Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es

@Alyx we aren't giving up either. we can't give up on anything, we've forgotten how.
maybe we're doomed to slide into the darkness no matter what we do, but we'll be fighting the whole way down with anything we can find to fight with.

we could also find the courage to keep on living, of course. but, you know,

if we're so keen on wiping ourselves out, we could at least have the decency to make it quick.

slowly warming up the climate until all our food sources die and the air becomes unbreathable is a pretty painful way to go, and will cause the most suffering to the least deserving, over generation after generation.

if we're trying to wipe ourselves out, surely we could do it more mercifully, more courageously.

saving the planet is not the concern.

life on this planet will persist. if you ask us, and many ecologists we know, wiping out all life on Earth is beyond the capability of humanity.

we can, however, wipe ourselves out.
we, who depend on so much, stand to lose the most from our own actions. if we don't change things now, we're going to drive ourselves to extinction. maybe it's already too late.

@kara_dreamer @ari Another architecture which I would like to explore further is something called "cache kernels", which is structured differently from exokernels, but seems to have similar aspirations as exokernels.

Unfortunately, it never really caught on in either business or academia, so precious little literature exists on the topic.

This is a paper that I pinned in my bookmarks some time ago, if anyone is interested. https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~prabal/resources/osprelim/CD94.pdf

hey guys? guys? you think maybe creating this single program that has to do literally everything from implementing a filesystem to 3 different virtual machines to parsers for god knows how many file formats may have been an inherently bad idea that would inevitably concentrate power within the like 3 organizations on the planet that can actually afford to maintain this kind of clusterfuck?

tired of dystopia. give me the struggles of those navigating abundance and community, cooperation and solidarity. what tests their moors, and what is the essence of their ways that transcends abundance? what does the humane world we dream of look like?