That’s alarmism.

The US held a unique privilege of being the world’s cloud host, but that’s thankfully only a decade or so of bullshit.

And it’s good when trust gets broken in things where trust is wrong.

And sorry, I still see most big things in tech centered around USA. That won’t go away until some jurisdiction becomes safer. Perhaps Brazil stands a chance eventually, LOL.

Americans just don’t understand how good they have it

Yes.

Air conditioning? practically unheard of for more than half the world mostly living much closer to the equator where heat is literally killing people.

Well, not unheard of, but the way you over there use it is. Slight correction - yes. Turning it full on to have temperature 10 Celsius degrees lower than on the outside - no.

It’s not like latin america where starvation is much of an issue almost everywhere if you don’t have a job. No idea how the food situation is in China, but I can’t imagine them handing out free food to anybody.

Honestly almost everywhere outside of the golden billion countries starvation is an issue if you don’t have a job.

Their store UI could be better, searching the database by conditions and clearly seeing why something isn’t available in your region\country\demographic would be good.

But at the same time it’s good enough for me to even be thinking about such conveniences.

Also I’ve remembered recently my dad saying some 6 years ago that nobody makes convenient UIs because it’s bad for commerce. A UI filled with suffering allows you to charge for directed solutions. And if a UI isn’t filled with suffering, there must be something else. Like Telegram and VK which are convenient to use (compared to WhatsApp and Facebook and …), but are Russian special services’ honeypots.

Convenience is a weapon. And a very expensive one, if Steam store’s UI were more convenient, the load on servers would probably be 10x what it is, for a similar structure of purchases, except probably harder to direct.

Haven’t heard of any ancaps who got the power.

He’s providing a list of fascist regimes in that essay, with Stalin’s included. Stop lying.

And read the quotes you’ve already provided, they are good.

Non-leftist doesn’t equal right-wing. Anarcho-capitalism is right-wing, but opposite from fascism.

Fascism requires no logical structure and no coherence in ideology. It requires the ideology to be bendable all ways each moment for each different situation. Which, well, is natural for an ideology reliant upon violence and emotion above all.

That leftists try to mix fascism and normal conservatism is a purely leftist sexual problem, that doesn’t concern others until leftists pretend it’s commonly accepted.

Then, of course, when most of the “revolutionary” competition is leftist, fascism becomes anti-leftist and allies right-wing forces.

But also Nazi and Soviet propaganda on the British Empire were amazingly similar in archetypes and emotion. Which would be a rare case of “fascism against right-wing forces”.

Eco’s version assumes Stalin’s regime is one of primary fascist regimes in the first place. I dunno about that overview, in the original text it’s clear from the beginning. Either you haven’t read it or you are trying to cheat.

Not sure, what you used Umberto Eco‘s definition for, but it wasn‘t to formulate a coherent thought on the topic.

Thank you for your opinion, but for classifying Stalin and Pol Pot as fascist, at the very least. If you have actually read that definition.

You’re making shit up depending on how your tummy feels, don‘t you?

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if you‘d actually provided argumentative content instead personal attacks.

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Correct in so far, as it‘s determined by economic system. Which happens to align with left/right ideology.

, I don’t even know, “idiot” doesn’t seem a personal attack in such a situation. Commies are the only kind of people claiming that fascism has any economic alignments, as far as I have seen.

How to detect a commie idiot without them naming themselves.

I’m actually using Eco’s version, and he’s notably leftist.

Please stop using the internet.

Smart thoughts were chasing you, but you were always faster.

I’m firmly in the camp of neumorphism.

Why not good old 3d controls (or skeuomorphism) like in Winamp classic skin or Windows 3.11 or you get the general idea?

Why even combine fake 3d with flatness?

Also “electronic paper” (as in no 3d look, just lines and geometric figures and fillings, but not what’s called flat design - element borders are lines, elements without borders don’t exist) - fine. Think, if talking Apple, MacOS 8, but with less pretense.

There was a period when “ergonomics” became something users assumed to have been achieved for all eternity. Late 90s, early 00s, when developers generally made UIs following strict guidelines and looking natively with no designer bullshit.

Before that period (and before popularization of computers) “ergonomics” was something absolutely paramount, half of any mechanism a human uses. Another half would be the actual functionality, which differed between domain areas, but ergonomics didn’t. And once a factory would start issuing those mechanisms with some kind of control panel, it wouldn’t just release an update a few days earlier, no Star Trek transporters, no Harry Potter transfiguration, Carl!

So, somehow making ergonomic UIs is now irrelevant for profitability of making a product.

It’s not really about AI. It’s not really about ads. It’s not really about telemetry. And it’s not even really about something being slow.

It’s just about ergonomics of old concepts implemented being by inertia not totally awful, but gradually worsening, and ergonomics of new concepts implemented being non-existent. That’s all.

After spitting left and right for a few years even I would generally be fine with agentic AI or whatever else. If those things had ergonomic controls. They don’t.

No, it’s in principle undetermined in ideology. Historical ones, even Stalin or Pol Pot variants, were rather right wing. But the only principles really important for any kind of fascism are violence, anti-rationalism and amorphous ideology.

EDIT: What I mean is that fascism is that “third way”, not left-wing or right-wing. And has made situational alliances with things from both. That was its main difference from old conservatives in the beginning of XX century.

When I’m imagining some Win3.11-style UI, like in Star Wars: Rebellion game, I feel that a search box in the taskbar would be fine. The results should come up in a new normal separate window, of course. Not in a poisoned version of star menu.

The issue is not with having a control element in the taskbar. The issue is with those control elements being very hard to use. The response times are bad. The elements are not clearly separated. The results coming up are hard to navigate. It’s as if you were badly drugged and trying to find something in a heap of black sheets with luminous text in a dark room.

And also dynamic search on every change of that field is idiotic. They might do auto-completion if it’s fast.

It only makes sense economically when they have as many people as possible using it and giving feedback.

Where feedback can be concealed, like how your actions after requesting advice correlate with it, or whether you clarify your request and how many times.

This is slowly becoming very much like USSR.

I once liked saying that with capitalism and computers one can build anything, including what people rejecting capitalism (and sometimes rejecting computers) can.

So-o, yes. Anything. Including that.

Well, raising above passive consumer is called heresy there.

s/the tech bros/humans/

Despite “the tech bros” really being that, I’m learning over time about some people surprisingly cowardly and evil, while looking like better versions of me, and some other people looking pretty normal and usual, while being epic and tragic heroes, and some other people looking like a typical Nazi 80 years late to the party, yet more honorable than many, and some other people looking like weak and nice versions of me, while having real warrior spirit.

You have no idea how big the world is in all dimensions. We are all looking at it via our daily interactions, via news and internet discussions, via games and via books, and we don’t see what’s deep inside. Well, I suppose, people who read classics can see something.

And they, these people on top of big tech, being just human, have such powers. What can they do with them? Perhaps we should forgive them for not being wise in deciding to have those powers, and praise them for doing less evil with them than they could.

So. Perhaps in 15 years you’ve just grown.

And also because at some point they hired Signal people to design E2EE for them, I think.

The “encryption for two different receiving sides” part is the one that you, in turn, might have missed. WhatsApp client might just send messages to some additional technical party, which is not your buddy.

Naturally, they are far weaker.