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I like to think there's a difference between being fed misinformation & braindrot day in, day out and having to look for them yourself.

TikTok isn't even safe for adults, let alone children.

Mainstream distro users/contributors were too busy arguing that Debian is better than Slackware, Arch is better than Debian, Ubuntu is for noobs and now NixOS (whatever that is) reigns supreme. All that reduced the UX of these distros to the lowest common denominator, with varying degrees of skill requirements to get the thing working.

What if everything people wanted was a riced Arch/Ubuntu distro that was trivial to install on pretty much anything and not a lecture on how non-free drivers/software can't be included, leaving your machine unable to connect to the internet?

All this effort spent on making lists which dubiously include some of the world's biggest corporations, the creators of JavaScript, GNU and the opensource movement... instead of making something better? Not "ethical", just make something better.

You might argue that there are better distros out there, but has any other distro gained so much traction so fast since Ubuntu? And this even before a single cent was spent from all the 'fascist' donations.

I've come to hate Windows, to increasingly dislike macOS and to love Linux because I no longer have to spend my days ricing, recompiling wifi drivers for older machines and stuff like that. I don't have the time. Omarchy is worth it for me because someone else worked on this, passed it on for free and it just worked. Perhaps those big donators see value in that as well, and not just in some supposed power-grab?

> but it sounds like bots on X are more rampant than ever, so no thanks to that.

I used to get a lot of spambot followers, but that has ceased entirely in the past year. I would say the bot problem is no longer that relevant at the moment, but rather people posting AI replies are.

> Bluesky was a decent little community for a minute.

I found it interesting before the mass-exodus from Twitter/X. Now it's mostly politics and negativity. Not much different in that regard from X, just at the other end of the political spectrum. X still has, for me at least, most of the relevant accounts.

I like vanilla CSS, but agents in my experience seem to deliver more uniform results when using tailwind.

I was merely hinting at protests being called peaceful by the media when they clearly weren't. Not saying they weren't justifiably so.

As long as it's a mostly peaceful prostest, you're also allowed to set a few cars on fire and loot local businesses.

Drug patents are much more short-lived and there's arguably more money invested in drug discovery than in, say, writing a fiction novel. IMO copyright should be limited to 20-30 years. Not that LLM labs care anyway.

Because the alternative we were promised (bsky) is much, much worse than X, albeit at the other end of the political spectrum.

I wish websites would stop messing with the scrolling behavior.

> I had history with Verisign and did not trust them.

I don't know what that history is, but did it really make a tld used by only 22k people more appealing?

Should've just named them both Guardrails 5.1 and be done with it.

Musk used to be reddit's darling. People's newfound hate for him seem to cloud their judgment and make them forget what made Musk their darling in the first place.

How much longer until such use is deemed unwanted by our AI overlords?

I've come to the same conclusion. Some believe that grownups shouldn't care about RAM prices going up.

> open HN

> ignore all posts about MCP

> ignore all posts containing "agent"

> also ignore everything frontier labs bragged about hacking this week

> ignore AI psychosis posts praised as being the future

> check out everything else

> close HN

I found Opus to be a lot lazier than GPT. It's still the case with Opus 5, even when I tell it to be thorough and fix every bug it encounters, it still gives me a list of things "deliberately" left unfixed and no reasonable explanation as to why.

There's a reddit thread from 9 years ago with people complaining the site blocking crawlers and thus not being indexed by search engines. So I'm not sure what they consider "overload." At this point they should dump the db on thepiratebay.

The only winner here is Cloudflare. Nowadays they have 30s wait screens for residential IPs they don't like. It's things like this that make me quit the internet altogether.

They should pivot to AI.

Since quitting caffeine 10 months ago I've found it difficult to fall asleep as I seem to have a lot more energy in the evenings. Also, decaf is probably impossible to get in a Swedish workplace, people give you a concerned stare whenever you ask for it.

Nowadays you have to get past Cloudflare to even see headlines.

> It's not like ads weren't a thing 20 years ago. Pop-up windows were particularly bad.

Google pretty much declared war on those back then, providing reasonable-looking ad formats that could be integrated discreetly on the page (and as far as I remember, they had a limit of how many banners you could show). I really wish we could back to that. Now they serve animated/video ads.

They are gambling, and the more we pretend they're not, the more damaging it will be for society.

I bought a MBP mainly for the hardware, otherwise I'd have stuck with Linux. OS-wise, the jump from Monterey (which I'd last used) to Sequoia was smooth and still feels that way. I prefer not to notice the OS at all, something that I feel would be hard to do on Tahoe due to all that liquid glass and dumb transparency and animations.

Seriously, who the heck even asked for those?

> Let the user decide.

Perhaps that's exactly what they're trying to avoid, giving the user any form of control and having them depend on HF.

Haha, there was a post about 98.css the other day, I'm pretty sure it's one of those.

Well, it is somewhat entertaining.