I asked about the wero[1] US tech lock-in since it is based on Ideal which (in contrast) also works with a browser + card reader + pin code. The response was not to worry about that. Wtf?

I also find the de-banking mechanism fascinating. Bunch of anons decide privately if you are fkd for whatever reason they want (if any)

[1] - https://wero-wallet.eu

>If nothing else I'd like it if operating systems and web browsers helped me be less distracted and frenetic, instead of encouraging exactly that multi-tasking freneticism. When I opened my phone or computer, it'd be nice if it was constrained to operate in a mode purpose-built for whatever task I intended to use it for.

I've often had this though. The short answer is that it isn't yours.

As a joke I proposed a sausage shaped phone that vibrates. That way if you happen to need or want a vibrator you have it in your hand already. It sounds stupid I know but phones are porn mags and slot machines too. For those with a gambling problem the usability of a work device that is also a casino should probably be expressed as a negative score. When I first held a smart phone I asked how to use it as an mp3 player. Today it still can't compete with a cheap mp3 player.

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Long ago I read a story about a family that published and printed a weekly newspaper [sick] just for the 5 of them. It had articles looking back on the previous week and ones about things scheduled for this week. Members of the family would submit articles and the mum stitched everything together into the print.

I think with llm we can print a daily report? You can scan it too but you have to boot up a computer and launch applications which defeats the point.

Maybe the trick is to have big buttons that connect a bootable medium (with a single purpous OS) and start the computer.

The name is strange. They had a fox and a bird, used fire and thunder. The logical next would be Earthworm or watervole.

Spacemonkey.

Seamonkey exists.

BrimstoneOctopus.

The next study will be just to ask and measure how fast they run away.

A team of fresh slaves.

At some point you end up writing a lot of code to say something that is a single word on the db query.

Perhaps (besides simple things) if you have many millions of users and no money. Or if you need something a DB is truly bad at.

Back when Ajax was a hip new thing someone asked me why xml? We later answered that question with JSON of course but his hypothetical solution was much more hilarious. I'm calling it the html database. He made two mockups. One where everything was a richly formatted static html file and one that used a blogging platform. It had things like archives by month each with their own url. A paginated front page with chunk from each posting.

It was pretty funny and I couldn't really see something wrong with it.

In his demo he pulled in a document with a table in it and inserted the table into a div. One version used the domparser but he also made one with <!-- table start --> and <!-- table end --> and chopped out a substring.

In the 80's, because of resource constraints, a standard thing to ask was "why is my data not formatted the way I need it?"

IOW when to format it properly? when it is created? When it is consumed? Both? At some other time?

If you are going to create it one time and consume it 100 000 times html is a great "DB"

He invented the RESTful DB.

I keep thinking how laws rely way to much on hard coded values.

Privacy laws should really switch on and off depending on how much citizens trust their government. IOW I have no objection to even the most draconian spying if the voter trusts the government 100%.

Likewise, the amount of crime that could be prevented with a technology should also play a role. If there are 50 robberies per month in a street it is a good idea to plaster it with cameras, spin up a server and give law enforcement access 24/7. At 500 robberies you should also put guns on the cameras. For one every 1-5 years a patrol car is enough.

Repeat the title 3 times in the first 3 lines then again as the start of the next paragraph.

Fill the rest of the article assuming this is the readers first day on planet earth. Like, an article about a CPU architecture should start with the early history of mathematics.