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Not sure Tim Berners-Lee’s vision was to have 148 requests transfer 5.3 MB of assets to deliver 15 KB of text
Thoughts on AI usage: do they have a positive or negative global impact?
“Jim Covello, Goldman Sachs’s head of global equity research, told me, “If we’re going to justify a trillion or more dollars of investment, AI needs to solve complex problems and enable us to do things we haven’t been able to do before.”
Yes it's a quote of a quote
Du ressenti du web des années 90 à maintenant
Web 3 for Read, Write, Own...
If the platform or service dies, you don't own it anymore. The same occurs when a platform can steal.
The author outlines https://mirror.xyz/ as an example. I didn't get into it yet.
Self-hosting is web3 at the end.
Quoting directly from the GPL: The “source code” for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it.
If a project is so difficult to build, package or redistribute that the only practical way is to use docker then this is hardly #FOSS
Les salaires de développeurs ne semblent pas avoir augmentés plus que cela. Ils ont cependant suivi l'inflation.
A critic: Telegram pushes Web3 and starts to look like WeChat
La certification peut coûter quelques millions, ce qui est un freins pour le développement de logiciel open-source.
Medical Device Coordination Framework est un outil de coordination des appareils médicaux. L'objectif est de développer une plateforme matérielle open source.
une amende est une autorisation payante pour les riches et une interdiction pour les pauvres.
Ok Tailscale, let's see
Because it's far easier to find code with the Search file feature of your code editor when it's in a descriptive filename (client.rs, email.rs, payments.rs...) than if everything is stashed in 10 different mod.rs or lib.rs files.
"The major cause of the software crisis is that the machines have become several orders of magnitude more powerful! To put it quite bluntly: as long as there were no machines, programming was no problem at all; when we had a few weak computers, programming became a mild problem, and now we have gigantic computers, programming has become an equally gigantic problem." —Edsger Dijkstra
Various efforts have been made to address pieces of the software crisis, but they all follow the same pattern of "abstract it away".
Programming models, user interfaces, and foundational hardware can, and must, be shallow and composable.
There have been movements to bring awareness to the software crisis, such as (Handmade), (Permacomputing), and various retro-computing circles.