That's probably the inspiration, but like hell they'll manage to actually build something as functional.

I store almost everyfuck in plain text, so what?

Oh, somebody wants to use techbro stuff and expect security.

Doesn't seem to be banned by my ISP.

Anyway, Russian Wikipedia clones to steal budget money are old news.

There even is such a meme as "encyclong", that's what the Wikipedia article for vikings turned into after one such cloning with replacing wiki- (no difference between V and W in Russian) with encyclo- .

Oh, the free world at it again.

When a country populated with brown people is too weak, it's bullied to not arm itself or pursue any other kind of strategically significant development, in economy and society too.

When it's sufficiently strong and useful not to be bullied, it can do anything up to genocide, and not even have its hand slapped.

I'm becoming too sympathetic to Iran, Hezbollah and all that guerilla-mafia network over time. They look scary, but commit fewer crimes than people condemning them. Naturally "crime" here is not "crime as judged by a court", but something of the "theft", "murder", "torture", "rape" kind.

Calling Durov a visionary is, eh, ahem, meow, strange.

One funny thing about VK is, though, that it apparently started similarly to Facebook, possibly wasn't initially a complete clone even.

But the guy is too elitist for his actual level of expertise.

About the article itself:

Like most neoliberal institutions, Boeing had come under the spell of a seductive new theory of “knowledge” that essentially reduced the whole concept to a combination of intellectual property, trade secrets, and data, discarding “thought” and “understanding” and “complex reasoning” possessed by a skilled and experienced workforce as essentially not worth the increased health care costs.

We-ell, ideologically what people usually call "neoliberal" doesn't discard the latter. Just the former is considered assets and the latter human resources. Here's where the problems arise, cause human resources here means both domain area knowledge\expertise and various kinds of sales\politics.

The kind of bosses they have simply think that their social\political\criminal skills are the core, fundamentally needed human resource, and the rest is not.

It's a bit like all those normies dreaming of replacing engineers with chatbots, and becoming excited (almost to the degree of yelling out loud with triumph "finally we are going to get rid of them"). Their worldview puts human ingenuity in themselves and their social existence, and what engineers do is in their opinion like tooling, a less high-level job, something that machines can do.

Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts

So what's new?

I agree, let's start with dumping Windows.

My sister once got a zero because of a 100% match in the system with her own same work uploaded there a few minutes before. It was resolved, but - not very nice emotions.

A friendly reminder that corporate corruption is still corruption, and a C-person is not an owner.

People who paid relatively a lot to feel that they are on with progress and have good taste. These are not things you can directly buy.

Of course, you can buy knowledge and powerful tooling, but I don't see such hype over digital libraries and good e-ink readers, or over learning programming among Apple fans.

On good taste specifically - Apple has always marketed itself as brand connected to that and has always been the opposite of good taste. I gave up trying to understand that long ago.

If anybody remembers XMPP being widespread and what Facebook, Google, Apple and others (say, I personally remember VK and Yandex in Russia supporting it) did to it, that's what will happen if you "wait and see".

EDIT: oh, half the thread is such comments