No one owns the phone and we increasingly dont own the pc.

Ursa Ag is funny. Maybe we can have a device that runs programs the user selects.

Long ago I ponder giving away free computers but an ethical formula is really hard. It seemed profit starts to scale exponentialy just beyond the line.

(Acepable would be something like 1TB worth of gamedemos)

Bittorent grinds on undisturbed.

Imagine archives with static content and user friendly file selection. Like those old world printed product catalogs mixed with content more like books and magazine. One can still have interactive headless websites/api and checkout pages.(Updated) torrents can share folder and file names but you have to force re-check. Could automate that too.

They can be many TBs large, no need to download the entite thing.

I think it should depend on what residents living in the street want with several tiers. Public cam, paywall, law enforcement 24/7 or for a specific case, encrypted court order only, fake cams.

Each with different aproval requirements. A public cam would require 100%. Fake cams req only one vote. etc

Violence and destruction are perfectly natural ways of communicating. Some animals use sounds and almost all use body language.

One could even argue communicating over the phone or internet lacks the destructive component. Irl behavior is heavily modified by it.

Verbal communication is a work in progress. We really want it to work. Sometimes you have to make people listen. Get them back in the program :)

> Violence and destruction are perfectly natural ways of communicating. Some animals use sounds and almost all use body language.

Except that animals don't have knives, guns, bombs and nuclear warheads.

> Sometimes you have to make people listen. Get them back in the program :)

Works great until you're the one being made to listen.

You are distinguishing between Freedom and Civilization, the latter is, of course, rule by the strongest gang.

   Freedom doesn't exist, except perhaps in your personal allodium, and war is necessary to obtain one. However, the average gang doesn't have the muscle.

They certainly have knives, go look at what a tiger is sporting on his paws

also check out the bombardier beetle for the rest

> Except that animals don't have knives, guns, bombs and nuclear warheads.

Yeah, animals will spill your intestines out on the ground and start eating you asshole first while you scream.

And they may even do it for fun and not even eat you, and just let your fleshy bits rot in the sun.

The rhinoceros are still wondering what part of stay away we dont understand.

One can argue that they are the most natural way of communicating. Words and paper are less destructive abstractions we've created on top, which has so far worked out for a majority of people.

Im blown away by how ugly they all are. The worse part is that this is what users expect now. If you so much as put an icon on the corner they cant find the button anymore.

One of my favorite impossible puzzles is to sepparate security and feature updates. Ive made zero progress over many years.

Everyone knows the ivory towers are full of people who shouldnt be there. Its marvelous to see them crumble even if you arent in the chain gang below.

Nothing will improve until things get bad enough. You need enough greedy yes men doing quailty control on airplanes to escalate.

It took me decades to understand the use of and need for escalation in big organisations.

I didnt understand seemingly unproductive strict job descriptions either. Hilarious situations with 10 people doing nothing at all their entire shift (really nothing) while i had work todo on my own that really required 5 people. A few days later someone showed up to tell me the qualty was below average. LOL

Now i know i should do only half a shift worth of work. When they come complaint about it i say: very good, write it down, make the official report.

Then i hear nothing and a year later its two people with work for 5 scheduled. I tell them to slow down but we still do 2.5 shifts because they dont understand how escalation works.

The nummers now show we are 5 times as productive which isnt good for the company. The beurocracy is slow to adapt and all it has is numbers.

For many years i tried to do all of the work but that means nothing is wrong. The numbers say all is fine most of the time. Someone grinning at how much work i did isnt going to get recorded or processed.

If it looks like an unattended LLM can do a better job it means you dont know what you are talking about. If you fire everyone who noticed you might buy time but reality will catch up.

It reminds me of when they first put computers in trains in NL, they ran on windows 3.11 and no one trusted it to do anything. The solution was to give it all the data so that it could display a nice overview but it didnt control anything. Lots of trains drove around with a blue screen of death or a boot error. If there was a problem it was slightly harder to diagnose but it wouldnt drive if [say] a door was open. If the gui said a door was open you could just ignore it. On its own it means someone has to replace a sensor. If it also didnt move anymore the message is a real issue.

I imagine LLMs are wonderful for that kind of thing.

Early o. On some irc channels, forums and usenet groups the greatest trolls, clowns and crazy users were also the most knowlegable and the most helpful. They had to earn the right to misbehave. The secret sause was that anything goes but if something on topic comes along that is the only topic.

Also a wonderful formula was to promote your own website in a signature on blogs and forums. If your comment isnt worth having it is just deleted. You had to work for it and the reward was good. If your sig is a giant banner more effort is expected.

Also oddly interesting was moderation depending on how much money you sunk into the product.

A guy i know put a fancy cracked wooden floor in his rather large flat, a sofa, a coffee table, a bed, a closet for his cloths and the rest of the space was filled with the largest possible plants. Like half the size of a car. Lots of grow lamps on a 10 hour timer while he was at work. Enough green that one cant help but deeply inhale it.