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by ryandrake 11d ago
Tech companies already have a history of shutting down APIs as soon as someone actually uses the API to make something that users like better than the official applications. They don't need AI-written clients as an excuse.
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by ryandrake 11d ago
> The real way to combat this is to write to your representative. I always kind of chuckle at this advice. Is there any case of a representative changing their mind on an issue because someone wrote to them about it? I've written to
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by ryandrake 12d ago
Exactly. You shouldn't have to lift a finger to negotiate with a company where there is a written agreement that they owe you money or that you are entitled to a claim or similar. This whole "you have to haggle for everything&qu
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by ryandrake 12d ago
This is reality, but it is a bad reality. Nowadays it seems I find myself constantly having to "chase" things that I never had to in the past, just to get them resolved in a way that is not totally screwing me over. Every time s
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Meta bet that AI would shrink its management ranks and is now rebuilding them(fortune.com)
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by ryandrake 12d ago
> will not snitch you to the authorities if you say something "wrong." What makes you believe this? We had this story[1] just a few days ago where Waymo up and decided to pull over and hand passengers who had guns on them over
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by ryandrake 12d ago
They'll be copy/pasted into their promotion and bonus letters instead.
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by ryandrake 12d ago
Out of all the people I know, the exact same set of people are in to LLMs now who were previously into: NFTs, then Crypto before that, then Online Poker before that, then Dropshipping and LeadGen before that. The Venn diagram circles over
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by ryandrake 12d ago
If you took someone from the 1990s and dumped them in 2026, I think one of the biggest shocks to them would be how optional humans are everywhere. You can't get a human on the phone when you call a business anymore. We check out our
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by ryandrake 12d ago
I'd settle for any number of necks. Currently, when a corporation fucks something up, breaks the law, or hurts or even kills people, there aren't consequences besides a tiny token fine and a strongly worded letter telling them to
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by ryandrake 12d ago
> Turns out that all of the things you listed as examples are stuff that most consumers don’t actually want or will use. I've never understood this obsession with trying to invent the talking ship computer from Star Trek TNG. The pu
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by ryandrake 12d ago
Exactly. That's all I'm asking for. If version X works on my system today and version Y needs an OS bump, well... that sucks and is avoidable, but whatever. I expect to be able to obtain and use version X tomorrow and into the fut
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by ryandrake 12d ago
Whenever I see a list like this, I wonder to myself: "Who gets to decide the list?" Why are we letting companies just decide on their own what's appropriate for "minors?"
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by ryandrake 12d ago
You're not going to achieve coordinated, collective action by placing the burden of acting on the individual. It never works. If collective action has to happen to solve some problem, it needs to either 1. be so strongly incentivized s
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by ryandrake 12d ago
Contractors On The Death Star. You know you are working for the bad guys and are willingly doing the job.
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by ryandrake 12d ago
When the police come, they bring with them a nonzero chance of violent, deadly force. Especially if the caller says one of a few magic phrases like “I fear for my life” and “I’m not sure if he has a gun but he might” and (in some areas) “Bl
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by ryandrake 12d ago
I would not expect the software to continue to get updates, but I would expect the software to continue to work. I'm salty today because I tried to run Fusion 360, and found that Autodesk just out of the blue decided that 1. My compute
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by ryandrake 12d ago
You're definitely right about that. I'll admit it. If you're not the kind of person who likes to throw all your electronics out every few years to spend $thousands on new ones then the Apple ecosystem is not for you.
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by ryandrake 13d ago
As I replied in another comment[1], it's their software, their choice. Homebrew devs are doing the volunteer work, so they get to decide the support period and when to pull the rug out. I'll still shake my fists about it, because
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by ryandrake 13d ago
Homebrew doesn't have to lift a finger to support Intel Macs. It already does! All they have to do is not kill support for them. Hey, it's their software, they are all volunteers and can do whatever they want. I'm grateful
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by ryandrake 13d ago
I can add a data point for you: At my job they have made "amount of AI usage" a criteria for performance reviews, advancement and promotions. Mandate from the top: Use as much AI as you can. They even have a leaderboard (accessibl
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by ryandrake 13d ago
I know your question is rhetorical, but we know the answer: The USA treats corporations with kid gloves, and there's basically no consequence when a corporation does something that would be illegal or at least considered negligent if a
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by ryandrake 13d ago
Why does a car need "remote access" and to "receive updates?" I'd consider this a bonus side effect.
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by ryandrake 13d ago
6 years is really not a long time at all. You can probably find heaps of open source software out there that compiles and runs perfectly on 20 year old PCs. It's not like the maintainer has to do much to retain support--they just have
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by ryandrake 13d ago
We've all gone through it :-( Happy users of the (really good) software until our hardware gets "too old" and the inevitable rug pull.
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by ryandrake 13d ago
I switched from Homebrew to MacPorts a few years ago because of Homebrew's aggressive dropping of macOS versions they consider "too old." Even in the top-comment announcement here[1] they are making sure to include that they
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by ryandrake 13d ago
Totally wild that someone installing a surveillance camera is "concerned about privacy." Only his privacy is important I guess.
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by ryandrake 13d ago
Exactly. No matter how bad Trump is, millions of American people at least voted / vouched for him. Nobody voted for Elon Musk, Sam Altman, or any other CEO to have as much power as they have. Maybe a handful of shareholders. Totally
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by ryandrake 13d ago
Exactly. If Waymo wants to be weird and disallow people from legally or even illegally open carrying, then that should be between the customer and Waymo. They should not get to call the police.
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by ryandrake 13d ago
Maybe I would change my mind if I were an actual Uber driver, but I'm thinking that I don't care if my passenger has a gun, as long as they're being safe and not pointing it at me. I've been around guns. They don't

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