jimmy90

the Bazzite KDE flavor sounds like what you need

yeah we would have to trust the anonymization and security of the authentication services but i see no other way to defeat the bots

i think there could be many other benefits as well if it works

verified identities using government id schemes, loads already exist, i verified my account on LinkedIn for free

i have no problem with privileged code or trusted computer code as long as it's open source, open protocols and managed by an open foundation of some sort

i wonder if anything could be gleaned from automated scanning of community names and descriptions and modlogs

me too, i use it for terminal as well

over the years i think the internet has proved to be a bit flaky

BGP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Gateway_Protocol has proved to be non-trivial and mistakes have been made both accidentally and maliciously that have broken large chunks of the internet

having said that i think that things like P2P protocols - Kademlia, Gnutella, UDP bittorent, TOR etc have proved to be very resilient and hard or impossible to break despite concerted efforts to do so. these protocols have adapted to hide using VPN, HTTP and other tunneling techniques and services have distributed themselves effectively such that they have never been eradicated

miracle on 34th street reference?

i gave up buying gifts a long time ago. i take it far too seriously and get very stressed about it for the token gesture that it is

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...melon farmer.

heck yeah, it's a christmas film. the whole thing is based around a christmas party and is all about love

I completely agree but I still think there's an act of faith and belief in science because the vast majority of people will never understand most of what science has proved that they use in their daily lives, let alone the more advanced stuff that most scientists will never fully understand.