aethertron

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 infinite scrolling addictive.

"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 corners that precisely match the curvature of other rounded interface elements throughout the system and the bezel of the physical device itself."

Source: Apple https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

lol

> "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 currency! There's more now, you should appreciate!'

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.

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 different. Now there are legal liability issues, at least.

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.

I would simply throttle those requests. Update comments once an hour. Or once a day. Not everything needs to be realtime.

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.

How large should Google have been allowed to get, before kicking it off the net?

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 challenge for web-enjoyers is it's not obvious in a consensus-making way where 'weak points' that need help are, and what's an acceptable loss (say: video on the web. We can post raw video on a webhost. It's expensive, so no one does. And most video content is crap, so who cares - let the platforms have that?)

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 bury our rich, free open platform paradigm.

If a good decentralised open thing replaced it instead, cool.

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 Twitter. Because they were good ideas. Could've been independently discovered in the Platonic space of ideal tech-powered media too...

Yes, great social collaboration happens on Twitter. A bunch of inane squabbling and criminal threats too.

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 grammar discussion comes to a conclusion (as decided by the forum owner/editor-in-chief) it gets enforced on main threads thenceforth.

(my reply would go on the meta layer)

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 the HDMI spec), no one has been defrauded.

It's up there for me. But I liked his Schild's Ladder, which plays with some of the same ideas, even more.

Even better: physical buttons that feel like buttons.

My lamp and my earphones have 'touch buttons'.

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 further restrict according to some values, which is fine as it is. Freedom of association. They can't control the UI.

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's going to be a smaller domain of the tech-savvy, or try to raise the technical abilities of the general public (perhaps via better tools?).

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's a hard task. Maybe the advent of reader-funded blogging will re-energise the practice. I hope it will.

Disqus seems good on paper. Seems something like Disqus is in a position to facilitate content discovery: it has ads so it could also add related or recommended links to other stuff in the ecosystem.

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 that social energy.

Another reason blogs have languished: discussions come to an end, a point of exhaustion. When everything that's there to be said, has been. Retreading old ground is not the same as posting original thoughts. Different qualities of people do these things.

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.

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 their own blog.

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 format, and that's an acceptable deal for some content people. But there are always going to be potential circumventions, especially if these devices are general purpose computers. We can have have computers we control, or effective DRM (= computers that somebody else controls).

DRM bad.

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, the user.

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.

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 to do the heavy lifting.

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).

No.

In some cases they should be destroyed during the life of the author (e.g. a book filled with CSAM photos).

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 link, but copy content from other sites and put it on your own (everything there is, in principle, licensed CC share-alike).

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.