rottingleaf

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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I would like us to be trying to change that and not to make things more and more centralized. Because that kind of civilization will fail.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Enshittification is not just erosion\reduction of the role of open projects and non-encumbering licenses.

All your examples are of successful enshittification. Except since C64 a lot has changed.

XMPP - you're right, but wrong. It's still usable, which is more than what one can say on other examples. But it's architecturally insecure and half-broken. Some kind of "Signal with federation" would be interesting.

Android - yes, using it in a good way is more rare than FreeBSD on desktops. And the ecosystem is good only compared to Apple's.

The Web - you are as wrong as it gets. It was really open, with standards one can grasp, and with the ability to use any embedded content using all kinds of plugins, usually proprietary, but not always, via Netscape plugin API. Java applets - open enough, but often insecure, Flash videos - that one could play with open plugins usually, Flash games and other applications - usually not, but you wouldn't have to install Flash if you don't want that. The security problems could be solvable with sandboxing, maybe with something else. The browser itself had only to support web standards and said NPAPI (if one wanted those plugins). People do come up with all sorts of solutions. Instead of looking for solutions everybody was looking for an excuse to make a web browser itself an overly complex platform. Some consciously, and some thinking that the magic of the Web will grow with its functionality. It was the opposite. It is enshittified because of stuffing everything into the browser instead of modularity.

C64 and RPi - these are too different to say anything. But RPi being open is not true.

Anyway. There’s cause for hope, along with plenty of reasons to be concerned.

My cause for hope is that the humanity will do the right thing after exhausting all other options. Just as usual.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

In fitting natural conditions your house can fly too, just not whole and not for long

I mean, it's crazy, but I'm more fascinated with smaller airplanes. Imagine it, you can make something like a Piper Cub almost as easy\hard as 1000 years ago it was to make a good hauberk.

And for those mentioning computers - my feeling is the same about computers. It's nice to have a laptop with Linux or FreeBSD (not counting corporate malware), but a machine much simpler, but one that can be produced entirely in an area of 10mln people, full chain, would be much cooler for me.

I'm in awe of distributed production lines being possible and allowed by today's machinery.

I think that is something we have to rediscover. Centralization is stifling humanity's advancement. At the same time in the real world rather unpleasant people's power depends on it, so it won't be quick or easy. But I think it is happening anyway, just very slowly. Evolution, not revolution. Surely I would be glad for it to be a revolution, to see it as a (yet) young person.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

dl, sh, src, var, old, pic, app, books

that's mine. No bin yet - it's a new installation with a home_old.tar.zst file for the old.

EDIT: Of course I do have a Downloads directory, I've just forgot to alias it to something more pleasant yet.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

His followers know he'll deliberately cause instability, that's what they want.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I want a p2p native application like that. Using some arcane shit with smart contracts and distributed reputation and zero-knowledge distributed cache and cryptographic identities to get recommendations and fetch what they refer to. I won't explain how it would work cause I don't know. I just think technologies behind those buzzwords would be useful.

Probably I should spend the next weekends researching that, and not texting people I haven't seen for years stupid questions, listening to music, playing games, commenting here and watching pron.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I understand everything, but not the older German "s" instead of usual English one. And that use of "u" is awful. Especially since it's inconsistent. Why are you doing this?

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Right, for him when Trump or Harris wins, the election is fair and transparent.

I'm sorry for the conspiracy tone, but they do keep playing you for fools.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

No, this is logically incorrect. I'm not the guy you are answering. He means that the person he's addressing doesn't have virtue and is pretending.

However, this kind of boycott is, ahem, historically known to be efficient.

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