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100% agree We should assume that new engineering leadership that came - it was too late. Let’s pray that MacBook pro team will leave apple sooner or later to build alternative laptop. This touchscreen seems to be bifurcation point with no return. I hope we also get alternative for M-class cpu, this might be the biggest dealbreaker

First, it is always important to remember that representative democracy has known fundamental scaling problems from a game-theoretic perspective, and we can enjoy the consequences globally across the developed world today. Establishments and incumbents getting back to old good populism and enforcement, no matter left, right, or center. Representation works as a bootstrap mechanism, but it should be treated as something to be transformed into efficient direct democracy, otherwise we are doomed. And here we come to the practical "efficiency" of governing local communities. It seems especially important to discuss possible solutions here on HN, because much of the solution space clearly lies in tech.

So all in all, small communities do not fail because online participation is impossible. They fail because obstruction is cheap and accountability is absent: one person can repeatedly delay a decision, while everyone who supported a controversial decision simply moves on. I think we are in that point in history where participation could be dramatically improved by LLM in pipeline (and there are real works behind it https://github.com/AIObjectives/tttc-light-js https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq2852)

- Chat and voice messages becomes a source-linked with signed summaries (llm definitely can help most ppl structure their thoughts into words)

- disputes are classified as factual, distributive, value-based, procedural, or rights-related

- it becomes more real to agree on explicit success (or dealbreaking) criteria for every decision

- votes and objections also accounted as "prediction market" bets of their voting power.

- evidence is more reviewable with LLM

- and what's most important the outcome updates domain-specific reputation that weakens future vote weights of those who sabotaged, or joined to crowd for populist decisions proved to be failure.

If a blinded LLM assessment and the community votes agree, the decision proceeds. If they disagree, at least it is much rare occasion and interesting to consider the causes. The key innovation is an auditable path from messy discussion to decisions, evidence, outcomes, and consequences. Reputation becomes the non-monetary cost of being confidently wrong or strategically obstructive. I hope to see more of such platforms and survive experiments. Current situation feels like desperation

That was a blasting key generation ceremony.

I can't believe to hear such a wisdom from Garry Tan.

No way API access to current socials, they are all doomed. Bluesky/ATProto developments seems to be the best hope and basis today to rebuild and get back to users what is and always was theirs.

Lobbyists do not sleep. It's easy to recall how those two, especially apple, tried to sabotage FIDO2 trying to capture webauthn standards, fortunately failed. EU also has to learn their inside traitors who sabotage their great efforts in decentralization of identity, and learn to avoid those incredible situations like happens right now with chat control directly lobbied by silicon valley surveillance vendors

The reason is that Google are highly commercialized first on thier maps, while Apple focused on major markets. E.g. I can remember the times like 2017, when Apple maps was as rocky as possible, but they were working fine in Shenzhen with matching chines to transcriptions, while Google maps sucked at scale there.

> Languages JavaScript 55.2%, TypeScript 44.4%, Other 0.4%

Isn't that compromises the whole purpose of the project immediatly?

Moreover, any reasonably adequate dev would work on expansion of syncthing ecosystem, not inventing a rasclet instead of a wheel

Haha, can't be said better. M1pro is so good. Literally the only Jobs legacy, every other thing except silicon and laptop engineering is mediocre to dead now.

I think it’s opposite. The general population always has nothing with outstanding engineers thru the history. It’s hard to say that VC bubbles of recent decades really drove the amount of outstanding engineers, it’s just an overall increase of prosperity, while hot capital in addition incentivesed quite terrible ways to get rich quick, effectively balancing back this freshly activated dev capital. So now ai takes back monopoly on dev capital from bigbiz, and general youth population is weird like it always has been, but in reality doing less drink/smoke/drugs, and sometimes their values are better than ours, just need some more time to polish. I think we are not doomed.

P.S. but these chinese robots are really scary

> A coalition of 16 banks thinks it has the answer.

Oh! That's exactly what we all needed - 16 banks suggest their own "system", even more crude and clumsy imitation of the surveillance standards of payment systems and marketplaces, which shielded banks from snitching clients' consumption patterns.

They don't need anything advanced like Apple Pay layered tokenizations that at least respects a little of privacy. Everything is linked to a single phone (the article states that the focus is on Bizum and those pathetic peer-to-peer payment systems). The banks are in good shape to capture data, the tax authorities have a clear picture of how to squeeze the plebs even more - nice.

How about stablecoins with native yield from ECB treasuries? It solves everything and costs nothing. But we see what happens in US - "treasuries spread is not for plebs", - banks say.

Absolutely! It is a sovereignty software effectively, it could be OSS only, otherwise treated as "soon to turn into bloatware cash-cow to death". There is no other way to gain trust, but staying closed source is a way to confirm distrust. If dev scared about monetization that much, that's a pre-bloatware effectively.

This is so true, and it is so crazy that the __majority of single people__ are so lacking empathy to at least understand this simple scheduling arithmetic.

That led me to quite radical thoughts, that childless people shouldn't have the same voting power as active parents, just because they simply do not and _can not_ understand the generational mechanics of society and nations survival. They just lack this critical extremum of life experience and can not contribute consciously.

> I really hope this is not intentional from Apple to make me upgrade. That would be a big let down.

I've got a reference macbook air from 2015, which is almost clean, only zoom, teams and chrome for meets are installed and used for calls. And boy, how do I regret making macOS updates.. I can believe teams and zoom are shitbags of modern software slop, and thus started to fail running simple video calls. But even native macOS apps that are barely updated for years like notes and calendar are freezing now. So I can conclude that these anti-backward compatibility updates are highly intentional, because hardware is absolutely fine for decade, i even used this ultra-tiny air for travel work once back in 2022, it was still capable to do all office things and thin client. But last year it just turned into pumpkin.

My question is - maybe installing linux can help bring it back to life.

I'm referring to a vast community of young developers who have learned a valuable lesson about the useless roles of monopolies in our lives as a dirty bonus to long payrolls of devs who work for them.

Thanks, this is an amazing historical note! Will learn in detail. My intuition advises that efficient antimonopoly is the battle we are losing..

This is awesome, honestly. The more monopolists f_ck up, the cleaner the future to be built.

If there are enough OGs, they should recall Windows XP with all those bells and whistles AND those life-saving switch to "Windows Classic" that survived next three generations of Windows.

I personally pray for that "MacOS classic" switch... It's sad to enter that decay era for Apple where every next software upgrade for the device feels effectively as a hardware downgrade.

audit logs of all privacy and sensitive-related events should be required by regulations

Meta: broken all possible privacy laws with "localhost tracking"

Me: f*ck off, enough, time to buy pixel and grapheneos

Govt: meta pays _me_ $32bln for breaking _your_ privacy. What? You want to defend yourself? You are a criminal, then! That way, Meta wouldn't pay me again!

Monopolies are the only source of crime throughout history.

Monopolies are the brightest sign of collective irresponsibility.

Monopolies are useless for society in their attempts "to compete", since they are only trying to leverage their size and thus eventually bring harm.

With these days $ numbers, they can be so big, that they create a cantillion effect on market just because of their existance on market even without manipulation. Should be resected, dissasembled and limited in their further growth, including govt bodies, incentivized to decentralize.

I guess all the blamed EuroCommission will again have to do their job to bring anti-oligo/monopoly regulations, which everyone will hate but still slightly work.

Architecting technical systems is MUCH WAY easier than architecting social-economical systems. I hope one day all those tech-savvy web3 wannabe revolutionaries will start to do the real job a designing socially working systems, not only technically barely working cryptographically strong hamster-tapping scams

Sad news! It's a total BS.

The reputable press for some reason spread fake news about the fact that the Sagrada Familia is supposed to be finally completed by 2026.

This is complete nonsense, I can't understand how it happened. Apparently, one person stepped in and everyone else happily picked up on it.

In fact, by 2026 it is planned to complete only the central bell tower, the Jesus Tower, which will make the temple the tallest in the world, and the corner Chapel of the Ascension. After that, there will remain such a "small, insignificant detail" as the construction of the central facade of the basilica. It is planned to work on it until 2034 (if everything goes according to plan, the builders cunningly add in this place).

And, only then will the discussion be started about the construction of the stair bridge leading to the entrance, which requires demolishing a block of living buildings on Mallorca Street, imagine the friction at this point..

So, no, it's not going to be finished in 2026. But that doesn't make it a penny less marvelous, one wouldn't even notice it's not finished.

How dare you to be so exactly right. Those corp data-driven pms are destroying monopolies from inside with one-fits billion features, which is a perfect illustration of evolutionary self-regulation. Protocols are the future of internet competition, not really products as knew it..

() designing UI () fixing the world () saving the drowning

not a todo list then..

In the meantime, it might seem very counterintuitive, but it is very evolutional and GOOD regulation! It will force custodial monopolies companies like Meta and Apple, either go away OR provide programmability for users to incorporate their own encryption layers with possibility to control your own keys yourself.

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