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The output isn’t interesting to me. I clicked around in both and it seemed kind of neat but like a portfolio project for school and certainly not art that would engage me.

I’m not sure how this causes an identity crisis. But if my purpose in life was to churn out random stuff that wasn’t meaningful to people, I would assume that I would be crisising much earlier than now.

> There's no shortage of alternatives. Webflow, Wix, Squarespace, Ghost, Craft, Statamic

That I like about wordpress is that it is free and has no subscription costs. I run it on my cheap host and pay $0/month (patching myself, etc etc).

I don’t think stuff like Wix and SquareSpace are valid competitors as I don’t want to pay a monthly fee.

Right, me too. I assume everyone running PHP had tons of hits to that. Been that way for like 20 years, but that doesn’t mean probers get past that.

And now you make money by selling something that’s not WordPress. It biases your whole argument.

“I used to sell Coke. Coke is terrible now. Buy PrependCola, it’s amazing.”

See how that would make all the blarg I write less trustworthy?

They have a lot of downtime. I use github actions and it’s down multiple times each week.

I like github, but it’s getting kind of nuts.

I think the property taxes go up as the land captured is usually fallow so it goes from negligible property tax revenue to small. And although there aren't a ton of jobs like a factory, it's still jobs that wouldn't exist as data centers use land that literally no one else wants to do anything with.

Isn't the issue with upgrading the insecurity of litellm and its inability to prevent being pwned?

How did you address this issue?

I certainly may be. It doesn't seem ridiculous to me. I've read through all the follow on comments and aside from people saying it's ridiculous, I don't get why others think it so.

I certainly wouldn't stare at it until it exploded. I would run away as fast as I could.

It's odd that you think the exclusive options are 1) do nothing; 2) pick up and throw away

Of course, it's extremely unlikely I'd be in any crowd with you. Because we are likely very far apart geographically. And I work to avoid any crowds that may involve flash bang grenades thrown into them. So far, I have an excellent success ratio and expect it to stay steady.

I think kids are seeing videos of people throwing these and, of course, only the successful videos make it to their feeds. As the unsuccessful ones are bloody enough to get filtered out.

Your comment seems a bit hostile and ill willed as there are many who become shell shocked in these situations and freeze up. This doesn't make it "morally bankrupt." It just makes them human.

Good luck with your moral high horse and being so superior. I hope you retain all your digits.

Yes, I think I would react pretty rationally- run away or duck and cover. Zero chance I pick it up. And I was a super stupid and irrational teen. (And am still rather stupid and irrational)

I think their point is that one should never pick up a flash bang grenade. Especially one that has been fired at you and is about to explode.

I think it’s a pretty good life lesson to follow. Both not to be someone in a position to fire them and to not be throwing them back.

Seems like one of many “don’t do stupid high risk things” rules like avoiding base jumping or Johannesburg at night.

This is why I don’t like passkeys. I’m surprised the “use site from multiple devices” use case isn’t more common.

Am I nuts for accessing a site from both my mobile phone as well as from the multiple computers I use?

This also gets super messy when combined with multi-site auth services like id.me where I need to use the same login to access very diverse sites and services from multiple computers (eg, irs.gov, treasurydirect.gov, disburser.treasury.gov).

There are similar reports for anthropic. [0] I thunk it’s hard to know how much this happens because reporting is spotty. I think the openai and anthropic ones are publicized because they want to juice their IPOs.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7dl7w8y7po

I’m in the US in a top 10 metro area.

Before checkout, it’s a generic “free super saver shipping” then a few hours after with proper estimates.

Again, these aren’t unique to Amazon, per se. Just to the scale of their operation and the scrutiny Amazon has.

Assembly line jobs are rough and people pee in bottles, and die. The important piece these articles leave out is how much more common these are at Amazon.

I remember my first jobs at random companies where I was hourly and needed approval for bathroom breaks. It sucked and I would plan my day around break times.

I think these articles are more a function of being surprising to us because we work cushy desk jobs where we can break all we want and use unlimited sick days because we program.

For me, this was a key reason I cancelled Prime.

In the 90s and 00s Amazon would fix things. The last time Amazon lost a “delivered” package they told me that they could do nothing about it. My ticket got escalated a few times and they offered a discount on ordering a replacement. I just did a chargeback with my credit card. I was frustrated with Amazon because I probably ordered 30 things a year for 10+ years and they trusted their driver over me saying I never got it.

It’s extremely common for delivery drivers to pee in bottles. Have you ever driven delivery?

I remember a friend in the 90s excited about his job at UPS. He laughed about the pee bottle. Same for people I know who work for usps and fedex.

Kind of makes sense. Where do you expect someone to pee who is driving around for 10 hours a day.

I see the same. I checked “as fast as possible.”

My point is that Amazon used to be good. Now it’s not as fast. And the price hasn’t dropped.

I stopped shopping at Amazon because their fulfillment started to suck. And I found they kept their dates 25/100.

Most recently I ordered 10 items on September 18th (I had a gift card). All prime eligible. The first arrived on sep 20, the 4 on sep 28, 5 on sep 28, and the last is scheduled for Friday.

I didn’t get any estimates until after purchase.

Amazon is no longer good. They are coasting on their customer base and are slowing ratcheting up prices and squeezing their costs (keeping all their gains).

This has all been figured out using existing laws. In the US entity A is responsible for what they do and they can subrogate if they think others are responsible.

I’m not sure it ever makes sense to just throw up our hands and hold A harmless because their agents also use agents and it’s complicated.

Try hiring a consulting company A who subs to entity B who subs to entity C. When A does something criminal, do you think it matters if it’s actually employees or entity B or entity C. A is responsible. It may be that others are as well.

I want them to find a smarter way that doesn’t make my experience suck.

There’s enough sites who don’t have this annoying feature.

I noped out of this site after 5 seconds of “verifying my connection.”

This trend is annoying and is punishing users to stop scraping of their stupid articles. I feel like 20 times a day I have to wait or click a box or something just so they can charge robots to read their public content.

What’s the good argument that I’m not responsible for the actions of my agents?

Arther Anderson was convicted of obstruction of justice even though humans shredded stuff.

Corporations can definitely be convicted of crimes.

I wondered the same thing. If OpenAI instructed employees to accomplish a task no matter what and they hacked, they would be investigated. Maybe not convicted, but investigates and charged.

Intent is important, but having a lax environment that leads to this is still a crime. See the lawsuits about sexual harassment where the company didn’t have the intent to assault people.

Cookies are also used to track you. And I’d guess way more cookies are for tracking than personalization.

Iphone safari incognito gives different with every page load.

I think the issue here is that I don’t want my automated IT to be a mandatory reporter.

My paper journal isn’t a mandatory reporter, neither should my google doc or my claude session.

Even with local models, I don’t want the eventual creep to require local software to report (eg, CSAM reporting from local storage and compute on iphones, etc etc)

Yep. As someone who has run my local home “data center” through a synology nas/docker server for 15 years. It’s not so bad.

The worst part of data centers are the users. So with a home server/ friends server it’s easier to control.

> People don't realise the console hardware is subsidised and the firmware locks are the way to recoup the costs from Sony walled garden of games.

Is this still true? PS5 price has gone up in the 5 years since release. I think there’s now a profit on every machine made, but Sony would like more money.