I feel this article creates a problem which doesn’t exist. Tons of stuff is bound to disappear, and it won’t make any difference as humanity will not have any way of processing these vast amounts of data retroactively.
Well maybe. However with social media taking so much time is everyone life a part of the life will also be forgotten. You could cut newspaper parts you liked, write a diary. No one told you you can't cut a piece of newspaper and preserve it. Or take a photo.
It was easy. Now it is almost impossible to save your experience. Applications block copying text from messages eg. Instagram. Block you from downloading images eg. Google, and from saving videos (eg. Tiktok).
Today technology leans towards blocking people of having a recall of what they see, hear and read online. It is hard to not have the feeling that we are losing something each day forever.
Not being able to go back to something that i have experienced is a loss to me.
I hope there will be some change around it, because I think that a person experiencing something has the right to preserve the experience. It was a default law. But now it is taken away from us.
No one is however protesting not noticing some kind of very personal, natural freedom is slowly taken away from us. The freedom of having a memory.
I think the parent does make a good point that it is getting harder to keep your hands on your own ephemera, especially in usable/meaningful forms (i.e. I'd say a GDPR dump of context-free comments isn't that meaningful).
The example that comes to mind personally is chat logs: I have a fairly complete record of IRC conversations. It's not like I read them daily, but it is often nice to be able to refer back to, especially if I'm shooting the shit with friends or something and we can't remember who was actually the best at AoEII LAN. These logs were produced by my client(s) by default.
That same friend group later migrated to Skype. I have no Skype logs at all, and there's a several-year gap in chat history before we ended up back on IRC. Could I have come up with some kind of logging solution? Probably, but I didn't, and now I'm sad about that and wish that the Skype client had been more aligned with my interests as a user, but I guess that's what I get for using proprietary software in the first place.
So yes, sure, you can technically screenshot everything if you try hard enough, but the location/accessibility of digital ephemera has definitely moved away from end-users, toward corporations, as centralization advanced and clients regressed from user-agents to informers.
People have been chatting with other people in real life for millennia with no logs or records. Being able to save chat logs is a bit of a quirk of the online world, isn't it?
Well sure, but that's true for plenty other quirks of modernity: the fact that we got along without them for millennia doesn't necessarily say anything about their present usefulness.
Chat logs are just an example, and maybe not a very good one because of the pre-digital analogue you point out: let's try screenshots of gameplay. I used to use a third-party tool to take screenshots/clips and upload them to a server. I still have all the clips and pics from these. These days, that functionality is often part of whatever game service framework you're operating in. A while ago a friend's account got banned, and that wiped out all the screenshots and clips stored by the service. Centralization and moves away from open protocols makes it easier for that type of situation, where you don't actually own a copy of content you're creating, to come about.
I'd argue that having a memory of the past was and is one of the things people always aimed to have. It is part of being a human being. Even thousands of years ago people saved their stories on cave walls.
Why not? Processing power and storage will be so vast and cheap that you could simulate the entire tech stack regardless of the platform, data formats, etc.
It’s not black or white. OP’s point is still true regardless - as time progresses, things do become more and more mapped. Be it a scientific field, a territory, etc.
I got the BOOX Note 3 and it somewhat dooes what I need it to. It’s
mind boggling to me, however, that nobody has tapped into this market yet. I think Lenovo even made a laptop which had one e-ink as well as a regular display, but used the e-ink display in place of the keyboard. That just felt like they were rubbing it in tbh.
>Thanks to Uber you now can seamlessly hail a ride to wherever you are. Thanks to AirBnB you now have a great alternative to hotels. Thanks to Amazon you can have every item on the planet cheaply shipped to your doorstep. The world is better for these companies' existence.
These services would have existed regardless, opersting under other names hd those domain names not been available for purchase in the start up phase. That’s by supply and demand.
Lol people here need to chill. I like apple’s UX and i think the point here is a uniform experience across platforms. That being said, I think it works perfectly fine like it is now IMO.
Clearly adding further constraints can only worsen performance. I would code according to best practices except for cases where it’s possible to infer them implying tight bottlenecks. Then profile the code and if circumventing best practices results in a meaningful performance increase, do that.
I feel like every time it gets used in such a flagrantly meaningless way, it burns some of the power.
There was a time when I was like “okay, diversity inclusion, time to stop thinking.” But this line, “... built on the backs of Cantonese workers”. Should we teach every language of every African culture whose members were abducted in the slave trade? This isn’t feasible, valuable, or sensible. The goal might be, but the means is silly.
The more I’m asked to swallow abject absurdities like this, the more my default heuristic whenever I see the word “diversity” is to shut down and assume bad faith. Which leaves me feeling quite politically homeless, because the other team seems invested in gratuitous xenophobia, and homey just don’t play that.
