32 karma · joined March 9, 2020
Reminds me of that one asshole who couldn't find a pen, and wrote a whole NYT article about "the demise of the pen".
https://web.archive.org/web/20151104200851/https://en.wikipe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization)
Anyone thinking that Wikipedia still provides a nonpartisan platform which makes an honest attempt to catalogue all the angles on a specific topic without any blatant spin is either dishonest or naive.
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The top one reads just like an ad: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27676845
Some posts that definitely aren't by shills (including the third one because I simply don't believe there's a person on the planet that "can't remember the last time Windows got in my way"): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27678231 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27686416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27682270
Very mild, yet negative sentiment opinion (downvoted quickly): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27676942
If your impression of 4chan as a whole is just /pol/. 4chan as a whole is much more ideologically diverse than reddit due largely to the site's format and lack of censorship, but if you're an outsider to 4chan's (often outlandish and intentionally offensive) cultural norms you're just going to think it's a nazi site. Mainstream media has tried and failed to understand it for decades now.
I'm honestly pretty baffled as to what keeps this meme alive, as KDE and GNOME are both very popular and provide simple, intuitive interfaces for the typical user. Plasma is only complex if you're the type that really wants to customize, but there its complexity is (mostly) necessary for its wide range of possible configuration. People have this idea that desktop Linux users are all a bunch of dorks playing around with Arch and tiling window managers all day and then posting their anime wallpaper setups on /r/unixporn, but that hasn't actually been true for a long time.
Keywords are RUNES and RUNES have CHILDREN, CHILDREN can be RUNES and the programs chains the RUNES until there are no CHILDREN. Functions are GATES and tuples are CELLS and you run programs as GENERATORS from your SHIP's DOJO.
Additionally, they mention that your ID accrues "reputation" on the urbit network, which makes it pretty ballsy to bring up comparisons to Reddit because their system of upvotes and "karma" is one of the major structural failings making their platform unsuitable for free speech (same thing here tbqh famalamalampai). Thus the behavioral problems of modern social media (excessive virtue signalling, witch hunts, shadowbanning) are only amplified by this system, the tyranny of the majority extended into every aspect of your networked computing experience.
Overall I think this is a cool idea for certain applications where it has potential, but they're not pitching it just for those applications, they're pitching it as a technology to replace the entire current internet model with, and that's just not going to happen.