One thing is chain reaction, another is that these media mostly came to existence in the same period of time. So they were aging synchronously.
This was predictable and predicted many times. Just like a building constructed with violations is not going to collapse immediately after it's finished, these things were not going to break (in various ways) immediately after being launched.
They are breaking now. Oopsie.
I hope XMPP makes a triumphant comeback. It's not dead yet.
I agree with this.
My point was that the way "first world" eats isn't scalable, be it the old way or the vegan way, which you said too.
Well, yes, this requires production of similar scale at every stage of the chain. With animals it's animal food, drugs, various machinery in production, etc, which also cost less due to scale on which they are produced.
Green alternatives in this case have a potential to be honestly (without subsidies or anything) cheaper in the end.
How much more expensive would such a diet be? Some plant-based foods can cost a lot depending on place and logistics.
That's the question, and it's an important one - it's the same reason as why, say, WWW which started decentralized has become what it is now for most people. People do what's easier and cheaper for them.
I'm not calling people "soy boys", but people for whom you have to make such a diet not even plausible, but cheaper or as cheap as the existing ones, do not live in developed countries. Talk about the environment is not worth anything else for them.
Humans need some meat in their ration, and lab grown replacements etc are now too expensive for most of the planet.
However, "some" doesn't mean a burger or two every day, so yes, there's space for improvement. Meat is really expensive in terms of carbon emissions.
Frankly I'm not sure how one would notably reduce emissions of anything without actual control (like by force) over most of the world, where green stuff is less relevant than hunger and illiteracy.
But maybe it's best that USA and EU and similar developed countries don't have that control. I mean, green energy etc sometimes seem more important than actual lives being saved for many.
Possible if they respect your opinion, not really if you are a weird guy with a disorder whom they like, but are not going to take as a tech authority or something.
I already had this with recommending Linux (and other Unix-like OSes). All my attempts to even talk about it were taken with zero understanding, but once another person tried Fedora and liked it, this started spreading like a virus.
Well, there's a question of how exactly are they going to do this.
XMPP? Everybody who had XMPP has dropped it. It's not at all obsolete, but the fact is that companies don't like it.
Closed federation between friends with some proprietary protocol (possible with XMPP too, though)? Well, so I'll be able to write to WhatsApp users from Facebook Messenger or Viber. Doesn't change much, TBF.
I mean, I can imagine them setting something up for identities and private messages from them going back and forth. But practically important features would likely still be locked.
156 here, and also didn't think about it until my sister got diagnosed, and she has quite similar problems (and she had 157 in the same test, aha). Well, I just wasn't sure if it's "real autism" or "real" anything or that I'd "persuaded myself of something I can't reach as an important goal" etc.
Same age here. However the problem is not only that, but also our (as in "people enthusiastic and understanding of it") failure to communicate to "normies" (yes, it's a derogatory term, but a deserved one) what the Web is and how it should function, and what are the threats.
I'm very optimistic about Locutus (Freenet 2023), looks quite similar to things I dreamed about for a long time, only this time it's real. Imagine dreaming about spaceships and then seeing one built for the same general goal, but for bloody real.
It may really be a changing point (provided it doesn't get banned and regulated, which is unironically a risk ; remember how BTC ban was being considered in many countries until it became clear that it doesn't have the potential to be a daily currency due to well-known downsides).
Oh, I remember this from my childhood. Actually it was a very special feeling - physically getting a VHS with a movie, watching it and then returning it.
There's such a word - ergonomics. This has sunk very low in our days. Maybe the lowest since WWII (well, I think I've read somewhere that WWII was what made industrial engineers realize that interfaces should be intuitively understandable).
This is a chicken and egg problem, today's Web is so horrible exactly because most of the boors in it treat it with disgust from the very first moment and try to avoid choices, thus make the worst choices possible.
I mean, it's a golden rule - if you don't know what to do, do something. They don't out of fear, just consume what they are being given, which is the very thing they should fear.
They've also failed to invent any justification which would survive a minute's consideration.
Somehow during the Cold War it didn't matter for human rights critique that Turkey was mostly a good behaving member of NATO, but now the amount of that critique clearly depends on its alignment changes in one week's context (I mean, genocide recognition in particular was only really propelled by ASALA blowing up stuff, despite many Armenians trying to distance themselves from terrorism, as if anything more civilized worked, but that's a different subject). This can be extended to any state.