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And if it's based on algorithms more fit for dating, kids with most problems would be the least likely to find adopting parents.

That's because platforms as a paradigm have failed. Their Achilles' heel has been found, end of story.

Not only in the Web, IRL too. The world is going to be P2P (which is the same as imperial, because an empire is a P2P network united by philosophy, I think I've even seen some passage by Marcus Aurelius with this general idea). Call me mad or just scroll further if this looks nuts.

Yeah, I get it, why stream the video if you can generate summary, why find creators if you can generate content, why attract people if you can generate comments, generate, generate, generate ...

I think I have a question concerning where do humans fit in all that, except for clicking ads.

At this point where they say this that openly I think I'll stop all the efforts at arguing online unless the opponent is quite clearly not a bot.

Lem's "Bomba megabitowa" comes true in everything.

I like Lem and one may find some solutions in his approaches. But I also liked the Web like 20-15 years ago, it was nice.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is rather easy.

But anyway, no mainstream user-friendly Linux distribution is that hard to use if you can read and think.

So when people say that they can't manage one on their desktop - they also usually can't manage Windows on their desktop, they just think they can.

Yep, the reason Macs are more usable is not that they are usable in general, it's that they can't keep the pace with Windows.

Imagine a girl you like putting a hand on your shoulder, looking into your eyes, saying some gentle word I don't quite remember due to being mesmerized by those eyes, and you know what I did? I just looked back uneasily for a few seconds, then nervously took her hand off my shoulder, shook it a bit, released it and awkwardly smiled. (That even wasn't her last attempt to make me happy against my best efforts ; ended bad anyway.)

There are many things further down the road to go wrong with attractive popular girls. 2 most catastrophic cases in my life are with those such as them.

Admittedly I'm the one who mainly failed them due to misunderstandings and passiveness, but when a girl (being all that popular) is used to boys being rather active and competitive and social, and then you are here just cause she happened to like your looks, this may end painfully, for you more than for her.

There are also cases from the post, only I may have noticed, just wouldn't risk losing an existing good friendship for possible romance.

That's false again.

I live in Russia and I remember when most people used Rambler as a search engine (I'm not sure if my memory deceives me, but it maybe even was the default in IE after install), and also Yandex.

I was really enthusiastic when Google came to the Russian-speaking Web as a search engine, and also when they rolled out a browser of their own (I was still using Opera, but it was very nice). Google Earth I just loved, simply used it to look at various parts of the world for the process itself, ha-ha.

There was something about the general spirit of Google, with them supporting XMPP and RSS, and with services like Google Code, and events like GSoC.

I think that this push at looking good and geeky from those years was connected to Sun Microsystems still being alive or just recently dead, and thus having to compete with Sun's image of a really humanitarian company while also really important for the industry.

No Sun - no need, Apple always was elitist and their "geeky" part was always perceived as fake, Microsoft was always perceived as evil, and in general nobody had the bar as high as Sun's. So they didn't have to try that hard to seem the good guys anymore.

Neocities?

I mean, things which worked 20 years ago still work today. You can literally export to HTML from MS Word, am I wrong? Just save the document in HTML and put a link to it from the main page, which you can literally save from MS Word as well.

There are free hostings allowing to create boards phpBB style. One can use them for "comments".

Doesn't look cute and modern and blonde-inductive? Well, there's a logical exclusive OR between blonde-inductive and functional.

I'd like to point out that not everything generative is a subset of all the ML stuff. So prejudices in datasets do not affect everything generative.

That's off the topic, just playing with such a thing as generative music now. Started with SuperCollider, but it was too hard (maybe not anymore TBF, probably recycling a phrase, for example, would be much easier and faster there than in my macaroni shell script) so now I just generate ABC, convert it to MIDI with various instruments, and use FluidSynth.

I actually really like how he is behaving similar to some 00s web forum owners (I imagine mostly forum text RPGs, cause that's what I was on as a kid).

Then you could jump to another such forum, and still seamlessly keep contact (via ICQ or something else in other countries) with everybody. Cause the forum was one thing, and chatting with people was a separate thing, not controlled by the same people.

Want that back. And the first 2 HP games. And the web browser being a lightweight program as compared to many other things we'd run.

And Opera 9.

I mean, Azerbaijan/Israel doing that is not something new.

EDIT: Oh, have read the article and it basically says what's in the title plus what I said in that sentence.

Which specific part is hard for you to understand? I've made a few shortcuts.

You should add that little clarification that brown and Muslim people mysteriously stop being capable of war crimes when they are Turk fascists.

Sometimes they are (if you had a cat or a dog, you know), though definitely not always, but it's also the opposite order - first people feel impunity and do bad things to others, and then they fear justice and hate the victim because of that fear.

That's not about just O, T and E etc really.

It's about the average Westerner just loving to blabber about realpolitik and subjective interests on the subject of enabling richer and stronger cannibals against poorer and weaker humans.

And also about democratic countries having no immunity against foreign states buying their politicians and officials and the general population not really caring.

Jailing for life a few people who've been paid by Qatar, Azerbaijan, Russia, Israel etc would do wonders as an example to the rest.

Bombing their infrastructures when they start wars would also be nice. Most don't have WMD. Not for the realpolitikers, of course, that would have negative strategic and economical effect, but if your goal is preserving democracy and civilization, then there are plenty of places to be bombed right now without dancing all the quadrilles.

In 2013 they to some extent still targeted geeks, developers, Linux users.

Also it's the elitist part of their image, it was somewhat culture-oriented, and that culture involved sci-fi, cyberpunk etc.

And the "anti-utopian" part is classic for Apple advertising.

We so quickly forget that at some point both Apple and Google weren't perceived as hostile to computer geeks or various high causes and actually as geeky themselves. People would simp for them, not very stupid or ignorant people.

It's amazing how things come clear with time.

... and dependent on Google ; they may either push that API into FF or push something different so bad that FF would lose even more users.