For a company that is a monopoly - you should logically be able to, monopolies are not allowed to have biases (shouldn’t exist in the first place though).
For a company that says it’s a search engine but in fact meddles with recommendations - you should logically be able to, they are calling themselves not what they are in fact.
Both would mean putting all the big tech top management into jail, though. So no chance.
systemd controversy was never about purism. It was about some piece of software unasked for by the majority of users, including absolute majority of desktop users, being pushed with juvenile means and those disliking that being called words like “luddite”.
It still is, believe me or not, I probably wouldn’t find anything wrong in systemd (or pulseaudio, or Gnome 3) were it not pushed with that arrogant Apple or MS like approach of “we’ve rolled out this new feature in our system, and you’re a weirdo”.
Same reason I liked the very theoretical idea of something like Wayland, but Wayland itself I don’t want to even try. Except for the possibility of something like CWM existing for it, that I can set up in 15 minutes with 20 lines of config file without levels of brackets etc (there is actual research as to how many levels various primates can process, chimps can’t go above 3, and I’m apparently as intelligent as a chimp, because neither can I in practice, but so is Linus Torvalds with his famous quote about more than 3 levels of indentation ; the issue is that I don’t want to strain my mind with that either when with a few X11 window managers I don’t have to). There’s none I’ve found yet.
Their politics trouble me. The technical parts may be sometimes arguable, but what isn’t, our world is created with mistakes as building blocks. But I’ve started using Unix-like systems for the feeling of freedom and patience, and while RH stuff doesn’t take away the former, it infringes on the latter.
This is still an action of the “we want to influence Israel, but keep them as our ally” kind.
That doesn’t work. To make them listen, you must be willing to actually let them die. To drop them under the bus.
Same goes for Turkey, Russia, Pakistan.
Well, geopolitics make this a dangerous approach, but one should remember always than anything short of that readiness is not leverage.
So what they should be voting on is this AND dissolving the alliance. Of course one shouldn’t make threats of clearly hostile action while still allied, this bites long-term.
The last sentence. You can say all you want in social media to blow off steam, but you’ll only make things right in the real world with real power applied. And posting it here you’ve removed yourself from there.
Social media are not designed to be usable for organizing and combining those crumbs of power we all possess. They are actually designed for the opposite goal - to let everyone receive the dopamin hit from saying what should be done and forgetting it, from dispersing their power as thinly as possible. Look at your (EDIT: the guy I was replying to, didn’t realize you’re different people) 300+ likes, all worthless.
A self-regulating propaganda device, better than cheap and good brothels everywhere, or cheap alcohol and cheap and legal maryjane. Also alcohol and maryjane reduce one’s labor value, while brothels can have an effect opposite to the desirable (there’s need for validation in the society, thus in hierarchy, which gets reduced by being sexually content). Social media are better in both regards.
Shoulda coulda woulda.
My aunt recently gave me a good advice, and a person in one chat with, I suspect, very interesting expertise gave the same advice in different form.
Emotions harm reason, and propaganda is not just directed at suppressing or increasing the emotion. It’s directed at making you emotional when you should be patient, and apathetic when you should be emotional, and act when you should wait, and wait when you should act.
It can easily work since everyone feels their fight of their day to be unique. But it’s not, and more than that - you can always look a few years back and remember that not only was it predicted, but you yourself predicted it.
By all this smartassery I meant - people making the laws don’t want them to work as we do, and they have sterilized the field. Think further.
In 1999 this had already happened, just the information about that explosion hadn’t reached your part of the galaxy yet. Metaphorically.
I’m thinking about at least Russia (Putin taking power and the second Chechen War), Israel (repatriation and its political turn and its choice of allies in the changed world, Likud taking power), Armenia (Kocharyan taking power, Sargsyan and Demirchyan being assassinated) and Azerbaijan (starting to boycott negotiations and build up oil industry since that time) having made a clear direction change.
These may not be obviously connected to other things we see, but I think they are part of the same tendency. I think at the same time Microsoft got an anti-monopoly decision saying that documenting Windows interfaces its bundled applications use for independent developers is sufficient for it to not be a monopolist, and Netscape died, and dotcoms crashed, and Linux attained the love of corporations, albeit not so notable yet, while FreeBSD didn’t, and Amiga started dying, and DEC, and Sun received a hit, and one can notice many other things.
By the way, it’s the favorite thing to say for journalists mentioning it that The Phantom Menace was a bad movie and hated by fans, and Attack of the Clones an even worse one, and Revenge of the Sith kinda better. But these were all political statements (I’m not imagining it because Lucas said that himself many times), and when we treat them as such, they were very good as that - the predictions came out to be correct.
OK, I might just love Star Wars too much.
What an infodump.
I mean, yes, obviously I agree with Agent Smith on that part.
the soviets could never get to work
No, just what was in progress.
“A few western chips” for military grade applications would be not too easy to get for some time, and USSR and then Russia could produce them, and the process of plants producing such closing was very slow and lasted till late 00s. It’s not the difference between a project stalling and moving further.
It’s the most recent stuff we hear about relying on Western components.
to do the math and control they could never manage
USSR with all its shortcomings did have functional nuclear shield, a space station, domestically produced computers (clones of Western things, yes, but that was a strategic decision, a stupid one though), a space shuttle analog that was arguably better. So “never manage” is usually not the reason for its failures. Economic inefficiency and administrative rot are.
And the Guardian being complicit in Azeri propaganda and thus genocide is not.
It’s funny, it sometimes seems as if people from all those nations complicit in Artsakh’s occupation thought that unlike Palestine or Ukraine it’s just normal and they can behave as if nothing happened and it’s OK.
More than that, those funny people seem to think it’s impolite to bring up.
This may be off topic, but I absolutely loved reading about Minuteman III guidance system.
And unlike all those “missiles by subscription and good behavior” that many big countries sell to smaller countries, it doesn’t rely on any satellite system or external corrections after launch.
BTW, I wonder what’s inside Russian ICBMs. People often say that all the Russian big cool projects in defense after breakup of the USSR are just finished Soviet projects. If that is true, there must be an awfully complex, but geek-porn-ish thing inside, possibly with analog and maybe even mechanical elements. If that is not, it’s still interesting. Right now yes, Russian military engineering relies on many foreign (NATO countries produced in fact) components. But that didn’t become a thing immediately, so I wonder how did they solve problems.
The latter hints that it’s an error and not a mistake, and maybe it’ll get fixed, and maybe even with a better license.
That said, there are a few “winamps” I can install right now (audacious, qmmp, xmms if I bother to compile it and gtk-1.2, bmp if I bother to compile it).
Something like milkdrop I’d love, but … nah.
And nah, getting back to MPD with an ed-like “client” (script with mpc) that jumps to the right entry and position by number, by name regex, by “:”-separated time format.
Yes, but optimism about that is unfounded.
It would be impressive were it properly maintained using the funds allocated only for the stated goal.
But I’d expect that to not be the case.
And also when a significant part of the chain is interested only in stealing, there will be negative selection. Everybody capable of learning will leave for greener pastures. Those who remain will be dull and full of themselves.
I’m not sure Harmony OS is what you said, but it definitely presents and Android environment as the main way to run applications. Say, Sailfish does that too, but it also has native ones.
It seemed cool because everything was beige or white or black and square. “Boring” industrial design (that I liked, but those Apple stuff pictures I liked too, though not as much as chromecore GBA and PS2, remember when everything was chromecore?) and this bubbly-transparent-plastic-luminous thing.
I don’t think I’d like it really using it though. And it is tasteless, like everything Ive designed.
I feel like throwing up even seeing Ive’s “the work behind this turd starts with a carefully engineered thread of digestion, and the smell and texture were carefully selected by thousands of experiments handled personally by our engineers, it’s a miraculous creation, and in its own way it’s unique” face.
Those giving out the awards want to wait and see if someone dies over laughter about this event. Then they’ll get the award.
So basically it’s a project done by MBA geniuses, entrepreneurs and visionaries who optimized by cutting on those mundane and boring nautical engineers and software developers?
God, do I like how evolution works.
but this sounds like you’re attempting to legislate that social media companies are not allowed to pursue user engagement of their product. Basically telling them that they’re not allowed to seek profit.
If a social media system can exist as a P2P network with distributed encrypted storage (similar to Freenet, but we only replicate what’s in the communities we are subscribed to), which is sufficiently fast and functional, then such a system can exist without commercial companies that would be interested in user engagement.
Commercial products there may be:
content - this is what’s supposed to be commercial in such a system, not various attention trap algorithms,
moderation - you may browse it unmoderated, or you may subscribe to some paid moderation provider, which would give you some collection of “delete” and “censor edit” technical messages posted by its moderators, or “confirm” messages if it’s premoderation,
storage provided to users, not like some Mega subscription or some corporate cloud, but like additional cache,
access to a community, which may be similar to premoderation where only paying users’ messages are seen in that community, or maybe there’s some DRM (unique parts) in community content shared between well-behaving paying users, and it’s encrypted, so that those leaking it can be excommunicated.
One common part is that architecture should not be owned by companies and infrastructure should not be defined by them.
Then the parts about user engagement can be frankly even made illegal. It won’t be a problem since the ecosystem won’t rely on them.
Social media combine a lot of how general Web and even Internet were used before them. So it makes sense that to undo this problem we need a new iteration of the same idea, but technically superior - with more transparently reliable storage, no stupid shit with PKI and CAs which get compromised often, no Chrome monoculture, no siloed services.
A-A-AND
after typing all this load of bullshit I’ve looked at the current list of Nostr NIPs, and like 80% is already described there. People here don’t like Nostr for some kinds of people coming there, but with moderation would you care about the rest of it? https://satellite.earth
Well, in some sense Lemmy does that too (by its paradigm inherited from those). Because were it not similar, it would have even fewer users.
It’s an evolutionary mechanic, that I don’t know how to fix.
How would that work? There were N init systems with one “main” one, now there are N+1 init systems with one “main” one, just different.
Anyway, init systems for developers being problematic seem for me a nonexistent problem. Writing a systemd unit takes less time than writing this comment with tea and buckwheat with milk as a distraction. Writing a sysvinit script takes something like that too. Same with BSD inits. Same with openrc.
While combined they take some time, packagers can do that. And even if they can’t, time spent trying to persuade others that systemd makes things easier is orders of magnitude bigger than time spent writing service scripts\templates\units.