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What to do once you admit that decentralizing everything never seems to work.
https://hackernoon.com/decentralizing-everything-never-seems-to-work-2bb0461bd168
saved 2019-08-31

What to do once you admit that decentralizing everything never seems to work | HackerNoon
Lots of tech projects these days, especially crypto-networks, aspire to decentralization. Or their evangelists say they do, because they feel they need to. Decentralization is the new disruption—the thing everything worth its salt (and a huge ICO) is supposed to be doing. Meanwhile, Internet progenitors like Vint Cerf, Brewster Kahle, and Tim Berners-Lee are trying to re-decentralize the Web. They respond to the rise…

REVOLUTION OF DIGNITY: 2014 events that forever changed Ukraine's history | Explainer: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/21/revolution-of-dignity-events-that.html

Et tu, Fastned?
Fastned, one of the larger North-Western European CPOs, is one of the last to switch to the discriminatory pricing model, the German disease.
https://www.electrive.com/2026/01/20/fastned-app-users-now-get-10-ev-charging-discount/<…

Fastned app users now get 10% EV charging discount - electrive.com
Fastned is introducing a new price offer for registered app users. Effective immediately, there is now a ten percent discount per kilowatt-hour on all

@… to discontinue P2 Solo #sequencer
this is surprising, although I can imagine selling sequencer integrated with computer (P2i) is way more profitable (and you get to charge for support on annual basis), so probably P2S reduces their profit from larger seque…

ONT P2 Solo To Be Discontinued
So, the Oxford Nanopore P2 Solo has been discontinued, and a lot of people seem to be rather upset.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
Desinteresse:
🎵 Zwart Wit
#Desinteresse
https://desinteresse.bandcamp.com/track/zwart-wit
https://open.spotify.com/track/6bzrKC7xRdSDvgKf4Zk0XB

The Dissenting Academies Project https://edintone.com/the-dissenting-academies-project/ Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies in conjunction with Queen Mary College ha

The Dissenting Academies Project - Miscellanea Edintone
Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies in conjunction with Queen Mary College has launched the Dissenting Academies Project.  It provides

Mastodon, a decentralized, open source social media platform and alternative to centralized social media apps like X and Threads,
announced on Wednesday its plans to make its platform more approachable for newcomers
while also targeting creators with the launch of new features.
The changes follow the expansion of Mastodon’s core development team over the past 18 months
to include people with experience across web and mobile and back end,
as well as the hiring o…

Mastodon, a decentralized alternative to X, plans to target creators with new features | TechCrunch
Mastodon is looking to grow its open source, decentralized social network with new features aimed at creators.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Racebannon:
🎵 Disintegrator Integrator
#Racebannon
https://racebannon.bandcamp.com/track/disintegrator-integrator
https://open.spotify.com/track/4UElOsBQkYepAbOFbOFRcV

Twin Cities postal workers with the "National Association of Letter Carriers" (NALC) Branch 9
gathered at the post office on
Lake Street in South Minneapolis on January 18 to demand U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) discontinue its use of postal property—and leave Minnesota
Postal workers are seeing the effects of ICE’s activity on the communities they serve.
“People are scared to shovel the snow, to grab a package.
No one deserves to be t…

"Protect Our Routes, Get ICE Out": Postal Workers Rally in Minneapolis - Workday Magazine
Twin Cities postal workers with the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 9 gathered at the post office on Lake Street in South Minneapolis on January 18 to demand U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) discontinue its use of postal property—and leave Minnesota. The crowd of over 200 union members and allies marched down […]

A U.S. appeals court has cleared the way for a Louisiana law requiring poster-sized displays of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms to take effect
The six judges who voted against the decision wrote a series of dissents,
with some arguing that the law exposes children to government-endorsed religion in a place they are required to be,
presenting a clear constitutional burden
Circuit Judge James L. Dennis, an appointee of Democratic President Bill Clinton,…

Court clears way for Louisiana law requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms to take effect
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has cleared the way for a Louisiana law requiring displays of the Ten Commandments in public classrooms to take effect. The full court voted 12-6 to lift a block placed on the law that a lower court first issued in 2024. In the opinion released Friday, the court said it was too early to make a judgment call on the constitutionality of the law. But the six judges who voted against the decision wrote a series of dissents, some saying that the law exposes chil…