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A fascinating everyday arms race I had no idea was playing out around me.

The enlightenment and its values underly a huge portion of what’s published, both inside scholarly tradition and in popular work. Ans the enlightenment is at heart civil libertaria…

How does the PWA work offline with HTMX? The “hit the server for fresh markup fragments” approach seems like it has to be abandoned here, however simplifying it is for online apps.…

Buying up old books is legal. Digitizing and distilling them arguably is too. And also: > paying extortion fees to the copyright-mongers Yes yes, greedy fat cat publishing oligarch…

> A person can type 3,000 words by hand and have no thought pass through their head beyond the need to finish before lunch. This isn’t the common case. How many of the thoughts pro…

If the “protocols not platforms” philosophy is the right track, usenet/nntp.

Speaking as someone who has run courses designed to take late teens / early 20somethings with a variety of backgrounds and tried to teach them 1st semester programming concepts in …

If you’re not redistributing ebooks you bought, it’s hard to imagine what legal claim someone could make against you, and even harder to establish the ethics of that claim. To say …

Yeah, we’re early culturewise in the digitization experiment and high on optimism about the benefits, but not very far into reckoning with the downsides and incentives skew a bit t…

I’m having trouble imagining the privacy concern. If someone’s vehicle is topping 90db then it’s hard to argue what they really want is privacy, and even the most invasive monitori…

I’m at the point where I don’t just want ticketing and other enforcement on this front, I want yanked licenses for this after a warning, and I might even want it legal to shoot veh…

I might imagine that even this cycle could change, if the resources necessary to support step 1 and step 2 are much lower. Which might mean step 3 isn’t as necessity driven. Of cou…

It has now been longer since apps on smartphones were introduced than it was between the web’s birth and smartphones (to say nothing of popular uptake, it’d be generous to give the…

See also Bill Thurston’s classic Math Overflow answer to a student wondering where they fit compared to a Gauss or Euler: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/43690/whats-a-mathemati…

I’ve got an old DX. The fact that it doesn’t have net access anymore is now a security feature and an anti distraction mechanism. I can load what I want by USB. It doesn’t do epub3…

That makes sense — decisions that are about personal benefits beyond technical/product choices and their merits.

When you say “political“, what do you mean? It’s easy for me to relate to talk of software development aesthetics or philosophy and I’ve certainly had plenty of conversations that …

It does seem to be true that voters are often content to select and re-select congressional representation that will hide from too much critical attention, give evasive responses, …

The insane thing is that nobody listens when they do talk about it. A huge thing in the Harris campaign was that her policies polled much better than Trump's (including housing acc…

It's reasonable to acknowledge that some individuals are so overwhelmed by the demands of their circumstances that they truly have no disposable time & attention to direct to the s…

When the electorate is literally the mechanism by which officeholders are selected, how is the electorate not responsible? This is not the same situation as someone who is the vict…

You’re correct that time is the fundamental challenge. It’s also really what the money is always a proxy for at some level. Meetings in DC are probably not the right focus. Every c…

Elections still have consequences, right? I’d think the fallout between fall of 2024 and now illustrates that. And that was the choice of the electorate (unless someone can demonst…

Money distorts the system in some ways and I agree that’s a problem that could use systemic mitigation (farther back than Citizen’s United probably, Buckley vs Valeo is arguably th…