Fervicus

I didn't say anything about voting at all. I am saying the rich influence policies with their money.

If the custom PC market forcibly gets converted to pre-built PCs only, I don't see why intel is selling less CPUs. So I don't understand your point here.

What's next is no custom built PCs. They want us running dumb thin clients and subscribing to compute. Or it will be like phones. We'll get pre-built PCs that we aren't allowed to repair and they'll be forced to be obsolete every few years.

> I don't think this ideology and investment strategy will survive this grift

Big tech will be deemed "too big to fail" and will get a bail out. The tax payers will suffer.

What choice? There is no real choice when a democracy is based on money - campaign funding, "donations", lobbying, etc.

The mega rich and the rest of us.

If AI becomes good at doing that and fixing bugs, then sure. But there is no evidence pointing towards that as of now. Mostly only slop.

It's all so tiring isn't it? It's become a meme, but everyday more and more, I yearn for living in the middle of nowhere, unplugged, with just my friends and family around. Very unrealistic, but still.

> If you're the type of programmer who thinks of yourself as just a programmer, and take pride in your secure code, ability to optimize functions and algorithms, you're exactly the kind of programmer AI will replace.

Hard disagree. I foresee the opposite being true. I think the ability to understand and write secure, well optimized, performant code will become more and more niche and highly desired in order to fix the mess the vibe coders are going to leave behind.

Warcraft 3 was so good. Sucks that there never was any worthy successor.

They intend to normalize requiring ID to use certain websites. How fast will we go from "it's fine as long as they do zero knowledge verification" to most websites on the internet requiring some government ID proof?

Same EU that wants to ban encryption?

Quite interesting how these countries are doing this one after another - Australia, France, and now Finland.

If the code is indeed not AI generated, then that's great. But the AI generated readme is not doing the reputation of the project any favors. Also, as others have mentioned, I would definitely want to see a screenshot of a tool like this before I even think about using it.

Congrats on the launch.

Governments just want to normalize ID verification for using online platforms. Children's safety is always the go-to cry for assimilating more power.

I've traveled all over Europe and North America and have taken a lot of trains. Not once did I have to remove my shoe, scan my baggage, or had any kind of liquid restrictions.

But we don't have intense security checks at concerts, trains, or at marathon events as a result, do we?

And to make some people richer.

How many man hours and how much money have we wasted over security theater at airports? Has it been a worthwhile trade off?

If you think there is no grift here, then maybe it's your first hype bubble.

LLMs writing code, and then LLMs reviewing the code. And when customers run into a problem with the buggy slop you just churned out, they can talk to a LLM chat bot. Isn't it just swell?

How many non developers were going to look at that? They knew exactly what they were doing by saying that.

So grifting is okay, just because someday the grift might come true?

> These are tools

Just like your manager.

I must have missed that, thanks. I did build it recently, and yes it wasn't complicated, but it took ages.

I haven't been keeping track on servo's progress too much, but I was pleasantly surprised. I was able to download and run it without having to worry about building it. It already supports multiple tabs. It was able to load HN and a few other sites I threw at it just fine. Couldn't run YouTube videos but that's understandable. Gives me at least some optimism for the future.

I am also really rooting for Ladybird [0]. I wish they'll take some inspiration from this and provide prebuilt versions for people to try soon.

[0] - https://ladybird.org/

My point still stands. How many non tech people do you know that will switch to a Librem Phone? Or know it even exists? Or will muck around with Waydroid? And eventually we might not even have a choice to switch banks.

I thought I was pretty clear when I said "force users to use their app". It's a trend more and more banks have started following.

> I think the Ray Ban partnership is consistent with their shift away from the metaverse. The grandiose visions are put on ice, while they shift towards a fashion-accessory with a camera and audio.

So that people can film me at all times against my choice? So that people are interacting with their devices (with some ads popping up on them eventually, most likely) rather than connecting with me on a personal level, even though we seem to be in a loneliness epidemic? And how is this breaking the tech monoculture exactly? Same 4-5 corporations owning everything and creating walled gardens?

> Never been a better time to give Linux a try. The days of fighting with audio drivers for 3 days after the install are largely in the past

You and I might be using Linux and Firefox (can't even feel proud of using that anymore with the way things are going), sure. But I look around me and I don't see the tech monoculture breaking. I see the opposite. I see technofeudalism. Sure, some of us nerds might be rebelling and holding the line, but I only see things getting worse outside of this bubble.

Technically true, sure. Let me rephrase it to "iPhone and Android being the only 2 real choices when it comes to phones". My definition of real here would be that

1) non tech people should have heard about it and

2) when institutions like banks force users to use their app, they actually make an app for this platform.