mamborambo

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by mamborambo 3y ago
There is an old joke about the difference between a service provider and a "service preventer". Often the difference is the type of power we allow them to have over the users. There are many domains of modern society that serve s
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by mamborambo 3y ago
In fact human living is basically a type of operating system, as we all juggle on a daily basis tasks, resources, input/output, storage, cache, and states. The concept of dashboard is an essential operating system tool, and on a human
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by mamborambo 3y ago
I fully agree that physical aspects of libraries cannot be fully replicated with databases and searches. Discovery indeed comes in many forms, sometimes by proximity, other times by serendipity, size of the book, even what sits on the recen
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by mamborambo 3y ago
Japan is a unique world all to itself. Read up on how houses and streets are numbered and you will arrive at a similar chaos!
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by mamborambo 3y ago
The Reddit situation reminds me a lot of the China situation: "A major player, having built a near dominant position in the global flow chain, starts misbehaving. The entire world tries to de-risk by finding or bootstrapping alternati
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by mamborambo 3y ago
Perhaps now is the right time to revamp Usenet to bring it up to par with the Reddit of today. I am also thinking that email / mail lists, forums, and even old protocols like finger and gopher are all worthy of upgrades, and these wer
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by mamborambo 3y ago
Last year my Samsung S20+ suffered the notorious "green vertical lines" and then soon after the "white out screens" (a pandemic-level hardware failure wave that has been widely reported), rendering it impossible to see c
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by mamborambo 4y ago
The only feeling being hurt is Xi Jinping's.
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by mamborambo 4y ago
Two interesting points raised: 1) Can a metaverse "digital twin" really successfully preserve a nation's culture and civilization? Beyond just 3d maps and museum artefacts, this goal also needs to preserve languages, ethnic p
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by mamborambo 4y ago
No I mean the media-specific server app branching like pictures (pixelfed), music (funkwhale), live cast (owncast), video (peertube), links (Lemmy) etc. How do a newbie to Fediverse sensibly choose the right instance to home on, when he has
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by mamborambo 4y ago
The "Twexit" event is a huge opportunity for Fediverse to pick up new users, but I fear it will be wasted because the Fediverse software is still not ready for prime time. The concept of "instances", "federated feed
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by mamborambo 4y ago
The consumer's dependence on "legit-sounding domain name", a green SSL key, and recognizable corporate logos and website layout as the "proof" of authenticity is passe. In this era of online ubiquity there should be
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by mamborambo 4y ago
Although the rise of walled gardens was the biggest headwind to more people maintaining their personal websites, I think there is also a lot of issues arising from the underlying technologies of website building relative to the neophytes. I
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by mamborambo 4y ago
I see a parallel between Google's pseudo-customer service and totalitarian country's social order system. Both are theoretically based on clear terms and rules, but during execution can be completely opaque and non-intuitive. If
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by mamborambo 4y ago
Super impressed. Amateurs can and do play their parts in science --- there are numerous discoveries made in astronomy, mathematics, and definitely in computer applied sciences that sprang from the minds of amateurs.
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by mamborambo 5y ago
Given all the political posturing, hacktivism, war hacking, as a result of the war in Ukraine, there is suddenly a great deal of uncertainty in the digital and economic infrastructure if our world. While I applaud some degree of non-militar
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by mamborambo 5y ago
There is a large movement towards distributed statehood/citizenship built on the view that people should treat the government as a service or utility and not overlord. Cue micronations, charter cities, e-residency, and tax havens sche
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by mamborambo 5y ago
A very good read, and indeed "mise-en-place" is a skill / philosophy / system which can greatly assist knowledge workers if they apply it. Most chefs learn how when they apprentice under a master chef, and adopt or copy
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by mamborambo 5y ago
The evidence is overwhelming, but the world is addicted to cheap Chinese products so we all looked the other way. But the buck should stop now.
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by mamborambo 5y ago
This is a common dilemma in social media. Does "liking" a post mean you agree with it? Does "angry face" mean you disagree? What about "laughing face", "shocked face"? It is dangerous to read lega
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by mamborambo 6y ago
Although the rebranding is probably unnecessary, it is still a good move if the company has ambition beyond fund transfer --- perhaps into alternative financial services, non-bank assets, or other types of nomadic fund application. I have
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by mamborambo 6y ago
In most financial systems, there has to be a "banker" to make the market, i.e. they have to close the deals when the aggregate buy/sell deals end in surplus or deficits. So Paypal has to close the ending position -- at least
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by mamborambo 6y ago
This reminds me of the recent news about Lets Encrypt expiring one of their root certificate and warning that old Android systems may not be able to validate SSL if they were not updated. We have increasing moved our world into an intercon
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by mamborambo 6y ago
It appears the built-in time expiry period in the trust relationships between various organisations and clients will increasing become a weak point in the world in the future. Whether these moving parts are in trust only for three months,
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by mamborambo 6y ago
The reality is that autocracy exists everywhere not just at the state level. A private property, private company, within a family, even a military organisation. Pieces of CCP "technology" used for surveillance, recognition, trac
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by mamborambo 6y ago
Sounds like a repeat of the case that Paypal blocked an artist's account for having the word Iran inside her full name https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24359821
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by mamborambo 6y ago
Perhaps it is time for the IRS to take a great leap forward and start thinking beyond its territorial power to collect revenue -- and start thinking about the post-millenia reality of nomads, transnationals, solopreneurs, cloud-based operat
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by mamborambo 6y ago
But in Hong Kong's case, a number of Telegram chat room operators have been prosecuted by the police for anti-government activities. If TG is really secure then this shouldn't have happened.
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by mamborambo 6y ago
Jimmy Lai is one of the most inspiring democrat activist of HK. With his wealth, he could have arranged a refuge and left HK months ago, instead of staying and being exposed to the increasingly beligerant CCP/Hong Kong bootlickers. A
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by mamborambo 6y ago
As a HKer I am at the stage of my life when I suddenly realise how much geopolitics influence the course of our lives, and yes I would love to find a forum where smart and informed people have their discussions about the world's events

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