@planet @clojure Two errors in the first paragraph is not encouraging. An associative array does not necessarily support either a 'remove' or an 'insert' operation, and, indeed, in languages with immutable data, it supports neither.

What's worse, the entire article appears to have been lifted verbatim from Wikipedia.

The whole site appears to be an email harvesting scam.

@planet @clojure Eric used to do a *really good* podcast -- no new episodes recently, sadly, but the old ones are worth going back to.

@ajsadauskas @degoogle having said that, the patents on Google's PageRank algorithm have now all expired, and a distributed, co-op operated search engine would now be possible. Yes, there would be trust issues, and you'd need to build fairly sophisticated filters to identify and exclude crap sites, but it might nevertheless be interesting and useful.

@ajsadauskas @degoogle I used to be one of those human editors. I was the editor of Scotland.org from about 1994 to about 1997, back in the days when it was exactly one of those hierarchical web directories – with the intention of indexing every website based in Scotland.

@Fudoshin @DessertStorms the thing that made me cry, when I needed a food bank, was they asked if I had pets and included food for my cats.

There is an awful lot of good in this world.

@NABDad @Provider Usenet was certainly an amazing space, for a long time. It was a lot of my social life from the 1980s until into the 2000s. It slightly predates the Internet, running on UUCP; and indeed I ran a UUCP relay from my home for a time.

I then, in the 1990s and after, ran webservers from home. Yes, I was privileged to do so. The web, too, was a very exciting place in the early days.

@quinnly @jocanib very slightly more than one.

@ajsadauskas @fediverse @technology

"Human" goals. But which humans?