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rottingleaf ,

Oh and it’s not “Linux users” saying it, it’s everybody with an ounce of technical common sense.

Which kinda correlate with each other. Which allows for a certain bad faith argument to be made.

rottingleaf ,

I don’t think that the software world has done a great job of letting people control that data lifetime. And I think that it’s something that a user should reasonably be able to expect out of their computer.

That's true.

I once thought about this, that maybe it's a good idea to use a tagged and maybe log-style filesystem, where 1) every directory name in file path becomes a tag for it, other than the user-added tags (which can be searched separately), 2) there are temporary and permanent files, where temporary ones are deleted once their lifetime passes or that plus once the space is required, while permanent ones are stored indefinitely, 3) with hardlink functionality transparently available to the user, from the GUI, 4) the GUI itself should drop the bullshit and return to DOS times in the sense of control - with this thing I describe it may well be that the casual user won't feel as lost as they do now.

Maybe (again, transparent and user-accessible) filesystem overlays for every application are a good idea too here, like with Docker, chroots, MacOS DMG images, etc.

In addition to that indexing file contents may make sense too, like you said.

Frankly there are so many good things one can do which haven't been done, before just OCR`ing everything on the screen and storing it.

About "why MS chose this" - because they consistently choose the dumbest and ugliest way to deal with any problem. The heaviest artillery available, to look relevant.

Offtopic - the searchable start menu problem is what scares me off Gnome every time I try it. You just get that tablet-like one-level place with a search field and icons. A frigging lot of fscking icons for every dot-desktop file Gnome found. Then I panic and get back to FVWM.

rottingleaf , (edited )

Of course.

The best solution against HIV is not to use protection - it's to avoid brothels and strangers.

Just like with governments - the best solution against corruption is not oversight, it's to remove the particular area from governmental management.

If you don't need anything from some interaction - don't interact.

Which is why the modern Web, the social media, the fashion tech toy crap, the "AI", the cryptoscams, ... - these are all things that can't stand. They don't intend to frankly, just like with Ponzi schemes, the goal is to run very fast until you can't. What's the profit in it - the profit is in one-time theft, or one-time murder, or anything else like that. While it lasts, misinformation and censorship and oppression get an easy time. It will end, but the harm will be done and the profits reaped.

EDIT: Which is very close to the "business plan" of NSDAP frankly - a few one-time big scams to fund rearmament of Germany, then a few mass thefts from Jews and whoever else, then a few invasions ... at some point they couldn't keep going this way, though.

rottingleaf ,

I don't watch TV and mostly don't use Facebook. Not reading TG news is an unending battle. Not participating in discussions on Lemmy - eh.

Didn't mean it's easy, just that when you can cut something off completely, it's better than filtering the stream of shit coming your way.

Or in other words - you don't owe anybody to keep some windows open.

rottingleaf ,

Why am I remembering that video with Ukrainian (I think) soldiers arming a custom-made bomb (for a copter) with schrapnel in the form of little dicks?

rottingleaf ,

Poor HK reading this article, must be disgusted to the core of his purely inorganic soul.

rottingleaf ,

Better for MS non-standard things? Or better how? Performance-wise - yes.

IMHO a web browser has to support HTML 4.* , JS, Netscape plugins (Java, Flash, whatever else) and that's it.

That's what I came to when I started using the Web, but I'm confident it's not just bias - that was the best combination. I'm not sure on CSS - I hated it, but people have good arguments in favor of it. But hypertext with limited appearance tuning and scripts for the web itself, plus plugins for various content, including applications, - that's definitely a better idea than the modern approach.

rottingleaf ,

Sigh. OK, since I didn't use Netscape (started around 2002), didn't know about some of these.

rottingleaf ,

Oh. I had a habit of taking the battery out of that laggy shit, then turning it on again.

rottingleaf ,

For most people not so scary until the one snafu to rule them all.

Hence it exists.

Can you change that people are stupid and find new and new ways to ruin their own lives? If you can't, just look and enjoy.

rottingleaf , (edited )

I don't think any utopia is reachable, but closest to that would look like Star Wars EU computing, where proprietary formats and stuff like what we use today are limited to toys for very rich people, computer systems are produced by a lot of different processes in a lot of different places, even if not very computationally powerful, everything is modular and tunable, and vendor locks are too a thing only for expensive toys.

Formats and environments and interfaces are simple, because of the need for portability of everything in such an environment. It's not impossible there to successfully integrate systems produced 100 years apart.

EDIT: What I meant is - it definitely won't happen the way we are trying now with centralized very complex and fragile systems built after what normies imagine to be good. Normies want magic - all-powerful arcanely complex systems, a deus ex machina. This is the direction exactly opposite from what a good engineer wants. It's scary actually how a lot of things around are attempts to replace the "wrong" humans. "Wrong" romantic partners, "wrong" employees, whole "wrong" professions (like many lawyers seem to hate engineers, and the other way around TBH), politicians try to replace "wrong" social responses with bot farms. Everybody is trying to use computers most of all to kill somebody else indirectly (or sometimes directly). I wonder when will it get to general conscience that this is not different from any other technological advancement.

rottingleaf ,

... And combat jet MC's or brains for missiles\simple suicide drones.

N64 is sufficiently good for a lot of things.

If this is real. Living in Russia I doubt that.

rottingleaf ,

Why do you think they dismantled all those washing machines?

This is a bit further than sane. I think you've got the idea from Russian marauders stealing washing machines. They were just marauders.

But yes, and not even Soviet, but relatively new things may not require too advanced chips.

I think a lot of that works on TTL logic and relays frankly. And not even only in Russia. While NATO countries had access to a much easier supply of chips, reliability is a factor too in military tech. Keep it simple, stupid, and all that.

rottingleaf ,

They’re still fighting wars by throwing wave after wave of human cannon fodder towards frontlines.

There have been some gradual changes in the last 2 years.

Mass corruption at every level causes mass incompetence

There are still people competent, willing to win a war or with some perverted understanding of patriotism. Others steal - they make do with what they have. That's not negligible.

Also mass corruption is present not only in Russia.

They’re far more rudimentary than we’ve all been told imo.

That can also be said about Israel, for example.

I think we may find out one day that complacency plus corruption have eaten not only Russian military.

Also you are doubting that Russia has launched a few sats? It's still one of the countries with expertise and ability. Nothing weird about this.

rottingleaf ,

That won't happen. What will happen is that functionality will be there, on paper requiring your consent, but you'll never know how many times they've used it without consent.

They will read your correspondence, find threats to their power, make sure by soft nudges that those never materialize.

People saying that USSR was democratic will get to live in one, only without even the ideology of "freeing the humanity, building communism and colonizing space".

rottingleaf ,

Because it's not been free press for a long time.

Remember when journalism was supposed to be outrageous? That's not a mark of quality, that's a rule. If it's not outrageous, then it's most likely not journalism.

It also never reports on wars outside of the agreed upon narrative. There's time and narrative for everything. That doesn't happen with free press. There may not be open censorship and coercion, but not seeing something is different from knowing it doesn't exist.

rottingleaf ,

It's so that children wouldn't get recruited by terrorists.

Extrapolating a bit, children here may symbolize the civilian casualties of that world order becoming a bit more open, and terrorists those of us who don't agree.

See, I can do this without alcohol.

rottingleaf ,

Was going to say that I was dreaming of such platform, but then it can be used for more than just links, and work as a decentralized Usenet, and what's more important, as a rating system potentially more resilient to abuse (by bots or by people whose votes you don't care about). Then noticed that you wrote "federated".

rottingleaf ,

I don't think many businesses use MySQL when they can use PostgreSQL. Oracle is used very often. MSSQL in stupid cases.

You obviously need databases to, eh, store data, index it, process it, access it.

Also, as others say, it's a wide concept. A file system is a database. In some sense BitTorrent DHT is a database.

rottingleaf ,

So cute.

For old stuff things like minority rights and all other principles about making people comfortable apply, and reliability standards with a lot of nines have to be met.

For new stuff - "if it fails 1/100 times, then it's fine, so screw you".

See, everybody (or at least people whose voices are heard, not us dumb fucks, authentic Zuck quote btw) wants all this tech bro surveillance centralized obscure blackbox ambiguous crap so fucking badly that other things don't matter.

Boeing planes dropping outta sky? Wait till "AI" reaches nuclear energy. Or until autonomous armed police drones roam your area, as something easier to imagine. (I've just remembered that in Star Wars police drones on Coruscant are unarmed, both under Republic and under Empire. EU writers couldn't imagine our times' degree of stupidity EDIT: so I'm imagining it now.)

rottingleaf ,

You know what overfitting is, right?

Other than that, if this system of yours makes 1 error in a million scans, that's still not very good, if that's treated as "virtually no errors" as in no talking to manager, no showing ID as a fallback, so on. Say, if it were employed in Moscow subway, that'd mean a few unpleasant errors preventing people from getting where they need every day.

rottingleaf ,

This has nothing to do with overfitting. Particularly because our matching algorithm isn’t trained on data.

Good to know.

The face detection portion is, but that’s simply finding the face in an image.

So you are saying yourself that your argument has nothing to do with what's in the article?..

rottingleaf ,

Well, the place you worked at is already there. Those stores - possibly not.

Also I said that about new and shiny stuff like what they call "AI".

rottingleaf ,

Somebody told me that they always use a tiled wallpaper to preserve memory, once.

They were sort of an advanced user in the 90s, but haven't done much computer or engineering related work since then.

If we consider what machines Windows 95 ran on - not even that stupid. Back then.

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)

You know how Google's new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won't slide off (pssst...please don't do this.)...

rottingleaf ,

I remember the feeling of intuitive respect and trust when I was a kid, which transferred to tech bros from companies like Motorola and Sun and DEC.

It's no longer there, but remember how serious it all felt in 2002.

A lot of accumulated momentum used by wrong people.

rottingleaf ,

I agree.

It's very cool to have a personal computer that can play music, display pictures, play videos, render scenes in POV-Ray, so on. But I don't think I need a new one every year, I don't think I'd need anything as performant as what I have (not considering network effects), and I'd be happy to use a year 2003 (or even 1993, with dedicated chips Amiga-style one can make it usable for playing video and music too) performance PC with modern power efficiency.

I don't think there's any need to press for building machines able of doing even more of mostly useless work.

And about hidden costs of that power efficiency too - making modern chips is so complex that the production is more centralized than that of intercontinental ballistic missiles. That means rot in the society that only shows itself when it's too late, like with any overcentralization.

So maybe power efficiency doesn't have to be quite modern, ha-ha.

Overcentralization applies to other things in that industry too, I think I just wanted to add it to your list of hidden costs.

rottingleaf ,

Like that chat control of theirs, yep.

rottingleaf ,

It had. This thing only has branding in common. A different protocol, a different set of features (no contact directory), and while they had the old database of everything, they deemed a good idea to not preserve it, so old UINs don't exist.

rottingleaf ,

Should have been looking for a therapist (that said, I've done my deal of blabbering about occult stuff back then too)

rottingleaf ,

That's the same with one armed conflict that bothers me much. In the 90s there it was called "blood vs oil" by one charismatic man (who also correctly predicted how it'd go further, though), and, well, then "blood" won, and "oil" looked miserable - evil, dishonorable and defeated, all at the same time. But in 10 years they figured it out completely, in 20 years applied that power in every area they needed (mostly not military), in 25 had a big military victory, and now the situation really sucks from the looks of it.

rottingleaf ,

You don't understand something - you either explain what you don't understand or you remain silent. This "what" implies my comment is something weird which it isn't, you're just slow or apparently lack ability for doing philosophy.

If it's the bad English, "what" is also utterly useless.

rottingleaf ,

nuts

rottingleaf ,

It's amazing how retards love to blame themselves being retarded on others.

The comment was specifically formed so that you wouldn't have to know the context except that USSR was breaking up in the 90s.

The meaning was that just like with the Web, it seemed that something good and new has happened and is stronger than something old and evil, and there won't be a payback later. Just like with the Web it seemed that it's open and global and can't be corrupted. (There in my example - it seemed that freedom of nations is now a principle to respect.)

rottingleaf ,

I have some of mine somewhere with partial message history (in MS Access databases). But I don't remember them.

rottingleaf ,

VK bought it when it became completely irrelevant/

rottingleaf ,

with its soul, the xtras

RE-ED TU-URN ... BLUTURN!

rottingleaf ,

OSCAR is a protocol too. And there were ICQ servers to run locally back then too. There also was some "ICQ for business" or similar.

I've also learned yesterday that people responsible for Escargot (MSN server) have another project, NINA, for AIM and ICQ.

So maybe these things will be reborn.

They seem to aim for implementing all of the AOL suite functionality. Maybe after they achieve that we'll see Xtraz and contact directory from ICQ working again. If that happens, I'm going to cry for a few hours. EDIT: or weeks.

rottingleaf ,

I don't think even GRU is that stupid.

rottingleaf ,

I want something like XULRunner back.

No, they don't owe me anything. I just want it back.

rottingleaf ,

If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear, and you'll still have the security against the bad boys, but not against us. The magical golden radiant power of the law will strike us down if we ever attempt that. We can sign this with goat blood if you wish so.

Sarcasm, of course.

I'm not a EU citizen, I actually live in Russia, but the right time to riot would be about now. Once such a system is in place, everybody with power and position to infiltrate and misuse it - will. Be it some imagined neo-Nazi conspiracy, or a mafia organization, or a faction in the government allied with some other foreign government to assist its crimes. Any kind of what's called "long hands".

And once such hands have used it to achieve the desired influence, the environment will be too different for them to ever get punished for that.

Like if you are in a position to commit a genocide, that will only be a problem for you if you don't finish the job. Otherwise nobody will be left to oppose you.

rottingleaf ,

They just mean "steal from the weaker ones" by "create".

Psychology of advertising a Ponzi scheme.

They say "we are going to rob someone and if you participate, you'll get a cut", but change a few things so that people would understand, but would think that someone else won't and will be the fool to get robbed. Then those people considering themselves smart find out that, well, they've been robbed.

Humans are very eager to participate in that when they think it's all legal and they won't get caught.

The idea here is that the "AI" will help some people own others and it's better to be on the side of companies doing it.

I generally dislike our timeline in the fact that while dishonorable people are weaker than honorable people long term, it really sucks to live near a lot of dishonorable people who want to check this again the most direct way. It sucks even more when that's the whole world in such a situation.

rottingleaf ,

It can't design.

rottingleaf ,

Thx, will read.

rottingleaf ,

So why is there no competition arising, simply with some fries, burgers, soda and without this bullshit.

Oh, I remembered, it's all patented to hell. It's practically illegal to open a fast food place not in one of these franchises.

Same with many other areas of life. The Web and computers are the most obvious.

Rats and cockroaches have conquered the kitchen. While many people in bureaucracies and everywhere were thieves and parasites, that still wasn't socially acceptable. They didn't like it, so now it's almost official that the world is ruled by thieves and parasites and they are better than honest people. This IMHO also explains all the "geopolitical" stuff happening - it's not to any practical end, the common thing between all (Western\Russian\whatever) policies is ideological, that decency should be murdered, dignity should be punished, and honesty should be poisoned. All the "rules" and "competition" and "civilization" stuff was (in the eyes of those people) being grown like livestock to be slaughtered for meat eventually.

300 years from now this time is going to be called the start of the new dark ages, or the end of the thaw (Soviet analogy here), or something like that.

rottingleaf ,

Probably yes. All the assassin shit is something the West is not as ahead of the rest of the world as people seem to expect from the difference in technological development.

That aside, they do have some production of their own. EDIT: Good for military and good for usable PCs for China not to stop breathing without TSMC-made hardware.

rottingleaf ,

If the effect will really be as bad, that will make being livid with China simply irrelevant.

I like Taiwan more than I like PRC.

Still, such a world (after a few decades of dystopian chaos) would definitely have interesting changes.

rottingleaf ,

I'd say both sides gain more from the rest of the world with this conflict. China still gets Taiwanese-produced chips and Chinese companies work with Taiwanese companies. Taiwan gets to resist integration into PRC, which would eventually happen with such an alliance. China gets to threaten the rest of the world with a crisis.

rottingleaf ,

Would definitely hurt Wintel though.

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