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rottingleaf

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  • UK police working with controversial tech giant Palantir on real-time surveillance network

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  • About appearances there's also that everybody has what you're describing in their stereotype of Britain (if not itself, then the Harry Potter universe at least), but feels that there's something "true", "real", "deep", "magical" about it.

    It's the feeling that "yes, that's ghoulish, but maybe in the end that's for the better, how do we even know?".

    A lot of cheap fantasy books in Russia in the 00s had that feeling too communicated, it's probably one of the things that prevented the Russian society from being alarmed about the regime we have now.

    The worst propaganda tool in my opinion, because it makes a person look at mafia and think "it's mafia, but maybe I shouldn't judge it like mafia, what if they're secretly beneficial", or look at jihadist bandits and think the same, or look at a fascist dictatorship and think the same. And worst of all, because in such it exploits openness of mind, as opposed to most other propaganda.

  • UK police working with controversial tech giant Palantir on real-time surveillance network

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  • I mean, when popular movies started getting stupid and neutered, someone should have realized that we're in the stage of bringing the interesting things from older movies to the real world.

  • UK police working with controversial tech giant Palantir on real-time surveillance network

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  • Unfortunately they can block services in the Internet, and this federation will consist of Internet services that can be blocked. There's no need to go a level above that.

    It's like in the olden days kings couldn't eavesdrop on everyone, so many people could conspire in secret against them. But with time recording devices, listening devices (including some very smart ones not requiring electricity), secret police organization methods emerged.

    You can't say that an open federated system will help, just like you can't say that street gossip will help.

    What we might need is a resilient multimodal communication system for revolutions of the future. Making weapons is now a bit more accessible than in 1917 or 1813 or ... , but the coordination of any kind of revolutionaries is less competitive against states than then.

    With functionality including tracking cops and politicians.

  • UK police working with controversial tech giant Palantir on real-time surveillance network

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  • So. We are sheeple after all. Because in supposedly free and democratic countries such mechanisms, which will kill freedom and democracy, are being erected with very good speed.

    Also I think the ancap idea that everyone should own a bag of killer drones might seem more attractive.

    That Ulysses' pact of people not carrying weapons and expecting the police to defend them, it naturally doesn't limit those who don't take it.

    Like elites who use every weapon they can get their hands on to change the world.

    The good part is that this thing being built now, it's unstable. It kills itself on the next stage. The solution will have to be found.

  • Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers

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  • It's not anonymous, it in fact exchanges everything else from real currencies' good properties to be hard to control.

  • American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s

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  • I've learned of one interesting pathway from ancap to socialism long ago, as you might have guessed, through Georgism, but more generally - every finite resource that can't be produced, like territory and laws of nature, shouldn't be owned and should be considered common property shared by communist means. What can be produced is private property without limitations.

    Thus you can own guns, tanks, jets and air carriers, but you shouldn't be able to fully own territory and patents, because that eventually leads to legally reinforced monopoly.

    I think there's a logical connection from that to what our future looks like and how it will have to be resolved. Unless we want a caste society.

  • Dems Demand Answers from Palantir About Plans to Build IRS “Mega-Database” of American Citizens

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  • 90s were such a fruitful time for art, really.

    Everything happening I've seen predicted in Star Wars EU, they are literally building the Empire the way it existed there (not this particular article, but the whole moment of history around us).

    But somehow I don't feel too happy about owning trekkies.

  • Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up

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  • That's what we had with xulrunner. Unfortunately Mozilla dropped XUL and didn't offer a good replacement.

    You could make any kind of browser with xulrunner.

  • Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up

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  • Ladybird is nice, but has a long way to go.

    I personally think just tracking today's Web is useless. It's dying. It's a system that went from conscious development to malicious growth of standards for the purpose of capturing the field.

    There's a need of at least search, payments, hosting and CDN (and pooling in there, and paying for a resource and selling a resource) being integrated into the system for the new Web-like thing. So that siloed services solving these problems weren't needed. I'm thinking lately of a system with some kind of "resource market", where it's seamless to globally sell and buy storage and computing resources, and transparent routing to those resources, with the market itself reminiscent of MMORPG markets, like in EVE. With search and payments being uniform, so that your client would aggregate results of many automatically retrieved indexers from a pool, without dependence on a single search engine.

    I dunno if this looks stupid. Just - paying for things with ads seems to have been a bad idea retrospectively.

  • Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up

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  • At some point in time FF was a normal project. A good project even. It could be in theory forked as easily as INN, or LibreOffice, or Xorg (oops, never mind), or whatever else big and "classical". It was open to contributors, open in leadership. It was kinda anarchist.

    Like a good FOSS project, they considered all the tinkery\hobbyist use cases, having xulrunner and XUL in general. Like a good FOSS project, they didn't treat what's now normal there as normal.

    They had a sane UI. They supported the SeaMonkey project, because why be a jerk when you need not.

    But then at some point they made a deal with Google. So that's a lesson - any deal works both ways.

    For me dropping XUL was the first firm sign of FF's death, because they didn't replace it with anything as good. It almost felt as if the main technical merit of dropping XUL was inability to tinker with it, and XUL's problems with security and parallelism were used as excuses. They could have made an incompatible, but just as functional replacement, not just for my convenience, but for their own too.

    So, IMHO, if FF hadn't died, they'd just split paths with the commercial web as far as a decade ago. Probably come up with something like what's Gemini project is doing now, except much more.

    BTW, FF was a big enough browser to even affect de facto web standards, were it a good thing to use while ignoring Google's bullshit. Instead they decided to track the bullshit and make the FF itself crappier and "more like Chrome" to compete for Chrome users.

  • Trump may launch Trump-branded mobile phone and a wireless service that could compete with the likes of Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile.

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  • It's literally a political franchise.

    Despite the stupidity of looks, to be honest - this looks from outside very US-American. Not like cowboy movies, not even like 30s, but like something written by Baum.

  • Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community

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  • Yes, the issue is that those loud people are also distracting you from work.

  • Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community

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  • It's not about remote vs office work, but working remotely all the time reminds particularly painfully about not having a SO or many friends. When working from office, covertly texting a good acquaintance 2-3 times a day kinda replaces that. When at home, you could do much more of that, or probably bunch together to work, but you don't. Just sit there, smell your socks, sip tea, get distracted for nothing good, and feel how your life passes into abyss. When in office, you at least have the stress of many loud people around to distract you from that.

  • Trump coveted a military spectacle but his parade proved underwhelming: ‘Just kind of lame’

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  • Ah ... As someone with clearly different expectations (living in Russia) I'd say everything except being unable to march in lockstep and showing Coinbase ads was kinda fine, the big costume show in Russian parades doesn't really cause any feeling of reverence and such.

    US military doesn't have to show anything big on parades, because it, ahem, has modern jets, nukes, air carriers in bigger numbers than some countries have infantry vehicles.

    Probably a military ceremony should be organized better, but ... it's a theater anyway. A kind of that falling out of relevance, too.

  • BlackRock’s Bitcoin Scheme: How Wall Street Giants Are Bilking Poor People Out of Money

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  • Probably because they are. Could have made it a text otherwise.

  • Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year

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  • And next you lose them

  • Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year

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  • It is exactly that. One may have a backtest. You'll see that real calls will be falsely detected.

    What "modern AI" even means, you are arguing about taste of oysters with the people who have eaten them, unlike you.

    Oh, of course you can't have a backtest with a proprietary centrally hosted model until it's deployed. Shit-shit-shit.

    They have job openings that people simply aren’t applying for, it’s not a question of funding.

    It is. Double the pay, see how many people there are. If still too few, double it again.

    I'm certain it'll be less money wasted that on this bot done the lawful way, with proper compensations to victims and their families. We are not considering the situation where it's not.

    They’re getting too many phone calls to handle and many of those phone calls should not be going to them in the first place. What should they do?

    Hire more operators.

    Contact centers have not been invented yesterday, it's just plain bullshit this simple task is somehow hard today, when it has already been simplified far beyond what people in year 1977 dreamed about.

    It's the actual job of the government, BTW, and not playing Caesar with real armies or playing Master of Orion with real systems.

  • The Army’s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, OpenAI and More

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  • Maybe the ability to court-martial them for things non-criminal for civilians.

  • Is Google about to destroy the web?

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  • I remember it when good websites didn't have any business model at all because there weren't anyone busy with inventing it, all people involved spent their effort on making the website valuable.

    The business models were in TV and radio outside of the web.

    I'm not old, I'm 29.