i used claude and cursor to migrate ~40 wordpress blogs to cloudflare pages - theres no point using wordpress any more unless you're doing something for ecommerce, and tbh we're moving from woocommerce to shopify now too. decades of non stop maintenance is wearing thin now tbh

i think this is just some headline bait to get retail in so the VCs can dump on them

theres almost certainly no loch ness monster, at least let us keep banksy

I would say the issue was simply lack of common sense. They should have kept nuclear, increased renewable's so they could decrease their dependence on fossils.

There's some kind of sinister mental illness in Europe. It's pretty obvious that growth requires more energy but EU economists thought that optimisation of how energy is used would lead to less energy being required and didn't think people would just end up doing more with the same amount of energy. Idiots

Are you ok?

as is USD
as is GBP
as is EURO
as is real estate
as is the value of life

most things other than the temperature really..

if you RTFA you can see it can be disabled, so its not being forced on you.

but yeah, if theres a plugin that does it, kinda waste of effort, unless the plugin was a performance issue or something..

think more along the lines of proof of existance, rather than positive or negative reputation

a platform could define it's own internal reputation system, but can prioritise someone with a consistent 10 years of github commits and 20 years of steam gaming over someone with no proof of existance

if someone starts spamming AI slop that profile can then be banned from the system internally

The real issue here isnt just AI noise, it's contextless identity.

Anyone with a ChatGPT prompt and a HackerOne login can throw slop at Daniel Stenbergs inbox.

Theres no way to filter for intent, effort, or history. Thats the problem we need to solve and maybe its finally time for a web3 reputation layer for the internet.

Let users link their identity across systems (GitHub, Stack Overflow, bug trackers, etc.) to a Web3 address

Generate a reputation profile: merged PRs, accepted bug reports, Karma, vouches, prior bounties, blah blah

Store that reputaiton signed off-chain (cheap, privacy-friendly), and optionally allow the address owner to pay gas to sign or pin proofs on-chain (Ethereum, EAS, etc.) if tamper resistance is needed.

Platforms like HackerOne could then gate access, weigh reports, or skip low-rep users or require a tiny stake to discourage spam while still welcoming newcomers who have done the work.

This isn't about trying to force blockchain in to a use case, but it could be the basis for a portable, verifiable reputation that the user can control and share with any site, forum or service.

Daniel could then flag users as using AI to create negative reputation and discourage it's use. He could also filter and prioritise reports from confirmed good actors.

And we, the mighty multi decade users of slashdot could represent our hard won karma ...

This would eliminate 95% of the garbage with out banning AI or disincentivising new talent. It would reduce team burnout.

We could add our Steam and Playstation achievements to our account so someone might actually care about that knife skin you bought...

I dunno, just a thought

what's changed is largely irrelevent to the context because guess what, if/when today's kids have kids, things will have changed again.

Do not raise your children the way [your] parents raised you, they were born for a different time.

or..

You cannot raise your children how your parents raised you, because they raised you for a world that no longer exists.

The government doesn't pay for things from tax... taxes are levied to flatten the playing field and make people more financially equal.

The government raises money by selling bonds to banks that create money out of thin air to pay for them, causing inflation.

This is just a fuck you to make people even poorer attempt.

the uk has been simmering for decades, now we're boiling we havent even noticed

im from the uk, started my own business, became a millionaire through hard work and a bit of luck..

the disdain i get from my parents is sickening, for not following the traditional path of university, career, retire.

i wasn't sure what i was experiencing or why but definitely the summary describes it well, as well as the attitude from friends i grew up with. my dad still thinks i dream too much.

someone i was working with build a very successful SaaS with freehand PHP without a framework, but it was clunky, hard to maintain and kept getting hacked.

they hired a 3rd party to rebuild the service from scratch using laravel, unfortunately the project wasn't managed at all and expectations weren't aligned so after about 12 months and a lot of money wasted the rewrite was scrapped. The biggest problem with this approach was they used the waterfall model and expected everything to come together nicely at the end rather than an agile model of quickly, build, test, release etc.

Eventually they just hired a dev to maintain and make increnetal improvements. the platform is still running.

Personally I'd just take an agile approach. integrate laravel in to the platform to initially just handle auth and hand over the rest of the pages to the old system. laravel's ORM can map to any clunky database, then migrate each of the old pages or features to laravel, one at a time, releasing and testing often until everything has been migrated to laravel and the old site has been phased out.