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by high_5 19d ago
The HTTP protocol and HTML fromat that Tim Berners Lee created, were meant for sharing documentation and information which foster collaboration via internet. It wasn't really meant for doing business in trusted environments. The WWW ac
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by high_5 1mo ago
This reminds me of the ole days of cleaning up preinstalled Windows of bloatware. Some clean Linux distro on desktop is the only path open to human-first tech.
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by high_5 2mo ago
Chat apps have already replaced socialapps like FB long ago and the companies know it. Meta has FB Messenger and WhatsApp.
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by high_5 3mo ago
Because of the allusion to British Empire?
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by high_5 3mo ago
Yeah, I had Fred Turner in mind when posting. A bit dry, but comprehensive.
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by high_5 3mo ago
The Personal Computer culture in the SV developed from the counterculture in the valley: https://kbsm.org/technology/california-tech-culture-that-sha... It then hopped on the Free Software movement with redefining it a
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by high_5 3mo ago
Excellent! Just searching "giants" pops our many more of these characters than just Nephilim and Goliath.
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by high_5 2y ago
The more the behemoth of bureaucracy and total control will grind and (o)press the societies to atomized individuals, the more lone wolfs will crop up.
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by high_5 2y ago
Passkeys deployment reminds me of a cartel agreement among FAANG without the actual coordination. It's too good of a new tech frontier not to colonize.
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by high_5 2y ago
Imagine then having a forest fire in zone rouge: https://www.businessinsider.com/slovenia-wildfires-set-off-h...
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by high_5 2y ago
WWII??? We haven't managed yet to clean up after WWI! For example, nearly every day unexploded munitions are found on the former Isonzo frontline.
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by high_5 2y ago
Wine is becoming like archive.org, but for win32 runtimes.
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by high_5 2y ago
Ha, just found out you already posted the spec. Still, even if it gets published, IMO multilateral federations will migrate veeeery sloooooowly.
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by high_5 2y ago
Even higher-ed&research will deploy OpenID federations. The spec is WIP: https://openid.net/specs/openid-federation-1_0.html
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by high_5 2y ago
Because programming is essentially about receiving the input data, transforming it through a process and in the end outputting it in some other form?
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by high_5 2y ago
All tank commanders are perfect fit for next Napoleon.
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by high_5 2y ago
DeltaChat.
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by high_5 2y ago
An their law.
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by high_5 2y ago
> they say, "yeah, ok, whatever, 24/7 surveillance is fine as long as it catches bad people too." So you should continue the discussion like this: those bad people after 24/7 surveillance have no other option to infil
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by high_5 2y ago
The pharaoh's tombs had a lot of warnings and curses against opening them up. Didn't help much not long after and even millennia after that.
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by high_5 2y ago
Not necessarily. You might end up just building things on top of things spiral which reduces the ability to think clearly.
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by high_5 2y ago
Electric vehicles are currently on a good path to become gentrification of mobility.
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by high_5 2y ago
> how the states and countries (I live in EU, which passed the same kind of laws) intend to support the massive electrical demands that will put on the grid. I think this question is easily explained away by politicians that this new de
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by high_5 3y ago
> Wikipedia has nationalism modern root in the French Revolution but as a non European I find that unconvincing. This is just an armchair theory of mine: the seeds were planted by Luther who insisted that every nation should have a Bible
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by high_5 3y ago
But of course, that's the undercurrent worldview you can sense from Tanakh. Losing (a temporary) home once more and wandering about, having nowhere to return to.
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by high_5 3y ago
Yes, they are human indeed, but those humans cannot agree on whether the plug should or shouldn't be pulled.
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by high_5 3y ago
The true anarchism to the enshittification of the music services would be to just sing or whistle the songs.
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by high_5 3y ago
Nowadays I mostly piggy-back on someone else more enthusiastic than me who would take the picture. And sometimes I'm the enthusiastic one. There are better memories to be had if you have someone to share with.
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by high_5 3y ago
Imagine the shock for those poor bastards then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Morandi#Collapse 51 years.
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by high_5 3y ago
> The North's eventual win came at very high cost. In my opinion, we should memorialize Union soldiers more than we do. There was so much discussion of Confederate monuments the other year, but no one ever mentions the many Union mo

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