Funny enough, after a local coal mine got shut down, several of its former miners underwent a brief but intense schooling, and they’re all employed as IT specialists/programmers now. It really only takes will and, OK, decent, not necessarily stellar intelligence to become a competent IT worker in a relatively short time. (And it’s not like one needs to be 15 or even 25.)
Near Gloucester or Cheltenham UK? Tomorrow Wed, 6:30pm JavaScript meet where I will have some Svelte to show. Join us for food a pint and a chat:
This is interesting regarding the ways bees come to consensus about promising foraging sites.
With bees, a community typically goes from wide disagreement to apparent strong agreement, without requiring particular individuals to ever giving up their strongly held opinions.
Great find @jpl this is fascinating and very relevant to SAFE.
Yes, the process reminded my very much of elder nodes (“the oldest most experienced bees in the swarm”) using Parsec to come to an agreement.
This sounds grim for the Web, does it also affect SAFE Browser?
We have to turn this on it’s head.
Musk… Making the future feel like the future.
Musk has already tweeted on the network.
No. People can also still write Indie browsers it’s just that those browser’s won’t be able to access sites like Netflix, Hulu and HBO. Some users thus this wouldn’t use those browsers. I think it’s more common to access those sites with DRM via apps than a browser though, so I am not sure how big of a problem this actually is in reality.
If Netflix wants to be on SAFE and SAFE doesn’t support DRM, that doesn’t mean that the SAFE browser should implement DRM.
For better or for worse I expect there will eventually be a kind of pirate Netflix on SAFE with every single movie and TV series. To make searching fast that app can bundle a full database of movies and TV series, even imdb is small enough to bundle and download together with an app. Next there would be some kind of user voting for whether certain SAFE URLs correspond to certain movies. If someone uploads a movie they’d vote that that movie was at the URL they just uploaded something and if other users agree it will show up when people search.
Once this appears, it will be a shitstorm like when torrents first got popular, except now they won’t have any way to block it or go after users and unlike torrents it can be easy and safe to use even for computer illiterate users. I expect this may force the movie industry to rethink the current hostile policies of country blocking, DRM, movies that you made available offline in Netflix suddenly having been deleted because of licensing restrictions when you’re in the plane about to watch it and so on. If the pirate solution is much more convenient and easier to use then many may ask themselves why pay when you get a much superior product for free? Sure there’s the whole ethical dimension, but there’s lots of people who doesn’t have enough sympathy with the movie industry to pay just to be nice.
Artists should receive compensation for their work. Some mechanism will eventually have to be used to pay actors, directors and the like. The alternative is for the viewing public to accept mediocre performances from less-than-professional actors because pros aren’t going to work for free.
Bitcoin or maybe an even better currency that hasn’t been released yet🤔