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2026-07-25 03:14:42 CEST

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> Just worth knowing they exist
For sure. For Kalashnikov Principle reasons if nothing else.

2026-07-25 02:36:59 CEST

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But I am curious about why you think this;
@weekendspy
> I don't even think a UBI will be enough to hold social cohesion together at that point
If, in theory, robots, automation and AI could replace all human labour, then we could live in an abundant world, where everyone has everything we need. Regardless of what kind of work we do and how (or even if we do). Assuming we keep a market economy for genuinely scarce luxuries, a UBI is the mechanism for ensuring that abundance is shared.

2026-07-25 02:33:20 CEST

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There are many serious problems society needs to adapt to; like climate change, energy descent, resource depletion, biodiversity loss, and micro and nano scale pollution.
"AI" taking our jobs is not 1 of them. It's a *distraction*.
A distraction from real problems that can only be solved by taking back political control - and most our common wealth - from the 1%. Especially tech billionaires, who are using disproportionate control over our information environment to stop that happening.

2026-07-25 02:25:33 CEST

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@weekendspy
> the disruption that AI will cause across all industries
This seems unlikely;
https://disintermedia.net.nz/invasion-of-the-mole-trainers/
The current "AI" hype bubble will burst soon. Maybe this year, but certainly no later than the end of next year;
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-subprime-data-center-crisis/
Which means mass unemployment caused by existing "AI" tech doing everyone's job is not a real risk (more's the pity). Even if a Trained #MOLE could do anyone's job for them, which they can't;
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur

2026-07-25 02:12:05 CEST

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But central government policy is a blunt instrument. IF you make a policy enabling employers in the regions - when they genuinely can't find kiwis to employ - to employ immigrants and give them a path to permanent residency, AND there are vape shops in the regions, THEN occasionally a vape shop will avail themselves of that policy.
The alternative is, the shop goes out of business, due to insufficient workers, and everyone who is working there ends up unemployed. Why is that better?

2026-07-25 02:04:57 CEST

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@npub1kuh…vf6x
Ok, we seem to be talking past each other. At no time did I defend vape shops, specifically. Like liquor stores, they're fundamentally extractive and predatory, and in my utopia this wouldn't be a business at all. All potentially habit forming recreational drugs, and drug paraphernalia (like vape devices) would be legal to possess and produce for personal use, including in not-for-profit co-ops, but illegal to market or sell for profit.

2026-07-24 01:22:20 CEST

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> DYK Kagi?
That's the search engine that charges for access? Good luck to them, but I can't see this ever being more than a niche service, for people with money to spare. I think we can come up with models that solve the web search problem in new ways, and can be financially sustainable without paywalls.

2026-07-23 23:28:35 CEST

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Seriously @npub1kuh…vf6x, if this ...
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/116960673521143154
... is your idea of ...
> sticking with the status quo
.. I'd love to know what you think the status quo *is*.

2026-07-23 09:12:03 CEST

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Having such data available might have unintended consequences. Some of them related to the other reasons people scrape the web;
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/17/how-to-think-about-scraping/
If anyone can think of any, I'm curious about what they are.
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2026-07-23 09:09:07 CEST

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There are search portals like searchmysite.net, that like Wikia Search use, a human-curated search index;
https://the.socialmusic.network/t/marginalia-search-engine/167/2
But presumably what the humans are curating is which sites are included in the index, while automated scrapers do the actual indexing of site contents.
Couldn't they reduce the compute used on their servers, and the scraped site's webserver, by having the site index itself? So the search portal only downloads 1 data file, instead if every page on the site?
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2026-07-23 08:55:39 CEST

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Perhaps sites could create their own index, and update it every time the site contents change? Or maybe for busy sites, in daily batches. Then offer copies of that index using a standard format and address (eg domain.url/search).
Search portals could download index files at an agreed rate. Eg once a day for busy sites, once a week for less busy ones, and 3 monthly for static sites that only change occasionally.
I'm sure I've ranted about this before. How could this approach be tested?
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2026-07-23 08:49:47 CEST

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Even the best human curation has limits though, and we know web indexing can be automated. But we'd want search portals doing it in a repeatable and verifiable way, with the cooperation of web maintainers, at the lowest possible resource cost to both.
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2026-07-23 08:38:27 CEST

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Plus, I don't think 1 failed prototype proves a model isn't viable. From memory, Wikia Search depended entirely on building a human-curated index, but launched to the public very early in that process. Probably not surprising then that the search experience was less than impressive, compared to the Goggle Search of 2008.
The other limitation of Wikia's search model was that depending on 1 group of link reviewers. How about social portals sharing their search index updates over a network?
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2026-07-23 08:24:50 CEST

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People have been bouncing around ideas for replacing Goggle Search since the launch of G+, when the enshittification of everything Goggle began in earnest. The most obvious one is the Wikipedia model, the same, centralised search portal, but run by a not-for-profit, and funded by donations and grants rather than advertising.
People sometimes say it's been tried, by Jimmy Wales, with Wikia Search. But Wikia was a for-profit startup, not a not-for-profit.
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2026-07-23 08:03:57 CEST

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I come back to the future of web search often, because it fascinates me, and because it's important. Here's why.
The Open Web doesn't work as a mass medium without effective discovery tools. The existing ones are rapidly enshittifying, both search and social platforms. Worse, almost everyone - including TBL - is hypnotized by a future of Trained #MOLEs doing our information processing for us.
So those who are not, and still think the Open Web matters, need to get our thinking caps on.
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2026-07-23 07:55:15 CEST

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So if we *have to* replace Goggle.com for web search, because that's no longer what it does, what do we want to replace it with? How could it be structured? And the million dollar question - because the answer to this inevitably shapes the structure - how could it be funded?
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2026-07-23 07:39:59 CEST

When Goggle.com started replaced its search engine with a Trained #MOLE, it started a transition from being a web search engine, to becoming a *guessing* engine. By replacing the list of webpage links - the output of a web search engine - with a chatbot interface that outputs word salad, Goggle are just completing a process they started years ago.
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#WebSearch #search #discovery

2026-07-23 01:40:13 CEST

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> how to get your sent emails to show in email threads on Thunderbird
Intriguing. I don't remember this not being default. But I've only been using it on GNU/Linux for more than decade. Maybe this is set up as default in the Thunderbird versions bundled in the distros I've used? (Ubuntu at first, mainly Trisquel, occasionally Mint, and recently Fedora)

2026-07-22 06:14:07 CEST

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> that's a lot of words to justify sticking with the status quo
This is a copout, and it's beneath you. How about you reread the whole thread, and *think* about what we've both been saying (maybe sleep on it), and try to engage with something I actually said. Or we can just agree to disagree and leave it there for now.
Either way, remember the ideas you put forward are not part of your *self* , so defending them is not self-defence. We're just thinking collaboratively here.

2026-07-22 04:10:04 CEST

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If we fixed all the problems you describe, would immigration policy need to be adapted to the new circumstances? Sure. But mucking around with immigration policy is *not* a solution to *any* of those problems. It's a distraction from them, and a rather unsavoury one.

2026-07-22 04:08:13 CEST

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I agree with all of this, except;
@npub1kuh…vf6x
> when you transfer foreign migrants to regional towns to do dead-end jobs, you inevitably get the expected outcome — a dead end economy
You're trying to shoehorn anti-migrant sentiment into an analysis that provides a perfectly good explanation without them. Why? It comes across like you're starting with the anti-migrant sentiment, and looking for an economic justification for it. But there isn't one.

2026-07-22 01:38:47 CEST

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@npub1kuh…vf6x
> I'm on the fence about "hobby businesses". If it doesn't add real value to a community, it probably shouldn't exist
Who gets to determine what does "add real value" and what doesn't? But that's a whole separate rabbithole. My point is that if these people couldn't run hobby businesses in the regions, they wouldn't move there. So although internal migration to the regions does happen, it doesn't necessarily help with filling jobs, even relatively unskiled jobs.

2026-07-22 00:44:54 CEST

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I hear your concern about ...
@npub1kuh…vf6x
> commonly-skilled jobs going to foreigners instead of kiwis
... but it does presume that kiwis want to live in the places those jobs need to be done. The majority of the population now live in the 5 biggest cities, and although people do move out to the regions, it's usually to retire or run hobby businesses, not to take up existing local jobs there.
So as I say, I'm open to the idea of visas for a wider range of jobs in the regions than the city.

2026-07-21 23:31:45 CEST

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> AI only make shitty search engines if you know what you are looking for
They make shitty search engines because the point of web search is to go *beyond* what you already know, to seek serendipity, while the whole point of a Trained MOLE is to seek the average, which is most likely stuff you already know.
> AI makes an AMAZING search engine if you are not sure what you're looking for
... if you're happy for the answer to be invented from whole cloth at least some of the time.

2026-07-21 23:28:05 CEST

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> There's genuine reason to keep retail in the list
What are they? Because I can't think of a retail job that I wouldn't say is ...
> not a skill shortage and those roles should be filled by kiwis as much as possible
What do you see as exceptions and why?
> I get that in the regions it can be hard to find staff in general, but it just doesn't seem right that visas are granted
I'm open to the idea that visas could come with a wider range of jobs in the regions than in the cities.

2026-07-21 22:35:51 CEST

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> it was always cludges and chickenwire down at the lower (OSI) Layers
To the degree that this is true, adding a Trained #MOLE at any layer only amplifiers the existing problems, and creates new ones. See my recent posts about why they make such terrible web search tools, or the thread I chimed in on about manufacturers putting MOLEs into cameras, to make photos into semi-generated slop.
They're enshittification machines.

2026-07-21 22:23:28 CEST

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Oh right. If vape shop clerks are "skilled workers", so are supermarket checkout workers. I agree, that's an absurd classification.
Who decides which industries get to be accredited employers for sponsoring immigrant visas?

2026-07-21 13:37:03 CEST

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> Vape shops should not be on the accredited employers list
Accredited for what?

2026-07-19 06:41:22 CEST

The person I was replying to here, as diplomatically as I could;
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/116944489121582044
... appears to have reacted to this reply by blocking me.
I'm honestly mystified by behaviour like this. Am I the arsehole here? Or is this just one of *those* people, who can't handle the jandle in a perfectly reasonable exchange?

2026-07-19 06:35:06 CEST

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> Like all alternatives it would have a small market share compared to commercial ones
Again, you're making an assumption for which there are counterexamples. WP as mentioned, as well as the Linux kernel, Git, etc. Perhaps commercial supremacy will continue in online services. But I very much hope not, and it's pretty much my life's work to see that it doesn't.
@npub1ekj…wjxt

2026-07-16 06:37:46 CEST

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> The last thing they want is for their customer to find a lasting relationship and stop being a customer
Bang on. If matching people for intimate relationships is going to be a commercial service at all - and I'm not sure it ought to be - the businesses need to make *less* money the longer people spend on the platform. They need to be rewarded for matches that lead to dates. Or at least to enduring conversations, which is more measurable for them.
@npub1x6s…6w4v

2026-07-14 05:02:12 CEST

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I know, I said I wouldn't, but ...
@npub1ekj…wjxt
> words based on "economy" have a rich history of people insisting on what they must mean
That's how words come to have meaning. Especially words for abstract phenomena that you can't poke with a stick. What other way is there, a Word Meaning Committee?
Here's a practical example of a problem where a Culture War framing misses the point entirely, but a political-economic analysis enables us to grasp what's actually going on;
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/116916081947443880

2026-06-01 08:40:04 CEST

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> This whole thread is just my life
I feel ya brother. Would a fediverse group for burnout be of interest to you (any of you)?
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/116672968279642951
@npub1kys…8jxu @npub1xeq…e8nv @npub17r2…e0pa

2026-05-31 06:02:18 CEST

Neurodivergent burnout is fucking horrible.
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#neurodivergence #burnout
@npub1pce…geep @npub1cvn…evqa

2026-03-02 01:55:41 CET

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@cyd
> Secure Scuttlebutt works just fine
It works. But with *many* limitations, which is why other devs have moved on. These include;
* can't use one ID in multiple apps/ devices
* can't delete or edit posts
* rare but unavoidable netsplits that fork your ID
> My only complaint is it uses a blockchain
As @soapdog says, it doesn't. Social apps using a blockchain have been tried;
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Blockchain_Social_Media_Apps
AFAIK they have to sync the entire network and get bogged down by chain size.

2026-03-02 01:44:49 CET

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@npub1ekj…wjxt
> gatekeeping supernodes
The option is there to be your own gatekeeper, eg with a GoToSocial instance. Most people *choose* to outsource this work. But no one is forced to.
> with no deniability
Huh?
> we're tied to one specific supernode
Not if you use Hubzilla, Streams, Forte, or other apps in theZot/Nomad branch of the 'verse.
Folks are working on FEPs for enabling other AP apps to become nomadic;
https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/activitypub-nomadic-identity/
@npub1p02…ecmj
#note1q29…zlqx

2026-02-27 13:02:46 CET

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> technically you don’t need them
... unless you want to do something weird and unexpected like ... find someone to talk to ; )
@npub1cl0…vjxj

2025-04-14 08:49:05 CEST

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> each topic could be represented by a separate ActivityPub actor (which would boost relevant activities from your main profile) that people could then follow from any fediverse instance or app
That sounds brilliant. I'd also like to be able to container the replies that come back. Some days I don't have the spoons to reply thoughtfully to a comment on my political posts, for example. It would be great to be able to filter those out, and come back to them another day.
@npub192u…3hrh

2025-04-12 07:04:50 CEST

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> I need a way to manage all these elements of my personal mosaic online
Gotcha. The ability to manage a range of identities for different aspects of your life. This is the kind of thing the @npub1lzd…urpr team might be considering in their design?
The Aspects feature of Diaspora could be seen as an attempt at this. Posting from one account, but to different preassembled lists of accounts for different purposes.