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by openrisk 2y ago
> What makes you think only scientists are humble enough to accept such outcomes? In your previous comment you equated the scientific method with naive positivism that purports to explain "everything". While this is a recurrent
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by openrisk 2y ago
> Which puts in question the assumption that science as you put in your comment is the correct way to manage complexity in all areas. One important aspect of the scientific method is that the outcome "we don't know" is per
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by openrisk 2y ago
> we can exchange these points of view the quality of that exchange is indeed the key catalyst of whether a "convergence" happens. For matters concerning the physical world we have (largely) learned not to let subjectivity stan
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by openrisk 2y ago
Its all us, most of the time lol. From the blog post: > All I can do is continue looking for those people who have that respect for complexity. Some find them boring, or indecisive, or just wrong for not buying into some extreme. Ignorin
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by openrisk 2y ago
The thing is, historically we never really had much respect for complexity. > We talk about complex subjects all the time. Medicine, politics, economics, sociology, morality and more For our entire history we have being talking about com
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by openrisk 2y ago
Employability anxiety triggered by technology deprecation (real or perceived) is universal. Think e.g., of the large pool of C++ programmers that feel the stress of "memory safety" and Rust. But framework fatigue seems to be an is
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by openrisk 2y ago
> every crisis so far as accelerated European integration There is indeed some evidence of this but this is not a cause to celebrate. It is a reactive response and minimalist in scope. Once the crisis is somehow mitigated, everybody is b
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by openrisk 2y ago
For a long time Europe was happy having the cake and eating it. Pretending to be a united, peaceful, "soft superpower" and reaping the peace dividends of a US brokered world system. Yet everybody knows that almost all power rests
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by openrisk 2y ago
> I'm just not seeing the argument here yeah, thats pretty clear. Because you choose to focus on cases where you do have agency to do something, e.g. its my discord and I am moving us to matrix - and goodbye to those who will no
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by openrisk 2y ago
Lots of trips to Silicon Valley to learn the "secrets" of being masters of the digital universe. Somehow it never leads to anything :-)
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by openrisk 2y ago
Thats true, but its theoretical. As an individual you frequently face a take it or leave it option. Have you ever tried to move an existing community e.g., from Whatsapp to Signal or can you do anything if an entire country has chosen to re
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by openrisk 2y ago
"Convergence" was a term used by Ubuntu in their brief foray into mobile Linux. Alas it never led anywhere, but it still embodies a sort-of holy grail of cross-platform apps with uniform native feel. On performance, yes, in my exp
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by openrisk 2y ago
If I understand your challenge correctly it could be helped with a reader that gives a taxonomy to classify feeds, as you then get implicitly multiple timelines - one per feed category. Linux desktop readers like akregator and the now aband
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by openrisk 2y ago
1. Convergent desktop/mobile app that syncs between devices (open source and local) 2. Performant for large numbers of feeds 3. Integrated browser and automagical discovery and organization of feeds while you browse 4. Multiple taxonom
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by openrisk 2y ago
Bizarre stretch of logic to extract an irony. Meta platforms in particular (facebook and whatsapp) are in many countries an almost exclusive intermediary to any online communication. You are basically incapacitated if you do not use them.
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by openrisk 2y ago
> I'm not required to use social media and extractive business models Ofcourse you are not required. You also free to retire as a hermite in a remote island. For anybody hoping to be a non-conspicuous part of society, refusing to c
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by openrisk 2y ago
Very good summary of all the things that have gone wrong with tech (and this is a long and growing list). The part on how to recover from this unfortunate mess is a bit handwavy though. Not that there are ready made solutions that are being
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by openrisk 2y ago
An advanced RSS reader/browser could bring back the magic of the web.
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by openrisk 2y ago
> You'll never see anything from the people who post occasionally because they get drowned out by the people who are posting all the time. If you control the algorithm there is nothing to prevent you from sorting feeds by volume and
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by openrisk 2y ago
Its impossible to read on firefox/android but would be interesting to learn more about how they organize the division of labor between server and client. As in: the principles, not necessarily the implementation.
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by openrisk 2y ago
It was inevitable. Human affairs outside brief chaotic periods are typically regulated in terms of 'legitimate' authorities. The presice constitution of such authority has changed over the aeons (bloodlines, theology etc) but in t
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by openrisk 2y ago
Its kinda morbidly amuzing to ponder what European countries (and others besides the 'quarreling' US/China duo) will do now. Will they also ban TikTok as a security threat? If not, will they issue a statement contradicting US
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by openrisk 2y ago
Not everyone is out to monetise (e.g public sector). And even if you are after monetisation, sending out a teaser snippet makes sense. The user can decide if they want to visit the site to read more, subscribe etc.
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by openrisk 2y ago
Publishers of content have really no excuse to disable RSS feeds. RSS is also a signal that some new content has arrived, why would one not send it to the world if its essentially free? Even if their business model requires that you visit t
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by openrisk 2y ago
That sounds quite optimistic. It doesn't take complete blocking before there are significant implications. There are many aspects to consider, from more friction in getting access to distribution channels to the more fundamental "
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by openrisk 2y ago
Overwhelming fraction of comments focus on the "AI contributed code" while back to reality: > Global belligerence will make itself felt in our community. The world as a whole does not appear to be headed in a peaceful direction
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by openrisk 2y ago
Indeed owning the filter algorithm is the killer functionality. There is a torrent of RSS feeds still out there (pun), but they are not usable in firehose form. For example KDE's Akregator is an otherwise capable desktop feed reader th
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by openrisk 2y ago
Yes, but now it doesn't even have national champions. The last one standing with some pretense at being still with the times is probably ASML. One wonders whether at any point anybody will ask any tough questions about where Europe is
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by openrisk 2y ago
This is probably the most important bifurcation point in the history of European tech. Today's malaise and grasping for direction has much to do with the demise of this pioneering enterprise. And the fact that it does not appear to hav
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by openrisk 2y ago
The problem in this space is that a quarter of century(!) after Fielding's dissertation [1] we don't have a serious follow up on "Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures". A blueprint

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