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12 votes
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An ISP based in Texas has complained to a judge that the music industry to trying to turn internet providers into the "copyright police"
16 votes -
Mozilla files arguments against the FCC – latest step in fight to save net neutrality
14 votes -
404 Riddles: An Internet Riddle
17 votes -
Notpron: the hardest riddle available on the internet
9 votes -
Deplatforming works
10 votes -
China's rebel generation and the rise of 'hot words'
8 votes -
Rising sea levels could knock out the Internet in 15 years
18 votes -
Can society scale? If you want to understand how group dynamics work online, look no further than Numtot.
8 votes -
The internet trolls have won. Sorry, there’s not much you can do
21 votes -
How the shared family computer protected us from our worst selves
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Censorship 2.0: Shadowy forces controlling online conversations
9 votes -
El Paquete, Cuba's answer to digital content distribution
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A generation grows up in China without Facebook, Google, or Twitter
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Internet publication of 3D printing files about guns: Facts and what's at stake
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"Don't Be Evil, Unless It's Worth Untold New Riches": Whistleblower Reveals Google Plan to Launch Censored Search Engine in China
22 votes -
Does anybody actually revisit url/page that bookmarked?
I myself is a pinboard user since 2011 and have since bookmarked 4 274 links. But I find it funny that I never visit those URL or page ever again. When I bookmark something I thought it was useful...
I myself is a pinboard user since 2011 and have since bookmarked 4 274 links. But I find it funny that I never visit those URL or page ever again.
When I bookmark something I thought it was useful or important. But often it turns out not the case.
Am I the only one? What do you guys do with thousands of stuff you bookmarked?
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Just an observation, Google Search is ready for replacement.
We're obviously being denied the benefits of so called advances in algorithmic search, as evidenced by the poor showing of Google Itself in unusual searches. For example, if you search images for...
We're obviously being denied the benefits of so called advances in algorithmic search, as evidenced by the poor showing of Google Itself in unusual searches. For example, if you search images for "runners wearing green hats -shamrock -st. -patrick" Guess how many runners wearing green hats you get?
So search is hard? I think it's more likely that Google and everyone else is more interested in selling you a hat than helping you find a picture of a runner in a green hat.
16 votes -
On the engineer's responsibility in protecting privacy (Paul Baran, RAND, 1968)
10 votes -
Truth, disrupted
8 votes -
Reddit reinvents the chat room with subreddit chat
31 votes -
Alt-right troll to father killer: The unraveling of Lane Davis
21 votes -
On the future computer era modification of the American character and the role of the engineer, or, a little caution in the haste to number (1968)
7 votes -
Despite Chrome’s pending “mark of shame,” three major news sites aren’t HTTPS
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Specialty fatigue
I've been noticing a social effect lately and I'm curious about others' takes on this. I'm calling it "specialty fatigue" because I've noticed mostly in specialty communities. I differentiate...
I've been noticing a social effect lately and I'm curious about others' takes on this. I'm calling it "specialty fatigue" because I've noticed mostly in specialty communities. I differentiate between this, elitism, FAQ annoyance because there seems to be a more complex cause at work.
To put it in general terms, specialty fatigue is caused by the overexposure to others' work in a given area of expertise. Whereas elitism is more of an ego driven personality traits, and FAQ frustration arises from repeatedly answering the same basic questions, this fatigue seems to be caused by seeing too many things that don't live up to standards (often arbitrary personal standards, but sometimes can be industry standards). In others words, people notice their industry getting flooded with novices getting away with crap they'd never tolerate. It can be disheartening and disillusioning. Most often, it results in the community of specialists becoming overly critical of things that didn't originally bother them. People who were once helpful and encouraging become raging internet monsters.
I see this happen a lot because I'm a bit of a jack of all trades, master of none, and largely autodidactic. I don't have very many strong opinions on how things should be done because I've learned to constantly question the efficacy of norms, and try to establish a system that just works best to achieve the results I care about. Despite that, I'm still interested in finding out how others go about doing things, or even just listen to the sort of stuff they care about. What factors do specialists find worthwhile in determining quality? How feasible is it for me to achieve those results?
Quite often, specialty communities are so corrupted by overexposure that many members of the community start acting as gatekeepers. "If you can't afford decent equipment, don't even bother." And they'll criticize anything that could remotely be interpreted as a newb question or point of view, frequently to the point of acute toxicity where just about any discussion becomes unfeasible.
I'm a propenent of openly sharing knowledge. But the offshoot of increased introductory material is that there will be a corresponding increase in novice level production. I can see why people might be bothered by that (personally, I'm not), but it blows me away that anyone would be surprised by that. That's exactly how it seems sometimes, though. Almost as if people just wanted to show off how much they know without anyone else using that knowledge for anything productive.
This seems like the social deflection point between "old school" methods of passing down specialty knowledge (apprenticing, higher education, family businesses) to "new school" methods (look it up online and just try it out). With the removal of a mentor figure from the equation, there is less of a filter for what's quality and what's crap. Add social media into the equation and there seems like there's a constant influx of garbage into every industry out there. But for specialty communities, it definitely has an "end of the world as we know it" kinda feel because it seems like the entire specialty is getting flooded with subpar work that is a threat to their livelyhoods.
Has anyone else noticed this sort of thing? Do you have a specialty? If so, what trends have you noticed within that field regarding apparent willingness to share information? Have you ever dropped a hobby because people seemed to take it too seriously? How do you personally feel about the balance between open sharing of information vs keeping secrets (for example, a technique a process from which you derive a substantial portion of income)?
Edit: Fixed a typo. Can and can't are a bit different. Oops.
18 votes -
What if people were paid for their data?
14 votes -
'Data is a fingerprint': why you aren't as anonymous as you think online - So-called ‘anonymous’ data can be easily used to identify everything from our medical records to purchase histories
7 votes -
Say goodbye to the information age: it’s all about reputation now
25 votes -
How the Blog Broke the Web
25 votes -
Intellectual dark web psyop [part 1]
5 votes -
Law of new new media platforms
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Wikipedia blacked out across Europe in protest against laws that could change the internet forever
18 votes -
Comcast starts throttling mobile video, will charge extra for HD streams and full-speed tethering
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Solid: From Tim Berners-Lee, a project to decentralize the web
20 votes -
What do you remember about the "old" internet?
Inspired by the post on HN, was curious about your favorite memories or nostalgia you feel about internet in the 90's or even earlier. I really didn't come fully online until the early 2000's. We...
Inspired by the post on HN, was curious about your favorite memories or nostalgia you feel about internet in the 90's or even earlier.
I really didn't come fully online until the early 2000's. We didn't have the means to get internet at home so until I could get online unless it was at school. Even so my most pleasant memories were spending time playing games on yahoo (yahooligans), with a tetris like clone being my favorite. Also spent a huge amount of time playing macromedia shockwave based games on various sites that I don't remember anymore. I do remember playing a game where you had to build up your hobo soap box car to see how far you could jump it.
It was soon followed by the discovery of various chat groups, making up identities, lying about age, revealing too much personal information in the process. At one point I even convinced a woman to send me photos that she claimed were for her modeling career. Not sure if it was some creepy old guy trying to lure me in with promises of being a real woman or if I legitimately fooled some poor girl into sending me modeling pictures.
Also remember my first foray into fan theory sites with the show LOST, ended up getting chewed out for suggesting a theory that was apparently well known. Was too embarrassed and scared to post after that and ended up lurking for the duration of my time there.
Some folks say that the "old internet" is now gone with the likes of reddit and Youtube, but for me it seems like what really changed was us and the sense of wonder. For those who are still discovering the internet as they're growing up, that sense of wonder is still there just waiting to be turned into nostalgia as they get older.
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Plant your flag, mark your territory - "If you don’t plant your flag online, fraudsters and identity thieves may do it for you"
14 votes -
The great firewall of China: Xi Jinping’s internet shutdown
12 votes -
How community management and policing internet trolls became women's work
7 votes -
Wikipedia makes the case for Google and Facebook to give back to the Commons, rather than just take
11 votes -
Algeria shuts down the internet for two hours to prevent leaks and cheating on exams
9 votes -
Activism and doxing: Stephen Miller, ICE and how internet platforms have no good options
6 votes -
What sites do you check in the morning?
I usually go reddit -> local news -> international news. I'm happy to say that today Tildes was the first thing I clicked on though!
9 votes -
California's Net Neutrality bill has been gutted
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EU committee approves new rules that could "destroy the internet as we know it."
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Cory Doctorow: "The EU is about to end everything that's good and pure about the internet"
12 votes -
Alternatives to Google as a Search Engine?
Looking for something along the lines of DuckDuckGo and other privacy focused search engines. Any Tildoes have a go-to, non-censored, privacy focused search engine?
30 votes -
The list of MEPs who voted to restrict internet in Europe
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Google removes the option of installing Chrome extensions via remote sites
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The EU's Copyright Directive, Article 13
Next week the EU parliament will vote for their new copyright directive. In general it contains some good ideas, but also some extremely bad ones, such as article 13. It will require all uploaded...
Next week the EU parliament will vote for their new copyright directive. In general it contains some good ideas, but also some extremely bad ones, such as article 13. It will require all uploaded content to be scanned, and deleted if it might contain references to other copyrighted material.
The issue here is the word might. Due to the possible fines for companies that accidentally leave up something that contains a copyrighted work, they are incentivized to act more harsh than often necessary. It's safer for them to delete everything that looks like it might infringe copyright than risk the fine.
This could be disastrous for the Internet as we know it. And this is why many movements are speaking out against it. One such example would be the open letter to EU parliament. More information is available on https://saveyourinternet.eu/resources/, and you can find much more about it all over the Internet if you search with your favourite search engine.
What's your opinion on article 13, and have you done anything to make your voice heard?
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Deal to be inked for Solomon Islands undersea internet cable Australia stopped China building
3 votes