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by alexvoda 3y ago
It gets even more depressing when you remember that OpenID was initially meant to allow users to own their identity by self-hosting their identity server or delegating to a trusted entity. But logging in with a URL was unfamiliar to users a
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https://player.vimeo.com/video/52882780
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You showcase the pedanticness that made the FSF ineffective in the last decade+. Instead of focusing on the topic about how integrating the AGPL into GNU was very slow, you sidetracked into free vs open, a topic that has been debated ad-nau
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Correction, it is v3 of the GPL and AGPL which addresses tivoization.
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That useless empty server is not so useless when the GDPR exists that mandates that platforms must provide users with a way to export data. You can import that data and convince others to overcome the network effect and do the same. Theoret
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What about weak copyleft licenses like the LGPL? I think they are particularly vulnerable to this scenario. Also I think in general that software licenses were designed ignoring the isomorphism of code. Code can be data depending on use.
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I would be ok with video recording doorbells if only the homeowner had access to the recording. Ring is just evil.
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Fair. But what alternative path do you propose to oppose ubiquitous surveillance?
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It is available on winget and scoop according to: https://github.com/marticliment/WingetUI/#installation Maybe soon on Chocolately too.
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It can be configured to notify(default), check manually or update automatically. I prefer the default. I only used it with winget, MS Store and Chocolately. In my experience however, it had some issues (I believe they are actually due to wi
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Doesn't matter. They operate in the EU therefore they can still be fined. They can of course decide block access from EU countries.
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I am using it and it is great so far. One of the things I wish was improved was the UI for viewing the details of a package. Something better than right cliking and opening an unmovable modal popup. Maybe a vertical side panel that opens up
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by alexvoda 3y ago
This is a natural solution for Finland because the country is full of bunkers of all shapes and sizes. They do bunkers at scale. It also has the benefit that in case of war with a nearby historically aggressive neighbour, the enemy can not
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by alexvoda 3y ago
I would even endorse personal recording as an act of SOUSveillance . A subversive reverse surveillance. We have to become the ones who watch the watchers.
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There undoubtedly has been a cultural change. But I would argue that the cultural change happened gradually and somewhat later. Closer to 2010 than to 2000 and was probably caused by the "Endless September Syndrome" triggered by t
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Wasn't PHP a CGI script at first? The earliest use of the term "Web 2.0" was in 1999. This was way before what we associate today with "Web 2.0". Web 1.0 was retronymed in order to hype up how much better 2.0 was. A
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Web forms! Sites were no longer a collection of documents. Instead there was sever driven iteractivity via forms and CGI. After Web 2.0 we were supposed to move onto 3.0 the Semantic Web. But it never cought on. Instead JavaScript, AJAX and
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Please wait for the ArchiveTeam to finish first.
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Precisely. Some mechanical training or live assistance is entirely plausible. I experienced a similar thing with HoloLens and other than the limited FOV it was really convincing as a tool. Apple unironically going for the dystopia angle is
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Precisely. And you can withness this in sibling threads. For some reason, today some people actually openly desire or pretend to desire the dystopia. My suspicion is that this is related to the longtermist movement.
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Your first paragraph misses the point. The argument was not about the current rules of any current platform. It was about the potential for abuse on future VR/AR platforms by platform owners. The platform owners are the rule makers and
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As I expected you do not want to engage in actual dialogue and answer the question I asked. You are just posturing that it is inevitable and therefore do not want to answer why you favour this dystopia to the detriment of any other possible
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Talking about wallpapers is derailing the conversation. The point was that just as we see the social networks of today and the games of today getting enshitified so will every VR experience get enshitified. As for writing it yourself, care
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I will not dignify your questions with an answer because they are a philosophical derailment. And turning the conversation into one about solipsism and epistemological nihilism is a dead end. Related to this, the simulation hypothesis is no
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WHYYYY? You are approaching the territory of describing enslavement in your description.
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I find value in maintaining HN a civilized online space.
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First of all, people still go to concerts and will not stop anytime soon. Even if people enjoy music in a variety of ways, people very much still enjoy live music for being live. So it is a bad counter example. Secondly, all of the examples
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There is no guaranteed path for the future. Humanity makes the future it will live in. So I am just looking ahead in a different direction from you. I find it hard to not throw a plethora of insults at you for the vision you endorsed. The M
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> There are enormous advantages to living (as much as possible of) your life in VR: > - your home can be arbitrarily large at zero cost and without taking any land away from anyone else Except it isn't. > - you can change the
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What do you expect from a self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist economist who is reactionary enough to find a way in an article about AI to complain about how the left cares about common left talking points the right hates. An actually educate

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