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by dwb 5d ago
I remember reading an article in I think “net” magazine (Brits, remember that?) in the, I guess, early 2000s, that was predicting the “push” (as opposed to “pull”) internet. At the time I thought that sounded awful, and yep, it’s not good.
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by dwb 8d ago
All right, my framing was a little too tight. Sure I can see why an email/SMS passwordless loop is easier for you , but it’s a more annoying user experience than your OS/browser/password manager just filling in your credenti
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by dwb 8d ago
I understand many passkey complaints but not this one. Why, for you as a service provider, are passkeys not just better (or at least equivalent to) passwords? You collect and verify an email address at signup and the account can be recovere
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by dwb 11d ago
You should be comparing the value you get. If you get as much value from a local model as a hosted one, the size difference doesn’t matter.
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by dwb 12d ago
It’s very different. It’s doesn’t matter that source code (as “speech”) is useless without running it (though I don’t think that’s quite true) - the definition doesn’t care about how inconvenienced you are. The point of having free speech i
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by dwb 12d ago
> Software is speech. You might be able to argue source code is “speech”, but running software definitely isn’t. It’s so different it’s difficult to know where to start.
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by dwb 14d ago
Way, way worse than an utter waste of resources and ingenuity. Any musician using this is nothing in my eyes, unless it’s the weirdest, most subversive thing I’ve ever heard. Like maybe there are three or four actually creative uses for thi
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by dwb 14d ago
Any DJ playing this shit deserves to have all their equipment taken from them.
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by dwb 16d ago
The landing page which is linked at the start of the second sentence of this page…? I don’t completely disagree with you, but this is mostly hypertext working as intended, is it not?
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by dwb 16d ago
Celsius has plenty of resolution for this; in fact I would say Fahrenheit has too much. You can feel the change of one degree Celsius, you can’t really with Fahrenheit. To illustrate this, not only is your scale in tens, but I often only he
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by dwb 17d ago
I would argue the same in most situations, but let’s be honest: what matters most to most employers is their employees falling in line. There is some sense to this: it is easier to manage a bunch of people doing things more-or-less the sa
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by dwb 21d ago
Sorry to hear that but the alternatives are worse, as should be obvious.
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by dwb 21d ago
This is divide-and-conquer rhetoric from someone who doesn’t want labour power. Workers would be much better off if we all stood together no matter how much we were paid or what our conditions were. Edit: oh I see, your bio brags that you’r
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by dwb 25d ago
Commenter is, like me, mystified that reading comprehension can be that poor. Even without the linked post’s commentary, a plain reading of DHH’s original post should be enough to see exactly where he is politically. So to have to spell it
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by dwb 26d ago
Your reading comprehension and political awareness needs a lot of work. > cultural replacement/disruption is a real and valid source of misery/desperation Not like this it isn’t. To the extent that there’s a valid complaint, it
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by dwb 26d ago
What a horrible man.
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by dwb 26d ago
So you think it's entirely moral to label only white British people as "native Brits"? To speak warmly of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon's ("Tommy Robinson") marches? Unless you are also comfortably on the far right, I&
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by dwb 26d ago
The extremely valid criticism is not hard to find. https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thoug...
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by dwb 27d ago
Yes, that’s the joke.
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by dwb 28d ago
Well, they’re not minimum-viable if they don’t work, which they won’t for most users. It’s not a simple matter of the database being unlocked or locked, as I say it’s at least a per-process authentication, protected by the 1Password daemon.
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by dwb 28d ago
You have to both install and explicitly enable the 1Password CLI, both steps no “normal” user is going to take unless socially engineered to. https://www.1password.dev/cli/get-started And getting secrets using it requi
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by dwb 1mo ago
Absolutely. > it takes a lot of work for a number to mean anything and we largely aren’t doing it https://desystemize.substack.com/p/desystemize-1
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by dwb 1mo ago
> The bucket is the coordinator — no membership protocol, no failure detector, no consensus. Sorry, but for me, even being a heavy user of coding agents at work, LLM-isms like this on your home page make me less trusting in the care gone
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by dwb 2mo ago
Socialists want to seize the means of production in order to democratise it and move towards communism, which is exactly a post-scarcity post-state destruction of the [capitalist] economy. It is entirely compatible with giving everyone AI a
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by dwb 2mo ago
I actually can't think of any functional languages that use < > for type variables (I'm sure there's one or two, but it can't be common)
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by dwb 2mo ago
Yeah, techno-religious types scare me. They're profoundly anti-human and seem capable of some heinous shit. You've written a lot of words to say "humans are flawed, let's create a machine that's better", but tr
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by dwb 2mo ago
So condescending. “Can’t psychologically cope”? Can you hear yourself? There’s some advances, but we’re losing a lot too. Don’t get dazzled by the hype.
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by dwb 2mo ago
There are many mysteries of the universe, but who we are, to the extent that I am rejecting the comment I replied to, is not one of them. I would love to see how humans explore reality and being (if we survive!) as time goes on and we figur
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by dwb 2mo ago
Sure, we're cyborgs, but still very much of the flesh, and I think we have to draw a line somewhere.
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by dwb 2mo ago
I think attitudes like this are traitorous to the human species. You’re not talking about a transcendence, or at least, not one that I recognise. Our biology is an innate part of us - to improve, to fix, sure, but not to cast off. Who is di

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