vacuumflower

That's false again.

I live in Russia and I remember when most people used Rambler as a search engine (I'm not sure if my memory deceives me, but it maybe even was the default in IE after install), and also Yandex.

I was really enthusiastic when Google came to the Russian-speaking Web as a search engine, and also when they rolled out a browser of their own (I was still using Opera, but it was very nice). Google Earth I just loved, simply used it to look at various parts of the world for the process itself, ha-ha.

There was something about the general spirit of Google, with them supporting XMPP and RSS, and with services like Google Code, and events like GSoC.

I think that this push at looking good and geeky from those years was connected to Sun Microsystems still being alive or just recently dead, and thus having to compete with Sun's image of a really humanitarian company while also really important for the industry.

No Sun - no need, Apple always was elitist and their "geeky" part was always perceived as fake, Microsoft was always perceived as evil, and in general nobody had the bar as high as Sun's. So they didn't have to try that hard to seem the good guys anymore.

Neocities?

I mean, things which worked 20 years ago still work today. You can literally export to HTML from MS Word, am I wrong? Just save the document in HTML and put a link to it from the main page, which you can literally save from MS Word as well.

There are free hostings allowing to create boards phpBB style. One can use them for "comments".

Doesn't look cute and modern and blonde-inductive? Well, there's a logical exclusive OR between blonde-inductive and functional.

I'd like to point out that not everything generative is a subset of all the ML stuff. So prejudices in datasets do not affect everything generative.

That's off the topic, just playing with such a thing as generative music now. Started with SuperCollider, but it was too hard (maybe not anymore TBF, probably recycling a phrase, for example, would be much easier and faster there than in my macaroni shell script) so now I just generate ABC, convert it to MIDI with various instruments, and use FluidSynth.

I actually really like how he is behaving similar to some 00s web forum owners (I imagine mostly forum text RPGs, cause that's what I was on as a kid).

Then you could jump to another such forum, and still seamlessly keep contact (via ICQ or something else in other countries) with everybody. Cause the forum was one thing, and chatting with people was a separate thing, not controlled by the same people.

Want that back. And the first 2 HP games. And the web browser being a lightweight program as compared to many other things we'd run.

And Opera 9.

I mean, Azerbaijan/Israel doing that is not something new.

EDIT: Oh, have read the article and it basically says what's in the title plus what I said in that sentence.

Democracy for which genocide is fine (and even good) as long as it's not threatening its citizens - yes, that won't work. Because those helping it inside will get their benefits from those doing it outside, thus depending less on any democratic mechanisms.

Which specific part is hard for you to understand? I've made a few shortcuts.

You should add that little clarification that brown and Muslim people mysteriously stop being capable of war crimes when they are Turk fascists.

Sometimes they are (if you had a cat or a dog, you know), though definitely not always, but it's also the opposite order - first people feel impunity and do bad things to others, and then they fear justice and hate the victim because of that fear.

That's not about just O, T and E etc really.

It's about the average Westerner just loving to blabber about realpolitik and subjective interests on the subject of enabling richer and stronger cannibals against poorer and weaker humans.

And also about democratic countries having no immunity against foreign states buying their politicians and officials and the general population not really caring.

Jailing for life a few people who've been paid by Qatar, Azerbaijan, Russia, Israel etc would do wonders as an example to the rest.

Bombing their infrastructures when they start wars would also be nice. Most don't have WMD. Not for the realpolitikers, of course, that would have negative strategic and economical effect, but if your goal is preserving democracy and civilization, then there are plenty of places to be bombed right now without dancing all the quadrilles.

In 2013 they to some extent still targeted geeks, developers, Linux users.

Also it's the elitist part of their image, it was somewhat culture-oriented, and that culture involved sci-fi, cyberpunk etc.

And the "anti-utopian" part is classic for Apple advertising.

We so quickly forget that at some point both Apple and Google weren't perceived as hostile to computer geeks or various high causes and actually as geeky themselves. People would simp for them, not very stupid or ignorant people.

It's amazing how things come clear with time.