rottingleaf @ rottingleaf @lemmy.world Posts 0Comments 2,998Joined 11 mo. ago
I unironically had that
That's why I specifically addressed food. "Mouths to feed" is a small problem.
If the results of automation allowing more output are somehow distributed to people without buying ability anymore, then it's not yet a problem. If they are not, then other people, not as productive as said automation, have a market for their work. That's what I meant.
Psychological toll ... yeah, that's where, again, something like Soviet ideology would be of some use. And some kind of more even distribution of work. As in - labor is virtuous, but it's a good thing when you can do less labor for the same result.
BTW, all those people whining about oh holy Stalin, oh beautiful USSR, we were not good enough to have you, they ignore the obvious fact that what's been done once can be done again, especially with technological means better fit for it. Maybe they were onto something, who knows. Not just Soviet ideologists, but a certain Norbert Wiener predicted a moment when the problems will have to be solved in ways different from now.
Bigger population means bigger cultural space. It is important. There are many things machines can't do.
I don't claim it has good UX. I claim it has good semantics.
The one you mentioned for starters - following multiple channels in a single feed.
I didn't mention that.
But I also think having everything in a single feed from all places would really suck, like it does in FB.
Telegram has a terrible UX for social networking and feed following
What social networking is has many different meanings, easily creating groups (communities) and posting\commenting there, like in LJ, seems more important for me.
it’s a private messaging app
It's not.
that has been hacked together into use case it was never made for in the first place and it really shows.
Factually wrong - it was from the beginning intended to be what it is now. Channels and chats.
And, of course, I don't think your ideas for that use case are better than Telegram's. I don't think social networks with feeds and following are something good.
I think everyone thought of what you described, but most lacked mind discipline to think in specifics.
That's all I wanted to say, very cool, good luck.
(I personally would prefer thinking of a distributed computer (tasks distributed among members of a group with some redundancy and a graph of execution dependencies, results merged, so the initial state a node retrieves only once), but I lack knowledge of fundamentals.)
Announcements from The President on the glorious state of the country.
That can be done via radio reproductors on the streets or on TV or both, the good old Nazi and Soviet way.
Physical Education Power Hour: All boys must oil themselves and engage in a greeco-roman wrestling match. Girls are removed to the Vice Principle’s lounge for further gender inspection.
I think I could find my calling in such a high school, and it wouldn't be the wrestling trainer. Just joking.
But makes sense, nothing improves one's masculinity like some, eh, wrestling. Ask Turks what kirkpinar is.
Pep Talk by celebrity athlete and/or professional wrestler about the importance of eating raw eggs and drinking raw milk
... and how nematodes are protein too ...
Red Dawn Drills: Students rehearse how they will repeal an imminent invasion by Islamic Communist Far-Left Feminazis
Google for "Zarnitsa", this can be actually fun.
Two-Hour Standardized Testing on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Students are stack ranked on the results and the lowest performing child is beaten with bags full of soap
Cruel, but effective (no)
Students queue for the bus to the local coal mine, where there eight hour work rotation begins.
In USSR that'd sometimes be potato fields, but fine.
RSS is a general standard, for everyone to use, TG is not. Yet it's likely that more people use TG than RSS. That's what I meant by market.
Group chat is the most primitive of feed types and is incredibly outdated UX in 2025.
That's like saying that wheel is outdated when we have jet engines. What would you propose instead?
Even RSS - technology from 1999 - has solved the issues telegram is still trying to solve now 26 years later.
Which specific issues and in which regard?
I would like TG to have a tree view representation of discussions, a bit like what web forums have available. Or a view separated into pages, like the same thing, with n posts on one page and page numbers and visible post ids.
I don't like its actual client or its UX in the sense of appearance and widgets. What I meant is that I like what it presents to the user in the sense of entities.
In particular, again, that a community is essentially one thing, where posts with comments and a group chat are projections of the same data. You can see new posts and comments in the group chat, all in one place.
Mostly yes and they do that. The future surely is fun. Both hitting bad people has become easier, and for bad people to go really bad has become too.
I'm starting to think Game of Thrones atmosphere of "why are they doing this crap, are they that stupid, how can a bloody duke be so naive while being described and wise and responsible, how can another bloody duke, supposedly very smart and cunning, run around ruining his own power base just to get a bit more of it, how can yet another bloody duchy known for intrigue and poison just lose its heir in a duel and not have backup paths" and so on was on spot.
The actual Middle Ages, if you read about it, were a bit more interesting, and deposed enemies were often not killed, but given replacement property someplace close to the victor's center of power, minimizing both their reasons to raise the question and their opportunities to do so with one action.
But! The actual Middle Ages didn't have quite the scale achievable now.
One can say terrible, one can say ingenious.
A news feed with comments and a group chat are projections of the same object, thus you have all the events in one "community" in one place, seeing them always (more or less, because going to comments of a post you only see that post's children and their children and so on).
Personally I think it's much more convenient than Discord.
And the public opinion seems to be in TG's favor for usability (except it exhausts me to see that many groups and checking them, so authors' FB clone background definitely shows).
I think the market has decided that this UX is good. But technically TG is, 1) proprietary in fact despite open client source, 2) insecure, 3) starts getting overloaded with features by now.
I'd want a federated FOSS alternative. I'm actually thinking how one can do that (especially the part about sharing files, the TG way means they'll have to be stored for long somewhere ; maybe one can have each user issue a fixed amount of tokens on registration, those tokens be passed by uploading user to the one providing storage, and somehow thus using local storage of users as a currency, for file storage only ; the thought is inspired by Redis and probably sucks, especially since in Redis tokens are for hash partitions ; it's also inspired by BitTorrent reputation and tracker ratings, where you have to upload something to be able to download yadda-yadda) without making running a server a very expensive task. Probably should read something on how XMPP and IRC and other server-server connections work, but lazy.
Interesting even, can a FOSS federated TG alternative be just another Lemmy frontend. Again, the attached files part should be solved in some smarter way than storing them all on servers, people upload huge things to TG. A builtin bittorrent client is not a solution, cause one person sharing a file and going offline means that nobody can download it. So the previous idea with tokens may be not too bad.
Signal by design can't and won't support big group chats.
Frankly Telegram is socially a reiteration of IRC plus blogs. There are groups where people chat, there are channels where posts have comments. Posts and their comments are visible in the associated group, so all the life of a community is in one place. That's important for small groups and mobile devices.
Because these two things in the 00s web accounted for most of life.
A TG alternative with ActivityPub identities and proper secret chats would be nice, of course.
Yes, but also now there are networked cameras everywhere.
OK, admittedly I don't really know a thing other than what I read, and it would make sense.
BTW, yes, launches from Russian territory much closer to targets Ukrainians do too.
I don't want to appear snobbish, but if economic prospects are bad, then you need even more people. In economics scale makes everything better.
Basic food is, if we think about it, very cheap. Even the USSR managed to solve that problem. Everyone could find buckwheat\rice\some other grain\potatoes\vegetables to eat, salt sold for food was mandated to be iodized, for prevention of scurvy even on very basic diet, and some (bad, ugly, but edible) fish conserves were generally available everywhere, also "sea cabbage".
Depending on area there'd also be (bad, thin, kinda soup-only, not the broilers you're used to, though about USA I've read that food products quality is not nice generally) chicken, some fish, some meat. Some fruit, something else. The previous paragraph described the baseline that was always there.
So hunger is avoidable even if the economy sucks huge stinking donkey balls.
If hunger is avoidable, having more people is, of course, a disadvantage in terms of social conflicts, but they don't have to fear that - the most angry and dumb part of the population is voting for them.
Notice that it doesn’t matter whether you think that AI can replace people, it only matters whether companies think that AI can replace people. Now, having children costs a lot of money, at least $100K, depending on where you live, and i understand people being reluctant about having children.
There's a bit of tunnel vision here, I think. It costs that to have children in the USA, but in Mexico it'd be cheaper probably.
That's because value is created by labor, if your labor isn't needed and you don't have a job, then you'd still produce value if you had one. And when you can't afford something, that disadvantaged labor might produce it. OK, I'm a shitty explainer, what I mean is that, if there are no regulations directly preventing it, there's a feedback of creating another bucket of demand and thus jobs to fulfill it. Not an economist.
I also advocate for UBI (universal basic income), but the way i see it today, there’s a high likelyhood that it will come, but will be too little to actually cover cost-of-living costs. I.e., it might be a “support”, providing $400/month no-strings-attached and it would definitely improve the living conditions of many people, especially in low-income households. But it would still not solve all problems.
It might create hyperinflation, first and foremost affecting those owning money and not assets. And your average person is more dependent on money as opposed to assets than a businessman or a company or a fund. I'm not an economist, that's just how I see it.
Seems that, but can be aimed at anyone different from what their herd considers normal too.
And the herd never barks at psychopaths, because it fears them. It's the non-predatory conditions that the herd openly hates.
Gulf War 1 is either just as relevant as yesterday or not relevant at all. It was a bit of a demonstrative beating.
I know, but the recent India-Pakistan contact seems to have shown that modern ways to reach those expensive assets are available to many more countries than when this doctrine was adopted. Which means that very expensive planes might sometimes be shot down, and the system disrupted.
Ukraine reaches Moscow suburbs with drones. It has almost become realistic for a hypothetical Muslim country with oil to reach something like Austin, Texas with drones. With some stages involved, maybe with recharging\refueling drones, maybe using fixed-wing drones that can glide will make more sense for such, maybe even launched from naval drones as small carriers. The point is, this has become possible. Not bug attacking a tractor, more like a host of termites attacking a tractor and it's not good for its driver if they reach him.
The person who offered it probably didn't notice how IRL con artists too often work by "just offering an idea".
When we run out of things, it's we who run out of things but not those with power to get what they need and kill excess population.
So preaching to them is useless.
"How the US would" would be subject to rapid change in real conditions before it adapts its doctrine to modern warfare. Since it's the US with plenty of money in the defense and powerful companies that desperately want to test new and more efficient ways at solving problems, yeah it would.
However right now what's known of US drones and approaches seems to be kinda expensive garbage. Good thing is that such relatively close engagements are secondary for its doctrine.