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  • Yes, people like us might see this as a necessary mechanism with very bad side effects, and offer replacements which wouldn’t have those side effects.

    While some people in charge might see those side effects as the main reason to use that mechanism.

    If most of the planet goes for renewable energy, dynamics of power are going to become more fluid. Owning some geological massif, which is a rather stable and controllable thing, will matter much less. Attracting and managing expertise will matter even more.





  • Like one can use POV-Ray for pictures, one can use a script generating ABC sequences and choosing keys and instruments according to some math, which are then converted to MIDI, for music. It’s not all machine learning (which is more or less just extrapolation).

    Then, with ML you can be smarter than just finding a generator and feeding it keywords. You can (with converters and stuff) use ML for sequences and keys and instruments known to “feel good” with your own brain. Say, playing with different optimization criteria for the last N elements (notes) of a sequence (using how they relate to each other etc). EDIT: … and then use the result to generate something.

    I guarantee that the result won’t be anywhere near perfect and beautiful, though.


  • You mean - just use IPFS? Or Tribler? And maybe there’s been something else of the kind recently.

    I guess Retroshare is not user-friendly enough.

    There’s also that LBRY thing with some web-hosted instances, an Electron native client and weird cryptocurrency usage attempts (in their case the goal seems honest ; it’s just that I don’t like things using blockchains - never understood how it would work for the use cases imagined, even in theory, people would tell me that I don’t get it but they do, and somewhere around now it seems neither did they).

    I mean, you are right, but there are attempts, sometimes close to success, of doing this with P2P (a video streaming service).

    If you say then that monetization is an issue, then what I wrote about LBRY in parentheses is an attempt to do that exactly.




  • WTF and it all through telgram isn’t that the scam app?

    Close to that. Has that flavor. It’s not a scam app, but really stinks of being made by the same people who made VK (Russian “main” social network, a FB clone initially).

    It sort of turned into a social network of its own (no friends or personal pages, but plenty of group chats and channels with posts and comments with lots of users), so hard to avoid using it, other than that - it has turned into the default IM here (Russia again), in addition to WA, of course.






  • Well, about parts of the world which worry me the most (Armenia and Artsakh) the EC is the source of calling ethnic cleansing “voluntarily leaving” and the perpetrator “a reliable partner” sanctioning which “would be counterproductive yet”. So maybe addressing that is more important.

    And if it’s not for somebody, then I’m sure that person understands the subjective weight of their opinion for me (about half a turd).




  • AfD in Saxony-Anhalt

    Yes, I’ve heard of that. I’ve also heard that they vary much in, eh, ideological climate in different states. So - it may be just a result of them being a populist party.

    I would provide a source, but it’s in German

    That’d be fine, I can’t write and speak in German, but a wee bit better at understanding texts.

    They speak like Nazis,

    Not really, I’ve actually took a lot of interest in how Nazis really spoke when I was 15 years old. It was a weird time in my life, so wanted to know more closely things surely known to be evil and good to recognize evil and good in my surroundings.

    (Thinking of Klemperer’s book.)

    “Antisemitic and xenophobic” statements are not limited to Nazis, while some specifically Nazi traits of speech I can see being more popular, but really not limited to AfD and the likes. Even here one can encounter such.

    they act like Nazis.

    I don’t think they’ve started killing their opponents on the streets yet, or forming paramilitary groups.

    doesn’t mean they are harmless or that calling them out for what they are would “water down the term ‘Nazi’”

    You may be right, but parties and entities more similar to Nazis in other parts of the world usually were pretty open about their intentions from the very beginning, while AfD doesn’t send the same signals.