Just as a reminder for everyone:

2021: Politico Is Sold to Axel Springer for More Than $1 Billion

If you wondered why they bashing so much on every government that is not center-right.

Knoppix 3.2 Live CD 2003

Rudy Giuliani?

Man, Germany is hard at work. The last market I read about was also taken down by german authority.

There is nothing holding them back to change their decision tomorrow or next week. there are no consumer rights or even citizen rights to their own data like the EU developed in the last 10 years. There is no leash on companies to pause or continue this behavior anytime the feel like it.

A real perpetrator will have a local LLM running like stable diffusion and will not need Midjourneys SAAS. Alone for opsec reasons will no adversary use a US hosted platform to create their propaganda. This will stop domestic jokers, but will not stop concerted foreign operations in any way.

Bought to you by:

• The 50’s, where every utensil from car to ovens will have it’s own nuclear reactor in the future
• The 60’s, where Mankind soon will travel through starsystems and vacations on the moon are possible
• The 70’s, where people thought that in a few years Neutron-Brains will be created that work just like the human brain
• The 80’s, where it was said that in the year 2000 we will have flying cars and hoverboards
• The 90’s, where the internet took off and soon nobody will ever send letters again
• The 00’s, that soon self driving cars will take over all transport business
• The 10’s, where a magical working all-knowing Siri/Alexa/Cortana voice will be the way people will interact with at home and on the go
• Now the 20’s, where AI will be able to recreate talent and come up with genuine new ideas never before seen by mankind

I do not think AI can recreate talent or art. AI can imitate art and copy already existing art and melt it to something new. But an Artist-AI can not take two noses of coke, one bottle of vodka and come up with a novel new concept of creative work. Sure it will come up with things never seen before, but will it resonate with people or will it just be weird, quirky or empty? It is not enough to render an image of a diamond skull, you actually have to build it like Damien Hirst. Artist of the type of Banksy, Dali and Francis Bacon will not get replaced by AI. AI will not stand in the streets spraying walls, AI will not get off board off a ship in New York holding a human-long bread and AI will certainly not be able to draw triptychs of pain and suffering based on the death of his friend. AI will copy something that looks like it, but it will not have the “Talent” or the depth to make it believable and knit a story around it and know the people to communicate to. It most certainly will be used to subvert people on social media to vote against their interests and radicalize opinions. That is it’s talent.

Me for the rest of the week:

4. Install Linux

My government makes offside backups of my phone data constantly. The problem is they do not give it back when I need them.

I am out of the loop: What is the discussion/problem with GNU?

Always has been meme

Vice Shoes dropping soon. You heard it here first!

Russian supression out in full force and full view.

If you are russian and you see this: This is the future for you and your children. Everyone who has a different opinion and has the guts to show or tell others about it will be declared the enemy.

This is your country. Take it back!

Well, that is sad and incontrovertible argument. I guess I should cherish it as long as I can.

How come every 3 weeks there is a news that nitter is now dead, and then I go to the Nitter Instance Health Monitor, pick a random instance, and am still able to surf tweets?

I dont get it. Is this wishfull thinking or do people not understand that instances other than nitter.net exist?

For me it is so weird, that you have to use extra tools to disable telemetry and unwanted features in windows systems. Why is windows not giving me a central option to decide on those things? Is it maybe because they do not want me to decide for myself and therefore splitting the places where I need to disable all that unwanted stuff as opaque as possible? Can they be more obvious that they do not value your opinion on how you want your OS to behave?

Quit Windows. It is a dead end and get worst with every release.

If you tolerate this, then your children will be next.

oops they did it again.

Imagine a webview integration in performance and api on par of app-niveau.

Imagine every app could be as easily opened/reached/surfed-to as a website.

The crippling of the Webview Engine on Mobile spawned the success of the AppStore/PlayStore.

They didn’t had an AppStore. But they realized the potential. They went for it. Apple promoted HTML5 (Draft 2007, Initial release 2008) as the new technology for everything UI, killed Flash with it, and were left with a free path for a marketplace with binary applications vending with advanced performance and permission structures than the browser market was able to create. HTML5 lays in a ditch with a knife in its back, idling of its latest 5.2 release (2017). Look at this table (wiki). Is this what a sprawling, innovative, free and healthy release tree looks like for a 16 year periode where millions of developers create stunning HTML5 Applications that are on par with Apps? No. And Apple wanted it like that since they knew what they had in their Hands in 2006 with their first mobile-internet-touchscreen-prototypes that later became the iPhone. They were part of the HTML5 Development (2009 Article) and even brought their own Webkit Engine to the table. They knew they need Applications on a mobile device. But as soon they found out after the release, that the AppStore is a viable way to have a walled garden and saw the revenue estimations, they stabbed HTML5 in the back and even took protectorate approaches to not let the webview alternative strive, even tho it was their own creation they helped to build up and now had to constrain in a cage.

They crippled the Webview and therefore the web and what people were able (or allowed) to do on a mobile web or make out of a mobile web. And the key to keeping it in check, was not allowing any other engine on the phone, other than their own (caged) webkit engine, to clamp down on limiting what a mobile webview experience was able to deliver.

Bastards.

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