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Maybe you should read the article, because the increase in Linux users correlates with a reduction in Chinese users.

Slop overflow, for when the slop machine can’t lie to you well enough

I’m not sure that I’ve phrased this question well, or that I even know how to ask this question well.

Consensus seems to be no, you didn’t ask this well. I think you could be onto something but you didn’t communicate any information to argue your point.

I think the problem comes from your premise. The WWW is not something that can have an information management strategy, good or bad. The WWW is a communication system that allows us to talk to other parts of the world, it is not the servers that the WWW talks to. Even if the servers were the WWW, they aren’t run by just one group. Anyone can run a server that connects to the WWW. This makes it impossible for there to be a single information management strategy; instead, every server has their own information management strategy. You also fail to describe what you mean by an “information management strategy” and what you consider to be a good or bad one.

And now, some editorial notes:

Once upon a time, I looked at the web as akin to an igneous rock, whereas now I think of it as a sedimentary rock.

Starting with a metaphor is fine, but without context (either before or after) it doesn’t mean anything. E.g. “Once upon a time I thought I was a duck, but now I think I’m a goose” sounds profound but it doesn’t actually contribute anything to the conversation.

The web has changed a lot in the last ~5 years. Sure, it can withstand a nuclear blast or whatever it was designed to withstand, but it clearly wasn’t designed to have usage patterns designed to endure.

You’re misunderstanding what was designed to withstand a nuclear blast. Web servers are not the self-healing communication standards that connect them.
Also, you use “designed” twice which makes it sort of tautological. I.e. “it wasn’t designed to be designed”.

For me, the thing that really drove this point home

You still haven’t stated a point. You’ve only asked a question up to this point in your post. You then bring up some anecdotes which you probably meant to support your point, but a reader can only guess what that point is so it’s confusing and unhelpful.

Anyway, I mention all of this because my first impression was that humans sought to record what was known so as to build upon that. Now, my impression is that the digital commons got turned into [a] forum of captive buyers without the language used ever changing, so it’s a shift that’s difficult to detect.

Is this your point??? It doesn’t have anything to do with your original question. If you’re going to argue a point, then please introduce it before you provide information to back up your point. While a standard essay layout is not required, the idea of an introduction, supporting information, then conclusion is always a good logical flow that everyone can follow.

By the end of your post, I’m still left wondering what information management strategy you want or what improvements you want to the existing one that the WWW uses.

The article briefly talks about female drivers too, which is what I talking about.

Women drivers can toggle on a preference to receive trip requests from women riders, giving them even more control over how they earn.

(and the image/gif seems to imply it’ll exclusively accept rides from women riders)

But yes, if gender is self-declared then it’d be pretty easy to abuse by a malicious rider (I assume, without proof, that drivers have to be vetted somehow). If they require a phone number for new rider accounts it shouldn’t be too hard to keep banned malicious users out, though. There are more foolproof ways, but they have other issues (e.g. ID verification is a privacy nightmare and potentially transphobic depending on local government policies).

It’s been a little while since I’ve used any sort of taxi service because the local public transit is pretty good, but I know a lot of the USA isn’t so lucky there either. That’s more of a cultural problem though.

On a semi-related note, it’s quite ironic that Uber made a change for only their home nation on International Women’s Day.

That also only solves half of the problem. Female drivers also want to be safe and doing background checks on everyone who has an Uber account isn’t very practical.

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At least up north around where I live manhole covers are often also either holes or bumps in the road due to things shifting around from the freeze/thaw cycles. Basically potholes with a purpose. Hitting bumps is bad for your car, so that’s a pretty good reason to avoid them. Though I’d never swerve around a bump if I was going to come close to someone else, since that’s much more dangerous.