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>there's a deep strain of anti-expert feeling throughout

Probably because the experts are telling them that if they want a future, everyone is going to have to compromise their current lifestyle. Not a popular message. People will always be sceptical and hostile towards people who say "you can't have X". People are always happy to believe people who say "Vote for me and you have as much X as you want!"


Tbh, the Matrix wasn't far off with the portrayal of Cypher. They just didn't expect half of the population to prefer the comfortable lie over the inconvenient truth.


> "you can't have X"

More like 'you can't have X anymore' or 'only rich can have X' that brings another level of resentment and emotional kneejerk reactions.

The problem is, if 'less smart' need to be baby-sitted through every single unpopular but necessary decision, this is a failure of democracy. Sure normal democracy self-corrects over time, but not when its pushed into some form of dictatorship where the only correction mechanism is death of those in power.

That's why all researchers into immortality should be all locked up permanently in prison or to be sure shot in the head right now, however terrible and drastic it sounds. The tyranny that this will bring on mankind will make any absolutely terrible period from the past look like a paradise, and have 0 doubts all dictators ever would gladly scorch whole Earth just to achieve it.


> That's why all researchers into immortality should be all locked up permanently in prison or to be sure shot in the head right now

... I mean, you could just ban that sort of research; slightly less extreme. Though, frankly, I wouldn't bother; it appears highly unlikely to get anywhere anytime soon.


I disagree. The follow-ups definitely wasn't more of the same thing if that's what you were expecting, but I feel they were interesting, challenging and original, and I enjoyed them. YMMV.


You do need a hyphen for a custom-tag. The HTML specs have guaranteed never to create a tag with a hyphen, so it prevents collisions with any future tag additions.


I went to a 2nd-Hand store and bought a bunch of teaspoons, no two alike. It reuses something, and gives you cool, weird teaspoons.


> She can't commit to no pursuing her career, and this scares me.

It scares you that a woman might want to pursue work that might make her feel happy or is otherwise rewarding? It scares you.

What's the weather like there in the 1950s where you seem to live?


Probably need something that periodically adds and removes fonts as well, at least once per day, probably more often. That's one element of fingerprinting.


Fooling device fingerprinting would be wonderful, but could never provide 100% cover against tracking, since any site you log into has has a user identity that can be tracked using your email or phone number.

Maybe we could break this into categories of knowledge:

* A user identity on any particular site, and the personally identifying information (PII) attached to it (email, phone, IP addresses used)

* A wider identity profile that can be stitched together via site user identities and browser fingerprinting

* The topical interests of an identity

It'd posit that to break tracking you'd have to disguise the first two by randomizing PII and browser fingerprint. Randomizing the third is more about making the collected data on personal interests useless regardless of identity, thus decreasing the value proposition of invasive advertising.


Yea, this is why I think it's an intractable problem that cannot be approached from the device level, and needs to be more of a user-driven movement and more about spreading awareness. However, that doesn't make for sexy privacy selling service products, who mostly sell products that delete your data every couple of months and then it re-appears because the upstream sources just keep pumping the data into the well. It isn't a thing anyone really would usually care about either, until they are impacted by it, and as much as I care about this I can attest to it - I have got ads that led me to some really good products or creators I still enjoy. Just as many if not more times though I've gotten scammed or manipulated, and that's the part of the awareness that I think needs to be spread.

Tackling this from a technical level, to me, at this point seems infeasible. Feel free to inbox my email if you have any more thoughts about this, this is something that is difficult to discuss in such public forums.

I will just leave this - to me, people place undue faith in adblockers and extensions. That fixes only a part of the problem. You're also placing a lot of trust in your browser (not to mention the extension). If I really, truly want to determine who you are - from the perspective of a data miner - I can trivially hide all backend requests behind a proxy that you will never know about, and your adblocker will never know about. It provides a false sense of security that a lot of otherwise technical people hide behind.


> But, email is dead, so...

What an extraordinary claim!

My job, today, is dealing with a vast influx of various types of email that all need categorising and a range of different actions. Not very dead at all from where I'm standing.


Email will never die, no matter how much most people want it to do so. The protocol is arguably the best proof of "worse is better", which is why it's held out for so long.


Depending on if you work or not, I feel there's a bigly dissonance in the perceived prevalence of email, phone calls, and other such traditional(?) channels of communique.

Most of them have clearly died in private life, but in the professional life you will be literally worthless if you aren't reachable by email, telephone, snail mail, perhaps even the fax machine.


Unless there’s something important, I check my email about once a week these days. Otherwise it’s just for authentication.


Work vs leisure.

I rarely send emails for leisure, but I send and receive dozens a day for work, both internal and external.


It's like claiming Skype is dead but my last job was at a small company with many international customers and Skype was still their daily driver for international calls.


I see the above discussion as a describing a process, very much like evolution, with web sites bieng the species of interest, and how they are bieng shaped by, internal competition, for resouces (and prey), errr food, preditors, parisites, and environomental changes. neat!


Did you consult with your target audience — ie. blind or low-vision people — before or during development?


Yes. My partner is visually impaired so that is one of the reasons why I think this is interesting to investigate. The current solution is way to "janky" to actually use, but gives insight in the problem to solve.

My hope is that there will be "cheap" camera glasses that you can use different services for image descriptions. There is a company called "Be My Eyes" that is developing an AI tool for image descriptions, which probably is miles better than anything I can come up with. https://www.bemyeyes.com/blog/introducing-be-my-ai

Be My Eyes seem to support Ray-Ban Meta glasses, so hopefully "Be My AI" will too.

I understand the "not consulting the target audience" all too well, for instance braille signs that are at eye-level and is hard to find. Some workplaces is very keen to make accessibility adjustments, but mostly if they are seen so that they can show others that adjustments have been done, regardless if they actually help or not.


I commend you then. Accessibility is unfortunatley too often done without consultation with the community it is supposed to benefit.


> why not code them to be run in node

Because he considers his readers.

I can guarantee that a staggeringly high percentage of the readers have access to a web-browser capable of executing JavaScript (probably 100%). The percentage of the readers with Node installed will be necessarily lower.


Viktor Lofgren's blog is probably worth a read — he is developing the rather delightful marginalia search engine.

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/


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