I feel this is a bit of a moot point from the White House. Memory-safe languages have been around for decades. I feel like the amount of C/C++ out there isn't so much that people think having dangerous stuff around is good, but more that nobody really wants to pay to change it.
Depends how you look at it! Here’s me accessing Mastodon and the fediverse via email: https://lemmy.world/post/11020167
I’ve written a a couple more prototypes to connect one to the other. If anyone is interested I could write up more about how it works or do a more public demo
The other fun one is that the continental US (AKA everything except Alaska) is just about the same size as Australia. Then when you consider that there's 49 states versus Australia's 7, you can see how the numbers come about.
My idea is to exercise the fediverse. In principal I don't think I should need separate accounts for Lemmy, PeerTube, Mastodon, Kbin, Akkoma, etc.
Right now I'm replying from an account on lemmy.sdf.org as I can't reply from GoToSocial (Lemmy and GoToSocial don't work well together right now) and my Mastodon server (hachyderm.io) has a post limit of 500 characters.
Ah ha makes sense now! The "Replying to comments" section of that article explains exactly what's happening. If I understand correctly the community itself (!privacy@lemmy.ml in my above example) is not notified of my reply from Mastodon. If the community did know, then it would broadcast a notification of the activity to whoever else is subscribed to !privacy@lemmy.ml.
I honestly find it worrying that someone would think it's some sort of deeply ingrained human trait when it's clearly not culturally universal (eg. small hunter-gatherer tribes wouldn't exist otherwise) and not present through all of history.
I think "growth" is a strong signal for people to put faith and trust
into something. And that these emotions have influenced our behaviour
for a long time.
Why did the Roman empire keep expanding? What made them want more?
I'm not a historian nor an anthropologist (far from either!). But this feels like "line go up" behaviour.
What would it mean for those in power to communicate that some part of the empire was receding?
Even if, overall, the empire was objectivetly huge relative to other organised groups?
One thing I think about is there could be eroding confidence and trust of those in power by colleagues and the general population.
If people lose faith, the powerful lose power; they lose ability to influence behaviour.
Growth is obsessed over because it's a means to capture influence over the means of production (and capture profit).
The line has to go up because the current economic system demands it has to go up
What about outside of economics? Even metrics on https://fedidb.org: shrinking numbers are coloured red. Growing numbers green. Green = good, red = bad.
Another thought. The other day I was at a cricket match. Grand final.
Because the home team was losing, the stadium started to empty.
It wasn't about enjoying the individual balls/plays.
Supporters were not satisfied with coming second (an amazing achievement, much "profit"!), it needed to be more.
To stretch this shitty metaphor further, when the supporters (investors?) lost confidence in their ability to deliver more, they just abandoned the entire match (enterprise?) altogether!
Again: I'm not stating anything here as fact. I'm just absolutely
dumbfounded as to why "line go up" is, as you say, such an obsession.
I hear you when you say that it's a consequence of how the modern
economy works. That makes sense. I guess I wonder what would happen if
we snapped our fingers and we could start again. I wonder what the
economy system would look like. Would we still be obsessed with
growth?
Gotcha. I had a feeling something around how Mastodon doesn't support ActivityPub Groups (yet?) would be where things are going on.
Congrats on piefed, by the way. I'll start studying the codebase now as I'm keen to understand how server-to-server communication works more deeply than I do now.
Sending Announce(?) and fetching stuff from other servers...
When I look at the ActivityPub Note object (via curl -H 'Accept: application/activity+json https://hachyderm.io/@otl/111887721960075860) I see:
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"conversation": "ostatus:conversation",
"sensitive": "as:sensitive",
"toot": "http://joinmastodon.org/ns#",
"votersCount": "toot:votersCount"
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],
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"summary": null,
"inReplyTo": "https://ttrpg.network/comment/4965852",
"published": "2024-02-07T01:59:08Z",
"url": "https://hachyderm.io/@otl/111887721960075860",
"attributedTo": "https://hachyderm.io/users/otl",
"to": [
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],
"cc": [
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"content": "<p><span class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"><a href=\"https://ttrpg.network/u/Neato\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>Neato</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"><a href=\"https://lemmy.world/u/ForgottenFlux\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>ForgottenFlux</span></a></span> I totally get how you feel. One use-case I think of is machine-generated image alt-text. These are often not added to images. But with image-to-text ML models, visually-impaired people could hear a descriptions of images that before were never annotated.</p>",
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So I'm assuming an Announce was posted to the shared inboxes at lemmy.ml, lemmy.world and ttrpg.network... hmm...
I better start reading!
Growth might be impossible, but a steady and "boring" amount of profit
should still be possible selling plain-ole-dishwashers. Yet ... for
some reason, we don't see that.
God yes this bothers and fascinates me.
Instead companies throw everything into growth and we get the retarded
bluetooth enabled dishwasher problem everywhere, and I'd like toknow
more about why.
I think it's alluded to in the article:
They found a way to make consumers spend more money on dishwashing.
The line goes up, for one more year. But it's not enough. It has to go
up every year.
Digging deeper: why must the line go up? Pesonally I see it as a
deeply emotional, human thing.
When you read those annual financial reports from big companies, they
will do anything to make sure things look rosy. Bullshit terms like
"negative growth" are used because "loss" or "shrink" sound bad. So
what if it sounds bad?
Confidence. Trust. It's emotional. These are deep in our psyche. It's how governments get elected,
contracts are won, and investments are made. It's what makes us human.
If that line goes down...
will it go back up? What's going to happen?
Alarm bells! Uncertaintly. Anxiety.
People abandon you. Money, power, influence fades. You could find
yourself replaced by the up-and-coming who "show promise".
Our social emotional species has hundreds of thousands of years
(millions?) of years of this stuff hardwired into us. Trust let us
cooperate beyond our own individual or family interests. Would we be
human otherwise? (I found the article Behavioural Modernity
interesting).
Not sure it’s capitalism per se. Perhaps rampant waste. Criticism of capitalism could include monopoly formation; massive tech companies buy small ones (obtain more capital = more control over production = more profit).
There’s despair over everyone, big & small, resolving the same recreated problems. Kelley doesn’t talk about breaking Microsoft up (i.e. redistributing their capital). He implies he’d be ok for Microsoft to maintain its market position if it just fixed some damn bugs.
Ex NSW premier John Barilaro was an executive director of a western Sydney property development company. That development company is closely tied to organised and gang crime - murders etc. - and so far its kingpins has evaded any serious prosecution. The video insinuates that this is a result of corruption of the NSW government.
of course!