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by blibble 1y ago
> Idk, it's a company with 4.5B in revenues in H1 2025. giving away dollar bills for a nickel each is not particularly impressive
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by blibble 1y ago
well yeah, I can't imagine sending all your shareholders money to nvidia to produce slop no-one is willing to pay for is going down too well
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by blibble 1y ago
the ms implementation of smime was pretty good and just worked (quite something for microsoft)
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by blibble 1y ago
because people have had their entire lives to get used to the idea that computers are reliable (sans Microsoft software) no-one wants stochastic computers
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by blibble 1y ago
it doesn't hurt to dispel the illusion that "existing product plus AI equals more money"
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by blibble 1y ago
> The world is changing, and we need to adapt and understand it. fastmail: read my lips: I pay you because you offer a traditional email service if you add a single AI feature I will return to self hosting
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by blibble 1y ago
unfortunately the electorate like the authoritarian nature of the two main parties
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by blibble 1y ago
> The closest the UK has to a constitution-like protection is getting it to sign an international treaty international treaties have no effect under UK law, unless Parliament decides to pass an Act containing its provisions this is calle
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by blibble 1y ago
> Are you being intentionally obtuse? are you? need I remind you, you said: > I want 100% certainty that if my side project makes money they're not going to come after me there is NEVER any certainty that your counterparty won&#x
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by blibble 1y ago
doesn't work very well these days with SPF + DKIM
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by blibble 1y ago
there's no law, it's a contract you can be sued by anyone for anything at any time, regardless of your opinion of "unambiguous"
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by blibble 1y ago
> I want 100% certainty this is completely unrealistic even if you're paying a company to host your stuff
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by blibble 1y ago
codeberg is great the interface is far more responsive, despite each click loading a new page (vs. the disaster than is react) and it is run by a charity, so it will never enshittify which GitHub is doing more and more with each passing day
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by blibble 1y ago
> For many it isn’t easy to just up and abandon what they built on GitHub, especially if they have a big community and open issues and PRs. it's really easy because the codeberg importer is really good it correctly imports all your
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by blibble 1y ago
LLMs are one large binary that does everything (maybe, if you are lucky today) exact opposite of the unix philosophy
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by blibble 1y ago
> Sometimes I wonder who builds this stuff. the "secure" chat app supplied by some rando israeli company to the US government? have a guess
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by blibble 1y ago
signal is open source, so they'll just download the source, build it, add a backdoor and push it to the app store same as that weird official USgov version hosted by israel
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by blibble 1y ago
the investment bubble will burst, at which point the cost to run the plagiarism machine will increase by a factor of 100
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by blibble 1y ago
it's also the EU's[1] raison d'être it was created, and exists entirely to centralise power [1]: the organisation itself, not the countries in it
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by blibble 1y ago
there goes middle management
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by blibble 1y ago
the author is an anthropic employee if the money dries up because the investors lose faith on the exponential continuing, then his future looks much dimmer
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by blibble 1y ago
I find the type hints harder and slower than java/C/... try typing a decorator, or anything using file IO I find it extremely difficult, if not impossible, and I did type theory (the type checkers being really, really stupid doesn
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by blibble 1y ago
> So no, not deterministic unless we are being pedantic. and not even then as floating point arithmetic is non-associative
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by blibble 1y ago
I don't mind being warranted, if they come to the door with warrant I will give them my boring, pedestrian inbox but I do mind my data being drag-netted, or hoovered up by scummy big tech and then sold on (whether that's for slop
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by blibble 1y ago
and then capture the data on the sly and sell it to the AI scrapers anyway
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by blibble 1y ago
they won't hold the risk for very long at all because the bank will immediately sell the loan on (but they will have collected a fee on both sides...)
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by blibble 1y ago
all this will result in is every open source tool migrating to a fork cutting out Slopify, their puppets and their influence forever
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by blibble 1y ago
> Google Photos used to be one of my most favorite apps. Now it's some testing playground. we have entered a new epoch: The Ensloppocene
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by blibble 1y ago
> I won't buy anything from Amazon where the failure could kill or injure someone. you can do better, don't buy anything from amazon at all, ever works for me
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by blibble 1y ago
because their business doesn't work without it the warehouses would have to be 20x the size for the same product catalogue

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