darby_eight

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by darby_eight 3y ago
You're describing a more restrictive version of a trademark. Why don't they call it such?
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by darby_eight 3y ago
Over which copyright?
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by darby_eight 3y ago
> Google didn't create all of that: the ad-sphere was alive and kicking long before anyone heard of Google. I never said they did. Hell, print publications were nearly as bad as the internet has become—marketing is simply a large so
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by darby_eight 3y ago
...why not? The article seems to clearly imply it to my eye.
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by darby_eight 3y ago
I'm actually ok with this given that google is the source of the internet's dependency on advertisements as its sole method of reliable income for non-subscribers. They are more than welcome to reintroduce less destructive methods
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by darby_eight 3y ago
> They are quite opposed as texts! The texts are quite different, this is true, but I don't find them contradictory. Whereas Tractatus was almost a facetious or flippant rejection of the millenia-long project to agree on a philosoph
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by darby_eight 3y ago
...plundering land that wasn't theirs. The native americans were wealthy and we took their wealth. That's textbook plunder. Granted, they weren't making their wealth available on a market in a way european capital would pre
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by darby_eight 3y ago
One can certainly hope that!
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by darby_eight 3y ago
??? american natural resources alone funded centuries of economic growth.
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by darby_eight 3y ago
While there are certainly many other forms of slavery than the sort of chattel slavery that we've supposedly collectively moved beyond, I don't think it's a very controversial statement to point out that capital would happily
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by darby_eight 3y ago
I'm referring to his two works, the "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" and "Philosophical Investigations". There's a lot explored here, but Wittgenstein basically makes the argument that the natural logic of lang
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by darby_eight 3y ago
> Scraping auth-walled data is different. When you sign up, you have to check "I agree to the terms," and the terms generally say, "You can't scrape us." So, you can't just make a million bot accounts that t
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by darby_eight 3y ago
With Wittgenstein I think we see that "hallucinations" are a part of language in general, albeit one I could see being particularly vexing if you're trying to build a perfectly controllable chatbot.
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by darby_eight 3y ago
Genuine question—how are ip4 local networks any easier to administrate with ip4 than ip6? Ip6 seems like it has the same capabilities but without the misery of a constrictive address space and its solution, NAT. Hell, if I could DISABLE ip4
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by darby_eight 3y ago
I'm not sure I buy this progressive narrative, but i for damn sure don't expect anything from my employer that isn't legally obligated. Anyway, corporations still engage in slavery with open endorsement from major powers in
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by darby_eight 3y ago
> These are not strictly a result of targeting browsers for desktop applications, it's strictly down to design decisions that have nothing to do with how its implemented. It's not "strictly" down to this; even if you
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by darby_eight 3y ago
> Native widgets feel primitive and dated to me. Compared to what? I honestly don't know what other people consider state of the art interfaces if native apps are excluded.
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by darby_eight 3y ago
Idk what you're referring to specifically, but music discovery services are terrible across all of spotify, apple music, google music, tidal, etc. I don't expect these services to read your mind, but they also don't ask for m
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by darby_eight 3y ago
I think this is the strongest argument, but the sticking point is still the interface actually integrating with the OS environment well. Otherwise Java/C# would have taken off as a de-facto portable solution decades ago (and, in fact,
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by darby_eight 3y ago
I already answered re: slack above, but spotify is just slow, ugly, and doesn't conform to native interface expectations. Granted, this is also largely true of iTunes, but the issue is much less flagrant there.
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by darby_eight 3y ago
I mean, it's slow, it uses about ~500x more memory than my irc client does, the interface doesn't meld with the rest of the OS, the options for end-users to actually customize how the app works are direly limited... I'm proba
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by darby_eight 3y ago
Sure, toss it on the mountain-tall heap of problems humanity is incapable of addressing with any competence.
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by darby_eight 3y ago
It turns out most regions of the globe are occupied by some state or another.
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by darby_eight 3y ago
Our current day is so dominated by nationalist rhetoric that I can't imagine what this would even look like on an international stage. It sometimes seems like there's always a convenient excuse to put state politics ahead of human
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by darby_eight 3y ago
If you're not gaming or doing serious gpgpu stuff, the on-board GPU has been a sweet spot for well over a decade now.
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by darby_eight 3y ago
Why would someone use this for desktop applications if you aren't obligated to target a web browser? The only benefit this brings is access to browser rendering, which is a pretty terrible desktop experience (see e.g. slack, spotify).
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by darby_eight 3y ago
> Just like how we chose to consume healthy food and avoid consuming too much alcohol we must be more deliberate in our choice of media. You can't leave everything up to individual decision making or the results are collectively irr
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by darby_eight 3y ago
> That's where social media has been most damaging. You can't share your thoughts anymore. The 'Redditization' of the world means that sharing thoughts is met with hostility. No longer can you just throw something out
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by darby_eight 3y ago
> companies are on par with things like Cheerios in terms of trust and general perception Is this supposed to be a marker of something meaningful? General Mills is not exactly a brand that exudes trust or consumer loyalty.
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by darby_eight 3y ago
Microsoft is absolutely on the same side in terms of ruthless pursuit of international IP protection. I certainly don't see them acting in any overtly pro-consumer capacity.

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