See: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsolidproject.org%2F

Sir Tim had proposed this a while back and it does work. A group of friends set this up overnight to share info between ourselves on things we could borrow from each other - board games, powertools, etc. Took a couple of hours to set up - mostly because we all love arguing about stupid stuff.

With this tech I could set up my own medical data server if I want,. For my less tech savvy mom I can get her set up on a commercial server. Granting permission can be scripted, and can use credentials managed on a trusted server, so access grants can be automated if I am unconscious; but only to people who have been vetted by an authority I trust. I and my family can always see who was granted access to what data, and we can withdraw access at any time.

Completely decentralized, no single repository. All of the upsides, very few down sides.So why not this? Might it be that no great oligarch (and lets be honest thats what Bezos, Musk and Tim are; and Trump is trying to become) gets to own it?

It would be awesome if smart folks like the ones on Slashdot could get behind a community movement like this, and arm twist the government that is supposed to represent our needs to force hospitals to accept this as an alternative to a centralized on that requires I give up all rights to my own data.

Quick search and the first decent article that came up: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ox.ac.uk%2Fnews%2Fscience-blog%2Fhow-birds-sense-magnetic-field-earth-help-them-navigate

So, like silicon chips and transistors are high energy replacements for low energy neurons, we have created a complex high energy requiring alternative.

Humans could do with some kind of ethical & non "end of the world causing" way we can create completely new organic machines that can do some of these things. It's like Babbage trying to create a thinking machine with the technology he had then. The only difference is we know about the technology to do this now, but don't trust ourselves as a species to let ourselves use it. First use case will probably be an organic cruise missile with huge bird wings >.

Have been in the IT industry for 40 years, and have been involved in tons of major technology overhauls. Every migration starts out with the promise of clean, issue free migration, and every one of them has got bogged down in politics, resistance to change, un-brainwashing folks (convincing legacy system owners to change / convincing the incoming world changers that the world is a little more complicated than think it is). None of this is related to technology - it's just people being people. So ... why is this a surprise?

I think we went overboard a bit in my house. 3 people at home. Devices:

• 2 separate Wifi networks (one for visitors & low-risk stuff, one in "paranoid" mode for home security stuff and others)
• 6 laptops (personal + work)
• 5 smart phones (personal + work)
• 1 WIFI enabled home theatre
• 12 wifi enabled lights
• 2 game consoles
• 4 iPads (dont ask ... its a touchy subject)
• 3 Apple TVs (no smart TV's)
• 1 VR headset (not used in a while - waiting for a "killer app")
• 2 desktop PCs (one gaming, one media streaming)
• 12 home security devices & misc. cameras
• 2 smart thermostats
• garage opener

It is awesome to come to SlashDot and review the awesome, well reasoned arguments

Think you are burying your head in the sand if you think AI is like BlockChain. Treating it like that is going to help you go the way of Circuit City, Borders, Blockbuster and all of the other companies that thought the Internet is just a fad. Forget the ChatGPT and deep fake generators. There are really scary things happening across the board. Look closely at the recent layoffs in HiTech and “knowledge heavy” industries like banking, insurance, etc. In Manufacturing, look closely at the number of jobs being replaced by Robots instead of moving to China.

In the scenario that that is being discussed here, running genetic simulations of multiple generations of genetic manipulation, playing around with complex hydrocarbon chains and reactions - all are going to go much faster with AI rather than creating models by hand. Definitely some good use cases for AI here

As much as you might hate Apple, the ecosystem really sucks you in. 5 minutes after setting up (much easier than on Oculus), was able to bring up a 4K display for my laptop in mid air. I used multiple browser windows floating in mid air to add additional content. Side loading ARKit app into the device to test? A breeze. No convoluted install of a (flaky) device management software. Other things that blew me away:

1. - Extension of Laptop when working remotely or in a cramped office
2. - Interacting with models in 3d spaces with eye tracking; Wow.
3. - Watching movies in 3D on AppleTV and Disney+. Watched Avatar, Dune & The Marvels. Had to forcibly stop myself
4. - Taking a pano photo and viewing it immediately as a wrap around the space
5. - Collaborating with colleagues in the space without any additional setup. Avatars were definitely on the edge of the uncanny valley; but better than free floating expressionless torsos (Oculus again)
6. Developing enterprise apps with Swift's RealityKit and ARKit is WAY easier than the other SDK's. Unity and Unreal are great; but not for enterprise apps. Have developed for Hololens, Oculus, SteamVR and VisionPro. RealityKit + ARKit are definite the easiest for me.

Yes it's version 1 of the product; and future versions will definitely address problems like weight. The eye tracking can be very flaky at times, and using the floating keyboard can be a pain except for simple text. There are not enough apps; but so far have everything I already use available in the space. I might be a bit of an edge case, because

1. a) I have 30 years investment in the Apple ecosystem (before you ask - I started with NextStep, and moved to OS X)
2. b) I work with Vision Pro + laptop; and use Vision Pro standalone only for games and movies.
3. c) Nearly everyone I work with also has some Apple device, so interacting with them through FaceTime was easy

Between Oculus 3 and the Vision Pro - for me, no competition at all.

The US reputation for shooting from the hip and figuring out consequences later is not as popular in Europe as folks might think. Having worked across the EU, US and Asia, I find that US companies tend to have the least regard for the impact of business decisions on their own employees or customers.
In the area of tech, things like right to repair, open source mandates for government facing technology, enforcement of open standards etc. are considered important in the EU, because they are better for the people. They feel the US tolerates the monopolistic tendencies of companies because the government has been bought by the industry. When US firms use closed data formats, squishy wording on data privacy and a lack of care for sustainability / maintainability of a technology, EU folks tend to get upset. They will use it because the technology is interesting, but it feels like they are holding their nose while they do it.
Unions are much stronger, and force more attention to the workforce. I remember a statement from an EU colleague of mine - work pays for my life, work is NOT my life. Not something that US firms recognize. The 4 or even 3 day work week sounds crazy to a US person - but the real level of poverty in the US (which largely goes unreported in the US outside of complaints. of homelessness in blue states) or the insane cost of healthcare is unfathomable to the average EU citizen. This is not about conservative vs. liberal (or socialist). It's just an expectation that government works for the people, not for the companies.
On the whole, in the EU innovation is slower, but tends to last longer. You do not see folks demanding a new model every year - if something works, people are comfortable using it for longer. People change when something is truly innovative. The big US muscle cars were a minute niche in the US, but Tesla's are everywhere - because they represent a true innovative shift.
The question is.- what would it take for folks in the US to realize how much our government is owned and run by corporations and try to take control back

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tomshardware.com%2Fs...

The only real way to think of this is as a trolley problem (for the 1 person who does not know what that is: Wikipedia: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...). We are seeing the trade off happening in slow motion.

The financial impact of extreme weather events are increasing. Whether you believe in climate change or not - your insurance firm definitely does. In the US, try getting insurance in California fire zones, Jersey shore, parts of Florida or the tornado belt. The insurance firms have already decided that the risk is not manageable, and are bailing

In Europe, the situation is a little better now, but the effect of the melting arctic ice + fresh water entering the Gulf Stream are definitely causing concern. Many of the respected climate models are frankly fairly terrifying.

So what the choice the EU government has: Get a few people to suffer now, or have millions suffer through unpredictable changes for the foreseeable future

If you have a financial model that can counter the costs of these extreme weather events, or real scientific data that proves that climate change will not keep running at the current rate, please do get infront of the EU government. Am sure you will be heard; because they would love to not have to do this.

Could not agree more. What terrified me about school and college age kids in the last 10 years was their incredible reliance on the Internet and mobile phones. They have "outsourced" part of their brains to the cloud.
Watching a 5 min youtube video has replaced learning things from first principles. Am working with kids (OK, 25 year olds - I'm ancient, sue me) who have 6 years of Java experience on paper; and do not understand what is really going on in Inheritance, and why "object assemblies" are better than sub-classes; multi-threaded programming (hence memory sharing & contentions) or how generics work.
Kids using ChatGPT to generate content, or Midjourney to generate image think they understand what they have created. Unfortunately they cannot spot the "hallucinations" that ChatGPT generates, or the potential impact of an artificially generated image. We have jointly created a generation of adults without the tools to reason out truth; and given them the most powerful weapon imaginable their hands and said "go have at it". Agree with an earlier post - a nice Terminator apocalypse to reset the board might absolve me of my guilt in allowing and enabling this to happen.

This is spot on - Am going to steal this line

Again, spot on. This is exactly what has worked for us. Couple of things I would add:

• - As much as possible, couple asynchronously using messaging streams, not tight coupling
• - Use a process like Event Storming to deconstruct the problem. The aggregates will give you the boundary that connects business value stream thinking to the smaller apps (Aggregates in Event Storming parlance).

Violently agree; and I use a very similar approach. In addition to asking dumb questions, I try to actually say something I know to be wrong to see how they handle it. If they can't gently correct me, we will have a problem. It tells me a) they know their stuff and are confident b) they value their integrity c) they want to be a team player. There is a risk that they feel I am an idiot and they dont want to work with me; but I can usually handle it by reading body language and helping understand why I asked the question.
[START OF RANT] One of the biggest problem I've seen is manager's or leader's unwillingness to hire folks smarter than them. If you can't hire folks smarter than you, you are never going to scale. Your value as a manager or leader has to come from pulling a really smart team together to deliver on a goal. The "Dumb" question and "wrong" answer tell you if you get a team that will challenge you and push you to the top of your game. Look at George Lucas in the prequels; or Freddie Mercury in his solo career. If you cant hire folks who can help lift you, the outcome will nearly always suck [ END OF RANT ]

If the city was destroyed, why are we talking about "which part". So it was just one street, on one day of riots, in response to one specific event? Or are folks firebombing city centers every day? Drove through Harlem over the weekend to get to George Washington bridge; and did not see burnt cars anywhere. You can take the worst day of any group of people, and it will be remembered - but the rest of the days when nothing happened get forgotten.
Seen this: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
THAT's destruction of a city. Any black violence you've seen come anywhere close to that?

I am an Indian living in the US. As part of my work, I visit offices in New York, Camden and Philadelphia - 3 places that the US right wing always seems to call out as "destroyed". I am usually dressed in a suit, and I drive a Tesla. In the last 14 years I have NEVER been mugged, threatened with a knife or anything like that. Earlier when I drove a Subaru, I had a flat tire in an area; and 2 folks stopped to help me; and did not try to steal my car. On the other hand, in the same car broke down near the Ohio Pennsylvania border (pure Trump country) and I stopped at a gas station. I was told to go elsewhere, as they did not serve my kind there. So ... maybe I am an outlier; but honestly think - not so much. I have a ton of "republican" friends; but don't find them having any "democrat" friends other than me. Very often, I am shocked at how much they are mis-informed. For example, there was a posting doing the rounds stating: "NOAA says temperature has not changed in the last 8 years - climate change is false". I took them to the NOAA site, and they were shocked to see that exactly the opposite was true; they've recorded 1.4 degrees increase exactly as predicted. If you've seen the recent stuff on Fox News during the Dominion case, you will see where your information is really coming from. Step out your bubble for a minute; and you might be surprised by what you find ...