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by fleddr 4y ago
What harassment? What marginalized group? She's an ordinary girl. Privileged in every single way: wealthy, good looks, good brain. She's never showed even the tiniest sign of being uncomfortable in her body. Not in toys, clothing,
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by fleddr 4y ago
Just learned this week that an extended family member is trans. Not a single sign of gender dysphoria throughout her entire 21 years of life. 6 months of university and surgery is pending. The social contagion is so plain to see but I guess
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by fleddr 4y ago
Same thing on Mastodon, which I tried for a month or so. It seems every single profile you open some of the claims you mention are there, followed by disabled, and a bunch of (self-diagnosed?) mental illnesses. It's like they're c
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by fleddr 4y ago
The concern is not whether Google or Microsoft is first, the attention should go to web publishers. If ChatGPT as a search engine works well, it would mean that the user gets a direct answer without ever hitting the website. Which begs the
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by fleddr 4y ago
Digital society sucks, and to a degree modern society in general. There used to be religion, which you may dislike, but it offered social bonding at scale. You'd get to known an entire community, neighborhood, might make new friends or
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by fleddr 4y ago
You'll have to back up that 800K number. It seems pretty ridiculous: "An official Turkish estimate of 19 October 1999 placed the toll at 17,127 killed and 43,953 injured, but many sources suggest the actual figure may have been cl
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by fleddr 4y ago
Despite a 1999 warning that killed 17-18K, rampant corruption, incompetence and neglect have not improved construction standards, despite the promise to do so. That means that the vast majority of today's deaths were preventable. Imagi
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by fleddr 4y ago
They get roughly $0.5B in easy money each year from search partnerships. I call it easy money because all that is asked is to keep Google the default search engine. You could argue that they do need to deliver something for this money,
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by fleddr 4y ago
Agree. Only thing I want to add is that it's not just SEO ruining search, it's contradictory incentives. A user wants the quickest path to an answer but Google actually wants you to engage as long as possible so that you can look
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by fleddr 4y ago
Because most queries are not shopping queries. Yet ads are injected regardless to tempt you into buying something.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Yep, the web sets one free, there's no lock-in, no permission. We can't have that.
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by fleddr 4y ago
That's what I said, Webkit has recently sped up their development, for all the wrong reasons. As for Firefox, as much as I sentimentally align with it and still use it, it's a dead browser. I have access to some analytics of web
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by fleddr 4y ago
I'm sure that if this works well, users will love it. It's the second-order effects I worry about. A pretty existential one is that is bleeds the web dry. The AI is trained by a zillion websites but will never actually send you to
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by fleddr 4y ago
When you pay close attention to things like web standards, one would have noticed how during the last 2 years the Webkit team seems to have woken up from a decade-long hibernation. They're actually releasing things, and in a pretty dec
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by fleddr 4y ago
It could be self-motivated bias but I speculate it is likely not even that. Enforced bias. The person doesn't actually believe this is the correct moderation yet drifts to the direction of "online acceptable" to stay out of t
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by fleddr 4y ago
None of that will work because the liability/ideological pressure doesn't care about truth. It cares about subjective acceptable speech. Simple example: men are far more often the victim of violence compared to women. So the age o
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by fleddr 4y ago
How about the actual article?
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by fleddr 4y ago
This is what you get in our post-truth world that is now a performative acceptable truth world. It's basically cherry picking opinions, perceptions and half-truths that are favorable to an ideological agenda, and dismissing anything el
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by fleddr 4y ago
Excessive authoritarianism is scary but the thing that people should really wake up to is the nuclear combination of authoritarianism and digitization. As an example, capital controls. I grew up in the 80s, which was largely cash-based. You
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by fleddr 4y ago
Personally, I use Youtube only in a contextual way. From a blog, newsletter, social network, whichever...somebody points out an interesting video and I may watch it. I do not ever visit youtube.com as some kind of home landing page and thin
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by fleddr 4y ago
We should be. This fatalism is exactly the problem. You see poor behavior, slap the label "business" on it, and all of a sudden it is expected, accepted and even defended.
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Does any web framework do that? No, you have to do all of that from scratch.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Most jobs require you to be available for 8 hours. So you can't work hyper productively and then quit for the day at 2PM. You need to show up for the 4PM meeting as well as the continuous storm of incoming chats. This is why producti
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by fleddr 4y ago
"Why do you feel everything needs to be monetized?" You should ask Google that. Because they're the one actually monetizing. It's like a money printer with everybody's content as free fuel. I didn't say everyth
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by fleddr 4y ago
Good one, did not know that law but it's on point.
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by fleddr 4y ago
So let us imagine an ideal situation from a recipe consumer point of view. You go to Google, type "best chili recipe", and Google would immediately show the best recipe directly into its UI, based on all the data is has on you an
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by fleddr 4y ago
Imagine being someone in the semiconductor industry reading this. You're at the absolute pinnacle of high-tech and are approaching the limits of material reality to realize a 20% faster CPU. It's a true super human accomplishment.
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by fleddr 4y ago
What would a Getty "working" robots.txt look like? For their images to not be permitted to be indexed? Being able to find their images is the entire point of the service. As is the case with almost every content creator/platf
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by fleddr 4y ago
Even the prejudice part we don't have to dance around. I'm from the Netherlands, and for the first 24 years of my life have lived in lower working class neighborhoods, 3 in total. Low income families, people on wellfare, the like.
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by fleddr 4y ago
News articles and the discussions surrounding them is what's made Facebook insufferable and Twitter the epicenter of the culture wars. I know, blame the culture or political landscape, not the app. But it is going to be your problem. A

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