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Re:Problems with the Heap by whatnow37373 on Thursday March 27, 2025 @10:23AM (#43493982)
In a way I am definitely seeing your perspective here. Letting "good guys" win this race ocassionally is an improvement over never letting them win.

It's just that I think we can do better, because I think the web is a hostile, vitriolic open sewer and must be governed properly before civilized business can be conducted on it. It was perhaps a great innovative place, but it now is a dumpster fire causing endless headaches and beyond redemption. I think it's time to face this reality instead of trying to dress up the turd.

Re:Problems with the Heap by dcminter on Thursday March 27, 2025 @11:51AM (#43494911)
That's an equivalent demand to expecting the world as a whole to be "governed properly" and thus won't be achieved for exactly the same reasons.
Re:Problems with the Heap by whatnow37373 on Friday March 28, 2025 @02:24AM (#43502134)
Not the world, our patch on it. We more or less succeeded in the physical world depending on who you ask. Don’t see the problem with the digital.
Re:Problems with the Heap by dcminter on Friday March 28, 2025 @08:10AM (#43504384)
Are you not aware that the internet is an international artefact? Will you institute a Great Firewall to prevent your citizens from seeing outside your borders?

An inconvenient question I often ask about proposed architecture changes is: "How will you get there from here?" - if you can't answer it then it's not going to happen.

Re:Problems with the Heap by whatnow37373 on Friday April 04, 2025 @11:35AM (#43583957)
I am, in fact, aware of that.

> if you can't answer it then it's not going to happen.

My point is that if we as a technical community don't start looking outside our technical bubble the powers that be will at some point figure out a way to get there from here and without consulting you (us). But maybe that's wrong and maybe nothing's going to need changing. I hope so.