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by pas 1y ago
nah, it's just slow, as unfortunately almost all things involving technology and international/supranational organizations first case was around 2018-2019 and then it took some time for the cookie banner consent thing to percolate
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by pas 1y ago
https://noyb.eu/en has a nice tracker! 883 total cases 468 pending cases € 2B billion fines imposed
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by pas 1y ago
this is a bad framing. he did put in a lot of work, he did mercilessly churn through engineers to get results, cajoled various power-brokers to get subsidies and financing necessary to keep on keeping on. he is the ultimate right place righ
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by pas 1y ago
I don't think 2007 was special, it's the usual gradual change (but likely a lot of logistic S-curves summed), but IMHO the change did happen around then. And usually we see the highpoints of certain processes, like the skyscrapers
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by pas 1y ago
it's the same thing with self-driving, if you can make it safer than a good human driver it's enough. but the bar is pretty low with driving (as evidenced by the hundreds of thousands of collisions and deaths and permanent disabil
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by pas 1y ago
Google+ already enforced their real-name policy in 2011 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymwars Of course the ultimate cause is that the Internet changed from this mysterious third place full information to where we live
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by pas 1y ago
but it's also standard, you can hire for it, outsource it, etc. and it's pretty modular too, so it can even serve as the host for the bespoke whatever that's needed though I remember reading the fly.io blog post about their c
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by pas 1y ago
it's the culture of course places that value good software engineering and have the cash flow to pay them do so
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by pas 1y ago
they want to build services on top of the tools see this from ~3 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44358216
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by pas 1y ago
that we failed them might be true, but mostly they did their things and the times changed, and lots of those things are not what users want/need, so the FSF/GNU got almost completely weightless. ... it seems to me that Stallman an
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by pas 1y ago
buyback defers tax incidence, but it doesn't avoid it, no? also boards rarely change CEOs for paying employees well, they change CEOs if the company is not growing labor's share of income usually falls during periods of growing ou
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by pas 1y ago
hardware and basic OS reliability is really good when it comes to MBPs, unfortunately the rest of the software stack is maddening
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by pas 1y ago
people followed Stallman because the GNU stuff was interesting and good, then we got decades of endless dick-measuring about whose freedom is more free, GPL2 or GPL3 or MIT or AGPL or ... and while the differences have consequences in the g
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by pas 1y ago
the smart strategy is to put effort into projects that have a fork failsafe option and concentrate effort on the components that don't have this (ie. drivers, hardware, codecs, whatever), but instead what we got is 20 more years GnomeJ
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by pas 1y ago
we ought to want that the users themselves should desire this freedom for themselves right now we want it because we want the side-effect the the tinkerability, the data transfer, the cost-optimizaton (host it where it's cheap, or modi
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by pas 1y ago
not to mention that ... there are simply more important things. from climate change to a landwar in Europe, or simply spending time with loved ones (or the loneliness epidemic - which might be a measurement artifact, but just as with starva
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by pas 1y ago
I asked it to generate a simple EffectTS script and it did. (It was my first piece of code using Effect, but I know a bit of Scala ZIO, so it was helpful to get started.) Effect's docs are quite sparse/terse. And this is usually w
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by pas 1y ago
it does, but it orbits the barycenter (usually the supermassive blackhole of the host galaxy), but since it can pass through itself its orbital energy doesn't decrease from "drag" as it's falling through itself and norma
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by pas 1y ago
please point out any and all verbs or other terms that call for any kind of action. so you found 'remove', right? it's a call for ceasing friendship. is that considered violence?
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by pas 1y ago
I started with FrontPage '98, and copy-pasted DHTML into the source code soup to have falling snow on my homepage for the winter. I have also no idea why people love template spaghetti! But of course it can work, and simply setting the
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by pas 1y ago
the conclusion is true, though obviously the worst part is that this guy spent at least a year in varying states of despair, anger, and even worse psychological terrors. you don't want dementia because it damages and hurts you and ever
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by pas 1y ago
why not both? it's exactly NIMBYism which makes the installation of the very small inefficient gas turbines make economic sense. because it would take too fucking long to get a transmission wire set up to the grid, not to mention about
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by pas 1y ago
they are not defending Elon their guess was pretty good cement or curing agents are hardly the environmental apocalyptic scenario for the beautiful and pristine environment of downtown Vegas, hm?
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by pas 1y ago
... is it? Anyone can start making sponsorship deals and putting their AI into some service. And if that's really the secret sauce then AI firms will have to pay for it instead of people paying them to ask questions.
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by pas 1y ago
it's not destroying "the rest of the economy", quite the opposite the capacity built for AI will remain even if AI gets written down, which means cheaper energy and datacenter stuff in that case for "the rest" if AI
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by pas 1y ago
sprinkling event handlers all over and doing DOM manipulations and trying to pile jQuery plugins on other plugins ... that was the anti-pattern saying nah, fuck this, let's just do a rerender is what happened, and going back to doing i
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by pas 1y ago
... but the whole social movement of "back to the backend" is about getting rid of the client-side application as a separate component of course it (should) lead to a lot less code! at the cost of completely foregoing most of the
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by pas 1y ago
did she? or is she simply preaching to a certain choir that's awash with the heavy anti-establishment and anti-intellectual sentiment of nowadays? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miJbW3i9qQc https://www.yout
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by pas 1y ago
the problem is that ... there's currently no better theory that matches the data than the amyloid cascade one - as far as I understand (and of course I'm extremely far from an expert on this) still, I think it's correct to st
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by pas 1y ago
Sure, and it can be any kinds of device, and ... it can trick the OS to loading strange drivers (with juicy vulnerabilities), but that's the point. How the fuck is this still the norm? (Despite user mode driver frameworks!?)

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