How so?

Since when is slop-producing ad-machine social media the only access to speech, press and association?

Since about 10 years ago, online platforms are a major part of how many people speak, publish, and associate.

> since when is speech I don't like speech?!

The only way to enforce it is basically a very dangerous game and will normalize gov control of the internet down to the individual level.

> Why is that problematic? They don't have your private keys and their "level of access" is equivalent to any other certificate authority that your browser trusts.

Let's Encrypt could stop issuing certificates to you, if the administration decided that necessary. This would at least disrupt whatever you were serving. Not that I think this is likely, only possible.

I think LE clealy demonstrated the need for a accessible free ACME authority. But it is high time for more alternatives (EU and China at least). FWIW: Everything around public infrastructure should be run decentralized not-for-profit using national resources. Things like DNS Registrars are silly if you think about it. They just buy it from TLD holders anyway.

> Just like C++ never killed C, despite being perfect replacement for it

I think c++ didn't replace C because it is a bad language. It did not offer any improvements on the core advantages of C.

Rust however does. It's not perfect, but it has a substantially larger chance of "replacing" C, if that ever happens.

I don’t agree that C++ is a bad language, though it has been standardized to death into a bad language. But the whole point is for C++ to not be worse than C while offering a lot more, which I think it does well. Of course, my last serious use of C++ was a little after release E…

Let's encrypt supports ACME. Here are hundreds of ways to obtain a certificate:

https://letsencrypt.org/docs/client-options/#other-client-op...

> so that they don't have to do const $=document.getElementById,

``` const window.$ = (q)=>document.querySelector(q); ``` Emulates the behavior much better. This is already set on modern version of browsers[1]

[1] https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/web_co...

It is set, but only in the developer console, not for JavaScript included with the website/app.

> Actually, for Robotics hardware is a solved problem.

I understand the sentiment but this couldn't be further from the truth. There are no robotic hand models that get close to the fidelity of humans (or even other primates).

The technology just doesn't exist yet, motors are a terrible muscle replacement. Even completely without software, a puppeteered hand model would be revolutionary.

PayPal and Apple pay take a significant cut of the transaction. CC is a lot less and bank is mostly free of TX fees. Most users don't know/don't care, so given the option, they will likely take it and funnel their donations to conglomerates.

PayPal doesn't cost significantly more than what a small online place can get from other payment processors. It's something like 3% + $0.50. That's also not much more than what a small business can usually get for in person credit cards.

This site does use buymeacoffee.com, which appears to be a dedicated payment platform. Its transaction fee is apparently 5%, which is steeper, but better for these small donations because of the lack of a fixed fee.

I don't like to input Cc details into random sites whose main business is processing said transactions.

Maybe you'd like one of the banks that provides you with limited-use or one-time credit cards? I've been using one called Envelope Budgeting for the last few months after my previous one shut down. It's $40/year, but that's waived if you spend more than $5,000 USD in card purchases. I put the Neal.fun on my "Misc" card that I keep at $0 balance and transfer money to when I buy something.

I believe there are other services that will also give you virtual cards, I'm not familiar with them off hand.

https://envelopebudgeting.com/

I use https://privacy.com for this, you can create virtual cards with total spend limits or spend rate limits.

I'm not understanding this sentiment at all. You'd rather input your CC details into a site whose main business isn't dealing safely with credit cards - rather than inputting it into Stripe (which is what his site uses), whose entire raison d'etre is doing so?

Sorry, I got the expression wrong. You must inverse the logic :)

But xx% of some amount is still better than 100% of $0. And the pure convenience of using PayPal, Apple Pay or things like Ko-Fi will probably result in more net donations.

> Apple Pay take a significant cut of the transaction

I don't think this is true

> Apple Pay does not cause additional fees for users and merchants.[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pay#Cost

You can use ReVanced on Android to block the ads in the YouTube app

> Be careful. It is trivial for others to take advantage of such selfless kindness.

What harm does is do? Altruistic kindness is not affected by the response. That's the point. Being "exploited" for kindness is not possible, it's not a currency.

> Ingratitude is common, as is sociopathy.

Source? If anything, most anecdotes point to the opposite, gratitude and kindness is extremely common.

> Which is why they’re so bad at maths for instance.

I don't think LLMs currently are intelligent. But please show a GPT-5 chat where it gets any math problem wrong, that most "intelligent" people would get right.