🐲 To understand China, we need to understand the Chinese internet
｢ There are over twice as many Chinese web users as there are people in the United States; if Chinese netizens formed a sovereign country, it would be the world’s third largest ｣
https://restofworld.org/2026/wall-dancers-china-internet-book/
I am realizing, with my old #BaseParadigm (content-addressable database and codec) and #Spaciousness (UI/UX/ #HCI framework) I was (am still, involuntarily/obsessively) essentially designing a nonheirarchical structure for an unbounded/massively large #WWW that can be collectively hosted by lightweight peers.
I know you're the wrong audience for this meme, dear followers, but try replacing the search engine #Google with #WhatsApp, #iPhone, #Android, #Windows, #YouTube, #Spotify, #chatGPT or #Gemini — are you still laughing at the #people who use Google every day?
#meme #userers #economy #business #privacy #surveillance #tracking #internet #online #bigdata #bigtech #orwell #bigbrother #politics #humanrights #web #www #future #slavery #digital #question
"Vor 10 Jahren noch Science-Fiction": Antimaterieproduktion am CERN beschleunigt
Dauerte die Produktion größerer Mengen von Antiwasserstoff vor Jahren noch wochenlang, reicht inzwischen eine einzige Nacht. Das hilft der Grundlagenforschung.
@heiseonline Huuuh, cool 😴😉😅
Weiß noch, wie das losging mit CERN, #Kernfusion sollte verstanden sein, verbesserte Materialien sollten ermöglicht werden, das #Energieproblem der Menschheit sollte gelöst sein. Leider ist nix davon eingetreten, oder?!
Was hat das bisher so gesamt gekostet, mindestens 10 Milliarden €?
Ich glaube ja, die größte Errungenschaft des CERN ist das #worldwideweb 😂 und das verschlingt eher Unmengen an Energie.
Again:
Don't believe them: LLM text generators creating lots of slop web sites *does not damage the Web*. It just makes search engines useless. #Google is simply pivoting from a) providing Web search to b) letting you query a pre-trained LLM. This means that we’ll be back to hand-curated links and trusted sites, like in the 90s. I’m fine with that. You'll find my writing at my blog URL, as always.
Again:
Don't believe them: LLM text generators creating lots of slop web sites *does not damage the Web*. It just makes search engines useless. #Google is simply pivoting from a) providing Web search to b) letting you query a pre-trained LLM. This means that we’ll be back to hand-curated links and trusted sites, like in the 90s. I’m fine with that. You'll find my writing at my blog URL, as always.
Tip: If you need to look up a post on X.com and already have the link, but you HATE the website, replace X.com with "xcancel.com" in the URL.
This is a #Nitter instance, basically a frontend for X.com.
Much faster response, no forced account needed, no tracking from X.com, lighter JS, free software (AGPLv3), no corporate bullshit. Just the posts.
Remember that X.com is owned by a literal neonazi. Stay safe. And convince your friends to delete their X account. 🙂
Tip: If you need to look up a post on X.com and already have the link, but you HATE the website, replace X.com with "xcancel.com" in the URL.
This is a #Nitter instance, basically a frontend for X.com.
Much faster response, no forced account needed, no tracking from X.com, lighter JS, free software (AGPLv3), no corporate bullshit. Just the posts.
Remember that X.com is owned by a literal neonazi. Stay safe. And convince your friends to delete their X account. 🙂
It’s Not Just You: The Internet Is Actually Getting Worse | The New Yorker
It’s Not Just You: The Internet Is Actually Getting Worse | The New Yorker
Tim Berners-Lee ( @timbl) explains why he gave away the #WWW for free.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/28/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free
"For the web to have everything on it, everyone had to be able to use it, and want to do so. This was already asking a lot. I couldn’t also ask that they pay for each search or upload they made. In order to succeed, therefore, it would have to be free. That’s why, in 1993, I convinced my #CERN managers to donate the intellectual property of the world wide web, putting it into the public domain. We gave the web away to everyone."
But he adds:
"Today, I look at my invention and I am forced to ask: is the web still free today? No, not all of it. We see a handful of large platforms harvesting users’ private data to share with commercial brokers or even repressive governments…Trading personal data for use certainly does not fit with my vision for a free web."
