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by openrisk 2y ago
> living in a world of constraints kinda funny to think you are not subject to constraints when your access to the limitless potential library can be revoked at any moment. pressumably you also don't own any house, car, books, cloth
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by openrisk 2y ago
> Calling capitalism's market economics an idiocracy is.. tautological. Thats definitely not true. The most ardent and smart defender of markets argued that they operate and optimize within the boundaries that society decides. If yo
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since when is the "general public" arbiter of wisdom? The masses will embrace anything that smacks of short term convenience and will tolerate enormous amount of abuse because caring for anything actually requires effort. This sta
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One can get lost in details about characters, corporate cultures and malfunction. The very big picture seems to be that the company that for decades defined what computing looks like could not cope with the end of the exponential era that i
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by openrisk 2y ago
Its interesting to contemplate an RSS-first browser that would have this functionality built-in. Think for example of promoting to full browser status a desktop RSS reader like Akregator [1] (which already embeds a webview). The browser as
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by openrisk 2y ago
Quite readable even for those not familiar with Erlang. Is there a list of projects that shows distributed erlang in action (taking advantage of its strengths and avoiding the pitfals)?
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OpenAI explores advertising as it steps up revenue drive(ft.com)
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Co-creating the future: participatory cities and digital governance(royalsocietypublishing.org)
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by openrisk 2y ago
Enshittification enabled by kakistocracy induces brain rot. There you have it, all "words of the year 2024" in one sentence [1],[2]. Enjoy. [1] https://www.economist.com/culture/2024/11/29/the-e
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Yes, Aristotle most certainly climbed on the shoulders of countless "giants" before him. The last rung of the ladder, his own teachers at Plato's Academy are even known. So, inate talent combined with a ready pool of prior kn
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Its quite difficult to rationalize and demystify the depth of Ancient Greek thought and Aristotle is probably the best embodiment of that conundrum. It would be quite an educational breakthrough if we could actually feel how and why there
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> the price would be “one digit less than ASML’s EUVs.” if thats true it will surely be a game changer, if not immediately surely in the medium term? geopolitics, oligopolies and oligopsonies notwithstanding, if a technology slices an or
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by openrisk 2y ago
This makes no sense. How can you source objective facts about the world by further devaluing and undermining those who's job it is to do it? Influencers are parasites that have been made possible by broken, user-hostile platforms. You
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The overall landscape for developing applications is a mess but this article does not help much with clearing it up. One reason for the mess seems to me is the coexistence of many paradigms for achieving similar functionality (for example y
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by openrisk 2y ago
So who and why will produce the news for your friend to steal? The horse and buggy metaphor is getting tiresome when its used as some sort signalling of "progress oriented minds" and creative destruction enthusiasts versus the lu
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by openrisk 2y ago
There should really be some repercussion against clickbait titles. There is nothing newly "uncovered" here. The actual scientific paper title is "Making sense of eastern Asian Late Quaternary hominin variability". [1] It
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by openrisk 2y ago
In our non-digital past talented creators would be obscure because discovery and distribution was broken. In our digital future talented creators will be obscure because discovery and distribution will be broken. Rants aside, thats quite a
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There are many TV channel alternatives, public TV is pretty transparent and there are regulations around when various programs would air, obligatory reporting of age suitability etc.
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by openrisk 2y ago
In have a friend that recites all day amazingly long pieces of literature by heart. He says he just wrote them. He also produces a vast number of paintings in all styles, claiming he is a really talented painter.
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Not 100% safe. Two issues I am aware of are the scheme for controlling user identity (if you setup something standalone and want to interoperate) and the future governance of the protocol. But I know about these because the team is quite up
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by openrisk 2y ago
Its true that the current honeymoon period will not be forever. But what comes afterwards will be even better. People have been conditioned to think that the social media experience cannot but be enshittifed. (Its even the word of the year
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by openrisk 2y ago
Leaving aside the hypothetical "live learning AGI" of the future (given that money is made or lost now ), would a human regurgitating content that is not theirs - but presented as if it is - be acceptable to you?
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I think the answer in implicit in my comment: When all the affected individuals can readily make their own judgement about the risks and benefits of their choices (1) they have all the relevant information, (2) they are able to comprehend i
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by openrisk 2y ago
For from me to defend any politician but denying the role of social media in shifting public opinion is like sticking your head deep in the sand. The real culpability of politicians and governments the world over is that they have endorsed
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by openrisk 2y ago
You can cast any regulation as a "nanny state act". Life is more complicated than that. The ability of individuals to be aware and take conscious action against harmful behaviors is clear and should be used when possible. But that
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I am not sure you are familiar with what the term consumer responsibility means in this context. It doesnt mean to rely on consumer's "good hearts" and conscience. Its a mechanism to attribute impact to final consumption, so
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Thats why the more decentralized the more resilient. No single point of failure, redundancy in routing. Ahh, yes. just like the internet used to be :-)
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Thats quite cynical, but more importantly, by not accepting as legitimate the so-called "consumer responsibility" angle you are missing half of the equation. Already in this forum there more than enough people that will viciously
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by openrisk 2y ago
I am moderating a niche technical sub on reddit and don't see that much of bots. They are probably targeting "high value" subs. As for alternatives, it depends on what you are looking for. E.g., if you don't need to comm
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by openrisk 2y ago
Lots of interesting details around the beginning of writing systems but it seems to overdramatise the conditions and role of Sumer in kickstarting civilization as we know it? > the original organized, literate, urban culture was produce

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