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I've all but stopped using traditional "Linux distributions" honestly.
Hey! It's at least 1 9's right? That's better than zero 9's LOL
For some reason I thought instacart as an e-commerce platform, not an online grocery store lol
Why? Wha does Doordash have to do with Instacart? How are these even remotely in the category of merging and buying the other?
It isn't just making indie software viable, it's creating a strong market (unsure if it's profitable) of solopreneurs that are now able to have a whole team of agents to design, build, and validate their ideas with very small budgets.
For example, I've been working on commodifying self-hosting for the past 10 years, and whilst there are numerous attempts of the same and healthy competition, there isn't quite anything that I would consider remotely close to what I invision. With Claude Code over the past year I've been able to 10x the progress and get to the point where hopefully by end of year (2026) I'll have my first batch run and realize my dream.
It's great!
My view on this is simple. Fundamentally, these "agent"(s) are effectively a function that computes the most probabilistic next token, or, what's the most likely next thing given the context and prompt.
Therefore, if you start prompting and adding to the context and session history a bunch of "useless" hyperbole, slur and profanity, unless the underlying language models have been trained on such things, I find it hard to reason about what it might predict the next series of tokens should be that would be remotely useful to you.
Ultimately, I really think you need to not treat it like anything, other than a powerful inferencing tool that has a great understanding of a very large corpus it has been trained on and has modelled very well. Use it to your advantage, there is no point in rudeness or profanity, it has no feelings, it isn't intelligent. At worst you risk garbage output.
What do you define as "AI Slop"?
It's a good question. If by "AI Slop" you mean, you ask ChatGPt to translate something from your native tongue to English so you can participate in a Reddit forum and the result is, probably correct, but a lot of "unwanted test you didn't ask for"?
What if it were you or me (I'm a native English speaker). Why if the tables were turned the other way around? I'm not even sure how I'd honestly be able to communicate with a person say from France, as I know a lick of French really, so I'd be reaching for some kind of translator, anything really. How do I avoid the wrath of those that would ben me over "AI Slop"?!
What's so bad about HTML anyway?
Marko looks like a mix of at least 3 languages. No thanks!
Don't you think it's pretty discriminatory to outright ban non-English speakers, even if said person(s) use AI to help translate their "ideas"?
I'm sorry, non-English speakers too?! da actual fuq?!
When you figure this out, please let me know!
Why do I need to pay for a plan for what appears to be a desktop app? Is the Taskboard a remote SaaS over the Internet that I configure my other Claude/Codex agents to to to and the Desktop App is, what, just a frontend to what's going on?
public repos don't have to be scraped or cralwed all over by bots right?
I still think Gopher (the protocol that is) is still very relevant today. The beauty of it really is in its simplicity. Great to see that the library I wrote all those years ago is still being used :D
https://pkg.go.dev/git.mills.io/prologic/go-gopher
Or Microsoft/OpenAI (and others) just blatantly scraping all your codebases and violating thousands of OSS licneses?
Why am I still paying the same $amount for Claude to Anthropic for the past 2 years? Shouldn't it have gone down by at least 10% by now?!
Android and thus Chromium only right? No way to support Safari / Mobile Safari and macOS / iOS?
Is this just Imagemagick under the hood with a fancy Web interface?
This has to be one of my most favourite MS-DOS games growing up. Too bad I can't seem to figure out how to play this Web version, the controls seem a bit off?
Rant aside; I think there's a reasonable argument buried in here: making everything easier doesn't necessarily make life better, and we should be more critical of the incentives driving AI adoption.
I've seen it happen countless times through logs. They just don't care if there's a PoW in the way, they just solve it anyway and move on. When you control a botnet of 10s of thousands of compromised residential machines (residential proxies I believe they're called), you almost have very little recourse except to make it cheap or detect the pattern adn block it (not trivial).
Crenshaw's books are also pretty good too -- even if a bit outdated by now.
You can't, and you should not fight this. Just use the machine(s) they give you, accept the MDM.
+1 -- It's also become insulting and a bit of a slur. We need to stop doing this. It's disrepsectful.
I still think the best books on interpreter and compiler implemtnations are the books by Thorsten Ball:
- Writing an Interpreter in Go [1]
- Writing a Compiler in Go [2]
Absolutely best books I've ever read on the subject. And if you like to follow a step-by-step (each commit is a part of the boks) feel free to clone my own monkey-lang that followed the books pretty closely: https://git.mills.io/prologic/monkey
[1] https://interpreterbook.com/
[2] https://compilerbook.com/
Yeah, I implement PoW on my Edge nodes as well, which connect back to my self-hosted infra over Wireguard tunnels. The PoW works very similarly to Anubis, but practically speaking, they don't really work. Whole swarths of botnets, including botnets that utilise residential proxies (thousands of comprised desktops in poorer countries) just solve the PoW(s) and get through anyway at massive scale.
The only effective way I've found to combat "unwanted traffic" (bots, botnets, crawlers, search engines, etc) is to a) make request/responses as cheap as possible (heavy caching, rate limiting, etc) and b) measure cohorts, fingerprints and behaviour and block patterns that can't possibly look like "normal human traffic" (tricky to get right, but this is to a large extent what Cloudflare is doing I believe, and I've had great success with this technique and building out an OSS Caddy module for this...)
What is a life for, if there's nothing left to prove.
Nice song :D
No, not really. There's plenty of software out there that you still pay for, or pay a license for. e.g: LittleSnitch, Jetbrains IDe, Plex, Final Cut Pro, etc