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7 votes
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iOS 16 bringing support for web notifications next year
10 votes -
A letter to Discord for not supporting the Linux desktop
15 votes -
A more detailed — and more sympathetic — review of the Murena One
5 votes -
Before Uvalde, a platform fails to answer kids' alarms. Tech companies keep building systems to detect violent threats. Why didn't Yubo's work?
5 votes -
"Letter in Support of Responsible Fintech Policy" - Twenty-six well-known computer scientists send letter to Congress urging them to resist crypto lobbying
11 votes -
Applications are open for the AnitaB.org “Pass It On” awards
8 votes -
The Murena One shows exactly how hard it is to de-Google your smartphone
8 votes -
Broadcom announces plans to buy VMware in $61 billion deal
16 votes -
Accused of cheating by an algorithm, and a Professor she had never met. An unsettling glimpse at the digitization of education.
17 votes -
HoloISO: SteamOS 3 on the desktop
11 votes -
A face search engine anyone can use is alarmingly accurate
9 votes -
What are your favourite mailing lists?
I love mailing lists! They are my preferred way of discussing interesting topics with people. Please share your favourite lists, and any directories or search engines you know of. 🙂 nettime - net...
I love mailing lists! They are my preferred way of discussing interesting topics with people. Please share your favourite lists, and any directories or search engines you know of. 🙂
6 votes -
How to fix Twitter and social media
8 votes -
Rocket.Chat leverages the Matrix protocol for decentralized and interoperable communications
9 votes -
Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model with an unprecedented degree of photorealism and a deep level of language understanding
16 votes -
Am I stupid or is the entire StackOverflow network difficult to navigate?
I made an account a few years ago but only started contributing recently. Outside of the barrage of awards, levels, limitations, I really just don't get how to find my way around the site. For...
I made an account a few years ago but only started contributing recently. Outside of the barrage of awards, levels, limitations, I really just don't get how to find my way around the site.
For instance, Google Sheets is listed in both Web Applications and Stack Overflow. Is there a way to get a consolidated view of all of the networks or do I have to check each one individually?
6 votes -
Introducing: AMD Privacy View
12 votes -
Apple's Self Repair Program toolkit weighs seventy-nine pounds
15 votes -
This algae battery can power a computer for months
8 votes -
The uncertain future of ham radio
11 votes -
Even a mugger didn’t want my old Nokia. So why are so many people turning to ‘dumbphones’?
12 votes -
What's an achievable technological, scientific, or computational breakthrough that you're really looking forward in the next fifteen years?
Title! Anything goes, both minor and major developments, as long as they can conceivably happen in the next 15 years.
23 votes -
Whatever happened to shortwave radio?
5 votes -
Introducing the new and upgraded Framework Laptop
16 votes -
Prototyping group decision making with automatic delegation
Hey folks, I want to prototype a tool to help groups of people make decisions using a new decision making mechanism. We have two systems of democratic decision making that have major downsides:...
Hey folks,
I want to prototype a tool to help groups of people make decisions using a new decision making mechanism.
We have two systems of democratic decision making that have major downsides:
- Direct democracy - everyone votes on every issue. Downside: not everyone has the time and the necessary expertise to vote on every issue.
- Representative democracy - everyone votes who will represent them and the representatives vote on every issue. The downside is the corruption - the representatives may not represent the best interest of those who entrusted them.
The idea I want to explore is a hybrid of the two systems:
- Like in a direct democracy you can vote on every issue.
- If you do not vote on a given issue, then your vote is automatically delegated to people who voted like you in the past.
To test this out I want to build a website [1] where anyone can create a group and invite others to the group. The group members can create proposals and vote on them to make a decision.
For the idea to be tested the group needs to make many decisions over time (ie, not one-off polls like strawpoll.*). Only then can it take advantage of the delegation based on “voted like you in the past”.
The details of the design will depend on the use-case:
- How should the group roles work? Would it be enough to have owner & member roles?
- How to invite to the group - by sending email or a link.
- Should every member be able to propose options or just the creator or the vote?
- Should the voting be closed automatically after some time or by hand?
- Do you delegate implicitly or explicitly - ie, have a vote option to delegate.
- Do you vote for a single option or can you rank options in the order of your preferences?
- Open ballot vs secret ballot?
Some ideas for use-cases:
- Choose the next “team-building” activity at work.
- Make content moderation decisions.
- Which book to read next in a book club. Maybe transfer the list of books and the votes from the previous vote to the next.
- Make and record company decisions by shareholders. In this case you would want to weigh the votes based on share ownership.
I think starting with a specific use-case in mind is a better strategy than trying to build a generic tool.
What do you think? What would you use such a tool for?
[1] - I will likely make it part of my existing project https://linklonk.com/ unless I find an available good-sounding domain name.
12 votes -
Why this computer scientist says all cryptocurrency should “die in a fire”
17 votes -
Any Thunderbird aficionados here?
I've been using Tbird since forever, the past 6-7 years on Linux (Debian/Ubuntu downstreams). A couple years ago, I think during the 68-71 release cycle, there were are lot of panicky blogs about...
I've been using Tbird since forever, the past 6-7 years on Linux (Debian/Ubuntu downstreams). A couple years ago, I think during the 68-71 release cycle, there were are lot of panicky blogs about "don't upgrade; the new Tbird will irrevocably screw up your Contacts/Calendar/Other Plug-ins", I may even have tried it and experienced issues myself (I don't recall) ... and as a result, I've held my copy at the 60.something release since then.
Now the 91 update has been out and stable for awhile, and a major overhaul upgrade to 102 is in the offing ... and I'm looking for feedback ... is it safe to upgrade? Might I still hit breaking issues? Or was it always safe?
16 votes -
The impact of digital media on children’s intelligence
10 votes -
Researchers devise iPhone malware that runs even when device is turned off
6 votes -
Northvolt and Norsk Hydro will take their battery recycling joint venture to Europe later this year after the Swedish start-up opened their first plant in Norway
5 votes -
How to turn your smartphone into a flatbed scanner to sign forms or digitize text
6 votes -
NVIDIA releases open-source GPU kernel modules
28 votes -
A stupendously wonderful interview with one of the founders of @ Cafe, an internet cafe that launched just as the internet was coming into the public eye
5 votes -
About those kill-switched Ukrainian tractors
12 votes -
Tech recommendations request: looking for a Linux-friendly 13" laptop
Final update: See here. Update: Thank you ALL for your valuable feedback. I'm definitely looking into refurbished models now and I have a lot better grasp on what what I should be considering. I'm...
Final update: See here.
Update: Thank you ALL for your valuable feedback. I'm definitely looking into refurbished models now and I have a lot better grasp on what what I should be considering. I'm going to do some digging and a ridiculous amount of overshopping over the next couple of days, and then I'll let you all know what my final pick is!
Hey techy Tildes! I'm back with another support request from you knowledgeable and helpful folks.
I need a laptop that does exactly three things: gets me online, displays PDFs, and runs office software. I have a large number of online courses that I have to take in the coming years, and I need something that I can just grab while on my couch or in bed to work on papers and assignments, hence the 13" size preference. Long battery life would be highly preferable.
I looked for options that come with Linux preinstalled, but there's really nothing available that hits what I'm looking for -- there isn't much of a market for 13". As such, my plan is to just buy a standard Windows laptop and then put Linux on it, but I have no idea which particular hardware will play nice with a Linux installation. Budget would be sub-$500 (if possible). I don't need the laptop to do anything other than stay on for a long time and let me type, so I have no need for a powerhouse.
Can anyone point me in the right direction with some recommendations?
13 votes -
Fedora 36 released! What's new?
6 votes -
How cryptocurrencies actually work
7 votes -
The insane engineering of the Javelin anti-tank missile
11 votes -
What are the best open source Content Management Systems? A comparison.
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If you could rebuild user authentication on the web from the ground up, what would you do?
lou's post here resonated with me and my attempts to get my family to use better security practices (i.e. 2FA, password managers). They're very difficult to wrap your brain around to the average...
lou's post here resonated with me and my attempts to get my family to use better security practices (i.e. 2FA, password managers). They're very difficult to wrap your brain around to the average user, and they have the ability to create catastrophic failstates if used incorrectly. Furthermore, even when they work well, they can still be kind of clunky (different sites use different methods; writing down/printing recovery codes feels like a dated solution alongside other tech-forward things).
Also, outside of this, password requirements are their own bugbear, with nearly every site having different criteria. Even as someone who uses a password generator and manager on the regular, I still have to adjust the password creation criteria to do things like fit character limits or specific requirements (and don't get me started on forced resets!). I totally get why so many people reuse passwords, or have a default one that they sort of modify as needed to fit a given site's needs.
From my (admittedly super limited) perspective of a lay user: usernames, passwords, 2FA and the whole stack seems like something that's suffering under the technical debt of decades' worth of web development and networking. It seems like things have inched forward and many new layers have been added to address emergent problems, but the whole system gives a sort of barely-held-together-by-tape feel.
What if we could use what we know now and redesign things from the ground up? If we could start fresh, today, what might username authentication look like beyond the usual username/password combos that we're so used to?
I'm interested in any ideas -- not necessarily just feasible ones.
Also, despite me being the one prompting this thread, don't feel the need to simplify technical explanations or anything. I'm mostly interested in lurking and seeing what all you very smart techy people have to say about the topic. :)
12 votes -
Noto Emoji: A new black and white emoji font
19 votes -
How to make non-English Bing news RSS feeds (and review them before you commit)
1 vote -
The past and future of flag emoji
4 votes -
Twitter accepts buyout, giving Elon Musk total control of the company
51 votes -
Is the long-extinct social network Orkut on the verge of a comeback?
5 votes -
Big Telecom convinces Missouri lawmakers to block funding for broadband competition
5 votes -
Canon has a “museum” of every camera they’ve produced on an obscure part of their website
19 votes -
NFTs are legally problematic
10 votes -
Ubuntu 22.04: An Excellent Linux Distro
8 votes