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Chat apps have already replaced socialapps like FB long ago and the companies know it. Meta has FB Messenger and WhatsApp.

Because of the allusion to British Empire?

Yeah, I had Fred Turner in mind when posting. A bit dry, but comprehensive.

The Personal Computer culture in the SV developed from the counterculture in the valley: https://kbsm.org/technology/california-tech-culture-that-sha... It then hopped on the Free …

Excellent! Just searching "giants" pops our many more of these characters than just Nephilim and Goliath.

The more the behemoth of bureaucracy and total control will grind and (o)press the societies to atomized individuals, the more lone wolfs will crop up.

Passkeys deployment reminds me of a cartel agreement among FAANG without the actual coordination. It's too good of a new tech frontier not to colonize.

Imagine then having a forest fire in zone rouge: https://www.businessinsider.com/slovenia-wildfires-set-off-h...

WWII??? We haven't managed yet to clean up after WWI! For example, nearly every day unexploded munitions are found on the former Isonzo frontline.

Wine is becoming like archive.org, but for win32 runtimes.

Ha, just found out you already posted the spec. Still, even if it gets published, IMO multilateral federations will migrate veeeery sloooooowly.

Even higher-ed&research will deploy OpenID federations. The spec is WIP: https://openid.net/specs/openid-federation-1_0.html

Because programming is essentially about receiving the input data, transforming it through a process and in the end outputting it in some other form?

All tank commanders are perfect fit for next Napoleon.

DeltaChat.

An their law.

> they say, "yeah, ok, whatever, 24/7 surveillance is fine as long as it catches bad people too." So you should continue the discussion like this: those bad people after 24/7 surve…

The pharaoh's tombs had a lot of warnings and curses against opening them up. Didn't help much not long after and even millennia after that.

Not necessarily. You might end up just building things on top of things spiral which reduces the ability to think clearly.

Electric vehicles are currently on a good path to become gentrification of mobility.

> how the states and countries (I live in EU, which passed the same kind of laws) intend to support the massive electrical demands that will put on the grid. I think this question …

> Wikipedia has nationalism modern root in the French Revolution but as a non European I find that unconvincing. This is just an armchair theory of mine: the seeds were planted by …

But of course, that's the undercurrent worldview you can sense from Tanakh. Losing (a temporary) home once more and wandering about, having nowhere to return to.

Yes, they are human indeed, but those humans cannot agree on whether the plug should or shouldn't be pulled.

The true anarchism to the enshittification of the music services would be to just sing or whistle the songs.