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neverokay··on Gemini Flash
It makes building any app that requires generous user prompting impossible to build for regular developers (cloud pricing).

$20 hosting can serve thousands of users per month. $20 llm sub services just one person. This is fucking impossible.

neverokay··on Veo
I really just need to make some porn with this stuff already and I feel like we’re all tip toeing around this key feature.

Censored models are not going to work and we need someone to charge for an explicit model already that we can trust.

neverokay··on AI-generated spam is starting to fill social media. Here's why
Are you really saying that this is literally not different from me posting MY PUSSY IN BIO 5 times?

For the most part yes. If you are a girl, almost everything you say is probably not even in your control and your only truth is probably that sentence. This ain’t gender specific stuff, people are roughly expressing one or two things over and over with a lot of fluff (spam, filler) filling in negative space.

I fully agree that I’ve gone off the deep end with this belief, but that’s where I’m at.

Are you single and looking for a guy or girl?

neverokay··on AI-generated spam is starting to fill social media. Here's why
Then maybe I’m using the wrong animal(s) here. I guess any animal group that uses group sounds (dolphins, etc). I mean think about it, why do some animals spread a message out via broadcast?

Why would humans spread so much of the same data (spam in this case) via broadcast?

I don’t know, but I don’t think it’s as simple as a means for warning. I think this is one of the ways we communicate. It sounds weird to say because, of course we communicate like that, we send emails, group messages …

But to hear that we might communicate like Dolphins is the hot take I guess

neverokay··on AI-generated spam is starting to fill social media. Here's why
I wouldn’t read too much into it. Most of it is coming from why LLMs even hallucinate.

In the simplest terms I’m just spitting out

Noun noun verb verb noun etc

And so are you

If you try to read into what the actual noun was, you’ll miss the forest for the trees.

People are mostly humming the same tunes as they always have been humming and filling the same roles they have always been filling.

Just take our exchange:

Opinion

Retort

Another Retort

——- We’re just dancing. You think there’s something unique going on here but there isn’t, hah. It’s a dance and pattern both me and you know from wherever, and we are sorta humming the song out.

Not too different when we try to figure out if there is a real magic to an LLM output.

neverokay··on AI-generated spam is starting to fill social media. Here's why
I’m becoming more of the mind that humans communicate more like birds or whales. There’s a general sound or frequency that everyone is humming. The spam isn’t fodder, it’s the collective “song” of humans at the moment.

I don’t think people say anything unique, and LLMs are proving it. We’re all kinda humming the same tunes. It’s why you won’t read anything new here or anywhere, you’ll read the same old story or hear the same old song.

I guess I’m saying humans in general communicate with spam, a buzz.

neverokay··on Why big founders compete with small makers?
A lot of simple ideas are not enterprise infrastructure or sales ready. Most devs wouldn’t know how to start that sales process, or bullet proof their app for the enterprise security theater. You need experienced sales people or just be straight up upper class (what YC effectively recruits for) so you have company connections that you can use (collusion and shit).

You can make an enterprise ready todo app and probably be fine as a company so long as that shit has SSO and a scumbag seasoned enterprise salesman. You can sell literal shit with that combo.

A lot of people on this very website sell literal shit to other companies (b2b) because they like, provide SSO to simple ass programs.

No joke. You can sell any shit to the enterprise so long as u have a solid combination of upper class connected elites, animalistic sales people, and sso. You may or may not even need on staff developers long term. Hah.

neverokay··on Not an iPad Pro Review: Why iPadOS Still Doesn't Get the Basics Right
Perfectly good reason. They don’t want to cannibalize existing products. You never want the customer thinking there is no real difference between a MacBook and iPad. You want them to truly believe in the uniqueness of the product.

Iwatch was a master class in that bullshit. Took long enough but people did eventually realize it’s a shittier smaller phone lol (but we’re talking genuine levels of shittier).

neverokay··on Not an iPad Pro Review: Why iPadOS Still Doesn't Get the Basics Right
iPad sharing is a massive no go. That product is mostly for the education industry and you better convince the school board every kid needs their own iPad (an AI powered one soon enough). Basically becomes a government mandated device, good business.
neverokay··on [dead]
That’s if I added just one more burrito (totaling 2 burritos). Point being that the price of a decent meal (which 2 small Taco Bell potato burritos is not), should not near $15.

Or is the economy truly gonna fuck us that blatantly.

neverokay··on OpenAI Spring Update [video]
Something must be done about him, quite frankly. He’s too creepy.
neverokay··on OpenAI Spring Update [video]
Sam Altman seems like a world class douche, is anyone else getting this vibe?

I need to know if my spidey senses are on point.

neverokay··on Venture Capitalists Are Using Podcasts to Lure in Founders
I’ve talked a lot about propaganda as a war invention, like many great technological advancements, found its way into these civilian systems. Capturing mindshare with propaganda is basically what this is.

Marketing is the commercial term (brand ambassador, Orwell sleeps soundly). Propaganda has a lot more coercive connotations.

neverokay··on Venture Capitalists Are Using Podcasts to Lure in Founders
It’s just levels to how little you actually know. I don’t actually know too much more than what I knew when I only had 20k compared to more than that. They are rich, but they also don’t know too much more than their first million or so.

The only thing you’ll learn from this class of rich is how to stay rich. Most of us are stuck on step 1.

When Chamath explains the practical steps of his wealth it all sounds like psychopathy and luck. You can’t follow these game plans for shit, too much luck involved.

neverokay··on Show HN: Boxwood – simple templating engine for JavaScript, in JavaScript
JSX kind of won, no?
neverokay··on Venture Capitalists Are Using Podcasts to Lure in Founders
Sounds awful. How much of this is networking with high net worth investors (nepo shit).
neverokay··on T-Mobile Completes Acquisition of Mint Mobile
That only works in the real world if there is zero competition.

This becomes virtually true regionally I think. I believe you that there are 100s of MVNOs, but I only saw Boost and Mint within my area physically. Now one is gone.

I’m still in an area where I have two options for Internet, one of which is on top of the other’s infrastructure. There are hundreds of ISPs nationwide, I’m sure, but not in my area.

Buying out under-cutters and re-listing the service at the price you prefer is a crude and simple strategy and can only really be done by the largest players.

neverokay··on T-Mobile Completes Acquisition of Mint Mobile
Once they own Mint, Mint just becomes their lowest tier plan. You can keep moving the lowest tier price up to the point the standard T-mobile package becomes attractive.

Mint no longer works independently in applying pricing pressure. The pressure that made T-mobile even buy Mint (however little pressure) is now gone.

neverokay··on T-Mobile Completes Acquisition of Mint Mobile
I’m curious why the US and EU have taken on big tech but have never really gone after these carriers for much of anything.

Meta or X can’t breathe in the direction of another social media company without an antitrust suit.

neverokay··on Google workers fired for protesting Israeli contract file NLRB complaint
You are vaguely arguing that we’re living in fascists states.
neverokay··on New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars
If it’s the only option at the moment, sure let’s do it.

Beethoven’s ear trumpet.

neverokay··on Claude Team plan and iOS app
Claude: I do not actually have a paid version. I am Claude, an AI assistant created by Anthropic to be helpful, harmless, and honest. I do not have different paid tiers or capabilities beyond my base training as an AI model.

They should at least train it with info on what the product actually is, can’t really get information on its current capabilities.

neverokay··on New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars
That’s the part that still boggles my mind. How could there not be some kinda micro bacteria on all these planets.
neverokay··on New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars
Why don’t we just drill into mars and look for fossils? Easy peasy.
neverokay··on Bing climbs to 13% of search engine market share in the US
I switched off Google simply because they make me fill out 60 seconds of captchas on any search just because a vpn is on. Kind of ridiculous.

Default iOS search now Bing, fuck it.

neverokay··on Google workers fired for protesting Israeli contract file NLRB complaint
I doubt that was their plan, since if it was going to go down like this, then you might as well have the cops drag you out the building.

Protests don’t work if they can disperse of you that easily or cordon you off to a small block. If only a few of you get arrested and the rest of you disperse, it won’t work. If one of you get arrested, all of you should try to get arrested since they can’t fill up the jails with everyone.

If you are not going to go all the way then don’t bother with this shit. I don’t agree with the Jan 6 riots, but they mostly followed through lol. That’s pretty much how you have to do it, and if you have a really good cause (e.g something not retarded like defending trump), you’d have a lot of support.

College protesters need to straight up super glue themselves to the campus honestly if they really want to do this. Yes, actually glue on bare skin to surface. Then America can watch as the fire departments remove students one by one off the walls of the campus live lol.

Be sticky, protesters.

neverokay··on Google workers fired for protesting Israeli contract file NLRB complaint
The issue with free speech historically or currently worldwide is that governments can silence, jail or kill you. It’s a civic issue, not business one.
neverokay··on Apple to unveil AI-enabled Safari alongside new operating systems
Probably a lot more UI dark patterns such as the “Click here to read more” embedded inside an ad, login pages embedded in ads, etc. Can’t erase that stuff if you want to get to the content. And of course the immortal ad that randomly decides to move around the screen.

Check out those illegal live tv streaming sites if you wanna see how bad this can get.

neverokay··on Apple to unveil AI-enabled Safari alongside new operating systems
You can erase stuff on any app?
neverokay··on Apple to unveil AI-enabled Safari alongside new operating systems
If Web Eraser is true, I can’t see how Meta and Microsoft are going to stay out of the phone hardware game. That feature is basically war lol.
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