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by sph 2mo ago
More than a bubble signal, the “but it is so useful” disclaimer is what makes it a tragedy of the commons. “I know it is ruining all that I hold dear, but what else can I do but profit from it like everyone else?”
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by sph 2mo ago
Thanks but I am talking about the complete opposite of connecting multiple networks together. I’m not sure why we’re talking past each other. CGNAT has nothing to do with the public web dying because it’s both too large, too spammy and too
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by sph 2mo ago
Ctrl-F, ‘children’, 131 results.
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by sph 2mo ago
If one other human sees value in it, it has been worth the extra trouble. When I advertised my blog on my HN profile, people came to read, some even wrote to me. So what if 99.99% of Internet users won’t find it any more because they use LL
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by sph 2mo ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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by sph 2mo ago
The fact that the vast majority of comments here are engaging with these campaigns policies on the level of 'protecting the children', is proof enough that the propaganda effort has worked beautifully. It was never about the child
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by sph 2mo ago
Allow me to disagree. GPL was a great idealistic dream that led to less-restrictive open-source licences such as MIT/BSD which have been the greatest catalyst towards the establishment of tech corpo giants and the software ecosystem we
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by sph 2mo ago
It's still a work in progress of an idea. I'm thinking more like mesh networks. I spoke of Reticulum elsewhere in this thread, but here I'm thinking I'd like the ability to easily join multiple TCP/IP networks ( isl
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by sph 2mo ago
That's the same conclusion I reached. I'll keep publishing static websites, so I don't even have to worry about load and CPU usage. I don't care who reads it, the value for me is in writing. I still haven't changed
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by sph 2mo ago
I love Kagi, I am a paid user since day 1, but SmallWeb is a collection of English-speaking tech blogs, it cannot even begin to compete in diversity with the GeoCities era of the web. (to be fair: I've had Kagi employees telling me the
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by sph 2mo ago
More than a facilitator of theft, LLMs are the tragedy of the commons at industrial scale. The public internet is dead, the future is private invite-only walled gardens. Corporations love a walled garden, what we need is open-source framewo
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by sph 2mo ago
May I suggest you to look into mesh networks? I am a huge fan of Reticulum. Using it feels like being a pioneer, the scene is very welcoming. The pitch: it is network-agnostic. The same mesh network runs on the Internet or through LoRa rad
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by sph 2mo ago
The Internet has been shrinking massively. My earliest experiences with the Internet were discovering the world of hobby OS dev around the turn of the millennium, when I chanced upon someone’s personal website talking about their OS, with s
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by sph 2mo ago
Pythons are too cold to hatch Chicken eggs, and viceversa
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The End Poem(theendpoem.com)
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by sph 2mo ago
Then, with all due respect, you should not be anywhere near the design or evaluation of accessible systems. There's people reading this blog with all types of devices, screens, lighting and range of visual acuity. Even if you're b
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by sph 2mo ago
Ctrl-Shift-C, click on a paragraph, search for "text-shadow" on the right pane of the inspector, untick the checkbox. There is a time and place for text and retro-CRT effects, this isn't one.
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by sph 2mo ago
Who said he's European? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48961083 But unsurprisingly he's got strong opinions about the people in our continent.
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by sph 2mo ago
All this effort to disprove OP's figures and source, without providing your supposedly accurate figures. What's the point?
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by sph 2mo ago
Agreed on most things, but it’s worth remembering why we have habits: because it’s much less energy-intensive, and brains are energy minimizer machines. It takes a lot of energy and effort to adopt a new habit. The philosophy angle is to re
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by sph 2mo ago
On the other hand, the whole Director system of Left 4 Dead works like this and it’s incredible. https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/apps/valve/2009/ai_system...
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by sph 2mo ago
Oh, for sure, we're sleepwalking into unknown territory.
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by sph 2mo ago
A few notes about your comment, that I feel is well-meaning but carries a lot of common misconceptions: - aiming for an end goal is not fine in most cases, it is simply a very common, terrible idea. You need a process, not a goal. "Jou
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by sph 2mo ago
Policy makers are very well aware of AI and its societal implications. But they also are aware that without the AI investments we’d be in a recession. Their horizons don’t span more than a couple years, what will happen to society in 15 yea
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by sph 2mo ago
Why do I never hear about this ‘feature’ from American products like gmail which 99% of the HN audience is using? Isn’t USA a member of Five Eyes? I admit it is a concern, as a Fastmail user, but this discussion only seems to happen on the
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by sph 2mo ago
I can’t wait for next year when the marketing campaign will have upgraded to “oh my god, our latest AI model has just tried to turn the entire planet into paperclips!” You can already see it how many on here have decided we already have AGI
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by sph 2mo ago
In this economy, when only old people like me care about Myst (and I’ve been around enough to know not to crowdfund games)? It’s not the 90s any more.
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by sph 2mo ago
WP = Warsaw Pact. Took me a while to decipher, but I get that bytes are expensive these days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
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by sph 2mo ago
It’s called trolling. You’re not supposed to feed the troll.
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by sph 2mo ago
Everyone bringing their wild theories without answering the damn question: Yes, it's been shrunk. It was a full page of posts until very recently (changed this week?) No idea why, perhaps because it was used as if HN were Reddit, and a

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