aethertron

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by aethertron 2mo ago
There are good Shorts. One problem is a flick of the thumb scrolls you down to the next, then the next, and many are crap. The uncertainty about whether you're going to see crap or gold is part of what makes recommendation-based infini
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by aethertron 3mo ago
"A unique, memorable icon expresses your app’s or game’s purpose and personality and helps people recognize it at a glance." "In iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, icons are square, and the system applies masking to produce rounded corn
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by aethertron 5mo ago
> "It actually expands notepad++ brand to mac" > "My intention was to expand your brand." Funny he thinks 'expanding' someone else's 'brand' is doing them a favour. 'I inflated your cu
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by aethertron 5mo ago
Seems a bit silly, though. More economical to paint (or draw, or cut-and-paste, or whatever) one original, scan it, then print many copies.
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by aethertron 1y ago
Does my computer get involved when person A sends something illicit to person B? As a normal user on the internet, no. That's between them, and the law only deals with them. With certain decentralised anonymous systems, the answer is d
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by aethertron 2y ago
Not to downplay my personal importance (=make an ostentatious display of humility, lol) I can work on art and projects to express the importance of other things in the world that aren't myself.
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by aethertron 2y ago
I would simply throttle those requests. Update comments once an hour. Or once a day. Not everything needs to be realtime.
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by aethertron 2y ago
What's that thing? Much harm is attributed to Tinder and I don't know how to boil it all down to something that would be a positive for jobseeking.
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by aethertron 2y ago
How large should Google have been allowed to get, before kicking it off the net?
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by aethertron 2y ago
A commons is indeed vulnerable to collapse though bad management. So it won't take care of itself, but needs deliberate effort and coordination to maintain. If we want to keep the open web, can't we put the necessary work in? One
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by aethertron 2y ago
Where are you seeing signs of a web replacer? Native apps? Or big social media platforms built on the web, that replace the need (for mose users) to 'touch' the base web layers directly? It would be sad if those bury the web and b
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by aethertron 2y ago
Ted Nelson's critiques are good. Tech/Culture needs critics. Ted also tried being a culture-tech builder, and Xanadu just didn't work out. Despite several attempts, lots of resources spent... Its ideas probably influenced Twi
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by aethertron 2y ago
Forums should have separate layers for the object-level discussion, and meta-discussion. Then people can zoom into a peculiar grammatical detail that takes their fancy, but the main thread of a topic can keep going uninterrupted. Then if a
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by aethertron 3y ago
Trademarks are there to protect consumers from dishonestly represented goods. If I buy some display tech marketed as "HDMI-compatible" but unlicensed, and it works with my other HDMI equipment (say, its maker reverse-engineered th
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by aethertron 3y ago
It's up there for me. But I liked his Schild's Ladder, which plays with some of the same ideas, even more.
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by aethertron 3y ago
Even better: physical buttons that feel like buttons. My lamp and my earphones have 'touch buttons'.
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by aethertron 3y ago
Facebook has user-run groups, so there are at least 3 levels of moderation/rules there: 1. National law 2. Facebook TOS 3. Group rules But the legislative power, to to speak, at the group level is quite weak. They can furt
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by aethertron 3y ago
I am pro open web. I like the remix-ability of its tools. But walled gardens are easier to use, as they've invested in design, and designed for non-power-users. Open web enjoyers need to build better tools, and/or accept that it&#
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by aethertron 3y ago
The advent of commenting did mitigate the lonesomeness of independent blogging. Then social media sapped away much of that social energy, returning blogging to its natural state of solitude. Bloggers can try to nurture community, but it&#x2
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by aethertron 3y ago
A personal site is a lonely place. That's why blogs, after an initial burst of creative energy, languish. People nowadays seeking online to fulfil their social inclinations go elsewhere, to the platforms better optimised to harness tha
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by aethertron 3y ago
Find that good artist then either: 1. pay them to make art for the game you want to make, or 2. work with them for free to make the game they want to make. Good luck.
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by aethertron 3y ago
The ephemerality is the reverse to how it should be. A tweet from 15 years ago is probably still there. A blog's domain name might have expired, so its posts are lost. So bloggers should copypaste the other blog posts they like into th
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by aethertron 3y ago
There is no such thing as streaming without downloading. With DRM it's possible for platforms to offer streaming, which necessarily involves downloading, but without consumers retaining streamed content on their devices in a usable for
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by aethertron 4y ago
NewPipe is a 3rd party Android YouTube client. You might like it, or an alternative. Online Services and their client interfaces are ideally separated. This removes a conflict of interest and allows for client software to serve one master,
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by aethertron 4y ago
I seldom upvote (and I can't downvote). Why bother? Can't see whether or not it's had any appreciable effect. Can't see the vote count. I already know other signals are used to determine rankings.
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by aethertron 4y ago
Need long-lived pseudonyms that can accrue reputation. Ideally they'd be securely portable from site to site. Some schemes for this use fancy cryptography, which may have some value. But something simple with web domains might be able
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by aethertron 4y ago
You went to sive.rs/su but sive.rs/ff is a bridge too far? URLs, shortened or not, can send you anywhere. You don't know where they'll take you (unless you control them).
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by aethertron 5y ago
No. In some cases they should be destroyed during the life of the author (e.g. a book filled with CSAM photos).
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by aethertron 5y ago
Perhaps neglected web content should die. Improvement via a kind of Darwinian mechanism would depend on that. Web content that people that people care about could last forever if we adopted the Federated Wiki patterns, i.e. don't just
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by aethertron 5y ago
A boss grooming his underage staff? That would be offline-initiated grooming, so not really the remit of social media companies. Workplace communications should be auditable.

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