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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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vacuumflower
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Mar 08, 2026
More expensive, but still autonomous which is very precious.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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vacuumflower
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Mar 08, 2026
Also optical fiber is used a lot on battlefields now. It just remains there. There’s a lot to be assembled.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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vacuumflower
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Mar 07, 2026
Apple M-series are ARM64. Are they not competitive?
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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vacuumflower
@vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Mar 04, 2026
The bright side - they can also be used to mask pseudonymous users. Guess how.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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vacuumflower
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Mar 04, 2026
No, that’s you happily laughing at the nonsense you yourself said attributing that to me.
I said that RAM compression in MacOS is an OS feature, well-tested and always on. You can play with something similar under Linux and find out it really makes things better. Which means you can fit more there. Like 10%-20% more is notable enough.
And I said that unified memory is a feature of their hardware, which is correct. Which is the reason Intel and AMD were playing with that X86-S idea (a new architecture with much of legacy removed, and also, yes, unified memory), until they dropped it because Intel is going to shit.
I don’t see any marketing nonsense in technical facts. Your GPU can use all the same RAM with less expense for doing that. And RAM allocated to applications does get compressed, which is more CPU-intensive obviously, but happens.
These are obviously correct.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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vacuumflower
@vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Mar 03, 2026
In Russian “мокросовт” (mokrosovt), as in “wetly poke”.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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vacuumflower
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Mar 02, 2026
There’s another’s Tolkien notion, one expressed by Eomer, how Rohirrim don’t lie and thus are hard to deceive.
The concept of some insight, mystery, deeper knowledge in that context seems similar to lies for me.
Perhaps Hegseth’s approach and tooling are enough to be as significant as the evil that Tolkien’s characters did put some effort into defeating, not waiting till it defeats itself.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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vacuumflower
@vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Mar 02, 2026
They, eh, want for every local user account to be tied to some central database?
In general this is going out of hand, age verification is parents’ responsibility.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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vacuumflower
@vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Mar 02, 2026
But they do have a clue how laws work, and the element of fuzziness in who’s guilty is a beneficial effect.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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vacuumflower
@vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Mar 01, 2026
Well, that something common in Russia as a metaphor is also common in Estonia wouldn’t be a surprise, but in English seems a bit less common. Anyway, that wasn’t the point of my comment.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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vacuumflower
@vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Mar 01, 2026
it’s literally the guy that runs Signal having a pop at his competition.
The right kind of pop, saying only the obvious and nothing more.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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vacuumflower
@vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Feb 28, 2026
Yes, and I meant that BLE doesn’t spread far. Which is good in such an environment.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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vacuumflower
@vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Feb 28, 2026
There is a technology called BLE, which together with mesh networking and synchronization of messages instead of routing them can give you connectivity in the middle of big events, without too much signal noise.
Of course other than Briar and that Bitchat thing I don’t know what to use in such situations.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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vacuumflower
@vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Feb 28, 2026
I know this is not the point of your comment, but which Georgia specifically is the right target to bomb?
The one in Caucasus is supposedly friendly, South Georgia is British property so allied land, and, eh, the remaining one is, as I understand, the always wrong one to bomb.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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vacuumflower
@vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Feb 28, 2026
Then they’ll comply with some formal limitation.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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vacuumflower
@vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Feb 28, 2026
There’s one thing funny about this - everyone is treating what’s happening as still some tomfoolery that will end after an election.
This is institutional. I don’t live in your country, so I might be mistaken, but even if pretentious naming like “Department of War” goes, autonomous weapons remain. And also it’s easy to play a fool or employ a fool as a talking head, but most people are not fools, especially those with power. There will be wars.
I’m not excited.
Actually I might be, I had a thought now that I might have a more specific interpretation of what happened to one girl. She had sort of a “dark triad” personality, and a nasty one, but I’m starting to think that what I was hearing about her without specifics wasn’t connected to what she did to me (which I’d forgive despite her probably not caring at all). It was about her once having met herself, that is, seen a sadistic event and enjoyed it, and having been shaken since. And people who carried those indirect and vague messages to me seemed to think very badly of her because of that reaction alone, but I don’t know - I might be the reason she even saw that, and she wasn’t looking for it. She loved Exupery’s “Citadelle”, and if you read it, then you might notice that the same man who wrote “The Little Prince” definitely had some sadistic leanings.
And that was because another girl took interest in me, and then was disappointed. That another girl was a real depraved sadist. That’s how this one got involved, my acquaintance from another place. And this one too took some interest in me.
And I’m thinking that perhaps I too have something sadistic in my personality if they liked me. The girl I’ve started about is a pacifist. And one of my family members is a veteran (and he was basically special forces, so the kind of service that’s usually not a transformation but a discovery of personal traits) and a pacifist. And I’m a pacifist (I think everyone should be armed to react to violence, but I’m against any initiation of violence). It just seems to make sense that if you notice something sadistic in yourself early on, you become interested in pacifism, as well as in other ways of considering and containing your (and others’) inner Mr Hyde.
So, getting back to names and what matters.
The change that has already happened is contained in human psyche. Your society might have a hidden, but slowly unearthing desire that will have to be fulfilled. I think Freud also described in sexual terms (well, as was his usual trick) what he was feeling about the start of World War One.
You have a Department of War and have probably even gotten used to that name.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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vacuumflower
@vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Feb 28, 2026
Somewhat funny i actually realized this dynamic when watching star trek. Whenever they need to do something illegal they simply put their badges on the desk and just like magic they are no longer bound by federation ethics.
That’s the main reason I don’t like the “good people in uniform as beacons of virtue” trope. That always happens. Every time I see that on screen I immediately imagine the morally inverted version of the same plot.
At least in Babylon-V such a decision is something not reversible and important for the main characters.
And in SG-1, despite that being sort of a piece of military propaganda, that too doesn’t happen too easily.
But there the main characters are not some beacons of anything, they are just people with their own way.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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vacuumflower
@vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Feb 28, 2026
You clearly don’t understand how finance works or don’t understand how leveraged these incestuous deals are. It’s perfectly possible for AI to make killbots and for an AI economic crash to happen.
You might want to consult a history book. There are a few recurring themes there, silent leges inter arma and vae victis capture most of them. New weapons might change the intensiveness of wars all around the world, because they help those owning them avoid loss of life whatsoever and those not owning them to pay with lives for dealing damage that doesn’t even upset their adversary. Which will bring enormous profits, just not to everyone, only those who conquer. Finance is not all you need for that subject.
On a humanist note, in “drone army against another drone army wars of the future” scenarios loss of life might be so small that pain and death in wars will be reduced to cases of deliberate sadism. Meaning that … again, there’ll be more war.
They industry needs to make Trillions of dollars to pay off their creditors and to achieve the profit their investors need to make this worthwhile. That only happens if most white collar workers are replaced with AI.
No, because profits are not only made from replacing existing mechanisms, but also from building new ones.
Specifically, most people don’t use computers as really-really meta-machines. They use them as platforms for running specialized applications.
But LLMs, however expensive in resources, change that. They make computers meta-machines for everyone.
And also in some races you want to be further from the rear, not closer to the front. If this technology promises a profound crash in any case (because, suppose, it’ll bring about planet-wide totalitarianism), those investments might mean that rush to try to avoid getting eaten completely in the future. Losing less, not gaining more.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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vacuumflower
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Feb 26, 2026
The one where a wife was killed was really progressive, though. It’s a shame it’s dead.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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vacuumflower
@vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Feb 26, 2026
People are talking about AI killbots and upcoming crash at the same time, and complain about AI slop and vibe coding.
Sorry, but if something is usable for making killbots, there will be no crash. And AI slop proves that for someone it’s useful to make slop. And vibe coding proves that someone makes things working in production with those tools. Saying that quality suffers is like saying that cobb houses are not comparable to brick houses and vice versa. Both exist. There are places where technologies related to cobb are still common for construction.
But the most important reason is the first one, if some technique gives you a more convenient and sharper stick to kill someone from another tribe, then that something stays as tribe’s cherished wisdom.
That LLMs consume too much resources … You might have noticed there’s a huge space for optimization. They are easy to parallelize, and we are in market capture stage, which means that optimization is not yet a priority. When it becomes a priority, there might happen a moment when all the arguments about operations costing in resources more than they give profit and that being funded by investors are suddenly not true anymore.
I have been converted. Converted back, one might say, there was a time around years 2011-2014.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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vacuumflower
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Feb 26, 2026
Which will happen regardless.
Also where there are AI safeguards, they are usually in place because of chain of command and authorization, and those mattered so much because all most likely applications of any AI during the Cold War had a very steep damage curve.
Small killbots don’t have such a damage curve. If they kill someone by mistake, the rest of the population learns to be careful and not raise attention of those operating them. Same reasons as with nukes and radars, where you need chains of specific people with clear authorization to answer why half the world melted, won’t force anyone to put such limits.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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vacuumflower
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Feb 26, 2026
BTRON will get a second chance?
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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vacuumflower
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Feb 25, 2026
Ads back then were so cool, it felt like real magic and it was not hard to believe PS2 is that good.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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vacuumflower
@vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Feb 25, 2026
You can make a lot of things with a good microwave, but just putting something in doesn’t work for that purpose, yes.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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vacuumflower
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Feb 22, 2026
This can also apply to spam e-mails. We can acknowledge that the problem doesn’t depend on whether we want to have it.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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vacuumflower
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Feb 22, 2026
instead I’m here boning up on the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition.
I mean, Ferengistan is Europe and in wider sense the West in Farsi, so - pretty logical.
(Which is why I don’t subscribe to the theory that Ferengi are an antisemitic trope. They are a subversive futurist trope, “seeing ourselves through the eyes of others the same way we often see them”.)
Everyone likes to see themselves as the heroes of some universe.
It’s also true for some Soviet science fiction, like things by Strugatsky brothers communicate that deep painful wish for “us” to be that society of scientific workers and doctors, and the barbaric and lost people they visit and help to be “them”, but that’s not how the world is. Even the “approved” Ivan Yefremov with his “Bull’s Hour” shows a space colony which is supposedly a remnant of the “capitalist and imperialist” world, yet surprisingly reminisces USSR, while that team of heroes from heaven that comes trying to fix them doesn’t seem like anything from USSR.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Feb 22, 2026
which uses statistical likelihood to determine correctness is that historical datasets are likely to contain old information in larger quantities than updated information.
They should make some kind of layered models, where the user sets weight to layers.
But in any case, this is not what I necessarily meant, just that a big project relying upon unpaid maintainers is flawed, especially when somebody makes real buck on it.
There have been plenty of cases of state actors putting in backdoors. Those were human, most likely, and not some bots.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Dec 17, 2025
I think this is just panic from the higher ups at Mozilla who have no idea what in the fuck the company should be doing
It’s not panic, it’s consequence of networking and a very specific culture having formed for CEOs and such.
A bit like Silicon Valley tech bros, they think they are the chosen ones leading the charge and able to make decisions for all of us, sort of aristocracy.
So in their circles it’s fashion now to play this “AI” thing.
And mechanisms to remove those fools from places they don’t belong to and make them clean streets have rotten.
Usable and decentralized - well, you’ll need some beyond-the-horizon planning for how the development of that will go on. Because 90s Web was kinda normal too, except there were future stages.
You need something that’s usable almost from the beginning, but that is also usable for everything you haven’t yet thought about. Something that allows any use, but doesn’t limit any, even needed only by a handful of people, task.
You need universal open infrastructure. Something allowing to pool public service trackers, storage services, relay services, notification services, key services, search services, but tying them into specific applications on the client. Different applications, over the common high-level medium (of authors and messages and groups, for example ; perhaps subscriptions). And you need that to be untrusted and backed up by DHT and sneakernet as perfectly functional alternative ways for the same system. You need them all.
And you need means of development with higher common, basic level. You need something like Hypercard on the clients, so that development in this “alternative Web” were accessible in its full power. With “cards” shared like messages. That’d be similar to how we fetch different websites.
Messages and people and groups would have global identifiers, tied to cryptography. One could have sort of “permission rule” messages to be interpreted by clients to decide, during “replaying” a group with its messages, which action was valid and which wasn’t, and what can this specific user do to the group at this specific moment.
There could be different types of messages, perhaps with references to “interpreter” messages containing scripts.
OK. That’s just a pet dream of mine, but I don’t yet have a full picture in my mind.
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Dec 17, 2025
More formal layers. Similar amount of real ones.
Slaves also could own their own things, which were not owned by their own owner (oof). So they could buy their freedom. It’s complicated.
Free people could carry weapons, participate in politics.
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Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
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Dec 16, 2025
Unless they use IP to prevent new producers from entering the market, there should be a response eventually.
HDDs are precision machinery, of course, but not lost alien technology only old big companies can make.
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A function of popularity. There are common tides that raise all boats - roles of things in the economy.
We’ve had a wonderful period where home computers were the place where many things happened.
Now it’s supposed to be ending (supposed by people who hope to have the awesome power), but I don’t think it’ll end.
A home computer is a wide term. One can remember the times and places where those didn’t even necessarily have HDDs, and people were joggling floppies with two drives attached. Perhaps a bit of ascese and small mobile media, like floppies (not floppies, of course, just something cheap to produce), as the alternative to big immobile media, like HDDs and SSDs and so on, would be good to reinvigorate home computing. Some kind of very cheap memory cards tossed around like paper sheets. The whole operating system loaded once and not requiring permanent media while running. As it happens in Star Wars EU, I think UX is an important part of any technology, and the world moves after Star Trek UX, while Star Wars UX seems smarter for me. Perhaps when SW is as old as ST, we’ll see improvement.
OK, this was incomprehensible. I meant that the limitations on components’ prices coming now are also an opportunity for development. Everything non-corporate in culture is being pressed out from the ecosystem. That’s good, reduces the incentives to play along with that ecosystem.
I’ve read a few articles on optical base for computers and companies working on that. That’s a thing that allows lesser degree of miniaturization, but far bigger frequencies (due to latency in optics) and more distributed production (gigantic foundries like TSMC make less sense).
So we might eventually (100 years perhaps) have two very different computing cultures, one for those people owning huge DCs and pushing “content” from their centralized systems to terminals carried by suckers, and the other for what I’d want. Including production, standards and everything.
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In Antique Mediterranean it was pretty common to pay slaves. They needed money to feed themselves, after all, buy clothes and tools, do other stuff. Would be a bother to manage centrally for the owner, and you didn’t have to fear social condemnation of slavery, it was normal. So slaves were just like lifelong employees, except they were slaves. Slave teachers, slave scientists, slave engineers, slave artists.
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Dec 16, 2025
They are trying and they are succeeding. But the bright side is - it’s about resources. Storage, computation. You can run most useful things on an RPi. I suppose home PC market will become more similar to 80s again. Less power, more dreaming.
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Dec 14, 2025
That’s why OLE from ORACLE is becoming Rer and not gets its A torn?
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Dec 14, 2025
Surely they have some explanation how that doesn’t happen, otherwise they are making strange plans.
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Dec 14, 2025
Artists need to eat.
Art needs to be a commercial success to defend itself from commercial successes it hurts.
Computing industry notably positions itself as replacing art (I don’t mean digital art like tracker music or 3d modeling), in many things where, say, car industry doesn’t. But the suggested replacements are not that. Similarly to how journalism can only be adversarial and offensive to most points of view, otherwise it’s just public relations, because it doesn’t improve anything. Improvement is always adversarial.
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Dec 14, 2025
And eventually “we” might come to the thought that for many things analog computing is enough. Symbolic calculation, cryptography and such, of course, need digital. But when we are talking about airplanes and satellites, perhaps not.
One thing I somewhat like about the general idea of all those LLMs is that in theory they are closer to something that can work on non-deterministic technology.
I wonder if some sort of FPGA but for analog circuits is possible. To have the advantages of re-configuration that programmable things have, but also advantages of continuous signals.
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Dec 14, 2025
Steve jobs knew something about forces not for good.
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Dec 14, 2025
The industry is not that bad, but it’s just one of them.
People need art. And art doesn’t survive in environments where there should be a winner and winner takes all.
Art is the social alternative of recessive genes. It allows to preserve more than needed “right now in this particular situation”. Without art there’s degeneracy.
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Dec 14, 2025
That’s how every successful fraud works. If it’s not attractive to people who see it’s a fraud, it won’t have their support. If it’s hard to discover as a fraud, it’s also hard to maintain and always has the risk of discovery.
So the best frauds are those where everyone knows it’s a fraud, and plenty think it’s a fraud they can profit from.
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Dec 14, 2025
It’s not that. Nobody really expects to achieve firm satisfactory result in something never done before, to justify the risk.
It’s a bubble. That they found money to make such an input into inflating it just means the outcome of said bubble bursting is this good for them.
I’m interested what exactly will happen when it bursts. A dictatorship, or a blitzkrieg against half of the world, or what else.
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Dec 13, 2025
About me? Well, I don’t object, as I’ve just said. Perhaps I’m just tired of computers. I like them as tools. But I don’t worship wooden planks or vinyl panels or concrete from which houses are built.
That rudeness was in self-critique anyway.
If that helps, Tolkien’s “Leaf by Niggle” I prefer much to “Citadel”. But it’s not matter of preference, I can’t hide from what that book says.
Or if that’s about Rubio, I don’t think anyone doubted.
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Dec 13, 2025
No Cyrillic.
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Dec 13, 2025
Well, infrastructure is built by the government in an environment where its use is regulated, and for essential things.
Electricity for data centers isn’t essential. They should build their own parallel grids, a bit like Google and Facebook and such build their own infrastructure.
I’m not saying they shouldn’t develop, but correct management from the governments here would be making them pay for their toys in full. That will also be optimal - they know best which infrastructure and how much they need. No loading the common grid with non-essential things that hurt lights, heating and basic connectivity.
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Dec 13, 2025
At the same time it’s reminiscent of “caliber”, which one would expect to appeal to good Christians.
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Dec 13, 2025
It’s a good font. It doesn’t impose style, it’s easily readable. I’d use it if there were a version with 1) Cyrillic support, 2) monospace variant, 3) not too bold in standard weight.
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Dec 13, 2025
Garamond does look somewhat Apple-ishly pretentious, and Lucida does evoke associations with Sun and some corporate spirit, and Arial\TNR\CN trio does feel like “Windows font classic” combination.
But banning a more readable font to show you have “decorum” … there’s a word “чмошник” in Russian, I’ve recently realized I’m that, and also a whole crowd of adults and peers around me 13 years ago. Actually there’s just one girl who wasn’t that, and one adult. Who got the shortest straws in that story.
That word means someone miserable and envious enough to look for confirmations and signs of coolness in all things they use and do.
I’ve also recently realized that I don’t like computer people, and of other professions dealing with calculation and materiel. They are glorified bookkeepers and managers. The reason tech workers dislike management so much is because the whole industry is much like machine-assisted management. Paradox of small differences.
Yeah, I know you lot like being perceived as magicians and the industry as having something to do with intelligence. Read de Saint-Exupery’s Citadel, there’s a passage on “a special book for generals”, and you will recognize that whole industry, from its lowly brick layers to its prophets.
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Dec 13, 2025
Deregulation would mean these things can’t use public infrastructure.
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Dec 11, 2025
so long as I was very clear in all advertising that I’m only building houses and not in any way related to the cars - but if I start putting Lamborghini cars in my advertising I could get into trouble for creating confusion
That’s fine. But suppose your brand is Lambozucchini and you have cars kinda similar to Lamborghini, but with the brand clearly different, just with homage, a bit like Pepsi-Cola and Coca-Cola, where in the world is the problem with that? That should be legal, from common sense.
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Dec 11, 2025
Current contents of the shell don’t say much about past contents of it.
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