P.S. Sorry for the rant you can ignore this post. I'm just frustrated with the bureaucracy here.
I mean sure but these bureaucratic laws and practices are ancient. I come from Egypt and the bureaucracy here is terrible. To do anything government related you have you to free an entire day and some times almost a week from your schedule just to finish the paperwork and visit the required government offices. Why is that still necessary in the digital age.
When our government decided to digitise they didn't upgrade their system they just added additional digital steps. So now the process has even more redundant steps. The issue is that the rules are too old and the system is too centralised and also fragmented. To get a single paper/request approved you usually have to go through multiple departments, offices and ministries each with their own rules, requirements and paperwork, while we have the infrastructure to just do it with a single paper, an ID and a biometric scanner and share the info between departments digitally. Also a system this complex has to have many loopholes and bound for corruption.
The argument I keep hearing for bureaucracy is that the government has to keep providing government jobs to reduce unemployment since a significant portion work in the public sector, but these jobs are useless anyway we can give some of them actually useful tasks and with the saved money we can put it to better the welfare system. Another argument is that you have pay multiple fees, but then you can also take these fees as a single summed transaction and save the time.
Where I come from the X thing wouldn't be legally binding. What people who couldn't read or write would do is using their fingerprints. They would put their finger on a stamp ink pad and then stamp the paper with their finger. That's why we say "someone who uses their fingerprint" as a euphemism for "illiterate".
I think what SatyrSack meant is that this offers no additional benefit to just storing the game files on a NAS. It makes more sense to have a dedicated server for streaming as you would then be able to enjoy the same copy everywhere, but with games you would have to download it again anyway so why don't you cut the middleman and download directly from your NAS/storage system or even the original source.
That happens on the server side and how the owner of the site configured it. Some sites would redirect you to the www subdomain. If you go to "example.com", it (example.com) would redirect you to "www.example.com". The www part is not assumed and not automatically added by your browser as is the case "with http". And you can in fact have your server redirect connections to something other than the www subdomain or not redirect at all, you can also not have a www subdomain at all, but these are usually considered bad practices for public facing sites.
Edit: the opposite is also possible and happens some times, where "www.example.com" would just redirect to the main domain "example.com". This is usually done for backwards compatibility since a lot of people would assume www is necessary and type it out even if it doesn't exist.
The difference between when MY Linux laptop has been running for a while (multiple days) and recently restarted is very noticeable. All the quirks disappear and everything is slightly smoother, and also for some reason I get faster WiFi?
I don't think it's unlucky just stupid. In bdsm we have something called RACK (risk aware consensual kink) where before a scene or activity you have to study risks, anatomy, and physiology as deeply as you can and then do negotiations with your partner where you discuss all the risks and establish safe words and alternative non-verbal cues, and everything that could go wrong and the protocol that will be followed if it does go wrong, while changing things and substituting some aspects with others that would achieve the same goal but more safely.
You also generally don't participate in extreme activities with a new partner especially if someone is inexperienced.
When I was a kid physical gift cards where the only way I could pay for online games since my nobody at home had a credit card that accepts international transactions.
It's hypocrisy. When the morality and logic behind your ideas is inherently flawed then hypocrisy is fair play and sometimes even a necessity for survival.
In the long run I don't think it would matter that much. They would just move it elsewhere potentially in someone's else backyard but the infrastructure will still run by you and the effects/consequences are still the same. A nice looking backyard doesn't matter when everything around it is on fire.
Well the thing is no empire truly fall. They leave behind, a seed, a catalyst for the next empire. If not destroyed then you're still in the cycle and hope becomes temporary.
A powerful kingdom turns into a tyrannical empire. Empires grow and exploit others till they collapse due to too much power concentration and fewer people benefiting from it. Then smaller kingdoms and republics are built on the ruins of empires. The cycle repeats. It depends on which unfortunate part of the cycle you happened to exist. Also with modern globalisation and capitalism it seems the different parts of the world are now in sync with each other which makes "the empires" even stronger but their eventual collapse more detrimental.
Working is not giving back to society when most of us work for corporations and millionaires who's entire purpose is to exploit said society. This fact might have been less obvious than it's now especially when young people don't feel their work is respected or appreciated in this system anymore.
It's not that society inherently sucks but it has been plagued by systems of oppression and exploitation for so long that it needs emergency surgery.
Is it me or does this feel very 18th century vibes with a 20th century nationalist flavour?
Invading people homes and locking them up, forced displacement ("deportation" ), setting up "return hubs" which to me sounds awfully similar to a slave trade route resting spot. I thought it was established that mass human trafficking and raiding homes are bad.
I wouldn't say I want the pre-internet world but I would definitely want the early-internet world. It used to be the best of both worlds before corporational greed and governmental control took over the entire internet. The internet was just this useful communication tool that happened to have some other niche uses like forums and archives.
Not 90s but the 2000s in the middle east (keep in mind the same technology was released here at a similar time but adoption was slower due to prices and companies at the time not knowing how to market their products in non-western markets)
I have older siblings and younger siblings and I want say me and my friends in the same age group exist in this weird transitional generation. We are too young to have embraced the optimism and hope of the older generations but we are too old to have just accepting the current status quo as how we found the world to be.
As a child I have used the entire progression of the telephone. I have used landline, dumb Nokia phones, blackberry, smart Nokia phones, and Samsung smart phones. I remember watching both satellite TV and YouTube Minecraft let's play as a kid. My dad used to take family pictures using both a film camera and a digital camera. I remember when we had to go out I would schedule the VHS recorder (or whatever it's called in English) to record my favourite cartoon tv show.
But what I believe is the most impactful aspect is the politics. I can clearly remember the Arab Spring (a series of revolutions in 2011). I was too young to understand it at the time but I sure have felt this feeling hope, optimism, and freedom in everyone around me just to realise when I grew up that we've lost.
Also LLMs and AI became a thing while I'm in the middle of university so I have seen how the concept of education slowly change from who learnt the skills better to who can make it the fastest with least tokens spent.
I'm also an introverted nerd so the moment I had internet access I was totally invested. I have seen how it turned from wholesome (and totally not wholesome) forums, chatrooms, and personal blogs, to these gated gardens, to brainrot and then AI slop. And I miss just hanging around uninvited in a small niche online community and talking to people.
I think what would resonate with my age group and some older folks is the feeling and promise that certain things and the future will be ours when we grow up, just to loose it all before we had the chance to.
I think that's because they have to wait for more testing to make sure the model/feature is "safe" for that region and take into consideration the linguistic and cultural differences. I believe it's mostly legal stuff they need to make sure they won't be breaking laws in different countries and see if they would face backlash from authorities or the public. But I think it's mostly the same model with the same data everywhere.
Actually the number of situations matches the number of "fuckin" and they ended with a "fuckin" not a situation/question so "fuckin"s follow the the questions and not precede them. What might have confused you is the fact that the first time was not formatted as a question but rather a conditional statement describing a situation, and also the very fucked up use of punctuation.
True but I believe it's not the lack of resources, education or information that is causing this uninterest but rather the other way around, it's because nobody is interested that it's hard to find resources despite the information is actually readily available if you look for it hard enough. In my personal opinion the reason for this uninterest is that our basic needs are not sufficiently met.
In Maslow's hierarchy of needs (which is a theory that pictures human needs and wants as a pyramid of priorities) this topic would span across the upper levels (belonging, esteem and self-actualisation) but in the reality of most Egyptians the lower basic levels are hardly there in the first place (biological needs and safety needs). That's why you would that most people passionate about this topic are from countries like Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Sweden, etc where there basic needs are met like biological needs (food, water, drinks, sex, medicine, shelter etc) and safety needs (insurance from disease, job security, human freedoms and rights, safety from crimes, personal and property security etc). Less passionate being Americans where safety needs are less available, and lastly some third world countries like Egypt where most people have to prioritise their mental powers on focusing on obtaining the basics before wandering to more advanced topics.
It's only when you secure the needs that you would find people's interests shift from making money to eat, to developing education and healthcare, to strengthening the community and relationships, to improving oneself and mental health, to letting creativity self-expression and innovation go wild. And by secure the needs I mean total security; you need to prove to the people that their needs are guaranteed and secure for the foreseeable future, in order to free their minds to focus on new topics and concerns. Only then you would find the people by themselves pushing towards freedom including digital freedom and to educate themselves producing the material and resources needed.
This struggle happens in both the subconscious mind of the individual and the collective mind of the community and society as a whole. It's no-one's fault alone but the result of the interaction between human psychology and sociology with the current institutions and the status quo.
P.S. Sorry for the rant you can ignore this post. I'm just frustrated with the bureaucracy here.
I mean sure but these bureaucratic laws and practices are ancient. I come from Egypt and the bureaucracy here is terrible. To do anything government related you have you to free an entire day and some times almost a week from your schedule just to finish the paperwork and visit the required government offices. Why is that still necessary in the digital age.
When our government decided to digitise they didn't upgrade their system they just added additional digital steps. So now the process has even more redundant steps. The issue is that the rules are too old and the system is too centralised and also fragmented. To get a single paper/request approved you usually have to go through multiple departments, offices and ministries each with their own rules, requirements and paperwork, while we have the infrastructure to just do it with a single paper, an ID and a biometric scanner and share the info between departments digitally. Also a system this complex has to have many loopholes and bound for corruption.
The argument I keep hearing for bureaucracy is that the government has to keep providing government jobs to reduce unemployment since a significant portion work in the public sector, but these jobs are useless anyway we can give some of them actually useful tasks and with the saved money we can put it to better the welfare system. Another argument is that you have pay multiple fees, but then you can also take these fees as a single summed transaction and save the time.
Where I come from the X thing wouldn't be legally binding. What people who couldn't read or write would do is using their fingerprints. They would put their finger on a stamp ink pad and then stamp the paper with their finger. That's why we say "someone who uses their fingerprint" as a euphemism for "illiterate".
I think what SatyrSack meant is that this offers no additional benefit to just storing the game files on a NAS. It makes more sense to have a dedicated server for streaming as you would then be able to enjoy the same copy everywhere, but with games you would have to download it again anyway so why don't you cut the middleman and download directly from your NAS/storage system or even the original source.
That happens on the server side and how the owner of the site configured it. Some sites would redirect you to the www subdomain. If you go to "example.com", it (example.com) would redirect you to "www.example.com". The www part is not assumed and not automatically added by your browser as is the case "with http". And you can in fact have your server redirect connections to something other than the www subdomain or not redirect at all, you can also not have a www subdomain at all, but these are usually considered bad practices for public facing sites.
Edit: the opposite is also possible and happens some times, where "www.example.com" would just redirect to the main domain "example.com". This is usually done for backwards compatibility since a lot of people would assume www is necessary and type it out even if it doesn't exist.
The difference between when MY Linux laptop has been running for a while (multiple days) and recently restarted is very noticeable. All the quirks disappear and everything is slightly smoother, and also for some reason I get faster WiFi?
I don't think it's unlucky just stupid. In bdsm we have something called RACK (risk aware consensual kink) where before a scene or activity you have to study risks, anatomy, and physiology as deeply as you can and then do negotiations with your partner where you discuss all the risks and establish safe words and alternative non-verbal cues, and everything that could go wrong and the protocol that will be followed if it does go wrong, while changing things and substituting some aspects with others that would achieve the same goal but more safely.
You also generally don't participate in extreme activities with a new partner especially if someone is inexperienced.
When I was a kid physical gift cards where the only way I could pay for online games since my nobody at home had a credit card that accepts international transactions.
I'm starting to think that no place is left that isn't turning into a shit hole.
It's hypocrisy. When the morality and logic behind your ideas is inherently flawed then hypocrisy is fair play and sometimes even a necessity for survival.
In the long run I don't think it would matter that much. They would just move it elsewhere potentially in someone's else backyard but the infrastructure will still run by you and the effects/consequences are still the same. A nice looking backyard doesn't matter when everything around it is on fire.
Well the thing is no empire truly fall. They leave behind, a seed, a catalyst for the next empire. If not destroyed then you're still in the cycle and hope becomes temporary.
I call it the grow-explode-grow theory
A powerful kingdom turns into a tyrannical empire. Empires grow and exploit others till they collapse due to too much power concentration and fewer people benefiting from it. Then smaller kingdoms and republics are built on the ruins of empires. The cycle repeats. It depends on which unfortunate part of the cycle you happened to exist. Also with modern globalisation and capitalism it seems the different parts of the world are now in sync with each other which makes "the empires" even stronger but their eventual collapse more detrimental.
Working is not giving back to society when most of us work for corporations and millionaires who's entire purpose is to exploit said society. This fact might have been less obvious than it's now especially when young people don't feel their work is respected or appreciated in this system anymore.
It's not that society inherently sucks but it has been plagued by systems of oppression and exploitation for so long that it needs emergency surgery.
Is it me or does this feel very 18th century vibes with a 20th century nationalist flavour?
Invading people homes and locking them up, forced displacement ("deportation" ), setting up "return hubs" which to me sounds awfully similar to a slave trade route resting spot. I thought it was established that mass human trafficking and raiding homes are bad.
I wouldn't say I want the pre-internet world but I would definitely want the early-internet world. It used to be the best of both worlds before corporational greed and governmental control took over the entire internet. The internet was just this useful communication tool that happened to have some other niche uses like forums and archives.
Not 90s but the 2000s in the middle east (keep in mind the same technology was released here at a similar time but adoption was slower due to prices and companies at the time not knowing how to market their products in non-western markets)
I have older siblings and younger siblings and I want say me and my friends in the same age group exist in this weird transitional generation. We are too young to have embraced the optimism and hope of the older generations but we are too old to have just accepting the current status quo as how we found the world to be.
As a child I have used the entire progression of the telephone. I have used landline, dumb Nokia phones, blackberry, smart Nokia phones, and Samsung smart phones. I remember watching both satellite TV and YouTube Minecraft let's play as a kid. My dad used to take family pictures using both a film camera and a digital camera. I remember when we had to go out I would schedule the VHS recorder (or whatever it's called in English) to record my favourite cartoon tv show.
But what I believe is the most impactful aspect is the politics. I can clearly remember the Arab Spring (a series of revolutions in 2011). I was too young to understand it at the time but I sure have felt this feeling hope, optimism, and freedom in everyone around me just to realise when I grew up that we've lost.
Also LLMs and AI became a thing while I'm in the middle of university so I have seen how the concept of education slowly change from who learnt the skills better to who can make it the fastest with least tokens spent.
I'm also an introverted nerd so the moment I had internet access I was totally invested. I have seen how it turned from wholesome (and totally not wholesome) forums, chatrooms, and personal blogs, to these gated gardens, to brainrot and then AI slop. And I miss just hanging around uninvited in a small niche online community and talking to people.
I think what would resonate with my age group and some older folks is the feeling and promise that certain things and the future will be ours when we grow up, just to loose it all before we had the chance to.
I think that's because they have to wait for more testing to make sure the model/feature is "safe" for that region and take into consideration the linguistic and cultural differences. I believe it's mostly legal stuff they need to make sure they won't be breaking laws in different countries and see if they would face backlash from authorities or the public. But I think it's mostly the same model with the same data everywhere.
Wait the seahorse emoji is not real???
Actually the number of situations matches the number of "fuckin" and they ended with a "fuckin" not a situation/question so "fuckin"s follow the the questions and not precede them. What might have confused you is the fact that the first time was not formatted as a question but rather a conditional statement describing a situation, and also the very fucked up use of punctuation.
True but I believe it's not the lack of resources, education or information that is causing this uninterest but rather the other way around, it's because nobody is interested that it's hard to find resources despite the information is actually readily available if you look for it hard enough. In my personal opinion the reason for this uninterest is that our basic needs are not sufficiently met.
In Maslow's hierarchy of needs (which is a theory that pictures human needs and wants as a pyramid of priorities) this topic would span across the upper levels (belonging, esteem and self-actualisation) but in the reality of most Egyptians the lower basic levels are hardly there in the first place (biological needs and safety needs). That's why you would that most people passionate about this topic are from countries like Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Sweden, etc where there basic needs are met like biological needs (food, water, drinks, sex, medicine, shelter etc) and safety needs (insurance from disease, job security, human freedoms and rights, safety from crimes, personal and property security etc). Less passionate being Americans where safety needs are less available, and lastly some third world countries like Egypt where most people have to prioritise their mental powers on focusing on obtaining the basics before wandering to more advanced topics.
It's only when you secure the needs that you would find people's interests shift from making money to eat, to developing education and healthcare, to strengthening the community and relationships, to improving oneself and mental health, to letting creativity self-expression and innovation go wild. And by secure the needs I mean total security; you need to prove to the people that their needs are guaranteed and secure for the foreseeable future, in order to free their minds to focus on new topics and concerns. Only then you would find the people by themselves pushing towards freedom including digital freedom and to educate themselves producing the material and resources needed.
This struggle happens in both the subconscious mind of the individual and the collective mind of the community and society as a whole. It's no-one's fault alone but the result of the interaction between human psychology and sociology with the current institutions and the status quo.
P.S. sorry I went into a deep rant here lol