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As long as there will be FOSS and open hardware, there will be a chance for piracy to exist. As long as piracy will exist, there will be a chance to save the many artifacts of our modern culture.

But, if these artifacts were just to distract us from preserving them in the first place, they were probably not worth to be preserved. And ho boy, how there is much distraction to be found today!

:-D Ok, you got me <raises hands in surrender>. NewPipe is actually my primary YT client on the phone :-)

Call me cynical but building a client for a user hostile service is a sign of a Stockholm syndrome.

You mean like Japan or China? Or Koreas? No success there, nope /s

But they drank all the Western kool-aid they could, though and it slowly shows.

Yup, the first thing that people without prepping will go after preppers. No amount of bullets and doors will fend off the sheer hunger.

That was the way of life for any community before industrial revolution. It appears that all attempts at creating such communities have more or less failed, because they eventually become coopted either for or against capitalistic economy.

This is just a weak PR statement. Alma and Rocky already revealed that these things are not trivial to maintain and I fail to see beyond pure fork how on earth would SUSE maintain RHEL compatibility and avoid litigation from IBM at the same time.

And then SUSE might be sold off again to some predatory company similar to IBM. What's even the point then of not using pure community distros like Debian?

Fake free services. You're paying them with personal information about you and your behaviour.

While one might write off Facebook/Meta as a company in flux, I think that the uptake rate of Threads really shows how the gravity pull of a apparently dead social network can quickly fill in the empty space of a fallen competitor. Social networking is "no country for federated men" as long as this behemoth rules the space.

Yes, but the problems are always multifaceted. So sometimes even an apparent weakness might come off as a strength or a non-issue in a different situations. For example it's interesting that for all its technical excellence Windows isn't present in the HPC space.

The more I saw the "So What" slide after each deficiency exposed, the more I saw it as subverting the whole presentation. Yes, there are problems, but it appears that didn't prevent UNIX&Linux from persisting and succeeding in many forms of computing. The presenter curiously forgot to mention "worse is better" principle.

As long as there are humans involved, yes, there are words, even for visual symbols.

I think Apple managed to escape this VC trap by sheer excellence.

I agree with "enshittification" being a poor choice. I would go with plain simple "milking the product", not for the benefit of the user, of course.

It won't because it's too close to human interaction.

I guess I'll be able to drop LDAP when LDID will be introduced.

Life implies death. When will these systems implode under their own complexity?

Technically speaking we only know the plane landed through this information. But will Pelosi set foot on Taiwanese soil?

> He contributed exactly nothing to the story.

I see you point, but there are so many chapters in our meandering lives that don't add nothing to our "story". It still does add a layer of depth to the LOTR as others have pointed out. And in a way he acts as a comic Cerberus, scaring away the materialistic minds that want to speedrun through a completely coherent story once again.

We used to say "it's just a job". The more "a job" becomes the center of life and meaning, the more all other aspects of "life" seep into it. Leisure, family, values, religion, all of it. Maybe "changing" or "revolutionizing" the world through "a job" isn't such a good idea in the end.

As far as I understand it (from skimming through a couple of docs and presentations), DIDs are similar to specs for assertions and/or attributes which are stored in a blockchain which functions as federation metadata datastore and IdP at the same time.

> DID in my opinion is unlikely to succeed.

Probably a few big tech companies will form a consortium and use their weight for setting a de-facto standard.

So you're implying LGBT are fundamentalist that corporations bowed to too.

Fascinating! Imagine such conversation:

Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Tolkien: "Yes! Because it IS! magic."

Clarke looking baffled at the response and trying to explain it to himself on the latest round of ale ("welp, it's still the 1st round, it's going to be a long night").

The problem with scientific framework is that it takes man out of the equation and than tries to say that this is all there is (science is not good nor bad, just is, right?). Yet for all the progress we were given in the last three centuries a lot of bad came out of it too. Yet we can't blame it on the science because we can't have the holistic worldview from scientific standpoint.

I'm afraid k8s would become like git - it's a great tool out of which we mostly use like 5% of it's complete capabilities, yet we all use it because everyone is using it. Yet, k8s doesn't really make all the underlying stacks go away. When the shit hits the fan, you have to troubleshoot it with knowledge of much more than just YAML syntax.

Wow, this pretty much sums the modern post(trans?)-human worldview. Old world meets the new world.

I guess the author isn't aware of the magazine's own role in the narratives about the Internet. Wired giveth and taketh away.

Agreed. When I saw Pisa Cathedral from 11th century in person it made me think ... There was no dramatic collapse in 5th century. Yes, a lot of upheaval, but I guess a lot of engineering knowledge from the Roman Empire period was preserved which in turn means that complex society in Italy remained quite sophisticated through the so called "dark ages".

What about ... Kermit in the Muppet Show?

> There are a huge variety of intra-organizational communication systems, to the point where pretty much every large enterprise provider seems to have one (Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, etc etc).

That's why I find Delta Chat piggybacking on Push-IMAP such an interesting concept: https://delta.chat