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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • WWW has been a complete crapshow ever since it started simply because it became popular.

    It was designed to serve documents over the internet, except everyone co-opted for their own needs like websites, APIs, etc.

    That left us with broken as hell crap at every layer from the joke that is HTML/CSS, the clownshow that is HTTP, and the circus that is JavaScript.

    And don’t even get the started on the mountain of vulnerabilities being stupid obvious crap that wouldn’t dare to fly in even basic GNU utilities at the time.

    Adding insult to injury, this guy hasn’t even provided a valid solution to this mess like hyphanet or the very newly released freenet.

    Which by the way tries to hack cheat the system with WebAssembly so that it doesn’t have to deal with HTTPS directly since its an exclusive client server protocol.


  • The core difference, arguably only with the US, are individual freedoms like speech, religion, armament, etc.

    Even though the US is currently trampling all over the bill of rights, it isn’t something that can be easily ignored or covered up. Protest can and will still happen all the time.

    China heavily values cohesion over individuality, so the only “free speech” you get to usually witness is scrutinized before it ever reaches you, and everyone is aware that the government actively covers up issues.

    Aside from that, China is miles ahead of the US in development, infrastructure, and their economy. Most of the US complaints over China are hypocritical as you say, or only exist due to the US viewing China as a military an economic threat.

    A lot of people would probably be happy to give up those freedoms in exchange for social stability and quality of life if they were given the option.