Hmm, I admit I have only seen a few of his videos, but those I have seen had a strong entryism smell of trying to cater to an Anarchist audience without actually being an Anarchist himself. But maybe I am wrong and he just spend too much time in ML circles.
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The bigger question is why Matrix didn't follow the long established standard for this, which is using @.
But I guess it fits into the general pattern of: Monolithic, Awefully Trendy ReImplementation of XMPP (MATRIX).
P.S.: it's nice to be able to have your ActivityPub, XMPP and Email all on the same address 👍
Seems like an obvious suggestion, but Nextcloud can do that quite well.
The guy seems to be an orthodox marxist (or maoist?), and Graeber is implicitly questioning the validity of the marxist concept of material determinism in that book (with some pretty compelling historical evidence). Obviously that didn't go down well with the true believers 😅
That seems like a fun toy. Thanks for sharing.
I saw that video a while ago and found the critique very unconvincing. I recommend actually reading the book, because it gets misrepresented in the video above.
Especially when starting out it can also be quite helpful to have a screen and keyboard attached to the server and not only SSH access.
To prevent battery issues it is often possible to limit the charge level in the bios.
The factory owners just copied that from the Prussian model that was meant to train children to be good soldiers. Not that that was any better...
Maybe part of an case intrusion detector?
So that the roomba doesn't get bored.
I have been running this as the beta under Linux already and there are definitely some nice improvements.