I made the same comment about Googleâ(TM)s SDK. If AI is so awesome, why not just write a single SDK in a single language, and AI build the others on each push? Then devs can use their preferred language and it already has full first party support. Seems so simple⦠and the fact that it isnâ(TM)t being done screams pretty loudly.

Certainly not defending bigotry, but there was, about 15-20 years ago, a big issue with Chinese drywall being used in home construction. The root cause of why it was used was a material shortage in the south east due to a severe hurricane season. For those who bought a house built with it, or those who remodeled before the issue was known, it was a potential financial disaster for them. Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The TZ difference between India and the US is a pain. I'm in EST, so we have some overlap. But most of my team is PST, and they basically have none.

OTS GPS companies cannot sell units that can work over a certain altitude or speed without a special buyers permit because those components are known to be able to used in homegrown weapons.

You cannot bulk purchase fertilizer for a same reason without a buyer's permit.

Why should LLMs be different?

Chrome's AdGuard does a pretty fantastic job with them. I pair that with PopUpOff for those annoying popup content blockers where they try to force you to see their ads.

As someone who was in a toxic relationship with my ex, and had similar experiences with some family members, some people aren't willing to be convinced and the effort spent trying can often be better used almost anywhere else.

Social Media is like a second job with no pay for most users. The ROI on being their sock puppet is pretty low.

Replace "being their sock puppet" with "contributing" and that pretty accurately describes OSS as well. Especially in the age of AI.

Yeah, I immediately thought of Flutter too. A few years back, MS was big on Flutter, and even contributed a decent amount of code and patches.

Even if there is no alternative, and internet for some reason is an absolute must, I'm not above cutting a ribbon cable with an exacto knife. Dead screen on fridge is better than ads on fridge.

YES! I replaced my GE fridge because it broke with a new Samsung and I was amazed that the fridge was perfectly happy to work without a filter. The GE one had a goddamn RFID sticker on it, which made replacements $80-100 as opposed to the previous RFID-less ones (which were internally the same damn thing) which cost about $20. If you wanted to put in one of the $20 filters, you had to watch a YouTube explainer video of how to carefully remove the RFID from a "donor" filter, carefully install it on the new filter, and ignore the fridge warnings about how it needs to be replaced constantly.

With Samsung? Remove the filter, done. It has a built in bypass when no filter is present. We don't bother with filters, our water tastes fine from the tap and aside from ice, we use water from the kitchen tap 90% of the time anyway.

There's a cell IOT signal designed for single kb/s that is so cheap it's basically free. I know because my former company did some testing on these for IOT devices like temp sensors, water sensors, etc. Those devices were usually less than $20, and included a battery that lasted months.

Something like that can't serve visual ads, but it can send fingerprints of your activities so they can be served to other devices with higher speed connectivity.

I love our samsung fridge and microwave. They "just work", have no screens, and the features they had were perfect for us. We replaced old GE devices, that were about 5-6 years old and broke. Not saying you should change your opinion, just that individuals can have different experiences.

If builders built things the way vibe coders do, the first wood pecker would destroy the building. Fixed it for ya.

A lot of the cost is involved with the training. AI companies got caught in the "stealing public work" cookie jar, and that's unlikely to be allowed to happen again at any meaningful scale. That means new AI cos are unlikely to form. They are more or less out of places to steal from without actually paying someone, and that will increase costs as well.

Facebook's LLaMMA is OSS only because of how far they know they are behind, and even to get there they got sued for stealing from pirate sites to train their model. Deepseek cost less (though not as little as they claim) mostly because they very likely utilized OpenAI to feed their model.

OSS is being stolen at an epic pace, and the licenses don't matter because no OSS dev or group has the money to take an AI company to court in this env.

None of this is sustainable nor "here to stay". Eventually AI will have to start training on AI content and that's where the death spiral starts because the hallucinations will compound and constantly add up.

Huh, funny... You actually thought Fox News was "news" and not a show or "entertainment side of media"?