It's been tried many times. Freenet is one example, back in the day. Onion sites on Tor. It never works, unfortunately.

The issue with their folding phone is that they came to the game late and didn't learn anything from the competition. Other companies are several generations into foldables, and have largely figured out the hinge reliability problems, and software support on the Android side is decent.

Apple has to do everything in-house, so are where Samsung was when they released the original Galaxy Fold, 7 years ago. Weak screen that breaks easily, hinge that lets crap in, and software that is half baked.

Back in the Jobs era they had problems with Macbook hinges and thermal paste.

Apple has always had issues with engineering. There have been moments of genius like back in the Apple I and ][ days, or some of the 68k Macs that had designs that made them easy to work on, but even then there were performance issues, upgrade issues, and quality issues. It got worse in the Jobs era, as he introduced such innovations as non-replacable batteries and form over function. The iPod headphone output took a few generations to get decent, and the original monochrome screens were crap even by the standards of the day.

Given that they have decades of tests and sample scripts, an LLM should be able to recreate it bug-for-bug. If a customer has an issue with an existing script, they can just throw more tokens at it until the compatibility issue is resolved.

Unfortunately there is a high probability that this will work. Things are not looking good for human developers.

Reddit is hoping that AI companies will pay them. Reddit is a major source of information for AI.

It may look bad now, but so did AI generated code at first. Now it's at the point where for a lot of businesses it's more than adequate to replace human developers. I hate to say it because I'm at risk too, but I can't argue with the results.

A guy at work recently presented a web interface that Claude built for him, for a research project. A year ago that would have been a job for someone on my team. It looks good, it works well, and Claude produced an SBOM and a security audit.

I don't know how this is going to play out, but as bad as a lot of the AI slop is, I think it's just teething problems.

Corporate reserves are not a slush fund, and $6.8bn is not a big number to have laying around like this.

I'm not sure I can answer this until you demonstrate a high-school level of understanding of basic accounting terms as it applies to companies.

Actually it's not dumb at all. There's a mountain of things we've banned when they cause more harm than good. And crypto objectively serves universally illegitimate purposes.

Because I can't wait to see Trump lose his shit. As soon as he's done TRUTHing from his toilet though I think this tax is simply unworkable and needs to die.

Yeah, France, the second largest industrial powerhouse in Europe, can't produce shit... sure let's go with that. If you ever have the chance to get on a plane (one which doesn't fall from the sky like American ones do) you should visit and broaden your horizons a bit.

Huh? By all accounts they were rioting. That is a core French value and one that historically lead to the creation of core principles of western democracy. I would argue that not only is your argument extremely dumb, but that it actually shows those "foreigners" are more aligned with French values than any French people are today.

Read a book.

LOL. That's the same fantasy as "every billionaire will move their business to another state".

No they don't. Even in France you can go into a public square and say what you want to whomever will listen. Only if your congregation turns into an active nuisance is there any enforcement action.

Now here's the rub, on Facebook if what you say doesn't align with the algorithm you'll be shadow silenced, your post not promoted, potentially even hidden without you knowing. Want to reach an audience? Well you can just pay to be heard.

Social media isn't a public square, it's a for profit event venue.

Oh great, you're starting to get the point. Maybe we should have a town square then instead of controlled and curated speech that is current social media.

I didn't realise the town square had goalposts. Next time if you want to talk about a football stadium do that.

Hint: People not coming to hear what you say is not a free speech issue. Your local town square also doesn't have most of the town their either.

And you continue to use that term incorrectly. It's a de-facto shopping mall, because that's where people hang out... if they are allowed to stay, don't make a ruckus and security don't kick them out.

Just hanging out somewhere doesn't make it a town square. ESPECIALLY IN THE CONTEXT OF FREE SPEECH.

Then the current generation wouldn't be such pussies.

Let me guess last night during Halloween you guys went trick or treating at lunchtime right? For us... we actually had street lights out thanks to some road works so it was an extra fun Halloween. Kids loved it, but then we didn't raise a bunch of soft pansies afraid of the dark.