m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@Hyolobrika
Then the value of the land in public registries grows significantly without any obvious reasons. Suddenly — there is a road to be built on this land — or some other public infrastructure and the owner has to be compensated generously.
The road? It might never get built 😂 There is no chance that a random nobody can do it — they would be stripped of all the rights immediately and might even get assassinated, this always gets approved by someone high up.

@kravietz @moffintosh @tml

@Hyolobrika
…but is a tool of those in power, there is a very popular corruption scheme — again, corruption is a rather meaningless term, usually it means that the state doesn't work like it's supposed to e.g. when it gets exploited for private gains, but in Russia it means that it works exactly as expected.
This is often used to reward officials: a member of his or her family buys land — usually for pennies…

@kravietz @moffintosh @tml

@Hyolobrika
In the end you should still be compensated, but at property's market value or below it — but this shouldn't be the source of profit. Again, this has nothing to do being seized for "extremism" — completely different legal practice and I'm actually a strong proponent of it, because obviously I do not support rent-seeking.
Russia is a rather twisted special case even here: as the state isn't a social institution that exists for the benefit of the citizens…

@kravietz @moffintosh @tml

@Hyolobrika
Driving a vehicle that isn't registered is outright dangerous — if road police stops you, you'd probably have to solve this with a bribe.
Eminent domain is a more interesting case — but I think we can all see the reasoning behind it: to prevent rent-seeking. There is a road to be built — but you don't want to sell your land because your expect the price to increase drastically.

@kravietz @moffintosh @tml

@Hyolobrika
If you can confirm the source of funds the property is to be returned to you — confirming the origin is normal practice even in finance, it helps fight corruption on international scale. In Russia, if you get apprehended in a car that you do not own (should be confirmed documentally) or aren't authorised to use by its legal owner — there is a very good chance there would be no procedure at all.
@kravietz @moffintosh @tml

@Hyolobrika
Sure, that might happen anywhere, but there is a world of difference between being apprehended with a pile of cash that you can't confirm the origin of (civil forfeiture), and being deprived of property that is legally yours and which is well documented just because you've been… declared extremist — that's what the case that I have linked earlier was about.
AFAIK civil forfeiture is still a legal procedure…

@kravietz @moffintosh @tml

@moffintosh
This guy is the head of Constitutional Court, the equivalent of SCOTUS, and he has been occupying this position for decades.
You can say that one was socialist system and the other one is capitalist — but to me these terms are meaningless when applied to Russia: there was always the almighty state and there was you who never had any rights, including the right to have private property, you only have your rights as long as you comply — that was my point.
@Hyolobrika @kravietz @tml

@moffintosh
And lack of private property in both systems. Very few differences — that is why the transition in a lot of cases went butter-smooth.
And what we have now is the continuity of the same oppressive "tradition", they even wish they could reestablish the serfdom, which was eliminated in the later Soviet period (at last!): https://www.businessinsider.com/valery-zorkin-pro-serfdom-2014-9
@Hyolobrika @kravietz @tml

@moffintosh
But I'm not trying to prove that Russia was never socialist, I simply don't care enough — again it only matters if you care about semantics. Essentially, it was all the same shit under different names: old brainwashing based on Orthodoxy into new "communist" ideology — which people had zero control over and rejecting which was forbidden
Tsarist serfdom into new soviet one, with propiska, when you couldn't travel freely. Rural communes to collective farms…
@Hyolobrika @kravietz @tml

@moffintosh
What is?
@Hyolobrika @kravietz @tml

Punks not dead!
(Just a little bit hungry 😹)

#cats #fediCats

@koteisaev @rvps2001
Sex Dwarf by Soft Cell starts playing in the distance 🎶
The line "I would like you on a long black lead — you can bring me all the things I need" hits particularly hard!
Oh, man, this is too funny 🤣

@romin
Why not? Nowadays SSDs somehow offset this problem, but it's still way faster than retrieving same files from slower storage, besides, I believe heat dissipation for RAM is more efficient than it is for storage in most systems.
And I would choose such a use any day over storing 50 open tabs, most of which can't get swapped out because some web dev decided to keep the audio device open or use a high-precision timer 😏

@takao

@romin
Nope. It's being used for filesystem cache 😜

@santiago
I agree, definitely technically possible, but lack of persistent connection and tables for representation would make it suboptimal.
Also, although Lagrange, that most use, does preload images, AFAIR they aren't supposed to be inline in gemtext, so showing thumbnails, but providing larger resolution images on request would also pose a challenge — they would have to be on their own pages, which in turn can be automatically generated, something like that 🤔

@santiago
You're right though: we have to draw a line where it ceases being the means of presenting content and becomes an application platform.
I have a few things on this old phone so it's useful again: I can browse Fedi, I can browse Gemini, I have these remotes that I have hacked together to control various devices in my home, but what these do is send simple HTTP requests, with e.g. WebRTC it's possible to do the video conferencing within the browser — this is too much!

@santiago
I don't hate all web, I like CSS for example — when it's not automatically generated and isn't a result of years of hacking, therefore still human-readable. I like how with nice fonts, minimal CSS and a few color emojis thrown in here and there you can make very simple pages, only a couple of kilobytes big, look sleek — or at least less ugly 🤭
And this works even on my old Lumia — phone that is a decade old and in browser that hasn't been updated in years.

@santiago
That's the beauty of it — it's not "one size fits all", that is why I think it became (on its scale) so succeccful! I like mostly text content, so for me it's perfect, but I do realize that there are others who like other types of content: there are photos, there are videos, and Gemini simply won't cut it.
There are attempts to extend it, like Molerat — something like Gemini with minimal styling, but you're never sure what would stick.
Then there is "smol web"…

@santiago
Yep, now on checkout I have to scan a QR code with a phone that has to be connected to the Internet to enjoy the same discounts that I used to just carrying a piece of plastic with me — there are certainly people who are always online and always have their phone with them, who might like it, but to me it feels totally dystopian, and they probably don't even realize it 🫠
But in any case, I think there are more good things than bad ones 😁

@santiago
And computers became so powerful that even a decade-old system is fine for a lot of things, this in turn makes it possible for us to have more open hardware, and with RISC-V, hopefully, even truly open. There are still some things that surprise me in unpleasant way, like my favourite local supermarket chain obsoleting cards for their loyalty program and replacing them with a mobile "app".