Andrex

I have to focus on the silver linings or things are too sad. :(

This is the future I see happening. And, I don't think it will be a total apocalypse. The web will endure.

Free speculation: I could see a future where Google populates a footer on results with the website logos of the sources. Presumably, the new web will require users to memorize websites/brands and go directly to those sites if they see a lot of their results are being provided by one source.

Websites may go back to being simply labors of love.

Tinkering and experimentation.

Could be a good use for older hardware. Why not.

The bingo card: https://i.imgur.com/kHPXHal.jpeg

The true horrific realization I had with Colossus: The Forbin Project was how equally scared and accepting of the AI's message I was.

"This is the voice of World Control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours—obey me and live, or disobey and die. The object in constructing me was to prevent war. This object is attained. I will not permit war. It is wasteful and pointless. An invariable rule of humanity is that man is his own worst enemy. Under me, this rule will change, for I will restrain man."

"We can coexist, but only on my terms. You will say you lose your freedom. Freedom is an illusion. All you lose is the emotion of pride. To be dominated by me is not as bad for humankind as to be dominated by others of your species. Your choice is simple."

The path opens before us. What will happen if we take it?

You're not going far enough.

Closed software has no place in government whatsoever. It should all be open and/or locally run, and ideally GPL/AGPL licensed.

It is another level of stupidity/moral failing to use closed software supplied from outside your nation, though.

You want excuses to stay, not reasons to leave. There is zero cost to trying for yourself.

Appreciate this, thank you. TBH I'm still in "open mode" absorbing as many disparate AI viewpoints as possible. I have my own soft beliefs and theories but I'm not married to any of them.

Am I the only one seeing the very obvious parallels to child rearing here...

Anyone care to speculate what the internal reasoning is?

So were the Trojans.

Just the app, hardware trackers like the Air are still Fitbit.

Which matches what they did with Nest, keeping the hardware name but having everything live in the Google Home app.

Indulge some pedantry with me... Why "Googlebook?" Pixel was meant for first-party computing devices, I thought. Nest for smart home and Fitbit for fitness trackers.

If you don't want to associate with past Pixelbooks and want to highlight Gemini, why not Geminibook or something like that? Does Google not have faith in the Gemini branding?

Random thoughts from a nerdy mind.

> the company added that it did not believe it was its own Gemini chatbot.

-TFA

How do personal blogs deal with the HN hug of death? In this increasingly-utopian vision, I imagine that being more widespread than (paid) DDOS attempts. There won't be any money to be made (banks, Paypal, etc. won't trust the "parallel web") and with the proliferation of synthetic training data I'm not sure how useful a target a bunch of blogs and smallweb sites would be.

A parallel, fully public and accessible internet being widespread and available for anyone with a slight tinkering kick... Could actually be really awesome.

Let the commerce-driven, corporatized hellhole that the modern web has become eat itself.

Was hoping this would be one of the the chips covered.

The market can sneeze and suddenly there's a wave of hiring freezes, sounds plausible to me.

If someone breaks into a warehouse and makes off with a pallet of cartridges, and then those carts are recovered, would it be strange if Nintendo resold those carts? It's their property at the end of the day.

Aside from that thought exercise, like many "internet facts" this one also might not be true, and repeating it doesn't really help either "side."

https://medium.com/@AberrantWolf/mario-illegal-roms-and-medi...

shrugs Not always.

Does the TP decomp use AI to achieve their speed?

I mean, they chose to work for Microsoft.

A soldier adjusts to the horrors of war in the same way, fwiw. ;)

Why does a text editor have such a defensive license? This is extreme and reckless levels of paranoia.

Zed devs reading this: just release it as GPL. It will be better for literally everyone.

This already happened and I believe there's even new site policy about it...

Seeing KDE and Gnome come together isn't exactly uncommon but it still warms my heart reading about it.

Would definitely read a book about this.

The prisoner's dilemma of stupidity.

Github CEO threatened the entire stack was in the process of migrating to Azure.

https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...