Theres a slightly malicious part of me that kind of looks forward to the CEO bots destroying the internet, because honestly, its become a destructive shitshow.

The free and liberating internet of the late 90s and early 2000s died a long long time ago, and its now a hell dimension of corporate social media wrecking kids attention spans and bamboozling their elders with disinformation.

Im actually a bit surprised this is still a thing. I was CTO at a small VOIP telco back about a decade ago and the SS7 thing was a *very* big deal. Its a uselessly insecure protocol from an era when people where just not thinking about this stuff. It was entirely possible to break into it with a laptop and an off the shelf SRD radio setup and scoop all sorts of metadata about nearby phones.

Fun fact: Stingray type tech was a prominent feature in David Simmons The Wire before it was ever officially admitted to. And some people thought it implausible. Nope, like most of the plots people wrote off as implausible in that show, we later learned that indeed it was rooted in real stuff going on in the Baltimore PD. As one Baltimore friend put it;- "That show aint a drama, its a documentary".

The minute chatgpt 4 is for free, I'm out of my 20$ a month plan.

I'd transfer that over to Anthropic. Claude 3 is currently cleaning GPT4s clock in almost every metric. And its a lot smarter in its ethical decision making. It'll still say no from time to time, but it usually gives a pretty damn good reason why, and it can be negotiated with if your case is good (as opposed to GPT4 which just shuts that shit right down).

Seems to write actually pretty decent code too.

Disliking something because its too popular is a teenager move.

Go is something that is laser focused on a very specific usecase, writing servers. Its poorly suited to anything else, but for that one task its brilliantly productive.

What exactly is the reason you left it, or was it literally "its too popular" as you suggest? Because thats a strange reason for anyone who actually wants to make a living in it.

This is why , with the apparent exception of Nick friggin Bostrom, most philosophers have shunned speculative metaphysics since more or less the 1800s. Once Physics split off into its own discipline, its apparent that frankly physicists are better equipped for it. Philosophers generally stick to what philosophy is good at, logic, ethics, phenomenology, and clarifying (but not necessarily solving) problems that arise in other fields that generate "bigger" questions.

Speaking as a philosophy grad, this kind of navel gazing with the simulation hypothesis irritates me. Its not science and smells awfully like religion with a more technological alibi. Instead of trying to prove it, maybe the smarter move is to try and disprove it. Concoct an experiment that would disprove the simulator hypothesis if its untrue. And if you cant do that, then its not science, its just silly speculation that wont tell us anything useful.

Even before Rust, the kernel wasn't written to ISO C, but to GNU C (there's plenty of quotes from Linus to that effect).

There is one thing however that makes CO2 drastically more dangerous than Methane.

Methane lasts in the atmosphere 7 to 12 years. CO2 for centuries or even millenia.

We can get an easy win by reducing Methane. It'll help. But the CO2 is the stuff that cumulates over time and causes the real long term headache.

I'm fairly sure thats why Apple has always been a little vague on its app store terms beyond the obvious rules, and has never distributed its static analysis tool. As much as its a massive pain for devs, it does make it a hell of a lot harder for scammers to carefullly hedge their way around it.

The "snaps" are not the problem. Its the crypto shit.

Just ban the fucking things from the app stores. If people want it, they can download it from github, ./configure && make && make install . Source code distributed apps tend not to last long as scams. Many eyes and shallow problems.

Its surprisingly watchable as an adult. Like, yeah its a kids show, but it seems to treat the audience as intelligent enough to follow a decent storyline, and the plot in the last season was a banger.

It *does* feel a little like its following a similar but slightly updated visual code to clone wars (I was half expecting the villain to pull out a red light sabre) but thats not necessarily a bad thing. Clone wars visual style was quite watchable.

Yeah I think its a winner. Actually between that and Lower Decks, honestly the animation series are probably the most enjoyable treks of the nu-treks (with strange new worlds following close behind, that show is proper trek. Disco was Meh... I didnt hate it , but it wasnt great, and Picard was a hot mess, though the last season was actually kind of fun)

Any country thats poor enough, you can probably bribe your way out.

One of the strongest predictors against corruption is a desparately underpaid police force. Pay the cops well and they are *much* harder to corrupt. Not impossible (There are ways to corrupt a well paid "good" cop, everyone has a price, or something/someone they fear losing.), but its generally much harder.

Depends. I had the google one and it was ... meh. A friend had the Apple one and it was *weirdly* good. Maybe not quite as good as my $1K monitor speakers in my studio, but you dont buy a home assistant for $1k monitor speaker soud, you buy $1K monitor speakers.

Yeah honestly, social media and politics are a horrible combination and seem to bring out the worst, pettiest nastiest impulses in people. I know most of us older cats (which I tend to assume is slashdots core audience, lets face it, this site is pretty ancient by internet standards) where around in that era when we thought a completely free internet where everyone stands around politely debating the topics would lead to an enlightened populus that keeps power in check and ushers in some sort of great utopia, but in reality its become a breeding ground for hateful nonsense ,and political operatives on both sides using machine learning engament algorithms to try and mindfuck people into some awful behaviors, and thats not even going into the overwhelming tool of influence and suveilance its goven governments.

The less politics on social media the better. Bring back town squares with trees as places of debate, and save social media for the memes, music and grandmas ravioli recipes.

The green bubble thing is actually a reasonable complaint, and a fairly textbook example of market leverage. I suspect the DOJ might prevail on that one. The ebook pricing one has a logic that does make sense but the DOJ would (imho) likely fail that one simply because Apple just arent a big player in that field, even on iphones. I dont really get their complaint about apple TV though. I cant really see that one succeeding.

Yes, but redis isn't.

Theres plenty of examples of GPL products getting closed sourced (You can do that if you own the rights, you just cant revoke it for people who have the previous code, so they *can* fork it) and the product pretty much dying in the marketplace OR forked. Its no more a protection (for either party) than the MIT and BSD licenses. All the GPL really gives is a prevention against a competitor taking it and close sourcing a derivative.