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I really don't think advertisers will ever embrace bsky. No one wants their brand under communist scrutiny all the time, one step away from another "cancellation." They will definitely return to X.

> Unless he is saying ai can replicate human writing?

It can definitely replicate a human-written email.

I had to upgrade the CPU in a 10-year old machine (from i5 to i7) to have decently -working javascript on websites. Every other piece of software worked fine, though.

I bought a regular iPad in 2017, I'm really impressed that almost 9 years later it's still working and the batter is still great (especially for reading).

More profits, line mustn't just go up, line must go higher. Giving away the devices is like saying "we're replacing both you and your device with AI and it's not like that device will help you get another job in this market anyway, good luck lol."

> but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using

For some reason he deliberately avoids using the word 'artificial' here.

Is it just me or since The Guardian left twitter/X they've really been ramping up their paywalls/nagwalls? Love or hate X/Elon, that was really a dumb move on their part.

People here assume that YC is some kind of ethics benchmark for business. It's not.

The undersigned are basically a list of entities Google would like to see disappear.

That and it's also destroying the environment, trust, truth, creativity, people's ability to afford better computing equipment and so on.

A website that's useful should look like Japanese websites look today. Most websites looked like that pre-2010. We just went overboard with making them "responsive." Why do we need >36px text on the desktop for anything other than the main title? I swear we're all getting osteoarthritis from nonstop scrolling.

Ah yes, the abundance of AI that keeps on giving.

Could be. But they're in the SEO business, articles sounded like that long before LLMs were trained on them to produce the same crap.

Well Cook's Apple is mostly about money coming in, so as long as that's happening he's not obsessing over quality.

I really hate this trend of naming companies using dictionary words just because they can afford to spend cash on the domain name instead of engineering. Render, fly, modal, entire and so on.

What we really need to get rid of is platforms. vBulletin sells you software. It's up to you what you choose to use it for. Platforms like Discord and Reddit need to have final say on a lot of things because they need investor/advertiser cash at some point. And by 'get rid of' I mean avoid using them in settings that would be severely impacted by a platform's decision. For example, I don't want to have to upload my ID just to ask a question on the DaisyUI discord server.

If anything, this should be a wake-up call at least for those managing tech-oriented communities. I don't expect gamer or normies to do anything about it, but hackers definitely should.

I'm all for alternatives as long they're based on open protocols and truly open apps -- not some where a corporate entity gets to dictate how many users one may have or how many lines you get to store. It should also be fairly easy to connect to and not every open-source project needs E2E encryption. Matrix is probably okay, but I found it (and the apps) fairly cumbersome.

IRC obviously has its limitations, but it shines as an example of simplicity and maintainability with no corporate strings attached.

Email + IRC (there are daemons that support chat history). Bouncers exist. Logging. This should be standard for OSS projects, not some private, unsearchable, data-mining platform.

This is what happens when we reach for convenience over openness.

I'll hardly miss using Discord, but if this isn't going to be a wake-up call to ALL (mainly) open-source projects using it, then we're all doomed.

We should seriously go back to mailing lists and IRC as a standard for OSS. Everything else should be viewed as disposable.

The future of computing, now that @sama is gobbling up all the RAM.

The next obvious step is to shrink the 'Ad' label, remove its background altogether and make the text a faded gray, or completely transparent "glass."

This leads me to believe that most boycotts gain traction only if another corporation stands to benefit from that. Nowadays pretty much all of the big players are in bed with the current administration, so there's little surprise that boycotts aren't noticeable.

I was 11 when my school got donated an Olivetti 286. This was in the early 2000s and to this day it remains the only one that I've seen and used (it ran MS-DOS 4.0 & came with a manual).

Nice! I'm a gastroenterologist and I've been thinking about doing something very similar for some time now.

This started long before LLMs when Google rewarded such websites for their SEO.

Perhaps people who unknowingly bought a rooted phone. I don't know how frequent this is, but it would be the only case it would matter.

Meanwhile we got Copilot in Notepad.

Absolutely, but the AI era seems to have lowered the bar for what's considered passable code. Slop works for most projects.

If there's anything AI coding is good at, it's writing react components and tailwind css.