It’s basically the evolution (or devolution?) of the Internet in a capitalist global economy. This is just the next step in the effort to profit off digital Data and communications.

Back in the early 2000s pretty much everything was free to use, and revenue came from passive ads. Then ad blindness and ad blockers kicked in, revenue went down, and the cat and mouse game began of companies trying to find ways of getting clicks and views while the consumer didn’t want to do that. This has escalated over the last 20-odd years.

We’re now at a point where paywalls are fairly effective (for now). So that’s what’s being pushed. Plus, subscriptions and everything-as-a-service is in vogue right now.

I expect that will end when the money-making enshitification of the Internet reaches a critical mass and the economy nosedives for various reasons.

Isn’t driving around in one of those poorly-made death trap vehicles enough then?..

…Nah, probably not.

Fits in perfectly with the Tesla brand then, doesn’t it.

Musk calls it a “massive cyber attack”.

I call it “systemic infrastructure and personnel losses caused by the malignant narcissistic man-child who is running the company into the ground”.

Good article. Thanks for sharing it OP.

Additionally, there’s are some pretty nice free plugins for Java Minecraft server (e.g. Deluge) that allow Bedrock users to play on it too - from a PC, Xbox, PlayStation, phone, or whatever.

I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again: this sounds like complete bullshit - at least for now. Having played with multiple generative models for code generation myself, 4 times out of 5 there are profound problems with the code they spit out. And sometimes it’s complete crap.

Sure, you can refine your prompts to improve the quality. But at that point it’s usually quicker, easier, and more accurate to just write the code yourself.

And ‘vibe coding’ sounds like conceptual vaporware. Unless you feed a shit load of often proprietary data into the LLM, chances are it’s will not be able to capture enough of your business rules. And as result, the code it outputs is deeply flawed. And I don’t really see a way around that, at least while there are experienced developers around who can bridge the gap better than AIs can.

ETA:

There was a point in the late 1970s to early '80s when many people thought people required programming skills to use a computer effectively because there were very few pre-built applications for all the various computer platforms available. School systems worldwide made educational computer literacy efforts to teach people to code.

Before too long, people made useful software applications that let non-coders utilize computers easily—no programming required. Even so, programmers didn’t disappear—instead, they used applications to create better and more complex programs. Perhaps that will also happen with AI coding tools.

This is an interesting analogy. I’m not sure the two concepts (using a computer vs creating software on a computer) are as close as the author thinks. And I still think this underestimates the importance of accurately implementing proprietary business rules accurately. But they might be on to something. Maybe.

Swasticars for a fascist government. Makes sense.

Cybertrucks are ugly, poorly-built, and poorly-designed vehicles. These protesters are doing any potential owners who get deterred from wasting their money on them a favor.

Thank you for the sanity check! I started reading it, and it was just rambling on, flourished with scenarios that didn’t seem to relate to the already vague title.

I went to it on the Okay Store and uninstalled it. It didn’t commission and so far all phone functionality is working funny. It seems like an addon that’s not tightly bound to core OS components.

Well, there goes one of the few advantages Bing had over Google or some other search engines. Impressive of them to commit even more to being a meme. I didn’t think they could commit any further than they already had.

Zuckerberg looks like someone just farted in his USB regarding slot.

Yes, it objectively is. And so are various other text editor options that are out there.

But just speaking about Notepad++, you can scale it down to a very simple text editor (like Notepad), it you can easily ramp it up to a much more feature rich one. And for me, the ability to have a vertical list of files is a big plus. As is its ability to optionally show line numbers.

They haven’t said yet. But my guesses would be the following reasons:

• Their app store has never come close to competing with the Google Play Store, and so they probably feel like the extra expense of running it for all Android devices isn’t worth it.
• They want to make it Amazing device exclusive to try to push sales of days devices.

Can you imagine how much baying and howling with rage Fox News and all the other right-wing outlets would be doing if this happened on a Democrat president’s watch? And the subsequent screaming many GOP voters would be doing?

It’s not hard to imagine, because they routinely freaked out about stuff much more trivial than this. (Remember Obama’s white suit?)

Chat GPT et al; “To improve your critical thinking skills you should rely completely on AI.”

Huffman: “Is it our shitty policies towards users, AI developers, and moderators that caused our growth to show down? No it must be Google! Even though they are ranking us higher than we deserve in their search results!”

First off all, what an idiot. Second, you made the deal with them, ya fucking idiot!

Third, I’ve noticed when I go to reduce from a search engine result, the UI is horrible (because I’m not logged in). Like, significantly worse than it used to be several years ago when I’ve wasn’t logged in.

So it’s not even coherent hate speech. How old was the person who posted that? 10?

Time to flood their AI with a ton of skibidi toilet and ‘what the sigma’ memes, so it confuses everyone for eight year olds.