altilunium

long time ago, i joined a mass protest on the chromium-dev mailing list because google was unilaterally trying to remove a certain javascript functionality that plenty of people still heavily relied on.

i don't even know whether we won that fight or not... but, good times.

most of the things within a half-hour walk from us are actually banned on wikipedia because they're not notable enough.. i was expecting this site to let us freely add "those forbidden" things. i had high hopes when reading the title alone..

turns out, it just filters existing wikipedia articles based on their proximity to a given coordinate.

> He and a music producer recreated the song

haha. back then i also used this exact same method to search for a song i'd heard a long time ago (but i didn't know either the artist or the title). it wasn't really that complicated, since i just reproduced the chorus using a keyboard. turns out somebody on the forum knew the song and gave me the details, so i finally reunited with that song after decades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMMRqCa2k0o

We have matter-antimatter asymmetry in physics... and now I just learned there's a similar concept in chemistry (one variant frequently occurs in life while the other mirrored variant is rarely found in nature)

can any layman user simply use it without running their own instance?

I immediately noticed something was wrong when the "daily tech message board" appeared. Before that point, I 100% believed that this was a real story.

probatio diabolica

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probatio_diabolica

https://07th-expansion.fandom.com/wiki/Devil%27s_Proof

Cool. I would like to try it, but it will probably take a considerable amount of time to convince my circle of friends to migrate to this platform en masse.

Is there a catalog of public, Echoed-based groups / communities that anyone can freely join? I'd like to explore the platform's full range of features before trying to persuade others to make the switch.

"If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In the worst-case scenario, they will keep harassing you off-wiki, hunting for your digital footprint across other social media platforms. I actually had to retire several of my internet handles because of this wiki drama.

I hope anyone can start their own private wiki in peace and for free.

Today, we already have free blogging platforms, newsletters, photo sharing, and microblogging, but we are in dire need of a free wiki platform (and maybe a knowledge base tool too).

I'm currently experimenting with building exactly that. So far, so good, but the setup is still too difficult for non-technical people, even though it is already free to register.

The Wikipedia community proudly states that they're not a democracy [1]. I don't even know how that works. People simply think their opinion is the best one while hiding behind statements like, "This is THE consensus, you can't do anything about it. Oh, Wikipedia IS NOT A DEMOCRACY, so your pathetic voting attempt has literally no power here."

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:IS_NOT_A_DEMOCRACY...

I also have problems with Wikipedia, sure, but I resolved them simply by setting up a private wiki, and it's been quite peaceful.

Changing the whole institutional culture at Wikipedia is more of a social challenge than a technical one, and I am not well-versed in that area. So, I would rather fork some wiki software, write code, and write articles for myself.

Will my wiki be able to compete with a giant like Wikipedia on the internet? I don't know. I don't even know whether mine is indexed by search engines yet. But I love writing articles, so I'll keep doing it as long as I can.

It really works. Very cool. I’ve been looking for this kind of service for a long time since I started learning Japanese, and I’ve rarely been satisfied with the available services.

keywords : miraheze, wikioasis

My account was also randomly suspended recently, but I regained access after submitting an appeal to X support. [1]

An acquaintance of mine was also suspended due to “inauthentic behavior.” probably still suspended even now. [2]

[1] https://rtnf.substack.com/p/altilunium-chronoo

[2] https://x.com/i/status/2043104069259268335

I got one beetle at first, then the rest of them were all nematodes.

Last time I did that, I got pointed out as an ESL and got insulted and laughed at.

I use my own text editor too.

Sometimes I get surprise questions from my friends whenever they see my screen. “What’s that?” “That’s my own text editor!”

Here’s a similar case, but she handled it differently : https://teletype.in/@cyllchuesnconii/TSwR1AAfffT

I made “Wikidata Atlas” several weeks ago. [1] [2]

[1] : https://wd-nearbyitem.toolforge.org/

[2] : https://rtnf.substack.com/p/wd-nearbyitem

I wonder whether the emergence of a single, true Wikipedia competitor would actually put an end to this never-ending fundraising criticism (since people could simply donate to the competitor as a form of protest)

> "I'm just not sure there's a good solution to this."

The democratization of local journalism, where anyone can become a reporter: reporting events in the field, interviewing key people, and publishing opinions. With the internet, anyone could set up their own news outlet.

This idea is quite well-tested in my local area, where audiences directly send donation money to individual reporters who run their own sole-proprietorship news outlets.

since i actually love the act of solving real-world problems by building programs (and not the act of programming itself), writing specs and shepherding robot monkeys with typewriters is an acceptable means to an end

I think you need to manage a real (and large) network that's connected to global internet traffic in order to "play" with BGP. Well, you can tinker with it at home, but only by using a network simulator.

One of the biggest caveats of citizen participation programs like this is that, surprisingly, there's a subset of people who don't want to participate in the hassle and simply want to be served quickly. It really depends on how the majority of people in a specific area think about civic participation.

I thought "Personal Interlude: Lessons From My Quant Trenches" was just another business book title ready to be criticized. I wondered why the formatting was different on this one, then I slowly realized it wasn’t a business book title at all.