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Murdoc,

Not for me.

Murdoc,

Working now.

Murdoc,

It’s an interesting idea. If it can make it easier to share files with friends then I’d be in. Voice and video have always been challenging as I understand it, so I’m expecting that to come later. Very ambitious, but cool if you can pull it off!

Murdoc,

All right I tried out the live app, to connect my phone to my desktop. Couldn’t get it to work. Tried the link method both ways, once normal and once animals. Tried the QR code too. All it does is bring me to a “contacts” page, which is essentially the same screen, or to a “new peer” one. Tried looking at the docs but didn’t see what I might be doing wrong there. Do certain plug ins mess it up like ublock origin? Anything else?

Murdoc,

First distro I got to work was LibraNet. Easy to set up and use, ran by a father-son team. Died when the father passed away. 😥

Murdoc,

You mean Civilization: Call to Power. The unit was called the Eco Ranger. And they did make a sequel to it, called Call to Power 2. In some ways it was better, some worse. That being said, CTP1 is my favorite civ of all time (not counting SMAC). They should definitely make another sequel if they can keep the stuff that made it great. Kills me that I can’t get a modern working version of the original somewhere.

Murdoc,

A little bit better controls and stuff too, but yeah, the story, characters, unit customization, etc. was all top-notch.

Murdoc,

I was surprised to learn recently that people are still making new screen savers for it.

Murdoc,

That was amazing. Wow. I mean, I knew that google was bad but, damn.

Murdoc,

…library… Alexandria…

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Murdoc,

Where’s that from?

Murdoc,

It would be easy enough to put a toggle in the settings for a ‘classic’ mode. I can see him doing that.

Murdoc,

But yeah, that is the central hub that everything goes thru

Does vpn help with this?

Murdoc,

I’m using Vivaldi (Android), and it looks like I’m not getting the mobile site, but the desktop one. I can access all the content, but the pictures are way too big, and the white cloud in the background makes it impossible to read the text over it because it is white too. If I set Vivaldi to “desktop site” mode, I get the same thing, only without the text word-wrapped. I just want to know if this is malicious or just incompetent.

Murdoc,

Note 10+ here and same, as soon as I can afford one of those linux phones, or at least a second-hand pixel.

Murdoc,

Nope. All you’d be doing is slowing down the damage in the short term while breeding more clever and less moral actors. The only way to get rid of that behaviour is to change the rules of the game.

Murdoc,

No such thing as strong enough regulations. They’ll alway find a way as long as there is motivation to do so.

Murdoc,

Maybe they should make a reality tv show about it, entertainment is way more lucrative than saving lives. I mean, if they can make crab fishing a show… 😞

Murdoc,

Every, single, time. 😓

Murdoc,

While the system is designed to be entirely local, it is also possible to easily connect it to some external APIs or services if you want to enhance the conversation

Murdoc,

I was going to make a funny fake headline about this, but I’m worried that someone out there would take it seriously and there’s already enough of that crap out there.

Murdoc,

Have you ever heard of Technocracy? It was designed specifically to do this, to provide every citizen with the highest possible standard of living without the gross inefficiencies of money based economies, to take advantage of technological automation to increase production and reduce work needed without reducing the standard of living by breaking the tie between income and labor. And it’s a pretty detailed idea too.

Murdoc,

Lowering prices is only one possible outcome of competition though. So is lower product quality, and laying off workers. In general, cutting costs.

Murdoc,

True, if a person has been shot, you have to go after the person with the gun to prevent them from doing it again. But I’d also like the person who got shot to get immediate medical aid.

Murdoc,

Actually Canada is the closest it has ever come to getting UBI, as there are two bills (C-223 and S-233) being reviewed for it right now. It still is going to need a lot of support though, so head over to https://www.ubiworks.ca/guaranteed-livable-basic-income to sign the petition, learn more about these bills, and otherwise tell everyone you can, and we might have a chance!

Murdoc,

Actually in North America we could have had a working post-scarcity since the 1930s. It is why we had the Great Depression and what Technocracy was designed to be able to handle. It’s only been our continued use of a scarcity-based economic system that has been holding back our productive capacity with extreme inefficiencies.

Not sure where you are getting the philosopher king thing from?

Murdoc,

How does that work? There almost wasn’t enough food to go around in the great depression,

Oh there was plenty of food to go around, the problem was that the system couldn’t make it “go around”. Either people were too poor to be able to afford it (all the unemployment back then) or companies couldn’t sell it for enough to stay in business. That was the problem: we were suddenly able to produce so much that the prices fell too low (in conjunction with decreased demand due to lower purchasing power) to sell it. This was precisely the problem Technocracy was developed to address. An economic system based on scarcity cannot distribute an abundance of goods and services, so either you use a system designed to actually do that (Technocracy), or you get rid of the abundance and keep the old system. Guess which we did. So crops were burned, livestock slaughtered, even weird stuff like pouring oil on oranges so no one could eat them. Get rid of the abundance, and prices go back up. Then we pumped money into the system so that people could afford to buy that scarcity again with the New Deal, subsidies to farmers, and good ol’ WWII helped a lot too.

and plastic was an advanced new material hard to come by from the 40’s through the 60’s. Electronics took a long time to be produced in any significant quantity too. And what about land?

I’m not talking about an abundance of every little thing, but rather what essentially gives a high standard of living: food, shelter, transportation, etc. We could have given everyone on the continent a much better life than was typical for the day. We have enough natural resources and technology to do that (although that won’t remain true forever).

Plato said everything would be great if we had the smartest people in charge. He called it the philosopher king, others call it technocracy.

Ah I see. Yeah, the term “technocracy” does get used to describe different things. What I’m talking about is a very specific proposal developed in the 1920s to address the problems of high production in a scarcity economy.

Murdoc,

Well, if you’re talking about just food, shelter, and some very basic kind of transportation (no planes!), sure, there’s no scarcity. That’s a very low bar, though, and most people don’t want to live at the subsistence level.

No, I mean a high standard of living, according to what is possible at the time. Good homes, plenty of good food, easy transportation wherever you want to go in the country, etc.

Can you link to the original proposal, so I know what we’re talking about?

I can get you the older stuff sure, but it was written for a different audience. You’ll most likely do better with a starting point like this.

Murdoc,

I guarantee there’s more people who might like to travel than planes and fuel to move them. Expanding the sector requires a variety of inputs, which themselves are in shortage.

There will always be some things that will be scarce, yes, like say space travel, that will have to be dealt with by other means. The point is that there are more than enough other things that can be provided in abundance to give everyone a high standard of living. And once the inefficiencies of the current system are removed, even many scarce things (like air travel) will be far more available than they are now.

Please do. I did read through that page and a few other places on the website. It explains that it’s a new economic system, but not how it works.

There are a couple pages that go over the basics (e.g. The Energy Certificate), but if you want more details I just need a way to get a couple of pdfs to you.

Murdoc,

The Energy Accounting page is under Technocracy Fundamentals on the beginner’s page. The Energy Certificate one is much longer and older (for example paper certificates would no longer be used today). I checked and the links work for both.

The other two more comprehensive docs I mentioned should be available now under Technocracy In Print (links are towards the end of their respective descriptions). Let me know if you need any more help or have questions.

Murdoc,

Yeah, we’re working on that.

Murdoc,

The problem is how widely is this one article going to be seen compared to the “dozens of op-eds”? Will it be picked up anywhere else?

Murdoc,

Well that helps, good job.

Murdoc,

Seeing this post about the sale made me check out the Wikipedia article about the game, since I never knew anything about it either. After reading that I’m pretty much sold on it. For a few dollars it’s worth a try.

Murdoc,

What a delicious mixing of commerce and politics. 🤮

Murdoc,

This feels a bit like the debate over whether a virus is “alive” or not. “But the virus/HTML has DNA/code.” “But it requires another cell/web browser in order to replicate/execute.” etc. 😄

Murdoc,

I can’t find anything on that site that talks about how it works. That’s disappointing.

Murdoc,

Ah yes, that’s exactly the kind of information they should have on their main site.

Murdoc,

“A couple of trees…”

And a body of water, and a road, possibly some mountains… (smh)

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Murdoc,

That was more interesting than I thought it was going to be, thanks.

Murdoc,

My mother used Kubuntu for the last two decades of her life, and she was a great-grandmother.

Murdoc,

😆👏👍

Murdoc, (edited )

So not 3? Why not, because it was the most successful or something? 🤷

Plus I never even heard of 4 before. I’m going to have to look that up.

Bah, I was thinking of windows. I need to get some sleep.

Murdoc,

I’ve been using Clementine because it’s the only one I’ve found that lets me (easily) rate my songs. But I can always check out others if they can do that. I wish I could find one where the lyrics loaded automatically.

Murdoc,

I appreciate your attitude about dealing with people. And the other stuff too.

Murdoc,

It’s on the IzzyOnDroid repo, which you can access with Droid-ify, which is a fork of f-droid that uses their repos as well.

Murdoc,

No, I didn’t know that because I learned about them at the same time.

Murdoc,

Turns out I was wrong. :/

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