Notices by Overclocked, Custom Fox (azure@vulpine.club)

> …The kind of person who thinks everyone should still follow RFC 1855…

Heck yeah, I do!

One of the serious problems with viewing things like copyright as intellectual property rather than a specially granted, limited monopoly is that it prejudices all discussions.

If a phone manufacturer locks down all phones to keep people from installing whatever software they want or institutes noncompete requirements in their app stores or whatever other garbage, a lot of people are going to implicitly be on the phone's side and require a VERY STRONG rationale to 'arbitrarily deprive the company of its property rights'.

Such rationales exist, but the huge presumption based on the already problematic Awe and Reverence for the Word Property really screws up our legal and policy framework.

On the other hand if we made it clear to everyone that we're granting a monopoly to achieve specific social purposes and with specific requirements, then any use of the monopoly would be tried against those enumerated social goods.

It's so weird to think that re-runs were a /thing/ that had to be invented.

But, no! Instead of being a weird special event, TV was performed live when it got started, and video recordings were bad enough that they got the nickname of 'wobbly television' and were unused for some time.

I wish people would quit assuming my interest in decentralization is based on privacy concerns. There are lots of things that are much higher priorities:

• Censorship resistance.
• Resilience. An entire library of content/social graph isn't destroyed because of a change in corporate focus.
• Evolution. Protocols can change more when not under a single administrative domain of control, and in ways that meet the interests of user communities rather than productization committees.
• Flexibility. Since things are decentralized anyway, it's much harder for the system to ossify in a way that relies on one particular family of devices.
• Namespacing. Being able to 'reserve your brand' across all social graphs is an antifeature.

@RainierBeringer That and when I think of 'local justice from the community' I always associate it with things like Charivari which are, yes, the community coming together to enforce community norms, but in these case the 'norms' involve harassing gay, asexual, or just plain infertile people or folks who have otherwise done something that's none of anyone else's business.

There are reasons I think a systematic, formal baseline and something of an enforced independence between how people can treat others based on various aspects of their lives are important and get really suspicious when someone says 'Oh, we just need close, respectful communities!'

@enkiv2 @nonphatic @a_breakin_glass When I lead people through constructing the naturals, I always like to include zero just so I have an additive identity. Having a multiplicative identity but not an additive one bugs me. And just feels like a nicer construction generally.

Gosh darn it.

I am subscribed to your mailing list.

You have your own website.

So why would your mall direct me to a Medium post?

What is wrong with you?

Part of me has something of a dislike for the idea that learning should be instrumental. Not that you should never learn something because it's useful, but I really dislike the assumption that /learning for the sake of learning/ cannot be fun in itself.

Learning something 'to pass a test' or 'pick something easy and uninformative to get an Easy A' just makes me want to pick up a university building and shake it.

@natecull @deejoe @enkiv2 Also I just happen to, personally, not like the Spreadsheet data model.

BUT, I would /looove/ to see something like Access made /better/. Someone could probably do pretty well taking a language like Smalltalk and building an Access-like application in terms of that, where you not only get the drag 'n drop interface construction and a 'table' as a basic primitive you can play with and get use out of, BUT a general purpose language on top of it.

Now that they've found bread predating agriculture, I feel like the headline really ought to be

"ACTUAL PALEOLITHIC DIET IS INCREASINGLY UNLIKE PALEO DIETS"

@bthall ACM Queue has an interesting article on search engine construction…

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=988407

(There's something sort of sad about the premier organization for cutting edge computing STILL USING COLDFUSION.)

Two things annoy me about market fundamentalists calling themselves 'classical liberals'.

The first is that they don't actually seem to be aware of the positions of many of the 'classical liberals'. Like the amount of time Adam Smith spent warning against trusts, collusive price fixing, and monopolies.

Second, the classical liberals were radicals in their day and looked for causes of misery and inefficiency to challenge. Drawing a line under history and going “That's done!” is the opposite.

And anyone who follows Satan should take pity on others in their long despair and act with them to build a heaven within the man-made hell, up until the point such places are razed to the ground.

And ‘in general we think that too often people have not received punishment that fits in kind and degree their crimes’? EXCUSE me?

Retribution is a /garbage idea/ for /garbage Satan/.

#notmysatan

I don't mind paying taxes.

I mind that I have to /do/ taxes because a bunch of companies lobbied to ban the IRS and financial institutions from just collating the data they already had on me and crunching the numbers.

And then some different ones managed to get themselves made gatekeepers to electronic filing.

@nightpool @Erika I'd prefer applications use the native toolkit and the perfectly good accessibility features that it came with that work rather than build Yet Another set of awful widgets on top of HTML that some third party accessibility tool has to try and reverse engineer.

Yes. I do not believe you can /steal/ scientific or engineering information. It's /there/. /In the World/. The common heritage of all people!

Well. Okay. You could /steal/ it in one way.

You could lock it up and keep it secret and thus /steal/ it from all people.

@djsundog I don't hate Bill, but honestly, I kept wishing she'd go away and they'd just make Nardole the primary companion. He had so much more personality and I'd like to see the doctor paired with someone who has the force of personality to stand up to him but is a more moderating influence.

I wish websites weren't designed so that 'SIGN UP' is the gigantic default that takes up the entire body of the front page and 'log in' were tucked away in a corner.

I'd /prefer/ the opposite, though I like the hybrid approach where the /big form/ can be used for either.