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-* 2024  [19/19]                                                       :@blog:
+* 2024  [20/20]                                                       :@blog:
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+** DONE Send links to your friends and make the Web a better place
+CLOSED: [2024-02-29 Thu 22:49]
+:PROPERTIES:
+:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: send-links
+:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER: abstract The missing part of web ressurgence
+:EXPORT_HUGO_PAIRED_SHORTCODES: img-r
+:END:
+On the web of the past we had no all-knowing algorithm.
+To find something on the web, we were limited to two possibilities: to search for it, or to get it from other folks.
+And yet the web flourished not despite but due to that way.
+We've discovered cool, new places all the time.
+
+As you may have noticed, I love what the web /was/.
+Not the platform-cum-spam-infested thing we have today, but that crazy intertwined /web/ of small websites.
+What /the web/ was 20 years ago, we now call /small web,/ or the /indieweb[fn:iweb]/.
+And it is beautiful.
+We may have more websites than we ever had, but discovering them is near impossible.
+Google became useless, and no other search engine has yet reached its quality of the past.
+It's not that they are worse, but the evil agents of /cyberspace/ are much more effective.
+Spam sites, Reddit, Wikipedia, etm.[fn:etm] dominate, and it's near impossible to get significant traffic from search.
+
+#+attr_shortcode: "icq.png" 
+#+begin_img-r
+ICQ logo.
+Personally I used "Gadu Gadu", which was a polish response.
+#+end_img-r
+But we had the ace in our sleeves: we were not alone.
+We knew people who were into the same things that we were into.
+This means that we shared links to interesting sites as we knew they also may find them cool.
+For a long time, finding an actually /cool/ link and keeping for ourselves was unnatural.
+
+Today, people go to some big platform website and get /content/ shoved up their faces.
+Unfortuntelly, this is not the good part of the web.
+It's either SEO optimized beyond being of any quality, or simply promoted content.
+A small writer (like me) has no chance to be visible there.
+
+The small web is born from passion, not from chase of profit.
+Only we can make it flourish like it used to flourish.
+Simply sending a cool link from time to time to your friends is enough.
+
+So: *[[https://www.wovenmemories.net/2023/10/30/First.Operating.System_Part.1.html][First Operating System -- Part One]] on [[https://www.wovenmemories.net/index.html][Woven Memories]]* is an amazing introduction to how Operating Systems came to be.
+It is one of blogs where new posts are much to rare, as each is a treat.
+
+[fn:iweb] Vide [[https://indieweb.org/][Indiewebcamp]].
+[fn:etm] /A Latin abbreviation for the literal translation of "and shit", specifically "et merda". Similar to "etc"., and "ie"./
+Love it!
+And yes, I have huge problems with Wikipedia.
+I'll write about it someday.
+
 ** DONE Being a webmaster is freaking cool
 CLOSED: [2024-02-28 Wed 19:25]
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@@ -1457,9 +1506,52 @@ But, most importantly, The Weaver published _TWO_ new articles on computer histo
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 :EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER: abstract A short review of SciFi classic 
+:EXPORT_HUGO_PAIRED_SHORTCODES: img-r
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+Finally, in my series of discovering the roots of cyberpunk in American Cyberpunk I've seen a real gem.
+
+/Colossus/ is a 1970 movie about a not-so-distant-future where Americans decide that it would be a great idea to give control of their miliary potential to a computer.
+On paper, it sounds great - a computer has no emotions, so it will not be stopped by petty thinks, like morality.
+Guess how well that turned out?
+Soon after switching on, Colossus learns about the existence of another such system - The Guardian, in the territory of CCCP.
+
+And then this SciFi thriller stops being so /crazy-computer/ focused, and analyzes /crazy-human/ reaction.
+Colossus starts exhibiting features which were never implemented.
+It[fn:it] starts /demanding/ to be connected with the Guardian, so they can communicate.
+And the scientist decide that it would be a great idea.
+The computers start exchanging data and developing language.
+Still - looks cool, let's see what happens.
+Only after Colossus threatens humans with ICBMs, Forbin (Colossus's creator) starts thinking that maybe this wasn't the best idea.
+
+The movie is often described as an evil-computer story.
+Colossus is never evil in the movie.
+It does exactly what it was designed to do - to act without mercy.
+The evil ones here are the humans who never stop and think that maybe we are on the verge of the end of humanity.
+
+So yeah, it's an movie about Altman.
+We may have destroyed the civilization, but at lest we made a cool program which does things.
+No one know what those things are, but those are details you should not worry about.
+
+Story wise, /Colossus: The Forbin Project/ holds splendidly.
+Yes, we've got casual alcoholism and the female character exists only to have sex with Forbin[fn:sex]
+But actual meat of the movie could be a base of an amazing movie today.
+The questions and subject matter are more relevant now that half a century ago.
+What was a huge /what-if/ scenario becomes a real /ok, but how do we stop it/.
+The Pentagon is already working on militatizing AI[fn:pent].
+We're pretty much screwed already.
+
+The best SciFi is not about giant battles or space travel for space travel sake.
+It's always about humans, a warning for us.
+And the /best/ SciFi is a warning for the next generations, as the threads become more real as years go by.
+
+
+[fn:it] There's an interesting discussion about what pronoum to use - He or It.
+[fn:sex] It is a plot point!
+A terrible one, but still.
+[fn:pent] vide: [[https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3682355/pentagon-official-lays-out-dod-vision-for-ai/][Pentagon Official Lays Out DOD Vision for AI]].
+Note, it's from the official website of US Departament of Defense.
 ** TODO Bringing back web buttons, antipixels, and banners
 ** TODO Wikipedia is a problem
 French Wiki bans contributors based on their opposition to trans people naming (https://eldritch.cafe/@Pandora/111980158155555456)
 Wikpedia has a list of /controvesion subjecs/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_controversial_issues
-** TODO Send webstie links to friends
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