v. 2.0.0.7-21-rth
Wow, Facebook has a pretty cool new feature, “People you may now”, probably those people who have a high number of mutual friends with me, a.k.a. “2nd-degree friends” or nodes on the network with distance = 2 via multiple paths.
Out of the three people it recommended for me, it got 2 wrong, and 1 right, I do know her, but eh, I don’t really want to be “friends” with her, because I think she’s a b***h…
So, I didn’t get enough sleep this morning so the neurons are firing and I am being random…
Goddammit, Facebook sucks, It’s turning to MySpace nowadays. Useless crap is being added at an incredible level, people are probably behaving like monkeys clicking on everything clickable on their stupid pages. You had email chain-letters and in the old days you’d get 4 or 5 copies if your have enough dumb people who have you in their address books and you have a lot of loops in your network of email friends. On Facebook is n idiots who all decide they have to paste the same stupid Flash video or pixely image into your “Super”-Wall (Note to self: 1) Make a Facebook app called Hyper-Wall. 2) … 3) Profit!).
And if someone isn’t getting crap from his/her friends, he/she is putting crap on his/her own page. Hey, how about a f’ing name analyzer that turns OMG, your name, into an acronym of feel good words that supposedly describes you. At least it’d be interesting if it involved AI which can read your mind, but it’s most likely just PHP with output += feelgoodword[i] for each i being the letter of your name.
And with all that, the main idea, of connecting people (TM, (c) Nokia!) is being lost.
But wait… maybe I’m just being anal. Why not let people have their fun the way they like it?
Yeah, I probably am. But I have a feeling with all this “fun and games” the actual idea of allowing people to communicate and connect to each other is being lost. We’re not talking anymore. It’s easy to talk to somebody, it’s just one wall post (what is it with people abusing the wall for personal messages anyway, are people that narcissistic and want to be seen talking to the other person?), so we don’t do it.
I don’t know what the point of this rant. Maybe it’s to proclaim I hate the so called “social networks”.
Achtung, I am now going to rant about idiots on the internet…
I can’t believe how full of stupid people the internet has been. Take for example Ubuntu help pages…
Type these commands into the terminal: [bla bla bla]…
No longer do the writers bother to explain what these commands do. I doubt the readers are interested in reading them either, they are the so-called “noobs” who thought installing “Linux” would be cool, so they try it out, not knowing what the fuck they are doing, and resorting to asking questions in forums and googling about how to accomplish things. Sure it will get you somewhere, but will you understand what’s happening on the way?
I remember the good old days of reading man pages, well written ones that begin with the background of what’s what, before giving you an explanation of what each command does, and example command lines. None of the “Copy & paste this. If it doesn’t work come back and ask for more hand-holding.”
Reminds me of a girl who wanted to know how to get the text-mode console from X.
“Press Ctrl-Alt-F1″, I said.
“And to get back to X?”
“Ctrl-Alt-F7. Well, not always F7, you see there are these virtual consoles…”
She’s pressed those buttons already, and wasn’t listening to my explanation anymore.
This rant was inspired by the Tabloid-like Slashdot headline Ubuntu May Be Killing Your Laptop’s Hard Drive, which overblows an issue of a bad parameter in a script (which everybody can, and should, fix themselves) to a problem that sounds like something has gone horribly wrong with Ubuntu itself. This brings me nicely to the second class of Internet-idiots: The sensational-headline-writing dolts that are Digg submitters. Who are forced to write ready-for-tabloid bullshit headlines and summaries because that’s what grabs idiot user’s miniscule attention spans…
I got nothing… tabloids and reality shows are popular because they cater to the less intelligent, so I guess I can see why Digg is so popular…
Disclaimer: I do read Digg (although avoiding the site and lame commenters using the excellent Sitening’s Digg Feed), and am continuously disappointed at the level of bullshit in the content they link to.
Well, I’ve been thinking of going to the next base of online existence, (drumroll) getting my own domain! And with it there is the process of coming up with that original, easy-to-remember and not-yet-squatted (damn you domain squatters!) domain name.
So, when I read this BoingBoing post about new top-level-domains and Cory’s editorial about the “.sex” TLD, I wondered if that TLD really exists, so I typed in “lets.have.sex” in Opera. An error came up. I guess they’re still just in the planning stages.
Yeah, come to think of it, “lets.have.sex” is a bit childish. 
. But anyway, you can’t really put that on the t-shirt without the “http://” in front of it (and the final “/”), which makes it very dorky and so 1997 (during the early days of the web, companies put “http://” on TV/print/billboard ads because I guess they were afraid their audience wouldn’t recognize that it’s their website. The “http://” is usually followed by “www”, which is a big freaking clue. I guess the Marketroids were afraid that their customers would put in “www.idiotcompany.com” in their browser and it would bring up an error, because it’s missing the protocol. Ah, Marketroids are dumb). But “lets.have.sex” would really be seen as a dumb t-shirt writing instead of an URL because of the missing “www” and/or “http://”. But if “http://”, can I also have, “gopher://”, “ftp://”, or “file://”?
Oh man, why the hell is it so easy to get distracted on the internet.
I was laying in my bed actually doing something for my project (hah, unbelievable).
I wanted to look something up on the internet, if a hierarchical Public Key Infrastructure is really a transitive trust-model with the user explicitly trusting the low-level certificate issuer.
So I Wikipediaed (new verb! You saw it here first!) “PKI”. I see there a link to PKI, the Indonesian Communist Party. Hey, that wasn’t there before…
So I actually read about the Communists before reading about the PK-Infrastructure.
And then I wondered who put “PKI” in, I don’t think it was there the last time I looked.
The user “Idont Havaname” put it there. In Nov 2006. Did I last look at this page before than? It’s possible.
So I start reading his profile…
And land upon a list of “two cows” jokes.
I like this one:
Switzerland:
You have 5000 cows, none of which belongs to you. You charge for storing them for others.
Stuff I’ve won…
…at least if you believe the subject lines of the e-mails in my spambox.
“1100 unread messages”. Ah, thanks, Yahoo! But as I mentioned before, my account is 10 years old, I can’t just give it up. So it’s become my spam-trap address, unfortunately.
So much crap on the internet… I long for the good old daysTM
