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> techfolk who write fiction set up their writing pipelines

And perhaps infinitely procrastinating on the actual writing itself...

We're now building some of the same superiority complex into commercial AIs to effectively refuse any wrongspeak.

Jev is still extremely useful for its intended purpose, not the mildly interesting hype on social media.

Unless scale or resources are a concern, I see absolutely no reason to use anything else for CRUD apps. I sure as hell won't be writing any `sql` statements in nextjs anytime soon.

> a person who does not use it

He still runs a company with several services written in Rails with no obvious migration plans. AI psychosis and Linux side quests haven't, so far, changd that.

Is it? I thought I read somewhere that it was one of the most token-efficient ones. Also, Rails + LLMs is magic and speed (of development).

This industry is actively working on making people walk away regardless of joy status.

> Can someone explain to me how you "acquire" an open-source project?

You corrupt the hearts of core maintainers with truckloads of cash, then get them to stop working on it (and instead on something else) and to effectively kill the brand.

Of course the code is free for anyone to pick up & work on, but setting up new infra & finding new people is costly in both time and money.

> There used to be a time sites got punished if they treated searchbots differently..

Google is itself deep in the darkpatternmaxxing game now as well.

> There are entirely factual ways to describe January 6th, 2021.

That's the thing. People can't even agree on facts, even if they're obvious to an outside observer.

I had it write some code the other day, boy was it awful-looking compared to 5.6. Worked perfectly, but ugly nonetheless.

Ubuntu tried that at some point, but it never took off as a mobile OS.

I do this as well, and I hope Google never takes away the ability to look back in time.

HF is meant to be a single point of control. AI models and Linux distros aren't usually for normies, so distribution via torrents would make sense, especially to save the provider some bandwidth. Ubuntu has been offering torrent downloads for ages. No mention of torrents on HF. I believe most downloads will soon be account/EULA-walled.

I'd say it is, if you stay away from shorts.

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.