarchy? Keyboard in the front club approves. — PolitiTweet.org