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by ppqqrr 1y ago
these are excellent questions, but imo the answer isn't "the old web lacked unnecessary friction designed to inflate the cost of basic storage operations" - the blockchain is a lie: it is obviously the most centralized form o
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by ppqqrr 1y ago
the web died years ago, for a different reason: labor monopoly. The web, and software in general, stopped reflecting or serving users, when the ruling class started pouring massive capital to dismantle any paradigm for major web/softwa
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by ppqqrr 1y ago
small correction, SCP stands for “Secure, Contain, Protect”: the foundation’s 3 priorities (in that order) for anomalous objects and locations.
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by ppqqrr 1y ago
I’ve been working on my own to build in this same direction, and recently started writing about what I’ve built so far (HN link below). If you agreed with this article, give it a read. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44
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A "Living Web" Manifesto(owebp.net)
7 points by ppqqrr 1y ago|0 comments
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by ppqqrr 1y ago
Problem/Truth is that writing toy software is not profitable - that's not to say one must always work on profitable things; what i mean is that it's being kept unprofitable, because in a hyper-saturated monopolized attention
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by ppqqrr 1y ago
Chromium, Electron and VSCode are all the rage to fork as an LLM application base. In truth it doesn't really matter which you start from, they all lead to the One Local LLM App. There's already a fairly deterministic path of deve
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The Web Will Live Again(youtube.com)
1 points by ppqqrr 1y ago|0 comments
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by ppqqrr 1y ago
the obsessive narrative against redundancy has been the blight of our times. people are copies of each other, they eat the same food, work the same job, have the same needs. if you follow the Big Wheel propaganda to its logical conclusion,
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
It's been going downhill for a while, even before AI. The VC-funded React SaaS craze took the "put something barely functional on the web, make some subscription cash" model and scaled it to what is essentially a scam/sp
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
I appreciate your curiosity. The premise is simple: the Web of 2025 is still a primitive sketch that leaves 99% of the medium’s potential unrealized. Why? Because the technical 1% writes all the code, while the rest spend all their time mer
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
yeah, tough times, taking home 6 figures with good benefits year after year, stock prices at historic highs, taking their picks from the housing bubble, voting for idiots while the world burns... I don't quite get why you're compl
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
I think people are ready (if not yearning) for a much larger, personal web, built with a different set of incentives. The problem appears to be that the technical class currently lacks the imagination (or more specifically, a kind of episte
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
By which point, Russia was already in the hands of a dictator. Too late and too little, as they say. But yes, obviously, every country deserves a large share of blame for its own situation. Either way - even if I concede this, my point stan
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
Have you been to China? Know anyone from there? Or is your opinion on what they deserve based entirely on TV headlines? Do you relate to them as humans? That’s what I need to see before I take anyone’s condemnation of any group of people se
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
Well, to a large extent, the reason Russia and North Korea are hopeless backwaters ruled by petty dictators and filled with suffering… is precisely because nobody would trade with or invest in them. And when they predictably fall into dysfu
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
I do not dispute it (in fact if you have good sources on the latest goings-on about this issue I’d appreciate it). But to say that it’s cause enough to excommunicate the CCP and go to war… is hypocrisy of the highest order, when we ourselve
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
bro literally citing chinese facebook comments ;) if you started taking pissed off internet comments seriously we'd have to go to war with every country in the world look man, i'm not saying china is some heavenly force of justice
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
As far as i can tell, the Chinese care mostly about building and investing. They're aware that the US sees them as their "number one enemy" (what a childish, irresponsible way to refer to a nation of a billion, mostly innocen
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
That’s what the China hawks want you to believe, it’s not just a lie but a shameful, war mongering lie. And they will increasingly use that lie to shut people up, shut apps down, until we have no choice but to believe that the Chinese want
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
draft published by mistake
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
The point of LLMs is they are able to make sense of the web the same way humans can (roughly speaking); so why do they get the special treatment of having direct, ad-free, plain text version of the actual info they’re looking for, while hum
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
In which Pierre Schaeffer admits that Musique Concrete is not music, and that he has never been a real musician. Ouch… I wonder if he knows there are internet music genres that have not only kept the ideas of Musique Concrete alive, but mad
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
yes, but aren't we the creative gardeners/pollinators? Not to mention that software is naturally more dynamic and cross-compatible than real plants, given to all manners of chaotic mutations and grafting.
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
I tend to think of it as plants/trees. It starts from a single point, the main routine, and branches out its behavior over time. Branches get pruned, abandoned, merged, coopted to optimize for the nutrient gradient. I especially like t
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
A happy, independent employee is a creative employee, and if your business is such a heavy monopoly that it’s in your interest (if not your primary market strategy) to arrest and interrupt the development of competitive alternatives, keepin
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
Yes, 22 years ago. And while they’ve expanded some plugin features, astonishingly little has changed/improved about the base Live since then. Even minor quality-of-life features like setting a default audio interface is not even on the
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
It’s an ideal, and like any ideal we manage to capture in a six-letter word, 99% will get it completely backwards. For example, everyone knows and agrees with the value of the phrase “think outside the box,” but only a minority ever recogn
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
> That sounds so unlike the YC partners I appreciate the insider perspective; my faith in YC was exactly why I was so dumbfounded. Me and my cofounder spent quite a bit of time speculating, and wrote a substantial, thoughtful response. I
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
Just because I had little expectation of hearing back doesn’t mean my application was unserious. It was a full length application, written over multiple days, about the future direction of my business, which already has revenue. The respons

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