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“Beacons” are a highly marketed socially acceptable thing in the advertising industry that has permeated the insides of most buildings.

Standing too long in one aisle lets them know where you like to browse in the grocery store.

When they first rolled these out in the US at least a decade ago I used to get notifications all the time.

Stuff like “Near Well’s Fargo? Balance your checkbook.” As notifications.

Remember when twitter was “the public sphere”

Lulz

Ty here from Sillyz.Computer pointing out once again, software authorship is and has always been political and not technical.

AI inverted power structures to favor action over bureaucracy and software development is historically the definition of bureaucratic— dating back to IBM backing the Holocaust.

The entire thing is just men LARPing as executives behind closed doors and kids vibing futures is forcing them to keep up while the mask of “the responsible computer adult” continues slipping.

How the open source turn tables have open source turned

Noted: hacker news is not interested in the future, rip.

If this is interesting, message me about my “elves”

They are the cognitive construct I fortified in my mind and in my code before the models began producing their own training materials. My approach is based on two decades of coding without ai.

The immunization is becoming increasingly more valuable as people begin understanding the market in which I do business.

I’m describing why Halo worked :)

You’re 100% right that it’s halo, but it wasn’t

“No couch co-op halo”

Bros wanted to help augment the surveillance state with the Kinect on Xbox one originally by having it be a required feature AND for the internet to be online all the time “to validate software licenses”

Whoever can pull an old school 80s Microsoft heist, will win the next era of gaming.

This is a bit hilarious.

Bear with me because it’s getting out of hand.

Micro Soft

Microcomputer software

Broke into the mainstream by being able to hot swap a game.

That grew into the only American driven hardware gaming company: Xbox

The Xbox broke into the mainstream by being able to connect four of them together to have 16 people playing games together under one roof

Now read this article again and laugh a little, it is okay, they’re the driver of this global dystopia and the state of play on Xbox is just the canary of how bad AI is going.

It’s orating.

Yes write, but then orate.

Look at all of our AI feeds.

They want to be us so bad.

When MySpace came out browsers were only able to upload images and not manipulate them with filters like today.

Now cameras on devices like the iPhone will auto “enhance” at the system camera layer

It’s almost if Microsoft had advocated for citizen infrastructure for artificial intelligence, they could have avoided price gouging at the hardware supply chain layer with their younger, more nimble competition, instead they accidentally cannibalized their video game console market, which is their primary driver for future developers, by giving them a vision and a reason to dream about wanting to learn how to make something beautiful to share with the world.

Xbox might die, but gamers will live on.

There’s no gaming industry left for them to press into positive PR.

Yikes.

I target IE6 and it just works everywhere

> devgooning

Excellent choice of phrase. Succinct and to the point.

It’s a point made in bad faith, easily refuted with: “great, let a human read the books”

we quickly learn what “inequality” means, since the computer has more access rights than people

In an attention economy, companies becoming religions is a logical outcome.

This take is doubleplus good

I do like the idea of escape the room games becoming the cybersecurity employable competition meta

I get signal notifications. Anyone I want to talk to uses signal.

Also I daily drive graphene and that has no Google play services

Palantir is forward deployed engineers doing whatever their customers need.

Everything else is just marketing and right sizing. For most things yeah, data bricks and no code sounds right. Most of their work is over the counter benign, but that’s to lend credibility to their other initiatives while funding their quite literal war coffers.

Palantir is best viewed as a React dev shop.

They have a bunch of dumb react components that can become the gui for live targeting systems, but that all happens post contract and in the liability of their customers, the organizations willing to expend human capital coming and going, e.g. militaries

A shame cause you need to spend a lot of intellect on this site to even be able to down arrow at all and you spend it on… checks notes…. Do u rly want me to say ur perspective or I’d love for you to state your own opinions out loud plz

The one above was downvoted once, but the one above went up twice, still nobody wants to talk, just push down arrows.

Look just because you have their stocks in your portfolio doesn’t negate that their business is primarily in managing the narrative around who lives and dies.

Keeping score on this one

Currently at 1 point but that’s because at least two people upvoted it and two people downvoted it

If I’m wrong, call me out.

Am I wrong??????????

But Palantir isn’t an AI company.

They’re a guilt-free hands-washing service.

You pay them money, and they absolve you of your sins. That’s what Peter Thiel is on about.

That’s the technological progress he’s charioting us into his political theocracy with. The ability to label anyone that stands in his way “the Antichrist” which is just another loophole exploitation of the patriot act.

An ai company lol

Also tacking on that ssh is a social network.

That’s the crucial social layer that powers all of the everything else on the decentralized internet.

Take git as a social platform.

SSH is the social protocol.

GitHub centralized most of the git+ssh net, but that was a choice and we use all these other git+ssh services to not give them a monopoly.

Yeah, I hear you.

Yeah, them as a single instance is centralized, but if you actually go (show up at 300 Funston on a Friday at 1pm) you can hear about the research into how to replicate and become the resiliency in the network to make it decentralized.

A lot of it is ancient Unix philosophy like “this massive text file is a seekable index” and “rsync does basically most of the heavy lifting” and you’ll quickly realize decentralization is a social problem and not a technical one.

They’re shifting more and better data than the centralized services we’re complaining about— we need better education, not innovation at this current juncture.

The technology exists, the will of the people is lacking in spirit.

It has been cracked.

The internet itself is the thing we want.

We’re just constantly in denial that the internet actually does the thing we want it to do.

The internet archive is an excellent demonstration of how to do it.

It’s primarily getting a ragtag group to pool resources and manage them and then gossip with other groups that are doing the same thing.

I’ve spent so much time around the archive that I plainly see a divide between internet people online that can’t connect the dots and internet people in real life that are confused as to why the dots aren’t connecting.

The easiest way to see the dots is to:

1. Stop trying to make money

2. Tally the things that cost money

3. Amortize the upkeep over time

E.g. where do we source resources from, where do we store resources and how do we secure them.

Like HTTP, but for physical materials, not digital.

From talking to people from Meta, they don’t believe in E2EE because “it’s decrypted on the other end” which they take as “becomes insecure in exactly the way we’ve designed the sausage factory”

They’re a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy for why it is a futile effort for trying to secure information near them.