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A really, really good podcast I listened to recently: https://changelog.com/news/web-developments-lost-decade-LWao > Amal sits down for a one-on-one with Alex Russell, Microsoft Pa…

And then you can still use SyncThing[0] to share things. Depending on what you're doing of course, and how friendly the applications you use for it are to being used that way.. but…

This does not exist in a vacuum. > Other people say, and I think this is a widely used rationalization, that fundamentally the tools we work on are "mere" tools; This means that wh…

Yet all living beings in earth are descendants of same cell, as far as we know. So if the above can happen once -- even if only "needs" to happen once, why would it not occur more …

> It may or may not be overcome by additional data and compute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Power_and_Human_Reaso... > Deciding is a computational activity, something th…

I've seen an example where asking the exact same question word for word lead to the opposite outcome (one was a really racist rap, the other was a really good rap against racism). …

You think this is the result of how much the average person can be trusted? Trash on the streets or urine in a phone booth are one thing, but this hits a bit different: > equipment…

I hate software bloat and thrown away milliseconds, but even then I realize that our visual cortex is really good at noticing movement, but hasn't had any experience in the last mi…

> It is everyone being complicit in this act that demonstrates to you how worthless you are that destroys you. And that's why any generic, vague rules to supposedly "prevent bullyi…

What really gets me is that even those few people who are in high enough positions in big enough companies to have material benefits from "capturing" customers and making everythin…

> Because we're so out of our minds with desperation, we don't know any better. All we know is fake fodder and buying shit. That's how we speak to each other, how we express oursel…

I think it's not so much about them talking to each other, it's about shutting them off from the outside. > The last time the Islamic Repubic cut off the Internet in Iran, they bru…

This includes not wanting to support or do business with people who look the other way as people get slaughtered. I'm not in Iran, I'm dealing solely with things that enter my ken …

> Hacktoberfest is an October-long celebration to promote contributions to the free and open-source software communities. In 2020, participants were encouraged to submit four or mo…

An OS is not a destination, it's a medium if you will. A better comparison would be being blasted with ads no matter where you go.

I am not "life". Considering something humans do as "bad" is kinda like the cultural equivalent of an immune system. I don't judge a parasite for trying it on with me, because ther…

> No one's (at an aggregate level) getting Room 101ed from it. Start a political party that has enough success to threaten the status quo. Be Assange. Be Snowden. Talk is cheap.

> The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough cir­cuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they possess a really effectiv…

When I made it with WebGL (with no clue what I was embarking on, I just wanted to try it), I ended up with 8 substeps. Looking at it now it confuses the hell out of me, but IIRC it…

> Copy and paste this code into your website where you want this animation to appear Sorry to go on a tangent (I think your project is awesome!), but this is why I love the web. So…