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Chat apps have already replaced socialapps like FB long ago and the companies know it. Meta has FB Messenger and WhatsApp.

Because of the allusion to British Empire?

Yeah, I had Fred Turner in mind when posting. A bit dry, but comprehensive.

The Personal Computer culture in the SV developed from the counterculture in the valley: https://kbsm.org/technology/california-tech-culture-that-sha... It then hopped on the Free Software movement with redefining it as "open source" while the Internet was booming. And all of that is now being reaped by the corporations the "tech-hippies" themselves helped to create.

Excellent! Just searching "giants" pops our many more of these characters than just Nephilim and Goliath.

The more the behemoth of bureaucracy and total control will grind and (o)press the societies to atomized individuals, the more lone wolfs will crop up.

Passkeys deployment reminds me of a cartel agreement among FAANG without the actual coordination. It's too good of a new tech frontier not to colonize.

Imagine then having a forest fire in zone rouge: https://www.businessinsider.com/slovenia-wildfires-set-off-h...

WWII??? We haven't managed yet to clean up after WWI! For example, nearly every day unexploded munitions are found on the former Isonzo frontline.

Wine is becoming like archive.org, but for win32 runtimes.

Ha, just found out you already posted the spec. Still, even if it gets published, IMO multilateral federations will migrate veeeery sloooooowly.

Even higher-ed&research will deploy OpenID federations. The spec is WIP: https://openid.net/specs/openid-federation-1_0.html

Because programming is essentially about receiving the input data, transforming it through a process and in the end outputting it in some other form?

All tank commanders are perfect fit for next Napoleon.

DeltaChat.

An their law.

they say, "yeah, ok, whatever, 24/7 surveillance is fine as long as it catches bad people too."

So you should continue the discussion like this: those bad people after 24/7 surveillance have no other option to infiltrate the surveillance caste. That's where things will get really hellish.

The pharaoh's tombs had a lot of warnings and curses against opening them up. Didn't help much not long after and even millennia after that.

Not necessarily. You might end up just building things on top of things spiral which reduces the ability to think clearly.

Electric vehicles are currently on a good path to become gentrification of mobility.

how the states and countries (I live in EU, which passed the same kind of laws) intend to support the massive electrical demands that will put on the grid.

I think this question is easily explained away by politicians that this new demand would reinvigoriate innovation and the Western economies.

Wikipedia has nationalism modern root in the French Revolution but as a non European I find that unconvincing.

This is just an armchair theory of mine: the seeds were planted by Luther who insisted that every nation should have a Bible in their native language. This naturally forms a strong identity. Those sprouts were then nurtured by westphalian nation-state system. Which then got infused by ideas of French revolution via a short period of Napoleonic empire throughout Europe. And in Balkans too. Any references to older events of identity in history should be regarded upon as suspect of revisionism for current political purpose.

But of course, that's the undercurrent worldview you can sense from Tanakh. Losing (a temporary) home once more and wandering about, having nowhere to return to.

Yes, they are human indeed, but those humans cannot agree on whether the plug should or shouldn't be pulled.

The true anarchism to the enshittification of the music services would be to just sing or whistle the songs.

Nowadays I mostly piggy-back on someone else more enthusiastic than me who would take the picture. And sometimes I'm the enthusiastic one.

There are better memories to be had if you have someone to share with.

Imagine the shock for those poor bastards then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Morandi#Collapse

51 years.

The North's eventual win came at very high cost. In my opinion, we should memorialize Union soldiers more than we do. There was so much discussion of Confederate monuments the other year, but no one ever mentions the many Union monuments across the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Union_Civil_War_monume... A lot of people paid the ultimate price, fighting for the promise that "history will remember you for helping to end slavery!", and yet we don't remember them that much. It actually makes me rather upset to be honest.

I'm not from the US but I find it really ironic that even from the outside it appears the US culture views this phenomenon as normal: the losers (Confederates) highly priced the traditional values (just take a look at the personal position of general Lee), thus those values got denigrated because they got associated with racism, taking along the ability of the winners (Union) keep the memory and gratitude to those who gave their lives for. I actually live in a country torn by a civil war (disputed to this day!) and man, it is tragic. The wounds seem to never really heal, they just reopen along line where the scars used to be at the next big dilemma in society.

So... Having no COBOL devs left is a better one? What's the alternative then?

It makes more sense to invest 100m $ in AI assistant for a year and then pay the CEO 120m/year the next one after firing the rest of the COBOL devs.