Wasn’t that deemed illegal back in 2021 by the Chinese Courts?

And didn’t it kick off a wave of labor protests? The lie flat movement?

China is not communist in any form anymore

Just a planned economy governed by it’s native population with a public policy centered on general social welfare.

Nothing Communist about this at all, no sir.

And before someone says “but they execute billionaires”, they only execute billionaires that get in the way of other billionaires’ profits

That’s certainly the American spin. It’s actually double-plus capitalism when you prosecute plutocrats. Because a rules based national order promoted domestic growth. And that’s… bad?

Anyway, don’t ask about their social housing, public education, public health care, and public mass transit. That’s Not Real Communism!

Idk who “they” is. But from what I’ve seen, the administrators of Wikipedia tend to bias intake of new power-users and mods to people who have been with the project from inception (or, at least, the earlier the better). You get all sorts of justifications for why they’ve adopted this policy. But the bottom line is that Millennials and GenX make up the overwhelming majority of ranking users. And as they age out, they aren’t being replaced with people who were their age when they started using the platform.

This traditionalist base has done a lot to calcify how Wikipedia functions, even as variant communities have improved on the model.

The AI-summary shit is just the tip of the iceberg on the system’s problems. The website is filling up with dead links. The definition of a “trusted news source” is getting outrun by private sector buyouts of old media and unemployed journalists spinning up new media. A big chunk of the organizations’ resources have to deal with fending off legal threats and attacks on system vulnerabilities. The centralized hosting model is expensive to maintain. The rush to be “first to post” creates unnecessary drama among power users in popular niche fields. International language support is… meh (one area where AI would be a huge benefit, as LLMs really shine in this field).

This goes a lot farther than “they want to hurt my Wiki”. And if you bothered to read the whole article, you might see more of why. The Wiki Foundation has dragged its heels on automation and clustered around a handful of power-mods in a way that’s undermined its Open Editor model. Fighting over Simple Article Summaries is just the latest fumble by the leadership, a sizable commitment of resources that’s tossed in the dump almost as soon as its off the press.

Doing a backflip: enthusiastic applause

Doing a backflip on ice skates: eye-rolls, bored face, getting up to leave

The guy in the comments calling you a tankie

Can’t wait until they double down and make this some kind of monthly service DLC.

Sony locking the technology that removes the fun part of a game from the game behind the 1,000 year IP door is an accidental blessing.

despite

Misspelled “Because”

We’ve formed a committee to look into it

Lemmy just BLEW AWAY the LinkedIn Writing Style.

A few simple witty posts have utterly upended how we communicate on the internet.

Normal Users:

• Post replies

• Up and Downvote

• Embarassingly minimizing the display when your boss approaches the desk.

And maybe that works for normal online interactions.

Sure, it’s fine if you’re an entry level Lemmy user

But you’ll never change the culture of the internet.

So we came up with

Something that’s

Even better than

What we used

To post like

Before

We first started using

This online

digital service

For posting our

Thoughts to

Other

Pe

ople

It’s called memes.

Barely fifteen minutes earlier…

The entire point of the Internet’s infrastructure design was for it to be highly distributed.

The textbook explainer for the existence of the internet was (at least) two fold:

• Provide a high speed communication between research universities for conveying large amounts of digital data

• Devise a system of redundant communication such that any major node going offline would not cripple the international data infrastructure (specifically with an eye towards major natural disasters or nuclear wars).

But the evolution of the system, from a boutique international data exchange for government enterprises to a business-heavy commercial data system to a retail facing SaaS model degraded both original goals.

Data is no longer supposed to be public and freely traded. It is jealously guarded as a commodity controlled by a handful of privatized tech giants. And due to the continuous, voracious digital harvesting performed by these tech giants, more and more of the information needs to be siloed, encrypted, and otherwise shielded. This clogs the vast redundant network with overlarge choke-points designed to filter out unwanted traffic and shield the identity/data of its users.

This isn’t a “US bad” problem. This is a “don’t be stupid, stupid” issue.

The stupidity is a directly result of how the US private sector repurposed tools layout out by the international public sector. Unregulated solicitations and chronic system intrusions by malicious actors aimed at a naive retail user base, combined with the gluttonous privatization of research data, has inverted the core function of the network.

And because of the Tragedy of the Commons, there is no single actor who can fix the problem through their own virtue. You can’t unfuck this chicken with a Meshnet or through voluntary individualistic commitments to ideological principles unbound from the central rules of network communication.

You need the heavy hand of national scale regulators and industry scale redevelopment to re-engineer how the root layers of the internet function if you want to get back to its original design.

Or… if we’re moving in the direction it seems that we’re moving… we’re going to end up with a wholly proprietary loose confederation of Walled Gardens that look more and more like the Anarcho-Capitalist model of civil government (ie, The Network State).

If you’ve got standards, sure.

But “Paddington 2 is just as good as Tron 3” leaves me questioning your rubric.

Right has the far better perspective.

Two compelling critiques of the latest Zootopia film.

I hooked my computer up to the HDMI and have used that as my primary interface.

It’s not perfect, but it screens out 95% of bullshit

Films shot on the 65mm IMAX cameras would probably make good 8K content, but most of that was educational films, not what most people apparently want to watch all the time.

Sure. But the cameras exist. You can use them for other stuff.

Hateful Eight was filmed in 70mm, and while it wasn’t Tarantino’s best work it certainly looked nice.

It’s not even innovation, per say. It’s just Big Number Go Up.

Nobody seems to want to make a TV that makes watching TV more pleasant. They just want to turn these things into giant bespoke advertising billboards in your living room.

Show me the TV manufacturer who includes an onboard ad blocker. That’s some fucking innovation.

There’s barely any actual 4K content you can consume.

Honestly a little surprised the IMAX guys didn’t start churning out 4k+ content given that they’ve been in the business forever.

But I guess “IMAX in your living room” isn’t as sexy when the screen is 60" rather than 60’

Aurora isn’t really anti-google as it’s merely a different front end for Play (that you can use anonymously).

You could say the same about Piped, which is just an alt front end for YouTube.

None of these alternatives seem to tackle the networking effect of the root Google services. None of them address durability, either. Proton VPN launched in 2017, Google’s been around since 1998. Microsoft’s been around since 1975. IBM’s been around since 1911.

If you don’t mind rebasing your entire digital profile every five or ten years, these alternatives are fine. But most people don’t want to ditch a 20 year old email address or fiddle with a brand new OS, when enshitification can be right around the corner for any of these services in another few years.

Ffs, I’d just finished putting the shine on my PLEX server before they shit the bed.