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I see some discussions about browsers. I think they are not that relevant for the current state of the Internet. I use ff, and 99% of the web looks, and behaves correctly.

imho search engines affect page contents, and 'style' of the web. They define what is visible, and what is not, what is acceptable, and what is not. According to the chart Google controls 91% of that pie.

I do feel that most of what is wrong with the Internet is because of ads. The next thing is that corporations and governments use it to wield, exert power. The next thing is that contemporary search fails spectacularly at "discovery". When have you found 'a new blog' via google search? When did you find a new 'music band' using google search? When did you found fun web radio station? Google is answer machine. It is not a good place to find new things. It is not a good place to find retro things.

As a thought example lets think that alternative is possible. Let's say someone creates "a new search" that is successful, and makes Internet fun again. The corporations can sniff the trends and will move their presence to that space. Governments will also move there. They will make the pressure again on the "new successful search engine" to bend it to their rule. They will force their willpower eventually. They will perform enshittification again.

One way to break this trend is to have Internet federated, but this road is not funded enough. Why would anybody invest in hosting parts of the Internet? I was thinking about government funding for such projects, but I would be really surprised if that road resulted in anything good.

That is why I created an offline cache of the Internet [1]. I do not need to host it, yet anybody can use it. I can easily find "amiga" related domains, and start my search using just this.

Do not provide web apps. Provide data. Provide files. Provide something that works off-line. "File over app".

[1] https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database
I'll admit this is the first I've encountered the concept that "neanderthals and denisovians and so on" are not human. Maybe not biologically modern humans, but I'd certainly consider them fundamentally human.
Part of me wonders if this is the natural outcome of things. The world gets faster, so we're more efficient, now we have more memory and time in a datacenter, let's do it on our servers so we can charge a monthly fee! That works, but now things are slow until the next boost (say bandwidth/storage/whatever) - now we're more efficient, let's shove ads on it, there's plenty of end-user CPU cycles we can profit from.

It seems like enshittification is not just the inevitable outcome, but almost desirable (from a profit standpoint), and thus things getting faster for you only help me (the vendor) if I can extract _more_ value by things being faster - otherwise why would I spend money to make things better?
> We should eliminate anonymity online.

Unless you're careful and quite tech literate this is already the case
It sounds like a solid idea (bot rejection anyone), but I wonder if governments would use it to quarantine users instead. Would I have to pay a bi-yearly fee to maintain and reissue my online passport?

All in all I would be willing to be quarantined if that meant the bots would suddenly die.
It is not about democracy, it is about bullshit jobs in IT sector. Too many useds are fooled with proprietary software.
I use DDG instead of Google Search. My current strategy is keywords and notes. I don’t do much question like searches. Instead, I treat it like a library. Whatever I want to know, I try to find the exact terms for it and a set of terms to restrict it down. If I don’t succeed after a few tries, the resources may as well not exist.

Another thing is I tend to read more primary materials like books and docs. I have a bookmarks file for any interesting links I encounter.
I feel very similarly and came here to make almost the same comment. I am glad that Snowden exposed what he did, but I can’t think of a single headline with his name in it over the last decade that I haven’t rolled my eyes at. Often the thought going through my mind is “why do we care what he says?” or maybe “does he have any relevant expertise on this?”. He often seems to weigh in on things only tenuously related to the leaks or not related at all.
I'm also not seeing the connection to free will. Did the program choose to be broken by a cosmic ray? Did the cosmic ray choose to break the program? Stochasticty doesn't imply volition.
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> This would also reduce the need for govt monitoring because any chat online could be "turned in" by an informer and then any criminals identified.

This is where you completely break your premise, this is Stasi levels of informing, asking for the population to spy on each other. It's not healthy to society when you feel that any other person you interact with might be informing on you to the State, you leave a very wide avenue open for misuse when the State changes its rulings on what's considered criminal.
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Should work, although I don't know the best software stack to use
It works for me. Maybe the author fixed it in the meantime?

Example: https://yuanchuan.github.io/intro-to-css-doodle/#13
Filled out your form. Looking forward!
I think it's worth debating the idea, exploring what it would look like. But I think there's a lot of hidden complexity there.

1. Who is allowed to detect, process or store your identity? For what purposes?

2. What about "right to forget"? Does the data need to be destroyed after a certain period?

3. Who manufacturers and sells these private keys? What happens if I lose mine, or it gets stolen?

4. How does this work internationally? Can a key from China access a system in the US?
For what it's worth, the comic is based on a well-known meme, and the author must've wanted to stick to the format: https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4E10AQFryt0thryEeA/image-...
They would not ban it, they would insist that only they have the moral high ground to use it. Whenever laws like these come up they write explicit exemptions for themselves into them.

They don't see themselves as merely human, they consider themselves as our betters. The closest thing to a ruling class with divine mandate we have today. That von der Leyen got her position in spite of election results is only the icing on the cake.
A poling yard is one where the tea cars are sorted by pushing them with a pole using an engine on an adjacent track. They are banned today
The same reason most people are a bit “thick” , stuff just won’t go into their brains or register with them. They have the mind of children but are in adult bodies with adult voices
https://expose-news.com/2024/06/12/covid-injections-are-weap...

Consider this too
They know that if this idea catches on, a dozen completely free imitations will crop up, so ... the time to grab whatever cash can be squeezed out of this is now.
Or maybe their problem is that they no longer are a single issue party and many of their original supporters just object to the other goals they have added to their program.
Recommend Stalwart

https://github.com/stalwartlabs/mail-server

(No affiliation to the devs)
I once wrote a Chrome web browser extension that removes these duplicated browser history entries. The Chrome store denied it, citing that it didn’t have enough functionality to be valuable.

That means your problem is obviously not big enough to complain about ;)
Even with the wrong formula for
λ This one is also off:

λ = S/ρ = 0.1/(1−0.9) = 10

Should be 1 not 10.
In this specific case I believe that it's the EU Council that pushes for the current iteration of the law, which is formed of the head of states for each EU member.

So, even if they might not be explicitly elected to be in the EU governance, most of them have reached that spot through more or less democratic means. "More or less" because Prime Ministers are usually nominated not elected, but that's still as part of each country's democratic process.
This is an article where we need "in the US" in the title.
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Supranational/federalist "representative" particracy does not work.

Representative democracy works better with increased locality, where policy and politicians are directly beholden to constituents.
Yes, this is called a representative democracy. The fix is to vote for representatives who represent your values. Or run yourself.
I'm actually surprised people wake up an give two fucks about any of this to be honest. It sounds like people looking for things to complain about.

The "enshitification" of the internet makes me laugh.
> It’s a random webpage that wants my personal details, and sends me a “exe”.

No different from MacAffee, Trend Micro, Symantec. Oh, but those are brand names you can trust, like Coca-Cola and Kellog's Corn Flakes.
legit, or best malware install attempt ever? assume all is good if you detect the cyberscarecrow process? how can this have a long-term effect?

if you have malware probing your processes to decide if it can run or not you have a very serious problem regardless of whether it decides to run or not, there is an entrance to your systems you don't know about.
So what is CSS-Doodle then?
I still have noe idea after this so called «introduction»
> It's evil and communism in a progressive jacket

funny to read something like this as a response to a comment blaming spreading fabricated fear.
There's no democracy, it's just show. Mass surveillance is necessary to keep the power.
Seems there are videos https://video.consilium.europa.eu/event/en/27508 . Sound isn't working for me though.
I agree with 0-strikes. Elect officials should be under constant investigation for any form of nefarious behavior and they should be prosecuted as any citzen would be.
Exactly. If I wanted to vote for green politics there are existing options. I don't.
It’s because we aren’t actually nations of laws. There are certain groups in every nation (yes, even the ones you like or perhaps respect) who operate outside of the law as if it doesn’t exist.

The most popular “e2ee” messengers in use (WhatsApp, iMessage) are already clientside backdoored in this manner. Most people in most societies are already under this type of surveillance. This is just to tidy up the small loopholes like Signal etc.
> Is the EU really a benefit to the people

Obviously, yes.
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> to repeatedly undermine constitution

The EU doesn’t have a constitution [1], simply enabling treaties [2].

The solution would be in ratifying a constitution.

> am much for 3-strikes here

Careful. A party in power will seek to nullify issues by putting forward and then defeating sham bills.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_establishing_a_Consti...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaties_of_the_European_Uni...
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Do you understand what would happen to the system if politicians could be prosecuted for proposing laws?
Hmm, not really. They scanned several million stars and found a handful that look like they could have Dyson Spheres. But it is much more likely the stars are just surrounded by dust clouds.
> swapping should never occur in the first place

No. 99.9% of servers are running more processes than the main workload. There are all sorts of security, monitoring, auditing, inventory tools that might run occasionally.

As I wrote, it's a rare corner case.
You forget they have Mazedonia and Bulgaria as neighbors ;)
It must be, ultimately, because all art is individual or group expression, and each person can only belong to so many groups. But the individual expression still allows for a giant amount of expressiveness, and the group expression is wider than race or sex.
Which constitution are you referring to?
Quite difficult to be engaged with the selection of candidates. It’s really quite the struggle to find someone halfway decent these days
> all swap gets you is waiting an extra long time to figure out that the operation you're trying to do is going to fail anyway

No, it gives you progressive performance degradation instead of a hard failure and this is a feature and not a bug.
If there was public evidence allowed to be released nobody would be using those algorithms obviously. The point of those algorithms is to make them hard to break for the public and easy to break for the agencies . E.g. None of your mentioned products use quantum hard encryption. It is not far fetched to assume that all the relevant agencies have access to a working quantum computer. But I doubt you need even sophisticated hardware. Most "government approved" encryption algorithms should be considered compromised from the get-go.
They're the experts on engineering practices. They don't have to be great managers. They don't even have to be scrum masters and such. But they're part of the feedback loop to make sure the management stuff makes sense.

They make sure the bonus structure is logical, i.e. not based on story points or something. They make sure that it's logical to have 3 Android devs and 1 iOS dev, vs just hiring 4 hybrids. They make sure the tech recruiting makes sense.

They measure productivity in a way that makes sense for this team. Sure, LOC works for some teams, but it makes no sense with LLMs. Sure, test coverage matters, but what's a reasonable number? How do you know you haven't just hired a team of engineers who are working together to bullshit you? There's that guy making 1 commit a week, is he just being super efficient or is he quiet quitting? Are all these refactoring weeks really making sense? Is this market rate making sense? How do we replace the asshole who's holding the whole product hostage?

IMO, they should actually not be given scrum master or product tasks and such. Their value is architecting the team not really being in it, though being hands on may give him better insight. A company should not have too many of them either; one can maybe handle 30 engineers. The low level managing can be done by other managers. A proper Product Manager should be dealing with customers and understand products better than the engineers, and as she's a manager, she can do the sprint stuff too.
It's the only way I've come up with that allows for free will, maybe other people have other ways. If the universe is not like a computer then I have even less ability to explain where free will would be possible.

Cosmic rays are just an example to explain that there's external causes of non-determinism to a deterministic system. Another example I gave above was the limit of precision of the system itself, allowing for "free will" (meaning something which isn't perfectly explainable by just the laws+starting conditions).

To me it's obvious the universe is deterministic, but the fun part is imagining ways in which it might not be. Comparing the universe to a computer is a fun way to think about it.
They already found out that it is a lobby organization that pushes it for those who sell the products for surveillance. Please google it I am to lazy to search for it. Sorry

Edit: here it is

https://netzpolitik.org/2022/dude-wheres-my-privacy-how-a-ho...
Was it illegal when they did it?
> It seems like we're stuck at a pre-set level of latency,

Bandwidth isn't latency, and PCIe 7.0 running as fast as 128 GT/s is no statement at all about its latency. I remember this great analogy from university: a truck carrying a full load of backup tapes across a country has amazing bandwidth but atrocious latency.

(I still agree with your sentiment, just PCIe is not one of the problems in this regard. The connection between bandwidth becoming available and being eaten up vs. latency is a red herring; it's all about properly engineering software for responsitivity.)
>The solution would be in ratifying a constitution.

That certainly doesn't prevent politicians from voting for unconstitutional laws.
> The "enshitification" of the internet makes me laugh.

Because doing that is your job?
> and doubly makes no sense for a digital technological party to have this stand

I sometimes wonder if these politics taking over fringe parties are deliberate attempts to destroy them. Because yeah it doesn't make sense that they would make that part of their program.
The NPC population doesn’t know about this and doesn’t care. They haven’t heard of this and they don’t know what “e2ee” means. They have “nothing to hide”. They are your parents and grandparents, and your friends from work.

I blame people who do know and write internet comments instead of taking action.

How many of you have deleted your Instagram and Facebook accounts? How many of you are still reachable on WhatsApp and iMessage? How many people have you onboarded to Signal? How many people have you taught to sideload?
Note that the BRICS are known for loosing their richest (and most talented) citizens. ("Brain drain").
If you are relying on failures and crashes instead of proactively monitor your workload you are already taking the wrong approach, swap or no swap.
I use startpage.com and the results are fine
This reminds of https://www.politico.eu/article/23-kookiest-meps-european-pa...
It's interesting how this isn't a left-right issue. Both the more populist left and the more populist right oppose this, it originates from our elderly-home technocrats whom are clinging to power, like von der Leyen.
We have to make the more traditional methods popular again.
> There just has been EU election in germany and the nationalist gained a lot.

That really depends on your point of comparison. Compared to their 22% high in February, they lost a lot with 16% actual votes (more than 25% down). 84% voted something else.

https://interaktiv.tagesspiegel.de/lab/europawahl-2024-sonnt...
Edit: well like someone pointed out instead of party programmes and declarations, we should look at past voting behaviour on the 2021 vote: https://mepwatch.eu/9/vote.html?v=134463&eugroup=ID

Seems like only the Greens, The Left and Afd within ID were against that first version of Chat Control.

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This isn't the case though: the right-wing Identity and Democracy faction is explicitly pro-privacy, digital rights and against Chat Control.

- https://id-party.eu/program/ (ID Party Official Site)

- https://idgroup.eu/news/online-censorship-is-a-threat-to-eur... (ID Group News)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_and_Democracy (Wikipedia Overview)

- https://id-party.eu/declaration-of-antwerp/ (ID Party Official Site)

The ID group is opposed to EU-wide surveillance measures, and promises to protecting individual privacy and national sovereignty.

Now ECR is also sceptical and have expressed concerns, though their voting record on privacy related legislation is more inconsistent, I believe.
I would think a peer-to-peer system would not be exempt from this legislation, particularly given my understanding that the EU courts do not look favorably on gotcha-style analysis of laws that are limited to definitions of words used being twisted to claim "I'm unregulated". If you are a developer who works on a chat client as part of a decentralized service, I'd expect both you and all of the people running the network to suddenly become service providers subject to this law.
> It may be more expensive

That's also largely due to nuclear having to pay for its externalities while coal and even "renewable" energies get to shrug them off.
I would have liked to see the logic on client side to decide if the certificate presented by the server is valid.
I have a hard time believing their transparency promises if I can't even easily figure out who is in charge of the company behind their social product. adieuu.com doesn't work.

> Your individual data is never sold, and all of your created content can be removed or exported at any time.

Oh nice, so they're just selling aggregated data.

> While we are registered as a for-profit company, we intend to operate closer to a "B-Corp": our goal is to encourage positive social change and be accountable to all stakeholders (our users), not just shareholders, and set an example for radical transparency in our business operations.

So they're not a non-profit but you will attempt to be somewhat non-profit while being for-profit. Sounds... dubious at best.
Problem is most of the people don't care because they "have nothing to hide". Moreover, do they really think this is going to solve the issue of child pornography?
A bit late but pointing out that dollars are fiat money (i.e. numbers on spreadsheets) but CO2 in the atmosphere is very real. Climate crisis will be super-inflationary if we manage to pull through.
> feels like Google is gaslighting me

when someone wants to believe something, facts will not hesitate to arise from the misty waters
And Xerox invented the GUI and Kodak the digital camera, and look at them today.

Inventing things is no guarantee of success.
President: ok, hit this military base with 100 soldiers to let them know we’re serious

Million-inhabitants city nearby: burns to the ground due to garbage guidance

President: …dig out the plan for world war 3, I guess.
https://netzpolitik.org/2022/dude-wheres-my-privacy-how-a-ho...
Thanks for clarifying, but you shouldn't mark every word I say since I am clearly not American. I learned english by watching the Fresh Prince on TV.
> democratic states tend to drift into mass surveillance

I am not saying this is false, but think about the inverse: are there non-democratic states never drifting into mass surveillance? Maybe it is a symptom of a developed, high-trust society.

Which doesn't make mass surveillance a good thing. I'm just contemplating whether it's even possible to turn out different.
> I hope they continue to be a deterrent but never ever launched in war.

This is just naive. They'll become more and more common, and their usage is inevitable. In fact, the US has already used them in war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_a...
> they are an escalation deterrent

Only until someone escalates! Or a sufficient number of sensors misfire concurrently, as I suppose that isn't quite what we refer to as escalation.
That's a good analogy. If there is a problem with nuclear it is a BIG THING(tm) that makes the news and gets people scared. Just like a plain crash. But those events are extremely rare. Meanwhile coal/cars get to slowly rack up many more kills and the general public doesn't care.
Is it possible to use Elixir with Phoenix (with or without Liveview) without ANY JavaScript though? If so, how to go about it?
> certainly doesn't prevent politicians from voting for unconstitutional laws

At that point you no longer have a legislative body, but an advisory council to whomever it is that decides what votes are and aren’t punishable. (See: Iran, China, the Roman Principate, early parliamentary monarchies.)
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If I’m searching something for research I use Google scholar.

If I’m searching for shopping or pop culture type stuff ordinary Google is fine

If I want information that requires a deeper dig then DDG is a good place to start.
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"Our ultra-secretive, stealthy submarine is perfect in all aspects except for the fact that it emits a 52 hertz sound wave." "Give me a sec boss, I'll solve that... 'The 52-hertz whale, colloquially referred to as 52 Blue,...'"
We're all part of the genus "homo", but to me, "human" refers to "homo sapiens". I was sufficiently surprised to hear that humans were around 600k years ago that I came here to comment.

The Wikipedia article [1] on humans makes the same point. It does acknowledge that some use the term human to refer to all members of the genus homo, but this is not the common usage.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human
"Do it properly" is an educated way in office politics to hand wave issues.

There are enough discussions on go-nuts on the contrary, plus it isn't as if there wasn't enough examples to choose from, between 1976 and 2009.
Nice, finally :)!