lol - same thing with pilots ;)

Thank you!

You're very welcome :)

When the new Freenet is up and running, I think it will be the first system of any kind that could host something like wikipedia, not just the data but the wiki CMS system it's built on. An editable wikipedia, entirely decentralized and very scalable.

I think when the history of the last decade is written, it will be about - in part - the terrible social damage caused by opaque and biased social media algorithms manipulating the public discourse.

Locutus is primarily designed for decentralization, not anonymity - which will make it less suited to IP theft than various other technologies that are already pervasive, the same is true of a lot of the other "people you don't want to be your early adopters" that you mention. It's definitely a risk for systems like Freenet, but it's a manageable risk.

Most of the negative comments so far are from people who I doubt spent 20 seconds looking at our site, so I hope they don't color your judgement. Read through our user manual and form your own opinion.

Once there are viable alternatives on Freenet we'll use them.

I think the time is right, which is exactly why I'm doing what I'm doing :)

Totally agree about the importance of naming, and Freenet has the advantage of literally describing what we're building - a free network.

We've already had interest from everyone from video game developers who want to build a decentralized MMORPG, to political advocacy groups across the political spectrum. Plenty of people value freedom.

You're being surprisingly judgmental when it doesn't seem like you even read the first few paragraphs on the website about it, let alone the other available documentation.

We're still early but we already have a user manual that goes into quite a bit of detail, if you'd like to take a look and if you still have questions I'd be happy to answer.

I use Outlook and Teams at work but I've found the web versions to be faster. I just open outlook.office.com and teams.microsoft.com in Firefox. Outlook in particular responds faster (for me) than the desktop app -- though it' still pretty sluggish. Teams in the browser is about the same experience as the desktop version (which is currently an Electron app anyway), but at least you only have one browser engine running, saving a few hundred megs of memory.

So obviously, links also open in Firefox. One thing I haven't managed to fix is the obnoxious "safelinks" URI munging. There are Greasemonkey scripts for that but Microsoft has changed the munging slightly over the years so I haven't found (or managed to write) one that works.

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Unlike the ACM article's author, I'm not offended by the new unreachable notation. It won't bite you unless you explicitly decide to use it. The problem is the implicit undefined behaviour allowing the compiler to do crazy things. In most cases I can kind of see why it's that way, but it needs a strong warning from the compiler that it's about to elide half of your code having decided it can never be reached without undefined behaviour being triggered.

We know that ChatGPT can make up stuff that vaguely matches its training set. And you could train it on a corpus of peer-reviewed academic papers and newspapers (not including Wikipedia or other websites in the corpus) and it might then be able to write encylopaedia articles. But as Jimmy Wales noted, you'd have to take its output with a very large pinch of salt, and by that point you might as well write the article by hand.

A more fruitful approach, as well as one that's more of a challenge for current technology, would be to ask a machine learning system to find problems with Wikipedia articles. "The claim in the fifth paragraph cites the study [15] as evidence, but the conclusions of that study do not support the claim in the Wikipedia article. This is because the study says... while the article says... "

Once you've got a system that can nitpick articles like this, even if it's unreliable and sometimes gets false positives, it's still a good starting point for a human to go in and check. And if the model has misunderstood, hopefully it would be possible to use these mistakes to correct the model or as additional training data.