Had they gone the route of open development, modder would have, and had been, developing a lot of functionality for the platform for free. Instead, they slapped Easy Anti-Cheat and killed the modding community.
Close walled platforms will always wither sooner or later. They had massive potential back in 2021, when VRChat felt like the start of a new internet. Instead of letting the communities flourish, they were tempted by VCs and their unsustainable business model.
>Close walled platforms will always wither sooner or later.
There are just so, so many cases where this hasn't happened, and where walled gardens have thrived. And also many examples to the contrary, in which open platforms have failed.
Trickle down economics is music to the ears of the rich. Despite people thinking that everyone's vote weigh the same, the rich has more influence than others, in the form of lobbying, or even through the sheer "legitimacy" that comes with wealth and fame, whether or not it's deserved. E.g. celebrities.
Politicians have more incentive to appeal to the rich and powerful, since those people hold the key to power. The vast majority of the populace are mere sheep who will fall in line.
Looking at the term "Ikigai" as if it's some sort of dogma or a way to improve one's life sorts of defeats the point. East Asian philosophies are not for achieving "meaning of life" and other mundane goals.
> nixpkgs - the software collection built by Nix is the largest software repository on the planet, containing around 80 000 packages. You can use any of those packages via geospatial-nix
You sound like you should be working in the marketing department rather than dev.
I understood that the either the origin of the effort was based on geospatial tool management or geospatial tools are hairy enough problem to prove the value of the product.
It's maybe hard to fathom for individualists, but it's probably humans that are quite mediocre on average. These AI models simply represent that.
And on the value of generative AI, the same argument against new trends has been made on previous inventions. For decades, a typewriter was still more practical than using a word processor on a computer. For more than a decade, calls and SMS were more practical than online messengers and forums.
Well it was the same with the internet itself. It's prone to hacks, bugs, and outage, and yet today we all use it to manage our finances and make payments.
Well, for the internet you could say “it allows stores to show pages with their products, and people can choose what they want to order, give their address and pay it with credit card , all without leaving their home”
That’s a pretty obvious killer feature of the internet
Worth noting this wasn’t allowed on the early precursors to the internet. Also the credit card company and processor both take a fat cut and maybe deposit the money a few days later if they feel like it.
US companies have been doing the same thing all over the world. Outside the west, everyone can see the hypocrisy. Ban it by all means, but you will become just like China: a state that censors information and speech from its citizens because the government is scared of it.
Countries outside the US are free to ban US-owned platforms, and many countries do. It's not hypocrisy.
One of the CCP's goal is to destabilize the Western Liberal order. This is, of course, bad for the West. It's not unreasonable to take actions to prevent this.
I really don't think the west needs any help destabilizing itself. I wouldn't really worry even if we fuck ourselves politically, as long as the US military continues to playing in an entire other league and the ever-present threat of either side escalating to nuclear weapons out of desperation there's not a whole lot of realistic risk.
Which leads us to the very uncomfortable fact, we want to ban TikTok for the same reason they ban the likes of Facebook, Google etc - because governments (including ours) uses it for citizen data-mining and mass crowd control.
We know how dangerous TikTok is in their hands because we know how valuable Facebook, Google etc is in ours.
Except for the crucial fact that unlike China US law protects US companies from state interference.
The EU for example fines US tech companies left and right and enforced EU data privacy law and US companies pay up or comply. The dispute with China and US tech companies was never about privacy but about censorship (censoring what the state tells you to), there is no such dispute between tiktok and the US gov.
The NSA has proven repeatedly for decades that those laws are worth zero, they do not apply to the NSA. Edward Snowden proved that. All US tech companies give up their data on users willingly or unwillingly.
You're not wrong and if that is good enough to ban US companies in China then so be it, it is their right as is the US and tiktok. Are you expecting the US to allow tiktok to save face or something?
No I just hate the hypocrisy, that's all. I would much prefer the US Government just come right out and say we use social media to monitor our citizens and we don't want China to have access to that same data. Pretending like it's unique to them is silly and makes me not respect them.
You can make that false claim and make a liar out of your own self but the facts are it doesn't even matter if the US spies on its own people or not, it won't change the fact that americans don't want China to also have critical data that can be used against them as a country.
We really need a term for silly people that jealous-hate the US lol
> but you will become just like China: a state that censors information and speech from its citizens because the government is scared of it.
There are several legit arguments against banning, but this isn't one one of them. Banning Tiktok is not censoring information and speech, let alone doing it because of fear. If it were, then they'd also ban all of the numerous other methods by which people can talk to each other.
Then we should set strict laws about what kinds of data apps can harvest from their users and hold all of them responsible, not just the ones from scary china.
It is not the data collection but where the data is sent and how it is used. You cannot enforce US laws in China but in the US you can. If it was an EU company, relations are good enough to where US companies are being fined and paying billions to the EU with the understanding that similar free trade regulations can happen unlike with hostile China
Well, there's definitely a strong argument that none of the data of EU residents can be processed in China or under Chinese jurisdiction, based on previous court rulings.
The US has refused to consider similar legislation but that would be a way to keep TikTok and limit data collection on US citizens and require it stay in the USA.
Are you saying there is some speech allowed on tiktok but banned elsewhere?
Outside the US there are a lot of envious people that scream hypocrisy and act anti-US at every opportunity so what you're saying isn't surprising. Americans shouldn't care what "the world" thinks when it comes to trade policy.
Personally I couldn't care less if the US is like or not like China. Xi's regime is very anti-us and any state controlled companies can get bent.
The nerve on some people. They want you to apologize for banning a service controlled by the CCP which is talking about actual war against the US.
China bans platforms because they give access to information that embarrasses those in power. The US, here, is planning to ban a platform because it's a propaganda vector, and because its popularity has gotten to a point where we - as a society - at a serious risk of propaganda campaigns. All the information on TikTok is still available elsewhere - but we mitigate the opportunity for the Chinese Communist Party to mold what information is serviced to our constituents, and how that information is shaped.
It's nothing to do with capitalism, it's all about installing regimes that are pro-US, and allow US enterprises to exploit these countries. Indonesia has a lot of resources, including the Grasberg mine in west Papua, that it leases out to US companies with very little benefit for the local population, instead pocketing millions in bribes. It's also a huge country of 200+ million of huge geopolitical importance.
The US is simply a thug. It has too much firepower for its own good. It's drunk on its ideologies of freedom or democracy or what have you, that it can never recognise its mistakes.
Yes but no. You can be capitalist without letting the rich 0.1% control the government. The US is a result of puritanism of the freedom of speech. Citizens United vs Federal Election commission case confirms that in the US, Money is Speech. That is, lobbying is legal. Huge donations to politicians are legal. It's as corrupt as governments go. Not to mention the role of the media in all this. There are many capitalist societies, e.g. singapore, that do not let their governments become corrupted by capital.
I abhor capitalism as much as you do, but economic system and political system are separate although interlinked. Why shouldn't we count Singapore just because it's small? They have a parliament and all other branches of government just like any other nation. HK is different though as it is ruled by a CEO.
My point is capitalism itself is not necessarily the root of all evils; it is puritanism, dogmatism, and when it comes to the US, it's their puritanical approach to "freedom" that ironically makes the majority of the population less free and less democratic. A communist, planned economy is as much capable of creating an incompetent government and society if there were no political, ethical and cultural wisdom.
To summarise, capitalism is abhorrent, but there are other dimensions.
Okay Singapore counts. It’s still capitalism and capitalism is a right wing ideology. Cuba’s govt is doing well too. I always feel uneasy when capitalist societies that were always given near unfettered access to the Global South and free trade because the Global North didn’t sanction them. Those countries had it on easy mode. They didn’t do what Cuba has done. Or what Russia did in a few decades after 1917 or what China did in the 50s. I’m bordering on sounding like a tankie now, but I’m more so defending countries and people that had to do things the hard way.
Nothing is the root of all evil but “evilness” has almost always been done from a right wing perspective. Yes authoritarian leftists exist but I’d argue it’s impossible not to have to behave like Cuba with freedom restrictions does when America and by extension, the Global North are capitalist and imperialist bullies coming after you.
I still mourn for my parent’s country having us have their socialist leader murdered and replaced by an awful fascistic dictator.
The world was in a Cold War after the communists (Soviets) defeated the Nazis. America did the mass murder and suppression of people in my Indonesia example (Jakarta Method) to suppress communism in support of capitalism. There's been videos recently on Youtube going over US led coups. The amount to stop socialism is the vast majority. Coups don't include various massacres and suppression of communists either.
It kind of hurts to hear people still think this. My parents home country had coups taking out leftist socialist leaders and installing awful dictators. Capitalism is evil. Capitalists should have left socialists alone after World War 2.
Close walled platforms will always wither sooner or later. They had massive potential back in 2021, when VRChat felt like the start of a new internet. Instead of letting the communities flourish, they were tempted by VCs and their unsustainable business model.