HeinzStuckeIt

8 ms·

91.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
> derailed into EEE threads the way HN is constantly getting derailed into enshittification threads And yet in hindsight, this seems to have been a pretty accurate way of looking at developments. Anyway, there’s a difference between chit
92.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
The OP says tankies. Those kinds of extreme left are extreme even by non-USA standards. A European-style democratic socialist like Mamdani would be, one hopes, to the right of them. Tankies were largely forced out of European mainstream par
93.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
Cultures around the world have barred children from certain social places until they go through a rite of passage that the whole society, not just the parents, recognize.
94.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
I was on Slashdot 1998–2004 and found plenty of substantial tech discussion. The meme culture you mentioned was there, but it was usually in posts downvoted into invisibility unless you deliberately chose to browse at -1. > I guess I use
95.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
I don't have a link, but I have seen exactly what he's talking about, which probably means that it is an established business model and multiple actors are doing it. A similar thing I have randomly come across multiple times on Yo
96.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
Most platforms for the last decade have used phone numbers for real-human detection. Facebook is well known to quickly lock new signups' accounts until they give a phone number. Obviously that can be gamed by some people in some places
97.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
HN is definitely founded by a creepy VC firm and some of the posts get comments by startup-culture hustlers. But most posts don't. Instead you find the same broad population of people looking for news for nerds that used to be on Sla
98.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
Using a HN post to talk about something unrelated you wanted to talk about anyway, has been part of HN for years. Probably because a lot of people feel with the rise of 140-character type social media, there are fewer and fewer venues on th
99.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
On modern social media, even if you had a group full of smart and reasonable people, the platform itself is injecting crap that may well drive out many of them. I rececently returned to Reddit since there are no other remaining discussion v
100.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
The FBI and courts are enforcing the law that exists solely because the Founding Fathers enshrined it, but that says nothing about the ethical views that might exist among Americans. There are plenty of Americans who don’t find selling pira
101.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
Pirating an old movie to sell is not considered ethically problematic everywhere. In many, many countries on earth pirated DVDs were sold at the marketplace, and no one – buyer or seller – had qualms about it. When the authorities shut down
102.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
As an academic, that is exactly what the kind of noncommittal, don’t burn your bridges with colleagues and funding bodies thing that I would say about even clearly flawed research if I were put on the spot by a popular-press publication. In
103.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
GR is also great if you are into academic nonfiction, Classics, poetry, etc. The site does, after all, let you track and review any publication with an ISBN. What my peers and I use it for is worlds apart from the romance novel or LGBT youn
104.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
I wonder if the Nordic languages would be in a healthier state in this respect, in terms of usage and not resorting to English in mixed groups, if their television broadcasting had been shared among each other more, instead of each country
105.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
A lot of the outrage isn't at scraping, it is at the disruptive techniques used to do so. Like web-scraping whole websites that already provide convenient images of their content for download.
106.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
> I'd argue it's already been flipped on. The Great Firewall is, among various other things, an attempt to create a single historical narrative for the PRC by blocking out reference to things like Tiananmen, discussions of earl
107.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
I wonder if nerds looking for cooking info might not be better served by downloading a few hundred old cookbooks from shadow libraries and training an LLM on them. Then you can avoid the pathologies and potential fakeness of online content-
108.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
You are talking about textbooks, I was talking about research publications: monographs, collections of articles, and reference books.
109.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
The key lies in how easily the process is automated. Once a certain amount of freshly published ebooks are getting rephrased and sold by someone else, authors would be playing whack-a-mole with copyright claims, and they might not even beco
110.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
More and more authors of nonfiction today make money from a number of channels other than actual book sales. The book only serves as a promotional tool for their personal brand, and is only a collection of previously published blog posts or
111.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
This is already happening, and through a technique that copyright law does not really protect against. Writers of genre fiction are already reporting that e-books are being run through an LLM to completely rephrase it, and the result sold u
112.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
> piracy doesn't hurt sales Funny enough, an academic department I know has cut back on its purchase requests to the university library, on the assumption that everyone, students and staff alike, is just going to download the books
113.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
That high school is necessarily a place of cliquey behavior and bullying, and that kids may even benefit from it, is not a universal thing. In some countries, viewers of imported American TV shows are baffled by that depiction of high schoo
114.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
> I think I learned half my basic social skills from lunch rooms in school What a lot of people learn from lunch rooms is not a happy social lesson. It’s who is allowed to sit where, and who is outcast from a table. It’s the shit teenage
115.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
> many African nations attempted socialism in the 20th century, and all of those states have since collapsed This is false. Senegal attempted small-s socialism under its first postcolonial regime (under Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1960–1980)
116.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
You might get, in a somewhat politically homogeneous community, enough people to boycott one store to make a difference, though frankly that shop might have to already strike residents as objectionable for some other reason, like its owne
117.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
> When I would've guessed Gnome corporate funders would've been focused on getting Linux desktop on corporate desktop Already a decade ago, I commented on a news-for-nerds site like this one, “Well, GNOME makes choices we don’t
118.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
Lots of countries use the SSN equivalent as a public ID and sometimes have for decades now. The Nordic countries, for example, often require it on any application that requires your real name. I, as an academic, just put in a grant applicat
119.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
How much of that, at least among elites, is due to looking at China's dizzying development, bound straight for the singularity, while the old appeals to liberty and rights seem to have only got the USA bogged down in gridlock and squab
120.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
The screen is also a continual, addictive flow of short video clips that are largely designed to sell product, stoke FOMO, make people feel inadequate about beauty, etc. Observe young people using their phones, and you can see the social us

More ›