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Back in the days, the webring idea wasn’t driven by popularity groups and metrics but by affinity, from the perspective of authors. A ring was thematic, friends, interest.

Very bad UI choice on mobile. Next to unreadable.

Why should any be exclusive of the other? My take is that it is kind of exclusive today, because the economy is designed and limited against the ecology, but that's not a fundament…

What is it actually? Is it giving status, or taste? Is it private or is it spying? Is it giving help in everyday life, that no other existing experience can replace? Is it a platfo…

I understand the website doesn't address users first, but it really feels like a missed opportunity to show a typical, simple use case in the front page (as in, "as a user, what's …

There are good GUI editors for XML?

Evil has a motive (defensive or offensive). Stupidity has none. You can derail stupid towards something. Even de-stupid it. That does not work with motivated people, even less evil…

Because he was stupid, and not evil.

The satire we need today is how we sort it out.

I'm sorry if that sounded disparaging. I totally get that face recognition is an issue for some. And that some tech may be of help with that. But if said tech implies putting every…

Privacy is a fundamental right, not the end of everything. And you axiomize progress. Although the question isn’t one against the other. It is whether progress justifies treating p…

Rules are all made up (as tech is) for the purpose of enabling society and lowering suffering. Who was harmed? Everyone whose private personal information have been leaked without …

Saying ja/oui to something, is saying nein/non to something else. If all you have is taking sides with what ought to be dismissed, or rather, discussed and controlled, rather than …

How can we still believe in the trust idea when 1/ accidental leaks happen every single day and 2/ corporations do not even hide any more their intent and uses of the collected dat…

Comparing a natural ability to some kind of privacy-violating skill sounds a bit a hard sell. Kind of like selling hard won skills as some kind of gate keeping. Improving the quali…

Right, but PetSmart was an existing retailer that added e-commerce, not a startup burning VC money on an unproven model: the tech worked, the hype-driven bet didn't. GenAI has its …

Market has the final say, not tech. If no one uses/buys the tech, as investor or customer... it won't feed anyone.

That's kind of proving my point here. E-commerce succeeded, but not in the form Pets and WebVan proposed, and not in the timeline their investors needed. The question is not: is it…

I don't mean burst like that (neither a conspiracy), rather a striking coincidence: there are huge applications for GPUs, true. But the inflation of expectations and investments in…

She says something more structural than that: there's a pattern, sold by the same people, with the same contempt to social consequences and democratic rules: GenAI, multiverse, NFT…

QA is actual work. Building the thing is actual work. Each is not "the" work, which is the task of the whole company. QA perspective and focus is just different from the one of the…

Let's say it will be. Who will then define, debate and hold standards/regulations/norms, then? and adherence to those standards, as well as the legal responsibility that comes with…

If you care about: the consistency of your output, what you're selling to your customers, you have not much of a choice (than to control what you are shipping). Not even mentioning…

Makes a lot of sense. One additional point of data about caring about exit interviews: I have been in a team where an excellent engineer left for a different company. He came back …

I disagree. I do not care about the details of a ton of stuff. I do not even understand them. On the other hand, I do care about people that are knowledgeable of these details, spe…