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Alas, the audience targeted by the post would most likely have preferred a video of the instructions rather than text. For tasks related to configuring a visual computing environment (such as the desktop), this would also make some sense.
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There better be a "founder mode" because "manager mode" is just a proxy for a firm that is run by lawyers, accountants, consultants and bankers. Sharp operators all of them, but none of them cares one iota what the organ
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With so many trained mathematical / theoretical physicists around even the slightest experimental hint from nature would bring about a scientific revolution and new paradigms - like in real time. The lack of news from the "deep&qu
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Physicists didnt abandon this idea, Wheeler's geometrodynamics was all about the concept of geometry being relevant for more than grabity. As it happens with so many cool ideas it did not germinate something useful.
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> you can get out with your cash hoard cash is effectively claims against what other people can give you in the future. An illiterate mob can only give you very few things of value. So, indeed, this is short-termism running society to th
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> the market for written tech journalism is not what it once was - nor will it ever be again This is very darkly ominous and of course it does not apply just to tech journalism. Written communication, by real people, is not an optional l
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Interestingly this is what he thought of the matter at the time: > Our time, he added, "is Gothic in its spirit. Unlike the Renaissance, it is not dominated by a few outstanding personalities. The twentieth century has established t
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The promise of local / alternative currencies has never been really fulfilled despite many valiant efforts over decades. The comparison with speculative crypto that has become a major trend while coming out of nowhere and being basical
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The pattern of digital technology development seems to be decades-long stagnation under olipolistic dominance followed by bursts of change when the stranglehold is briefly broken. It does feel as the current stagnating adtech era is drawing
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HTML is, imho, a victim of its own success (and the even bigger success of the web browser / server paradigm in rolling out not just documents - as was the original idea, but full blown "apps"). Already the first part (HTML a
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It feels like Vega is a viable path toward something bigger, like a global, W3C type standard for visualization, but unfortunately not as adopted as it deserves. It was used in a mediawiki/wikipedia extension for graphs [1] but the who
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Do we care about "real" reality if we can, more or less, make sense of some of its manifestations through our senses? That there is something deeper and unknowable and "informationally huge" seems obvious. We didn't
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"At the end of every seven years you shall grant a deletion of the data. And this is the form of the delete: Every data collector who has recorded anything on his neighbor shall delete it; he shall not maintain any of it about his neig
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Who mentioned Windows 11? Ever heard of Windows 365 and "cloud pc"?
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The beauty of this decades long race is that the end game is still ambiguous. The Windows desktop trends towards being a thin client for opaque cloud services, which means at some point the Linux desktop proposition will be quite dramatical
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The idea (or hope) is that apps based on semantic standards would kick off a virtuous cycle where publishers of information keep investing in both generating metadata and evolving the standards themselves. As many have mentioned in the thre
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The web browser (or an app with a vague likeness to a browser) would indeed be in the epicenter of a "semantic" leap if that happens. The technical capability of the browser to be an OS within an OS is more than proven by now, but
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> An interesting read in itself... Indeed a good read, thanks for the link! > [Cory Doctorow's] seven insurmountable obstacles I think his context is the narrower "Web of individuals" where many of his seven challenges
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The EU is doing its part in some domains. There is e.g., the eProcurement ontology [1] that aims to harmonize public procurement data flows. But I suppose it helped alot that (by EU law) everybody is obliged to submit to a central repositor
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You point out a real problem but it does not feel like an unsurmountable and terminal one. By that argument we would never have a human language unless everybody spoke the same language. Turns out once you have well developed languages (and
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The semantic web standards are sorely lacking (for decades now) a killer application. Not in a theoretical universe of decentralized philosopher-computer-scientists but in the dumbed down, swipe-the-next-30sec-video, adtech oligopolized dig
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We can speculate all day long how the current "AI" phenomenon will evolve but, alas, there isn't much solid on which to ground arguments. In the oral phase of human communication "AI models" were residing within hum
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used also by recoll, the desktop search app: https://www.recoll.org/
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It will be quite a plot twist if Graph RAG paves the way for making knowledge graphs / semantic networks and the like cutting edge again... New "AI" meets old "AI" etc.
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Not sure what is your definition of "news" but sticking to the common generic usage of the term this comes as an incredibly thick stance. There is a vast universe of information that is collected and reported by the news industry:
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The problem is that news organizations didn't just get disrupted by digitization (more specifically the adtech innovation), they got disrupted without replacement . In an era of rent-seeking digital business models, where trillion dol
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Good food for thought and hopefully an inspiration for people to build on. The wiki movement has stagnated for a long time. Some reasons are internal e.g., overpromising on semantic technologies and never really delivering a step change in
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If you could squeeze the Earth's atmosphere into a ball of similar density it would be more or less of size of the middle sphere (all the oceans only weigh 270 times as much as the atmosphere [1]). So there you have it: the key ingredi
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Oh well, it was good while it lasted. But now we need a brand new hype to replace the malfunctioning AI neon sign. Maybe "neural meta computing", or "quantum hyper reasoners"? You see, a calm, factual, truthful and infor

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