direwolf20

On the Fediverse you can even block mastodon.social and still have a well populated feed. This is not the case for bluesky.

Bluesky has never been distributed/decentralised. It's a single central system, which fetches 0.001% of user data from external systems if the user opts in, and has a marketing team that calls this decentralisation.

someone patented something in 2006 that the author had already acquired one of in 1986

This isn't solely due to shareholder fiduciary duty. Even without such a duty, the shareholders would fire anyone who doesn't put them first. Even without shares, a sole owner of a company would also do that. No matter your position, you don't get to do things that are bad for your boss, so the ultimate bosses (whoever they are in a given system) hold all the power.

And power has a tendency to accumulate. Powerful people always use their power to increase their power. There are no exceptions.

Microsoft Windows technologies like COM do create windows and run message loops on your behalf.

When you drag on a title bar it runs a modal message loop in kernel mode. Took me a while to figure that one out...

If it's a server app, I almost always have to switch to Postgres eventually so now I start with Postgres.

I think settled law may be that it applies to everyone in the US, but the settled reality is that none of the amendments apply to anyone, and more generally, there are no human rights in the US.

There is no trace from a dead body back to the original act of killing, but police regularly manage to link them anyway (at least when the body had a large enough bank account).

They do this by means such as "questioning people" and "finding evidence". For example, if you have a file on your computer describing your plan to use XOR to infringe copyright, that would be considered "evidence".

Important note: Only if you already know which one was corrupted.

I have an idea - what if a webpage could just run arbitrary code? With a confirmation every time. Then you wouldn't need a WebX for every X.

Why do people keep proposing alternatives to IPv6 that are no easier than IPv6 but still require the whole world to start the deployment over from 0%?

I am rather infuriated that it's impossible to disable IPv4 on my devices, so does that make us even?

Ignore all the excuses like longer addresses and incompatible hardware. The actual reason is that everyone hates change.

It could be that they don't want to implement IP bans in IPv6.

> Web Serial

why in the absolute fuck would I want random web pages to be able to control all the devices connected to my computer?

It's completely legal to ignore a DMCA notice. These notices set up a procedure where you're definitely not liable, but it doesn't mean it's the only way to not be liable. You can also not be liable if you - for example - didn't do anything illegal.

Anna's Archive has clearly discovered, by trial and error, which hosts work and which don't.

"DMCA ignored hosting" isn't even illegal. Ignoring a liability shield doesn't make you actually liable

I don't think Anna's can get into any worse of a legal position by pirating more things. It's already the case that anyone involved in the project will be arrested on sight, have all of their property seized, and go to prison for life. Which is why they don't show up to court hearings. This isn't the kind of crime where they beg the judge for leniency, it's the kind where they expose how silly the state is for imposing completely unenforceable penalties against someone they don't know the identity of.

It's a system of interacting AI agents that is all gas, no brakes and deliberately completely ridiculous. Like OpenClaw, but in a different direction and with multiple agents.

> Because it’s annoying to have to see yet another delusional vibe coded project being hyped up instead of this forum being used to discuss actually industry relevant information?

It's industry-relevant. This is what the industry is now. All in two short years.

We've already lost it, since "AI agents" are next token predictors instead of syntax tree diffusers or anything else that would actually make sense.

Often, different groups align on certain issues. The one that actually causes the change to happen is the one with the most clout.

Free-riding is frequently a good strategy. If you don't want other people free-riding on you, sign contracts saying they can't. That means, for instance, don't use MIT license.

It's all about bypassing regulations, just like Uber and AirBNB. Most US ISPs have old copper cables that only support DSL. Upgrading them means digging up the streets and that's expensive and a legal minefield. And those ISPs are local monopolies so why would they spend money just to keep the same number of customers who are locked in anyway?

Kagi is just a front end for Google with extra anti-slop filters. These are useful, and when you pay you become the customer instead of the product.

Try Marginalia Search but be warned it doesn't index the entire web

Some people only care about actual consequences. Download all the data and send it, in the post on a flash drive, to the GDPR regulator's office and another copy to the medical licensing board because why not.

Which fields of endeavor? Does it say you can't use the software to run a nuclear power plant, or a military jet? Does it say you can't use it in a restaurant?

I'm really not impressed with this reoccurring argument: "Solar power is good." "But night!"

In other countries, like Italy, they made a system where domain names are fast-tracked for blocking within minutes. I hate to say it but Spain managed to do something even worse.