I mean, I get the joke of using that expression in the context of a chat named after The matrix, but it’s an in-group jargon that mostly the terminally online will get.

LOL, you completely lost me at “rozzers”!

This whole argument seems to be constructed as a buildup to the strenuous pun about masons bricking stuff. Get it? Masons are bricklayers?

Even if it’s an elaborate joke and not a psychiatric issue — man, it needs work.

The Register failed in their due diligence by not clarifying from the beginning that this is a different Matrix chat than the open standard. They amended the mistake with an update to the post (quoted here in OP), but that is placed at the end of an article that not everybody is going to read all the way through.

IMHO this needs a rewrite to make clear from the outset that the Matrix protocol and matrix.org are not affiliated with the criminal chat service. As it stands, even with the correction, it looks like character assassination of a perfectly legal open source project.

No worries, The Register hid the clarification about the two different networks way down at the end, so it’s an easy mistake. I honestly think they need to put that note at the beginning to avoid confusion.

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Read the linked article; this was a different network using the same name.

Let’s just consider what a decade in a landfill will do to a hard drive.

It’s not just a big pile of trash you could rummage through, according to the site manager

things that were sent to landfill three or four months ago could be three to five feet deep

So there is a good deal of waste on top eleven years later, which means

1. the layers get compacted, things break, under the weight and pressure of heavy machinery crisscrossing the site.
2. other waste gradually dissolves into who knows what kinds of chemicals. I can’t tell what kinds of waste exactly is deposited there, but clearly electronic parts among others.

We’re talking about a hard drive that was removed from the computer, so it only has a thin aluminium casing for protection. Chances are it’s crushed beyond recoverability.

Also, in 2013, this would have been a mechanical drive. Even in optimal circumstances, there are a bunch of ways they can fail, leading to data loss.

The spinning disk inside the casing is fairly fragile. One scratch on its surface could render it unreadable, as would, say, spilling a sugary drink into it, which our unfortunate bitcoiner already did. Now imagine the drive buried in an environment full of debris and potentially corrosive chemicals.

TL;DR — At this point, even if a major excavation was undertaken and the drive was located, there is barely a chance that any data would be retrievable from it.

It’s dead, Jim. Bitcoin man is chasing a dream long past its sell-by date.

Thanks for that. I worried it was something worthwhile that I’d just forgotten about in the mind-boggling meantime of “almost a year” since last update.

TBF, that lawn does look like cardboard.

It not only supports IPFS, it is “built on top of” it, according to the website.

This makes me wonder if it’s usable for regular web browsing or only IPFS sites. The latter would sort of make it a splinternet browser, and way less interesting.

Nightly, according to Rochko’s replies on Mastodon.

I see. That sucks.

Sharedrop is self hostable.

Other, serverless solutions are

• Warpinator
• Localsend
• Croc
• Syncthing (for the organised background syncer in your life)

Check out Github Pages on how to publish a site hosted in Github. I never did this myself, so take this as hearsay. Basically it allows you to publish a repo of markdown files to HTML pages without local tools like pandoc.

I did a quick lookaround for advice on setting up a wiki-only site, and I couldn’t find an easy answer. Have a look through this awesome-list for ideas and best practices.

Improved autocorrect and grammar check is literally the only acceptable use of “AI” that I can think of.

At first glance it just looks like it’s hosted on github. Maybe their repo wiki feature, or plain github pages?

edit: yeah, the source url is https://github.com/fmhy/FMHY/wiki so a github wiki.

I’m old enough to remember the show 👴 but the reference is (also) that people frequently use “quantum” to mean something large and impressive, like in this headline, when originally it means a shift in quantum states at a molecular or atomic level — i.e., teeny tiny and hardly noticeable.

I tend to agree. I like being able to install whatever distro I want and add the DE of my choice, and there is a glut of different combos to choose from.

However, are KDE and Gnome going to gradually focus on making their respective DEs work on their own branded OS, rather than any old base system? I know that’s a worst case scenario, but putting a lot of added effort into a full OS is a nontrivial investment for a desktop environment. Some mission drift might be expected.