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There is an old joke about the difference between a service provider and a "service preventer". Often the difference is the type of power we allow them to have over the users. Ther…

In fact human living is basically a type of operating system, as we all juggle on a daily basis tasks, resources, input/output, storage, cache, and states. The concept of dashboard…

I fully agree that physical aspects of libraries cannot be fully replicated with databases and searches. Discovery indeed comes in many forms, sometimes by proximity, other times b…

Japan is a unique world all to itself. Read up on how houses and streets are numbered and you will arrive at a similar chaos!

The Reddit situation reminds me a lot of the China situation: "A major player, having built a near dominant position in the global flow chain, starts misbehaving. The entire world …

Perhaps now is the right time to revamp Usenet to bring it up to par with the Reddit of today. I am also thinking that email / mail lists, forums, and even old protocols like finge…

Last year my Samsung S20+ suffered the notorious "green vertical lines" and then soon after the "white out screens" (a pandemic-level hardware failure wave that has been widely rep…

The only feeling being hurt is Xi Jinping's.

Two interesting points raised: 1) Can a metaverse "digital twin" really successfully preserve a nation's culture and civilization? Beyond just 3d maps and museum artefacts, this go…

No I mean the media-specific server app branching like pictures (pixelfed), music (funkwhale), live cast (owncast), video (peertube), links (Lemmy) etc. How do a newbie to Fedivers…

The "Twexit" event is a huge opportunity for Fediverse to pick up new users, but I fear it will be wasted because the Fediverse software is still not ready for prime time. The conc…

The consumer's dependence on "legit-sounding domain name", a green SSL key, and recognizable corporate logos and website layout as the "proof" of authenticity is passe. In this era…

Although the rise of walled gardens was the biggest headwind to more people maintaining their personal websites, I think there is also a lot of issues arising from the underlying t…

I see a parallel between Google's pseudo-customer service and totalitarian country's social order system. Both are theoretically based on clear terms and rules, but during executio…

Super impressed. Amateurs can and do play their parts in science --- there are numerous discoveries made in astronomy, mathematics, and definitely in computer applied sciences that…

Given all the political posturing, hacktivism, war hacking, as a result of the war in Ukraine, there is suddenly a great deal of uncertainty in the digital and economic infrastruct…

There is a large movement towards distributed statehood/citizenship built on the view that people should treat the government as a service or utility and not overlord. Cue micronat…

A very good read, and indeed "mise-en-place" is a skill / philosophy / system which can greatly assist knowledge workers if they apply it. Most chefs learn how when they apprentice…

The evidence is overwhelming, but the world is addicted to cheap Chinese products so we all looked the other way. But the buck should stop now.

This is a common dilemma in social media. Does "liking" a post mean you agree with it? Does "angry face" mean you disagree? What about "laughing face", "shocked face"? It is danger…

Although the rebranding is probably unnecessary, it is still a good move if the company has ambition beyond fund transfer --- perhaps into alternative financial services, non-bank …

In most financial systems, there has to be a "banker" to make the market, i.e. they have to close the deals when the aggregate buy/sell deals end in surplus or deficits. So Paypal …

This reminds me of the recent news about Lets Encrypt expiring one of their root certificate and warning that old Android systems may not be able to validate SSL if they were not u…

It appears the built-in time expiry period in the trust relationships between various organisations and clients will increasing become a weak point in the world in the future. Whet…

The reality is that autocracy exists everywhere not just at the state level. A private property, private company, within a family, even a military organisation. Pieces of CCP "tech…