Boy the slope on fast food workers has turned into a cliff I guess. From Nobodies to Heros to Lazy Teens Who Don't Need A Raise to Robots in like 5 years?
If it was that easy to kill Linux it would have happened already. Chad Linux, open source free software, withstanding the full might of the multi billion dollar juggernaut Microsoft.
They're still doing their best to kill Linux on the desktop.
Notice how, as much as .net core is cross-platform, the desktop UI side of MAUI is absolutely not, and left 'to the community'.
They do not want to enable desktop developers under Linux, as they know that a decent environment would likely remove any need for Windows in that space.
It's not fear mongering to have and express concerns about a technology. Especially a technology that many people want to force everyone to use whether they want to or not.
In fact, it's important that people do this so that the invalid concerns can be put to rest and (hopefully) the valid concerns can be mitigated.
Facebook and Nextdoor at least has voice of the people, however wrong it is. It truly has both sides opinions. It captures the zeitgeist. I'll take that over any elite-class, university-brainwashed, liberal arts people writing about stuff through their biased lenses
I have some bad news for you. “Elite-class, university-brainwashed, liberal arts people” write about stuff through their biased lenses everywhere, including Nextdoor.
I think you're missing the point, both of you. It's not people's opinions I'd be interested in 50 years from now; it's just what they were talking about. Everyone might have an opinion about some event, but it's the event itself I'd want to know.
How many historical nextdoors are you aware of? For me, none. But is that because they don’t exist or just that no record survived? Social media is secret society.
The point isn't that those people aren't contributing, it's that you get multiple perspectives, even if all of them are skew. You can get extremely accurate positions with many highly unreliable datapoints. because even if they're individually highly inaccurate, where they overlap (and/or where their centroid is) is more accurate than any individual measurement.
Except that 100 people are Nextdoor are not doing the "oversight of courts, local councils and school boards" except in exception circumstances.
They probably aren't even reporting the final numbers in the local council election.
Assuming NextDoor's dataset is around in 100 years (probably not) there will be some topics well represented. But you are going to have huge gaps in others.
Sure but I want to imagine that some people are only playing Game A and others are only playing Game B, unaware of the relation between them that creates positive outcomes by sometimes losing in one game or the other.
You should look into https://small-tech.org/. I don't know if they're still active (I discovered them a few months ago, and they seemed active.) But they definitely have a similar point of view.
They are active. You can follow Aral Balkan [0] and Laura Kalbag [1] on the Fediverse. Aral is building a range of small-tech goodies, like Kitten [2], a small web development kit. And they are starting their 'Small is Beautiful' [3] livestreams again, using Owncast.
Homie, Bard from Google is trained on your Google Emails. They read your emails and build data profiles based on that shit and sell it. What are you on exactly? The US Government is more of a direct threat to you and me than the CCP and they actively buy your data and were reading all your emails not too long ago.
