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internet was supposed to be the savior. these sites were the vanguard of the brave new world.

instead it was the worst sellout ever, using the greatest power in time, to build megaliths that have humongous power of distortion.

yes, it hurts. and it should. much more. but they manage to make people to 'move on'.

in the end. we forgot. It's always about power.

2 birds, one stone.

Politicians can get away doing what they want with whatever reason.

And politicians are being used to make the internet more opaque. Since 'view source' is being made a scapegoat, expect it to disappear soon.

Re:Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization on Saturday December 04, 2021 @12:48PM (#29442632)
always.about.money
Re:ISO should make all standards Publicly Available on Friday November 12, 2021 @06:31AM (#29198239)
This should be on a currency
Re:ISO should make all standards Publicly Available on Friday November 12, 2021 @06:30AM (#29198231)
agreed!
Re:ISO should make all standards Publicly Available on Friday November 12, 2021 @06:29AM (#29198225)
And maybe we should have to navigate the legitimately elected international governments over standards that almost always slant the field.
Re:ISO should make all standards Publicly Available on Friday November 12, 2021 @06:26AM (#29198210)
It's probably more about the standard becoming a moat.

Let there be no standards.

Re:ISO should make all standards Publicly Available on Friday November 12, 2021 @06:25AM (#29198199)
makes one think why those companies are paying for something to be a standard.
Re:ISO should make all standards Publicly Available on Friday November 12, 2021 @06:23AM (#29198184)
ABSOLUTELY
Thank you. Will explore.
Was just thinking about exactly the whole Wiki ecosystem.

It's created by individuals like us and should be available via maybe archive.org as a complete dump for individuals to play with.

Are they available ?

Re:Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years? on Friday October 22, 2021 @02:27PM (#28960728)
Is this an attempt to have neon colored geocities page forever ?
Re:Uber and Lyft don't save money, time, or the planet on Thursday October 21, 2021 @11:31AM (#28945901)
Absolutely true. And it's worse. But that isn't Uber's job.

Other than a bit of convenience, Uber is a technocracy push.

Re:Uber and Lyft don't save money, time, or the planet on Thursday October 21, 2021 @11:26AM (#28945823)
>Uber is amazing and I’m glad they pushed through all of the regulatory bullshit to defeat cabs.

Remember, effectively you have said law breaking is acceptable. In this case, it may be partly even true, but once this catches on, anarchy, literally one step away.

Re:The Single-Page-App Morality Play on Friday October 15, 2021 @11:56AM (#28879166)
Great style of writing.

A great example of a 'forced perspective'. The entire ecosystem of browsers, standards, devices, business imperatives is being forcefully turned into a spa/mpa comparison.

Re:The Single-Page-App Morality Play on Friday October 15, 2021 @11:51AM (#28879086)
thank you for saying that.
Re:Problems with Oracle SQL on Friday September 10, 2021 @01:10PM (#28484449)
Just someone who wants Oracle to be something else without understanding it's nature.

Vehemently disagree with the 'access denied' error message. Why would you want some one who does not have access to a table to know it exists.

To be fair, anonymity and de-anonymysing are both problems.

Social Media anonymity is often used to incite riots in many parts of the world.

And obviously, in tyrannical regimes, de-anonymysing is a issue.

The third issue is defining who is tyrannical.

Re:Reasonable Person Principle (2009) on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @07:53AM (#28366723)
If you tell me how red is the red you see, I will tell you, how reasonable you can be.
> It's not a guide on how to live your life, it has many flaws, questionable ethics and morality defined in the text, bringing God into it to make beyond contest.

Can you please elaborate.

>Before anyone questions my religion, I am Hindu from north India (Uttarakhand Purohit clan to be specific)

What Vedanta school of interpretation are you talking about.

In less than 2 decades regulations supported by car makers, insurance corporations and the government themselves will outlaw cars not fitted with such systems.
such geographies have probably become redundant as there is no way to summon for this data
there can only be one spy now.
Didn't realise it in 1995 when I started programming. By 2000, during the bust, many were talking about global disintermediation and empowering of individuals.

And I kept arguing that in a decade and a half, there would be a consolidated monolith and individuals would loose power for a long time to come.

Whenever there is a power tool, expect the power hungry to want to control it. My personal motto. Proves right every time.

Re:Why we should end the data economy on Friday June 04, 2021 @04:18PM (#27398626)
Safer in what sense ? What would be your take on government tolerance to the existence of such data ? Someone from the clandestine teams would always want to utilise it ? How well could the businesses resist.

Anti competitive behavior, I would think comes automatically with such massive centralisation. What's scary is the ability to mass incite riots, using knowledge of the most susceptible audience to fake news and pushing it out incendiary posts to exactly that audience. India has faced multiple such incidents already. Deliberate ? Maybe in the sense of affinity algorithms.

With the backdrop of the Stanford experiment, and a host of other biases giving almost tribal warrior behavior, should such affinity data be allowed for collection ?

My apologies if this sounds drastic, but data collection generates micro nukes, generated based on turning individuals into an array of microcrucibles.