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- Submitted 2 days ago to xkcd@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on While China has warned the West against 'decoupling', the country’s censorship system is designed for the purpose of isolation, report says 4 days ago:
www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence becomes more relevant every year somehow
- Submitted 4 days ago to xkcd@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Submitted 6 days ago to xkcd@lemmy.world | 17 comments
- Comment on Neo-Nazis Are All-In on AI 1 week ago:
WEER OLL GUNNA DYE
- Comment on Adobe Says It Won’t Train AI Using Artists’ Work. Creatives Aren’t Convinced 1 week ago:
Stallman was right
I wonder what state FOSS replacements for Adobe software would be in if a significant percentage of Adobe users used their subscription money to donate to FOSS replacements instead.
- Comment on Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" 1 month ago:
Yes. But we have all gotten pretty used to things on the Internet not costing money. If they start costing money, many people will either not want to or be able to use them.
- Comment on Online Content Is Disappearing 1 month ago:
Freely licensed works will be preserved a lot better because there will be more copies of them.
Likewise the fediverse is a step in that direction: this message will be federated to hundreds of servers so is more likely to survive longer than if I posted it to reddit.
- Comment on Uber's new shuttle service sounds a lot like a bus route 1 month ago:
When public transportation was first introduced in most places, it was run by private companies for profit. This changed mostly because it wasn’t profitable to compete with cars when those became popular.
Of course there still are private companies running public transport: long distance buses and trains in many places, and commercial aviation is really also a form of public transportation.
So there is nothing novel about buses being run by private companies for profit.
- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 1 month ago:
I think you’re supposed to ask questions here that people elsewhere might think are stupid questions. The idea is that in this community, there are no stupid questions.
- Comment on xkcd #2930: Google Solar Cycle 1 month ago:
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
Messages that people post on Stack Exchange sites are literally licensed CC-BY-SA, the whole point of which is to enable them to be shared and used by anyone for any purpose. One of the purposes of such a license is to make sure knowledge is preserved by allowing everyone to make and share copies.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 month ago:
What now? Why do you think the premise is true?
Suggested reading: slatestarcodex.com/…/i-can-tolerate-anything-exce…
- Comment on Gen Z mostly doesn't care if influencers are actual humans, new study shows 1 month ago:
12! is a really high number tho
- Comment on Google Search is getting even worse for independent sites 1 month ago:
The Internet is so big nowadays that you pretty much need to have some kind of algorithm. A list of all websites in “the right category” would have way too many items in it most of which would be useless. We live in an attention economy: lots of people want as many people as possible to pay attention to them, but everyone’s attention is obviously limited.
No I don’t know how to fix this.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I am saying that if there are so many people wanting to write (and influence public opinion) about a topic that you have to go into endless arguments what the article should say, then there is no reason why it has to be “quick” that the article gets published with whatever new ideas anyone has had.
As it is now, Wikipedia is what we have and I am not saying you shouldn’t read it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’m familiar enough with Wikipedia to know that, yeah. I am also familiar enough with Wikipedia to know that there are topic areas (such as Israel/Palestine and the Holocaust in Poland on the English-language version) where the shortcomings of the wiki system are completely evident. Once you have to restrict editing to users with more than 500 edits and make special rules how to handle sourcing, it’s clear that the wiki just isn’t a suitable mechanism: if there are so many people wanting to write about a topic that you have to do that, then why not abandon the wiki concept altogether?
The greatest success story of the wiki principle isn’t Wikipedia, nor any other Wikimedia project. The greatest success story of the wiki principle is OpenStreetMap, which does limit itself to objective facts and is used not just by people, but also organizations. I work as a software developer and I’ve encountered usages of OpenStreetMap data many times, but of anything on Wikimedia projects? Wikipedia is great for teenagers to get an overview of the world, but everyone who actually needs the information in it has better sources for it anyway.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Of course it is possible and I hope they eventually develop into a mature democracy. Point is, it has not happened yet.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Wikis were invented as a way, and are a good solution when the goal is, to crowdsource objective facts about the world.
The great thing about a wiki is that as long as one person once added any given fact, it is in the wiki.
On all contentious issues, by definition there are not too few people wanting to write about them, but instead there are too many, so this is why wikis are just not a suitable mechanism for writing about anything contentious: they’re a solution to a nonexistent problem and there is no rational reason why truth about any given issue should be determined by “who has managed to edit the page last”.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It doesn’t really matter because Russians have never really had a mature democracy and so, I think, do not really know how it should/could be different. They are used to various forms of authoritarian rule; whether the leader is called a Tsar, or a General Secretary of the Communist Party, or a President of the Russian Federation doesn’t make that much difference.
- Comment on WhatsApp Must Act to Protect Elections | foundation.mozilla.org 2 months ago:
I suspect that I am; I am not omnipresent and not aware of everything happening everywhere.
Am I right that the logic is approximately like this: FOSS is a left-wing anti-business cause, misinformation tends to help right-wing parties win elections, therefore it is compatible with FOSS values and principles to want to use the power that proprietary software developers have in order to censor (“stop the spread of”) misinformation?
- Comment on WhatsApp Must Act to Protect Elections | foundation.mozilla.org 2 months ago:
I thought Mozilla was a FOSS organization whose goal it was to defend an open Internet with free communication?
Here they are putting out a blog post that says “WhatsApp should use the power it has over its users to implement antifeatures that their users might not want and could remove if it were FOSS”.
What the hell kind of world are we living in again?
- Comment on If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time? 2 months ago:
Taking freely licensed photos in the summer. Open source software development in the winter.
- Comment on Apple Removes WhatsApp, Threads, Telegram, and Signal from China App Store, says it complied with orders from the Chinese government 2 months ago:
This is why I also mentioned “a source we chose”. On GNU/Linux package managers and F-Droid I can add additional package sources which can be managed by the developer.
Point is, it shouldn’t be a thing that Apple or Google or anyone has this kind of power.
- Comment on Apple Removes WhatsApp, Threads, Telegram, and Signal from China App Store, says it complied with orders from the Chinese government 2 months ago:
App stores were a mistake. We used to get software from its developer or from a source we chose. Now that we expect there to be a central app store, it can be used for censorship.
- Comment on Hyundai pauses X ads over pro-Nazi content on the platform 2 months ago:
X was a window system for Unix-like operating systems long before Elon Musk decided that would be a good name for the social media platform he bought.
- Comment on Apple fixes iPhone bug that suggested Palestinian flag when some people typed ‘Jerusalem’ 2 months ago:
Out of all the occupying Israel is doing, I find that of former East Jerusalem most harmless. To my understanding, the Palestinians there are entitled to Israeli citizenship, there is no apartheid system like in the remaining West Bank, there is no blockade like in Gaza. If Gaza or the remaining West Bank were ruled like former East Jerusalem, I would find Israel a lot easier to defend.
- Comment on We Need To Rewild The Internet | NOEMA 2 months ago:
The Internet has never been as large and diverse as it is now. In the 2000s Wikipedia was often the only place where you could find generally useful information about the world on the Internet, now everything in it plus many other things can be found on many other websites competing for algorithmic attention.
The real thing about today’s Internet is that on it, censorship happens not by having too little information, but too much, much of which will never be shown to very many people because of the algorithms of search engines or social media recommendation systems. I don’t do a lot of “social media” and always find it weird to hear about personalities there who apparently have thousands or millions of followers but whom I have never heard of before.
- Comment on Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins 2 months ago:
As I said I got these numbers from gs.statcounter.com
- Comment on Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins 2 months ago:
Chrome has 65% market share (according to Statcounter), far from a near monopoly. Even if you add Edge (which you shouldn’t because Microsoft could fork Blink at any time), you only get 70% for their web engine. Around 2003 or 2004, IE had like 95% market share (and many websites required Flash Player) and we now know that that was eventually defeated.
I am all for worrying about the decline of good things, but your scenario isn’t something I’m worrying that much about.