wouldn’t that just be funny as fuck

what… what exactly do you think people like dreamhost and bluehost and such do? in your mind, do they have special dreampress and bluepress “vendored” versions of wordpress?

good lord

from this post (archive)

App developers think that’s a bogus argument. Mr. Bier told me that data he had seen from start-ups he advised suggested that contact sharing had dropped significantly since the iOS 18 changes went into effect, and that for some apps, the number of users sharing 10 or fewer contacts had increased as much as 25 percent.

aww, does the widdle app’s business model collapse completely once it can’t harvest data? how sad

this reinforces a suspicion that I’ve had for a while: the only reason most people put up with any of this shit is because it’s an all or nothing choice and they don’t know the full impact (because it’s intentionally obscured). the moment you give them an overt choice that makes them think about it, turns out most are actually not fine with the state of affairs

(also h/t to @self who I just realized was the one that retooted the thing where I saw this)

basilisk save us from breathless idiocy by rubes

Altman’s investors will have had to get comfortable with at least four levels of intricacy.

ah yes the four-fold path of investing, the true religion

More head-scratching is OpenAI’s governance. Altman was ousted last year, then swiftly returned.

“I cannot look at this and analyse the power structure, and thus I am very confused as to how this happened”

But investors making that call today must surely be powered more by instinct than intelligence.

“must surely”? call the builders, we’ve found a new ultra-strong load bearing phrase

also it gives them even more network control and data, something entirely beneficial to them

And now they’re actually Open Source

sorta, but it’s a veneer in furtherance of other goals (telemetry, market dominance, and control)

one of the things I do with my computers is run LittleSnitch in always-prompt mode (LS is an app-level firewalling solution on macos), and hooo boy do I hate it when I end up having to open/touch vscode for some reason. the last time I did, I spent most of the first 5 minutes being prompted for (undeclared!) connections vscode attempted to make in the name of telemetry. similar experience with vscodium interacting with packages, and a bunch of their toolchains

“bro… bro! hear me out! imagine, like, research, right? but as a bar game! c’mon bro it’ll be so cool bro just check bro”

that’s his one move

what’s the over/under on the spruce pine thing causing promptfondlers and their ilk to suddenly not be able to get chips, and then hit a(n even more concrete) ceiling?

(I know there may be some of the stuff in stockpiles awaiting fabrication, but still, can’t be enough to withstand that shock)

wow look at this one, too good to headbutt a screen like is tradition

I’ve been playing with “mass averaging synthesis machines”, variations on “automated plagiarism”, “content theftwashing systems”

still undecided tho

wut

The line I’ve seen on AI boils down to this. AI won’t meet human economic potential. But it will run cheaper

citation needed

arguing-from-existence of expert systems (which were the fantasy in the previous wave)

you probably don’t know this, but this post is so much funnier than you probably meant it

and it (probably) still won’t save you

alert alert we’ve got of one of them on the doorstep

my heuristic: I can understand a shitty past giving crescent to bad reactions, but the moment you start choosing bad things with current-era things I rapidly start losing grace and patience

(and yeah I know there’s a continuum of stuff between A and B, but anyone showing up in a fucking news article of this shape is generally well past accident)

holy hell that inner is all kinds of past-even-wrong

is there some kind of idiocy gdq rankweekend event that I missed the announcement for?

I heard it was the same 50 parties, over and over

(or, well, the same party, x50…)