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stands for Transfer Protocol.

Yet, since decades, it's not anymore a protocol optimized for HyperText transfer.

Now, what if we wanted to design a protocol REALLY optimized for such goal?

We could design it from scratch for high bandwidth high latency network, maybe over something like BitTorrent, sharing signed but mostly unencrypted and cacheable contents and occasionally encrypted ones. Always static: browseable but not interactive, yet easy enough to self-host to allow social conversation through additive creation of new contents into such Web.

But how to name such protocol?

HTTP has been taken and corrupted. 😒

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@jasper @mookie

To me it sounds like a free adversarial network to IMPROVE facial recognition.

1943: Italian phrase book for American soldiers during the second World War.

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I've noticed a recent linguistic shift in some young people, referring to websites as "apps". Reddit is an "app". The college website is an "app". "Which app did you see that on?"

I don't know if this is just shorthand (they likely access sites through an app) or a genuine misunderstanding of what's going on.

I don't want to be dramatic, but I'd lying if I said it didn't concern me a little. The WWW is a great resource which is free and interoperable. (Well we're down to just 2 browser engines now, but that's another matter). It'd be a shame if the WWW withered away, replaced by "apps", because people didn't know what they had.

"Damn kids. They're all alike."

"You may stop this individual,
but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike."

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curl -s http://artscene.textfiles\.com/vt100/globe.vt | pv -L9600 -q # Spinning ASCII art globe. Visit the parent directory in that URL for more animations.

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@rogue_tr00per

No really: I don't care about being or not being included among the lives that matter!

My life matter for the people I love. To me that's enough. 😉

I was just trying to explain why the argument of the meme fails short in Europe.

Most of us know that dialogue with people different from us is the only way to progress. And we know that usually, those who spread hate and fear (far right, far left, whatever) do not want to see problems solved, because their power comes from such problems.

@freemo

@rogue_tr00per

Maybe there is a language barrier at work.

Anyway, if you say to an European that "black lives matter", there is a very high probability you will get as a response something like "sure, obviously: all lives matters!".

That's because there is no STRUCTURAL racism here, but there are other forms of structural oppression at work.

If you don't care about such other form of oppression that are more common here (and are basically due to income and wealth), fine: your problem.

I was just trying to explain a cultural mismatch that usually cause hated misunderstandings... like you see in this conversation.

@freemo

@rogue_tr00per

Why are you attacking me?

Anyway I was talking about structural racism, "the system" in the meme.

We have racists even here but they are not taken much seriously from the vast majority of the population.

Racism here is just an excuse to get a little bit of power over a small minority of (sadly) ignorant people by spreading believes into simple solutions to complex problem.
In Italy for example we have a party, called Lega that now collect the vote of Italian racists, but years ago the same party was called Lega Nord and instead of migrants it directed hate and fear against Italians coming from the south of the country.

So it's overly simplistic to pretend we have the same issues people have in the States.

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@phryk

That's an American gentrification of .

The original meaning of INCLUDED the violation of users' taboos that poor administrators relied upon as security features.

@rysiek

@freemo

I'm not a native English speaker, so sorry if this is a dumb question, but what's the difference between "every life matters" and "all lifes matter"? I mean I don't get why one could prefer one sentence to the other.

I think that one of the core issue of this phenomenon is that most of Americans (whatever their race) have no cue about how big and varied is the word.

Structural racism in 2020 is an USA issue. To European people, saying that "alm" or "elm" is a way to point to the our own inequality issues, that are not linked to race but to income. Here it's quite evident that dividing the poors into black, white and so on, is just helping the rich to further oppress them.
So when Europeans say that all lifes matter, they mean: oppressed do not divide among yourselves, but unite and fight together the oppressors!

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