Yes, but me playing cookie clicker (or fortnite, or whatever, competitive tic-tac-toe) does not bring with itself suffering and poverty for millions of others. Whereas them chasing their virtual money high score ruins societies.

They are all psychopaths, devoid of normal human emotions.

Some of this could also be said (at a much smaller scale per person) about people in rich countries in general. Humans have trouble to care about far away consequences of their (in)actions.

Some of the behaviour stems from their situation itself.

Because admitting there are problems causes the stock market to go down.

The Russian stock market is already down.

Also the paths in the snow that are gradually disappearing when left unused.

...and have it fail spectacularly when deployed in an environment that requires reliability performance and high availability. Yes, I honestly can't wait to see those horror comedies unfold, but hopefully far away from me. :)

This has been an issue for as long as IRC itself has existed. There are solutions to resolve such "netsplits" and "netjoins", but they all rely on the servers in the network being trusted and not malicious.

With Parley, where anyone can bring their own instance, and they are not guaranteed to not to be malicious, that could be an interesting issue to solve.

CAP theorem suggests it is not solvable.

This like most federated systems is AP. Cut a federation link and you create two or more different state views.

From the screenshot on the project website, it seems "@serv.er" is part of any remote nickname, so I'm assuming the nicks are in per-server namespaces, which prevents any nick collisions.

Although it must wreak havoc on many IRC clients, since the @ sign has a very specific meaning in the IRC protocol. :)

That’s an old screenshot, which should be redone. We switched to :, so, it is now nick:example.com.

I believe Matrix does solve this, at least to an extent.

Forget russia, we have emboldened, determined and dangerous fascist USA already to worry about.

if you ever hear the phrase "global ai governance", ingest the context very slowly.

it was everywhere last week.

i would say, this has been the plot of the graph for at minimum 25 years with the NSA/DHS and data sharing.

we have two primary aggregators currently, the usa and china... all that needs to happen for us to cede humanity is to lose one of them.

we are in a really bad spot right now vs silicon.

edit: spelling.

let's not single out the defense contractors specifically, goes back further and is rooted in our behavior and desire for better organization through software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_World_War_II

Say more? Please. As in, everything after “last week.” Take us back, if you will.

so let's roll right over the fact that this is a very dangerous double entendre that i am pointing out, nevermind that you're not responding en merit to my assertion.

it's like slandering bitcoin over here you're all heavily unvested.

google kagi yahoo bing duckduckgo yandex archive yadda yadda yadda 'september transcript global ai governance'.

How much of what you list has been "democratized"? Apart from the forum, and probably the browser, nothing. And both of those things are of questionable goodness to humanity.

> How much of what you list has been "democratized"? Apart from the forum, and probably the browser, nothing

Depends on what you mean by "democratized". It's surely at least as "democratized" as LLM access is, and that was the base line in this discussion. Probably meaning "everybody can use it for not-insane-money instead of just a small elite". (I don't necessarily agree with that notion, but at least we should use the same standards for things.)

> And both of those things are of questionable goodness to humanity.

If you think HN is bad for humanity, why do you participate? I can immediately list 100 things that are worse for humanity. Same thing with your browser.

That depends on your definition of winning. Some of us couldn't give a rat's ass about speed, and for me Chrome lost because it's not an user agent (as in agent working for me, the user) anymore, it's a Google agent (as in working for Google to spy on me, the user).

Why would Fdroid do that? They even package and offer some of these alternate clients in their own repository.

KDE Connect is a great program in this regard, allowing you to share all kinds of things, including contacts or clipboard contents, between connected devices.

KDE Connect is great. It just does all the little sync tasks between devices on the same network - like I assume Apple devices do - and I mean all of them. Want to transfer a file, or clipboard contents? It does that. Read battery level? It does that. Read SMS on your laptop? It does that. It even does remote input. Every feature separately optional to enable, and only between explicitly paired devices, of course.