It's a lot easier to remember that your asterisks will be converted.

For neurotypical people not trained in programming languages, it actually is easier to use 'symbols' for *emphasis*, because they work as augmenters of the written text (i.e. they take the same role as punctuation, parentheses, question marks and exclamation signs), instead of changing the reading processing mode into a totally different mental context (i.e. as code tags instead of natural text with markings). Markdown was a clever hack to get that natural reading experience to digital text formatting.

For the untrained eye, <i> and <b> look more like alien ships from an Invaders videogame that somehow got stuck in the middle of one paragraph, not as helpful commands to change the behaviour of the computer; you need to have a quite thorough understanding of how a computer processes digital text in order to understand those tags, which is simply not needed to use markdown.

We need to organize. All of us who are not billionaires, it's in our best interest to ensure that they don't get that much power; this time there won't be enough marquisates, counties, and baronies to fight over among ourselves for the crumbs they're willing to give us to keep us in line.

This time, socialism won't do; we're not proletarians doing work on a production line. We need to be able to create our work projects without being able to sabotage us or buy from one of these great feudal platforms.

For once we have the necessary tools and knowledge to make it viable. It is true that platforms centralize power, but we have enough free software and open computers to create an alternative that does not depend on that central power. We only lack awareness that it is necessary to achieve it, and the organization to carry it out.

While what you say is true, I think you're indeed missing the GP's point: that in this market of cheap low quality items, a significant portion of the economic activity is not lead by 'needs' but by 'wants', and those wants are easily manipulated by aggressive marketing.

If that's the case, a reduction of activity in that specific market does not mean a recession nor a reduction in quality of life, as those impulse buys were destined to have little practical use. In this case regulation could result in a more efficient distribution of resources by redirecting that 'waste money' to more useful ends. It can even be argued that such market did not provide an increase in the level of live, as the psychological manipulation to keep the impulse-buy going on has negative mental health effects of their own.

And you bet people will be waiting in line on day one to buy it...

Open source Figma competitor has just added MCP server support, allowing designers and coders to design and code user interface with support from any AI agent.

Uh no, that's civilization. Humanity is about caring for the 10 members of your tribe, who also happens to be close family members.

That's how it was for the large majority of time for the human kind; having enough people to be able to marginalize some of them only came about after the invention of agriculture, where groups settled and started to grow large and have different income levels.

Darwin awards are won by removing yourself from the gene pool. These traitors to their own species may end doing that not by killing themselves, but by wiping out the entirety of the human kind.

Yup, that's basically what the 'next step' means. "The goal is to eventually expand beyond summaries to agent-like tasks". The agent will read the summary an make actions on your behalf.

The end game is not needing to have you around at all.

To make the metaphor accurate, instead of Narcan the doctor would be recommending a new novelty drug whose results are untested in the human body, and for which no antidote is known.

You can turn on a setting in about:config that will add an option to connect to a locally hosted LLM model, typically running in your GPU with something like Ollama, LM Studio or Anything LLM.

I would like that such option was displayed as prominent as those connecting to commercial services, but at least it's there for those in the know.

Companies treated workers well, and Western governments provided a welfare state, because of the menace of the Soviet Union looking as a more attractive option to workers.

Once the Soviet Union imploded ending the Cold War, there were no menace anymore and the ruling class returned to their previous mode of operation, dialling the clock back to the XIX century with it's Dickensian Laissez-faire.

It's only logical that when we go back to the conditions that motivated Socialism, workers bring back the same old techniques of class warfare. Welcome to the New World Order, same as the Old.

It doesn't matter where the wealth comes from; in other countries it comes from the entrepreneurship and hard labor from its workers.
The trick is then to distribute the products of that wealth among all the people, instead of concentrating more than half of it on the hands of a very small privileged class that then gets to decide how it's spent.

Be careful, you may be up to discover the European way of thinking where "productivity" and "net worth" and "concentrating all the political power in a few lobbies that control the government"* are not synonyms with economic health but rather "safety net" and "well-being" do.

*We tried the last one in the times of the Roman Empire and decided that it's not a good model to live with.

can we name it 'Actual Pluto'?

And they'd do well, because the Ptolemaic guys were better than anyone else in predicting the movements of planets.

And by keeping with the good work, their successors were able to keep compiling and refining good observations, and ultimately be able to overcome the previous model that have served them well.

The point is not to have "The Absolute Truth" at any one particular point (only religious nutjobs do that), the point is to have a reasonable corpus of observations that get cross-checked with reality so that you do not get blinded by dogma.