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by 4bpp 10mo ago
If the end result is going to be that the EU turns into Russia or China under the pretext of standing up to them (because apparently building an opaque process that civil society can't keep up with to ram through authoritarian laws is
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by 4bpp 10mo ago
"The plans for scanning your chats were on display for fifty Earth years at the local planning department in Alpha Centauri"? Nobody's attention span is infinite. I don't doubt I could understand all details of the EU le
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by 4bpp 11mo ago
There was a great essay on this topic a while ago, including discussions of apparent cases where the thing you are anticipating has seemingly happened: https://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/785766737747574784/th..
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by 4bpp 11mo ago
I don't see anything about CalDAV, sync or mobile integration on that site, though. The thing that actually makes Google/Nextcloud calendars useful is that they enable a workflow where you schedule events on your computer (where m
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by 4bpp 11mo ago
The post, at least, seems to have no word about a web interface, though? I'm aware of a number of CalDAV/CardDAV servers, but they all seem to be designed for a workflow where you only access the calendar from a mobile app. Conver
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by 4bpp 11mo ago
It seems like they, too, have no calendar application? Google Calendar is the single most indispensable feature of the entire Google suite for me (apart from Mail, of course), so I can't see myself switching to something without, and y
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by 4bpp 11mo ago
The somethingpunk settings are supposed to be gritty and dominated by exploitative megacorps, though! As a rule, the thingpunk needs a Man dominating by means of the thing to rebel against. The only reason "solarpunk" has gotten
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by 4bpp 11mo ago
Two things stand out, besides what has been already mentioned. * The infantile corporate-cutesy wording "hop on a call" is not appropriate when talking to somebody who feels that you deeply wronged them. It has the same vibes as c
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by 4bpp 11mo ago
I don't know how you would measure it, though I would assume that there is no particular reason for the people who use the language or their preferences to change? A quick search brought up that they apparently renamed their master bra
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by 4bpp 11mo ago
That is a crude and politically inept way of putting it, but do you not think there is some grain of truth to it? If you opt into something with as high a barrier to entry and necessary time commitment as a programming language, you natural
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by 4bpp 11mo ago
Unfortunately, this kind of culture where you joyfully screw over your real users to chase the approval and benefit of some spherical user in a vacuum that you would like to cater to has become endemic in the free software world. It proba
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by 4bpp 11mo ago
The problem is that for government power expansions/individual rights reductions, "Yes" can in fact be taken to mean "Yes forever, without ever revisiting the question". (The mechanism needn't be that there is
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by 4bpp 1y ago
Even if we accept all your claims at face value, your behaviour in your capacity as the moderator of that subreddit was still immoral. However you feel about it, being a moderator is a voluntary responsibility which comes with an expectatio
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by 4bpp 1y ago
There were any number of less pejorative comparisons you could have made if that was all you wanted to say. I regularly see grandiose claims of life-changing benefits on everything ranging from mildly pointless and overpriced meditation ret
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by 4bpp 1y ago
Forum dictators who are on your side can seem like a pretty nice thing, and the forum dictator of the canonical subreddit gets to curate a community that is on his side by design while everyone else is left to scramble for themselves in the
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by 4bpp 1y ago
Your post does not really do much to dispel the negative picture that the opening article paints of you. You say their decline is "predominantly an industry problem". Is this also the case for your own company, Formation? You went
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by 4bpp 1y ago
I remember that quite well. However, the backlash was very specific; as far as I remember it was never directed at the company as a whole, let alone the person of, say, Eric Schmidt.
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by 4bpp 1y ago
And yet, nobody feels that so viscerally that they feel compelled to write these schoolyard-level insults directed at its leadership every time it comes up in a HN thread.
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by 4bpp 1y ago
Shouldn't Google (Glass) get the credit for the idea? The way Facebook gets singled out for "creepiness" in a world full of bad actors is pretty ridiculous, and actually makes it easier for the others to keep flying under the
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by 4bpp 1y ago
I've been seeing the term "hostage puppies" being used for this for a while now; apparently it is associated with esr, though he himself disclaims credit ( https://x.com/esrtweet/status/18915282906761
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by 4bpp 1y ago
There's little point in retreading all the old arguments about COVID here (whose mind is going to be changed at this point?), but just to illustrate the sort of things I am talking about, there was the early whiplash in government mess
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by 4bpp 1y ago
The problem is that essays like this are always written, preserved and propagated with the benefit of hindsight, producing the mistaken feeling that an actionable lesson is contained within. "A bad thing happened. We had been a little
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by 4bpp 1y ago
Just to comment on the downvotes, I think this (a comment to the effect of "I don't like it" being downvoted) is an understandable if unfortunate consequence of modern internet culture not taking "it's just not for
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by 4bpp 1y ago
That makes a lot of sense, given that in the Kurrent era it was actually considered proper to use a "Romance" (and hence "modern-looking") script even for non-Germanic loanwords in German text, mirroring the Fraktur&#x2F
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by 4bpp 1y ago
A friend got into it around 8th year of school and strung me along so I can still read it pretty comfortably, but without that, the answer would be no - some of the most common letters, like 'e', are just too different. I get the
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by 4bpp 1y ago
Is it really? I can think of approximately one political battle the tech crowd won (the Crypto Wars), to dozens of lost ones. Meanwhile, the battles where a strong technical solution was fielded are looking fairly good even when the politic
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by 4bpp 1y ago
Well, conversely, if you figure you have already lost anyway, why not try the technical solutions? We've tried the political solutions for so long, but this thing just keeps coming back. We have to put our lives and day jobs on hold to
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by 4bpp 1y ago
They are free to do that, but what of it? Sanctions and boycotts are "performative" in the same sense, and yet they continue being a popular tool to compel voters and politicians of other countries to act or refrain from acting in
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by 4bpp 1y ago
As far as I remember, Apple's proposal was to involve https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_hashing which is meant to sidestep this exact problem - and either way, your objection would be equally applicable t
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by 4bpp 1y ago
So what would stop the list of hashes from being extended with hashes of copyrighted media, evidence of corruption (labelled slander or an invasion of the perpetrator's privacy) or evidence of the preceding abuses of the system themsel

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