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rottingleaf

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  • JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress) - Jono Alderson

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  • I've read it wasn't a hack, but my memory is mixed and I'm as old as JavaScript.

    It was somewhat of a consensus that scriptability is needed. Java applets, Flash, Sun plans to add support for scripting webpages with Java, alternative plans for the same with TCL, Netscape plans for the same with some Lisp, and then they decided upon what became JS.

    A lot of things are scriptable and it is convenient. I'm not sure anyone expected this to be just used as a base for more and more complexity in an application platform. Probably the idea was that scripted hypertext pages will remain such, and in future there will be other dedicated technologies for other purposes.

    I'm fascinated with Java, just can't concentrate on learning it. My idea of a wonder language would run on something like JVM (or like Forth machine, LOL) and be as terse and simple as TCL.

  • UK wants to weasel out of demand for Apple encryption back door

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  • I didn't say "prove", I used another word with bigger allowance. Of "likely backdoors vs likely not" kind. I wanted to say that their "public" conflicts with governments and their statements of the "trust us, we won't sell you" kind are all worth nothing, because being caught lying won't cost them anything.

  • UK wants to weasel out of demand for Apple encryption back door

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  • In theory you can learn mind reading from some fantasy universe and check every Apple person. Or ask a crystal ball. Or use some other way to collect full information about our universe, check every rabbit hole, so to say, and then confidently confirm "there's no Apple backdoor here". "Here" meaning this plane of existence.

    In practice yes.

    EDIT: Forgot - the "refused to cooperate" and "they have disagreements" things even in daily wisdom don't change the probability of Apple having made backdoors. It's PR. You most likely won't learn it from the news if they do, in fact, cooperate.

  • The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia

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  • Switzerland is small. Adapting its system for a bigger nation blindly might result in something like Turkey.

    But I've just refreshed my idea of its system and it's similar to what I'm describing, yes.

    The main difference is actually that Soviet system had a few levels of councils, the lower level electing the next, while in Swiss system there are three levels all elected directly.

    We know for sure that Stalin abused that property to gain power. And one can argue that Yeltsin did the same before dismantling it.

  • 6G mobile could divide the world

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  • Honestly - how much bandwidth and speeds do we really need? I'm optimistic over things like Briar.

    I think maybe meshnets over LoRa and such are going to become more common for communication. Right now it's agriculture, hiking and doomsday devices, but maybe they will become more popular.

  • To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model

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  • I'm still fucking ashamed, I was 9 and me and my sis had an ICQ friend. He was the same age as our IRL friend, had the same name, except it was a different guy someplace in Germany. Yet somehow the friendship a bit transcended that little nuance.

    And I wrote such horribly idiotic stuff.

  • UK wants to weasel out of demand for Apple encryption back door

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  • These things you write, they are not in any way substantiation of the claim that Apple doesn't make backdoors.

  • Elon Musk's X slams French criminal investigation

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  • Yes, and in general I'm thinking how good an analogy it is and why did it never occur to me before.

    Also in the sense that you can gamble anywhere, but to feel safe and comfortable and solid you go to a casino. Just like with platforms.

  • Giving Up on Element & Matrix.org

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  • The UI is not that important. Something a bit similar to Discord in appearance and experience is doable in plenty of available UI toolkits and libraries and frameworks and whatever.

    The system itself is important, so that it would be functional with federation, yet not as prone to fragmentation as XMPP, yet efficient.

  • Dystopian Startup Lets the Wealthy Rent Off Duty Cops on Demand

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  • I once thought it's possible to build some kind of "idealized" Empire from Star Wars. Almost like the Soviet space dream.

    The problem with these people is - they don't know what they want to do. They have vibes.

    I can relate to that very much, I too for most part have vibes and not understanding, and also executive dysfunction, so my life is vibe-driven.

    They think they erode the oppressive mechanism (sometimes) or change the world so that the better would be on top (that'd be them in their opinion). These are actually similar in the sense of trying to slowly break what they consider to be chains. Except they don't, they reinforce it.

    You can't build a cyberpunk world (no matter dystopian or utopian) without the technologies used being interoperable, replaceable, durable, and available to many people. That's how those worlds exist, through a certain kind of technologies being as ingrained into the society as public domain works of literature.

    While these platforms are not such. These platforms for me reminisce China before Opium Wars. A similar degeneracy, feeling of power and lack of feedbacks. (I hope the Chinese have this association too and something in their lives prevents a similar crash, but my hope isn't very strong)

  • Elon Musk's X slams French criminal investigation

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  • When did we start treating rage casino as a free speech example?

    Platforms are rage casinos.

  • Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette

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  • I actually like how people are again on the wave of understanding that anarchism is right even if you've voluntarily consented to hierarchy. And other similar things.

    Sometimes you need to break rules. Entropy and life are more important.

  • Dystopian Startup Lets the Wealthy Rent Off Duty Cops on Demand

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  • I'm not talking about the part of close affect, that feels real today too if you read the news of the involved regions.

    I'm talking about the reasons being hell knows what, a bit how WWI is remembered. About the public emotion around them being "trying to put paper fake feelings into flesh". Same with the rest.

  • Giving Up on Element & Matrix.org

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  • Suppose for text messages, sharing files, contacts and such we have solutions, and with a set of libraries solving the hard parts, that can be done relatively easily. Encryption is hard, but suppose we are not even doing E2EE yet, that we are fine with TLS till the server, mutual TLS between servers, and additional something like OTR or PGP for 1-on-1 conversations.

    Voice/video calls, and especially group voice/video calls, are a different matter entirely. You have to think, solve latency problems, congestion problems, so that those were usable at all.

    Discord UI is not very nice.

  • It's rude to show AI output to people

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  • You differentiate by only seeing what your acknowledged peers post and what their acknowledged peers post.

    That's for communities of many people. That requires having global transparent ID of the other user. Now you interact with a service on the Web. That stops being good enough.

    I actually like that, because that might mean that today's Web in its entirety is not good enough.

    The old "services yielding linked hypertext" one - yes. A personal webpage is a person. It's possible to devise common way of checks. Many services, some good and some not - a way to technically separate them too.

    An alternative to Usenet with global IDs for users and posts - yes.

    But one platform-website for all of a kind of interactions with generic executable dynamic contents - morally obsolete.

    If that happens, I'm going to donate to OpenAI and whoever else makes it happen. Well, maybe not much, but I am.

  • Dystopian Startup Lets the Wealthy Rent Off Duty Cops on Demand

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  • Cyberpunk is not only a critique and warning, but what's important is that even its dystopian part explores the human diversity, just projected onto reality in a very different way. It feels deep, scary, cruel, but not degenerate.

    Our reality feels superficial and degenerate. As if everything were turning fake. Even today's wars feel almost fake. That is, the ruin and murder parts are very much not. But they are not surrounded by much of any sincere emotion or ideology. Not even the kind central powers had in WWI (disgustingly bland propaganda about French and British negro soldiers, our good land with oaks and rivers versus their land of pesky republican ashen, barbaric Russian hordes and so on ; well, the Entente side wasn't much better, but better).

    I mean, there's such cyberpunk as this too, and there's always depth. It's just different from how in books you feel as if the depth were coming itself to you, while IRL you have to remove distractions and forget everything and drop your hands, and then you might see.

    Hug your favourites, and good luck in the Climate Wars.

    That's too slow a thing to lend its name to actual wars.

    Late Rome was influenced a fair bit by climate change, yet nothing about its wars is usually called by that association.

  • The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia

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  • So you accept the dystopian surveillance state because in this instance it has served your purpose.

    Divide et impera.

  • The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia

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  • It’s up to us as voters to elect governments that do not abuse surveillance technology.

    Surveillance technology is only feedback.

    There's also the regulator which uses that feedback. It's means of regulation are bots, properly formed news, law policies, and raw action. Probably even targeted murders.

    That system together affects whom "we as voters" elect. Because we are too many to organize, while for regulation our numbers and diversity are actually favorable, to treat us all as one object.

    Which means that electoral democracy is dead. Direct democracy with nationwide mandatory participation and rotational sortitioned filling of state roles requiring a working individual (like conscription where you can't refuse or it's a process requiring some proof of good reasons) may work.

    To increase as much as possible the technical complexity of influencing a society like an object.

    One can also (with reservations and limitations and very careful design) look at the Soviet system (one that really functioned in early 20s and late 80s).

    The key is nationwide participation. Electing someone else to represent you is just too risky with such crowd control means as available today.

    While the technology can be made public-controlled in the widest sense, so that not only a certain JD Vance could see where you are at every moment, but that you could see where he is as well. All state surveillance should be public. And there should be no state secrets.

  • Russian lawmakers say 'security threat' WhatsApp should prepare to leave Russia

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  • They actually don't yet have mesh routing, it's more like an automated sneakernet over BT and shared Wi-Fi right now, until you have access to global Internet. Like ships at high seas exchanging mail and news.

    Briar has an alpha stage client for Linux phones among other things, unfortunately I use FreeBSD right now and don't want to reboot to try it, and without rebooting there are some problems under Linux JRE under Linux emulation, and under native JRE it swears at unknown OS.