Muad'Dibber

A typical day on /r/redditalternatives

TLDW:

You can use xz and unxz . It works exactly like gzip, except it uses the same compression algorithm as 7zip, and it comes on most systems.

That’s giving them a biiit too much credit. More like,

HN is to other forums what annoying 14 year olds h4cker script-kiddies are to computer scientists.

Me rn

What an incredibly based and brave person. The work that her and other Russian pirate comrades like the ppl who created libgen are doing, is so extremely important and worthwhile… Literally 80% of the content of the internet could fall away, and if scihub remains, we’d be better off.

She comments on the media ignoring her too, which shows the hypocrisy of these cultures who claim to be open and love science, but want to keep it locked behind paywalls.

o7 to our communist data librarian queen.

So many privacy-focused tech-people have focused on software only, because its at least somewhere that they can make a positive contribution, but in all likelihood, something we can’t mess with, the hardware, has backdoors and spying. Everything from CPUs, radios, and even hard drives likely have backdoors.

There’s pretty much no way around that until we get competing non-western-owned hardware industries, which rn, only china and india are attempting.