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John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Post by Springtime »

BlueTemplar wrote: post #220
romwell wrote: post #216

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>As a simple example, building my personal website atop Markdown ensures that, even if the formatting can't be preserved That's why I built my personal ADHD blog[1] on TiddlyWiki[2]. It's a self-contained HTML page that has everything . I could have even embedded the images. You can archive it with *File -> Save As...* (single-file .mht works). [1] https://romankogan.net/adhd [2] https://tiddlywiki.com

I still don't get why Firefox doesn't support MHT(ML)(=EML), while Thunderbird does, considering how that's pretty much the best digital document format we have...

They used to support MHTML prior to the Quantum update, via the Mozilla Archive Format addon or the superior UnMHT addon (which captured pages more accurately than Chromium's MHTML support did in direct comparisons I made).

Not sure why they dropped support for it entirely since, given it was supported for the longest time and it's the most convenient single file format for web page saving. It's a major reason I couldn't continue using Firefox as my main browser.

Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Post by tablespoon »

tialaramex wrote: post #60
CarelessExpert wrote: post #41

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> Because they are so JS-heavy, and reliant on CI/CD pipelines for deployment, on custom CMSes, there is no way to archive them in the way that static pages containing just text and images can be archived on the Wayback Machine. Welcome to the world of digital archiving. It's an enormously complicated space, and even for just my own personal projects and content, I've spent a lot of time thinking about how to ensure…

Some people actually use those "takeout" features to collect archive data. So then you do get the archive, it's like having somebody's cuttings from a local newspaper rather than a complete set of local papers on microfiche. One reason I take these is that I have RAM and I have grep and apparently either the people who had the data don't have RAM or they don't have grep, and so while I can ask my local Facebook archi…

> Some people actually use those "takeout" features to collect archive data. So then you do get the archive, it's like having somebody's cuttings from a local newspaper rather than a complete set of local papers on microfiche.

The problem with these (at least the Facebook ones) is that the data is lacking all context. It's kinda OK if you just want copies of your photos, but I can't make heads or tails of most my comments from the archive, and posts are missing a lot without the comments.

Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Post by hoboris »

bytebolt wrote: post #242
generalizations wrote: post #235

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Don't those things need a facebook account also?

Please tell me there is a way to get rid of Facebook out of quest 2

I'm using https://github.com/basti564/Oculess which works well for removing facebook. Caveats: * most of the UI is broken * you can only run untrusted sideloaded apks * some telemetry services have to be stopped after each reboot * you might still need facebook for initial setup (haven't tried it)

Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Post by lukeschlather »

charcircuit wrote: post #252
schaefer wrote: post #21

The thought of Facebook having telemetry on real time eye tracking data for a future popular Oculus VR headset in a few years is horrifying. I’ll never get over the sale of Oculus to Facebook.

Why? Can you rationally explain what you are afraid of them doing?

Eye tracking is biometric data. It can reliably be used to detect various neurological conditions.

Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Post by riffraff »

WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #228
heavyset_go wrote: post #208

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> Also, for the first five years I didn't have any access to the news, for security reasons, so I was very cut off. What did they get you for?

The War On Redemption sucks so much I don't even want to know anymore. The past was better when we left it in the past.

What is the war on redemption? I have never heard this expression before and cursory searching does not yield anything.

I have an inkling of what you may mean, but I'd like to know more.

Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Post by KronisLV »

johannes1234321 wrote: post #230
KronisLV wrote: post #219

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> Welcome to the world of digital archiving. It's an enormously complicated space, and even for just my own personal projects and content, I've spent a lot of time thinking about how to ensure things are future proof and can be archived easily. For web content, in my eyes it's a pretty cut and dry example - if the authors of any piece of content don't want it to be archived and aren't forthcoming in making this archi…

If we had only things from ancient history which people wanted to be archived we'd have a very different view on history. True future historians will have a lot more material about our present, but that still shouldn't limit our intent for archival of as much as we can. Only future will know what is relevant

> True future historians will have a lot more material about our present, but that still shouldn't limit our intent for archival of as much as we can.

In my eyes, unless you have a personal interest in the material that you want to archived that would make you overlook most complications, the burden of preserving or even making their information easy to preserve should lie on its authors.

For example, if you as a person want to make your voice be heard through centuries, then it should be upon you to use open data formats or even something as simple as Markdown, as opposed to binary .docx files or similar formats that will have significant problems related to reading them.

Furthermore, there is no actual guarantee of anyone actually caring about what you (or, let's say, i) might say, for example, in an offhanded remark on Twitter about seeing some cute kittens today, apart from any such data being included in a larger analysis of bulk data.

I'm certainly not against the idea of archiving or preserving data, but it seems that most larger events out there will have a huge amount of coverage either way.

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Post by runnerup »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #197
rchaud wrote: post #5

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The same is true of some of the best work being done on the web, such as the NYTimes interactive infographics. Because they are so JS-heavy, and reliant on CI/CD pipelines for deployment, on custom CMSes, there is no way to archive them in the way that static pages containing just text and images can be archived on the Wayback Machine. Heck, even Flash projects from 15 years ago still run fine when compiled on Ruffle…

This goes against the idea that software is "art" in the sense that most works of art are created to physically endure over time.

that's just not true. non-recorded performance art is still art.

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Post by charcircuit »

lukeschlather wrote: post #274
charcircuit wrote: post #252

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Why? Can you rationally explain what you are afraid of them doing?

Eye tracking is biometric data. It can reliably be used to detect various neurological conditions.

This is about telemetry, not the direct eye tracking data. Also I'm not sure how you could detect various conditions with just what you look at. That seems a little far fetched / not reliable. Even if it could magically diagnose you with a condition what would be the point to do that? To sell you medication? To connect you with others who share your condition? Those things don't mseem to be much to worry about.

Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Post by [deleted] »

charcircuit wrote: post #252
schaefer wrote: post #21

The thought of Facebook having telemetry on real time eye tracking data for a future popular Oculus VR headset in a few years is horrifying. I’ll never get over the sale of Oculus to Facebook.

Why? Can you rationally explain what you are afraid of them doing?

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Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Post by ogma »

charcircuit wrote: post #278
lukeschlather wrote: post #274

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eye tracking is biometric data. It can reliably be used to detect various neurological conditions.

This is about telemetry, not the direct eye tracking data. Also I'm not sure how you could detect various conditions with just what you look at. That seems a little far fetched / not reliable. Even if it could magically diagnose you with a condition what would be the point to do that? To sell you medication? To connect you with others who share your condition? Those things don't mseem to be much to worry about.

Just because you're an unimaginative, naive moron doesn't mean something is "far-fetched" or "nothing to worry about".
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