Technology

@Typhoon2000  
There’s alternatives. Bitchute will be the interesting site of this decade, let YT chase everyone, at this point they’re like cutting the branch they stand on and laugh about it!

@Patachu  
Oh wait, I can still find results for videos.

@Typhoon2000  
save anything you can. there’s plenty of sites that allows you to download youtube videos. …you may on the late just need an extra terabyte HDD.

@Patachu  
Though the outlook has improved, Back in November it looked REALLY bleak

@Typhoon2000  
yep, the visual appearance of every site has importance. Programmers mostly don’t want to touch the visual, but being attractive visually is what gets people to hang into a site. Logo, structure, page setup or presentation, it must be kept functional and visually, it’s just some html code, not bloat.

@Typhoon2000  
Is this related to Russia shutting down access to the WWW and restricting its citizens with the Countries intranet from a while back?

@CaptainXtra  
No, Russia wants to have its friends not get in trouble for censoring the web.

@Typhoon2000  
«The General Assembly approved the resolution, sponsored by Russia and backed by China, by a vote of 79-60 with 33 abstentions.»  
..the UN is a joke at this point. They know China is getting bigger and more important and have to defend the power of the WTO just behind them.
 

 
anyways, Isaac Asimov would be 100 years old today. And would say a lot about the importance of sequence in programming,
 

 
 
«Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.»

@Patachu  
And the EU and America were not happy about this and rightfully so.

So COPPA’s now in full swing and it’s a confusing mess.

A German Startup creates an app where people read books for you so plebs can just get someone else’s opinion on things they never read.
 
Let’s be clear; this kind of business is not technology, not as much as Amazon is an innovation (rather a regression on a lot of things). There is no innovation, only making people more overassisted and incapables.

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French and Dutch implementation proposals for the Copyright Directive lack key user rights safeguards:  
https://www.communia-association.org/
 
PLEASE PUT PRESSURE ON NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS WHEN THESE LAW PROPOSALS ARE TABLED THERE.
 
Inform them that it would:  
A. harm fundamental rights to their citizens.  
B. mean that member states incorrectly implement EU law.

@CaptainXtra  
Yup we’re doomed

@Typhoon2000  
Always the «Oh but we are doing X for the children!» as an excuse for everything. Censorship in videogames, political correctness, comics code… All that because there are people who have decided to breed the most horrible creatures on this planet - Children.  
Adopt elders instead! Elders are like children but they are less offended and not impressed or shocked by porn anymore, and you have to care of them the same, for at least 20 years!
 
@CaptainXtra  
Yep, the big thing must be heard, in social networks as much as we can, inform the people about what’s going on. Especially on sites like Furaffinity, Derpi, Deviant, Inkbunny and imageboards. If we start making noise about it, politics will see in that opposition a way to gain votes.
 

 
…also, Robocop don’t give a fuck about your problems, just like the real one!

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Honestly at this point, The future of the World Wide Web looks EXTREMELY bleak.

@Typhoon2000  
Yeh, even all the fan videos made of MLP and others are even flagged as “you know, for kids” …Haven’t checked but since it’s all automated there’d be some episodes of Hokuto no Ken in that case.  
I still think the future of WWW remains in decentralization. Just like it was in the beginnings when we had a credible alternative to the media - controlled by a few corporations. Factual or not an information can travel freely, given the observer practices critical thinking, we had newsgroups, forums, IRC channels, imageboards where all info is on an equal step. The so-called “WEB 2.0” praised in the early 2010s, acclaiming Facebook/Google/Twitter as centralization of everything is nothing but transforming the web into what it mustn’t be: another mass media.

@Patachu  
Everything going on tech wise now is a clusterfuck  
And I fear that a future bill will arrive that will basically fuck up the whole entire web

Copyright Colonialism is now a thing:  
We are truly are in the dumbest timeline.
 
Good old copyright lobbyists in Yankee Land don’t want fair use in Africa.

I fear that 2020 WILL be the final year of the Internet.  
There will be new laws that will ruin everything in all likelihood with many proposals being drafted around the globe.  
And honestly, I am beyond frightened.