rottingleaf

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point.⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I agree.

  It appears GNU Taler is seeing some initial deployments. That’s for payment system.

  An index can have centralized control, while being itself decentralized. Like for checking certificates you don’t contact some CA website every time, you have a certificate chain, cryptographically verified. That’s for CSAM and DMCA notices. That center can deal with them, sending deletion notices signed with their certificate or whatever, or recalling index entries. Those would have to propagate over the network fast enough, of course.

  That system just has to allow plugging in paid services in a uniform way. Then the serious money part will not be as important.

  With torrents one can have sequential downloads, and again, with paid services one could have those having new publications faster and with better download speeds.

  The word “uniform” is the only thing differentiating this from the Internet we already have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point.⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ve had bittorrent for many years.

  The issue is creating a global index and dedicating some storage to the less popular (at the moment) data.

  One can have paid storage provided over such a network, available only to subscribers. So you want to fetch a video from the global index, there are no peers having it online for free or their upload speed it atrocious, but there are some offering it not for free. You choose them and download, or maybe you have something like trade and auctions automation in MMORPGs - setting for auto-purchase and auto-sale with caps for what you would pay.

  That requires a payment system, though, one can seamlessly connect to identities in such a network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point.⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, but it’s still the place to look first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point.⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  They mean - maximize irritation? Put ads in the most obnoxious way?

  There’s a good global task for FOSS alternatives of YouTube and other places where life happens.

  A decentralized scraper. Something similar to SETI@home, or that hentai analog for storage. So that based on some metric YT content would be divided between users willing to contribute their machines and accounts to scraping YT (a bit similar to searching DHT, and probably some kind of DHT would be useful), and then they’d download that and re-publish in some p2p alternative.

  TBH probably also good for that little of the web that is still possible to represent as static pages and browse via links.

  The issue is that alternatives lack content, and the closed nature of proprietary services gives them an advantage - there is content there which doesn’t exist outside of them.

  And people just reuploading by hand what they themselves consider interesting are a little fraction of the majority that doesn’t bother.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  An analogy:

  Stalin took over USSR in 20s by pressuring specific councils (“soviets”), because a council could vote to recall its representative to a council of next level any time, and that would cause a chain reaction for that council and so on. So every representative of the upper level could be removed by pressuring\persuading only the initial council they were delegated from, and one wouldn’t have to wait for any election or such. Eventually one could get a jackpot combination by removing unpleasant representatives through pressure.

  So with email, changing mail servers is not such a good solution, because one could still pressure a registry to unregister the domain name, a hoster to stop hosting it, an ISP to do something else …

  Maybe cryptographic identities should be used for users and addresses and even name registries (using hex strings as addresses is inconvenient, I can’t even remember phone numbers), while storage and service should be separated from that. Like in NOSTR.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan moves to ban Google, Apple from blocking app store competitors⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s probably because toxic corporate culture (we-ell, one can sometimes find contributions of heroes from Japan into FOSS projects, so maybe not so toxic, especially when you look at NetBSD) they already have, so they simply can’t afford breaking market laws, not in the slightest.

  The rest think they can, which is wrong.

  The economic stagnation in numbers is regrettable, though. I would prefer countries like Japan to grow (not on the map, I mean playing tall). And cultures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Greek and ME people sometimes look very light. And face powders too exist.

  So I wouldn’t say there’s anything too weird with her appearance. I suppose portrayal of Americans in North Korean war films is weirder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything between Commodus and Charlemange is especially cursed

  Helmets with horns, yes? And Roman army looking like cabaret.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  With machine voice with no attempts at imitate human’s intonation - yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe’s onlyfans performers can’t get justice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Two things here:

  1. yes, it’s not good when vulnerable people get less income from their, eh, already kinda desperate work.

  2. no, it’s not sexual abuse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, thanks. I sometimes forget to check myself before forming a sentence in my mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh - if you do any academic study of history, that’s what it all starts to look like.

  Even without academic studies - I wanted some context for Tolkien (analogous periods\events), Walter Scott, Dumas, who not. And I wanted some context for R:TW and M2:TW games, so I found mods like Europa Barbarorum. And eventually I’ve read some of Icelandic sagas, and some of medieval poetry translations, and so on. Same with context for fantasy books, some alternatives IRL.

  So, after that, there’s just nothing on screen I can watch.

  Icelandic low-budget movie kinda associated with Beowulf, but making Grendel a neanderthal (yep), looked cool due to seemingly authentic buildings and weapons and clothes and everything. But it wasn’t a very interesting movie.

  I’ve seen a Danish low-budget movie “Eagle’s eye”, some things felt like fine, but again, the story itself just didn’t seem right. Except for the one-eyed guy seeing through the eye of a bird - eh, I dunno why it was an eagle and not a raven, but his relation with the king and with the bishop seemed an interesting allegory on heathenry and christendom.

  Roman empire - just leave me alone.

  like no, the man was not a proto Thomas Jefferson

  The man also, when he found out his wife had a lover, made her a bath filled with his blood. That was in his youth, but.

  At the same time he called her “so meek, so simple-minded, so kind” when thanking gods for her.

  He became very wise by the end of his life, but, eh, not in US founding fathers’ direction. More like Obi-Wan Kenobi made emperor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Or Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra.

  Cleopatra was by ancestry mostly Greek. So I don’t get what you mean.

  Most of her subjects weren’t quite “black” either.

  Sorry for this interjection, but I hate wrong corrections, especially when they give up cute chains of thought like “queen of (hellenistic, that’s my own addition) Egypt -> Egypt’s in the African continent -> black”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I have watched the movie. It shows a European in a role absolutely impossible in upper layers of Japanese society of that time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some Reddit users just love to disagree, new AI-powered troll-spotting algorithm finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people while cleaning a table just love to scratch it a bit. Why not leave that fossilized fat stain alone.

  Same vibes. There’s no use in agreeing. You are just adding to a clueless crowd.

  Disagreeing helps everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A couple more world wars with a depression, something like that. Just 20 years more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Look at Google’s Unfinished DeX-Like Desktop Mode for Android⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  One can have a laptop-form dock station. Or something like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Then it’ll even out after some time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  All of STEM is suffering because of corporate greed and rising anti-intellectualism.

  How do I say that even … it’s normal. When you are talking about infinite growth being unsustainable, that means that at some point the industry should implode.

  They have sort of an oligopoly and stagnation now, which is why all these layoffs happen - the “AI” solves some problems cheaper than people, even accounting for the worse results.

  But if we imagine the industry suddenly destroying that oligopoly and becoming interesting again, it still would require less people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And when they start going down financially, they might invade Madagascar or Guyana or something like that as a last resort and turn into a pirate republic, having enough troops. Yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I sometimes feel like bare-metalling FreeDOS. Except that and modern laptops, ha-ha, shouldn’t work too well, but at the same time Lenovo even sold some with it pre-installed.

  Would just play X-Wing and TIE Fighter and WarCraft II, edit simple text documents, smile at how right it’d feel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir CEO Alex Karp praises Saudi engineers and takes a swipe at Europe, saying it has 'given up' on AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Surprise - people saying things you like are not your friends any more than people saying things you hate.

  Surprise - people saying things you hate are not your enemies any more than people saying things you like.

  Surprise - the words “socialist” and “capitalist” have no useful meaning at all. Specific solutions devised and offered as part of something “socialist” or “capitalist” are all over the place of the choice of instruments, with nothing uniting them along those lines other than how cover art aesthetics unite books.

  And surprise - people saying ugly and dumb things might have a better idea of what they are doing than people who seem very fine. No connection at all.

  I think Alex Karp and his colleagues are quite close to having a bunch of Starlinks and AI-powered combat drone networks covering all the globe. Maybe with some commercial stuff working similarly. The future might be theirs. Yep, that’s a very raw and stupid application of computing power and it’s dystopian, but what gets deployed IRL matters more than elegance.

  Also this is in the context of USA giving Israel a kick in the butt, so maybe it’s not such bad news that they are getting involved with Arab monarchies and not, say, with Turkey or Russia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like “the new middle ages” really was a correct description of our time. Well, we’re at the dawn of it. All our universal rights and universal truths are going to be subject to who’s holding the dagger at your throat, and we’ll have theocracies, family republics and feudal lords again. The blooming diversity of hell.

  OK, this is a bit offtopic, just one can see such behavior in all areas today where they wouldn’t be normal 30 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve read that laws of most countries have become orders of magnitude more complex since the time when ESG wrote his Perry Mason books.

  One could also think that all of the laws functioning in a country at one moment being possible to grasp for one person in a week are a requirement for Heinlein and Asimov’s visions of good future too.

  Often touching upon the fundamental aspects like this one - a company sells not what it advertises, but it has somewhere in agreement a line that says otherwise.

  While we have enormous amount and volume of active laws that don’t change any fundamental aspects, but function as a minefield for an honest person trying to navigate reality.

  A combinatorial explosion if you will.

  When the legal apparatus as a whole stops functioning as law and becomes yet another power in the society. In some sense having law is a disturbance, and laws becoming so complex that they are not laws again, but something like medieval privileges, with complex interpretations depending on each side’s power, and sometimes inevitable contradictions, just means that the system of society has responded to that disturbance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HMD, Lava to launch feature phones with direct-to-mobile technology, Developed in collaboration with Tejas Networks and powered by Saankhya's chipset, these phones can stream content without internet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some day!.. I will gather my willpower and learn Hindi/Urdu/whatever this is at least on a basic level, because grammar doesn’t seem much harder than English/French/Armenian/Persian/… .

  But not today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because real information looks like that. If you can find a shortcut, then it’s fake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York Mayor Eric Adams to Crypto Industry: Come Build an Empire in NYC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s still not in jail? I thought they caught him taking Azeri or Israeli or Russian bribes or all of the listed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  People with Aspergers usually have this kind of pained sense of humor, yes.

  Because, eh, trying to communicate more “normally” leads to some people exhausting you by making you imitate more and more, thinking that’s you getting used to them, until you can’t bear that, and to other people hating you due to something being off and trying to expose you.

  So opening up this way initially feels like a way to alleviate both.

  Especially with relationships. Especially since everyone has preferences and tastes too, just other ways of expressing them. If you can’t play the game they consider subtle, you can’t. Honesty sometimes works, pained humor too, pretense - unsustainable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI will replace routine — freeing people for creativity.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  and Tcl is well-defined but so minimal as to barely be a language at all, and if anyone’s using it for greenfield projects, they should have their heads examined.

  What doesn’t it allow one to do?

  One can add Python to that list, with usefulness similar to Tcl (except being more relevant, but uglier).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would one use an intentionally impaired tool?