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The best solution to this is if orders of magnitude more people start using GrapheneOS. Once it becomes fairly normal it's no longer a viable reason to target someone. With this pu…

Without international agreement and cooperation, which is not happening, we can’t

Surveillance is required for closed weights models to have meaningfully different outcomes to open ones

> Is there a problem with someone owning it Yes > what? They can decide you can't use it anymore They can decide to charge more for it They can arbitrarily take features out from u…

I like that using keypairs and signed messages inverts the centralised server and SaaS model and makes things more local/client first. I wish more products would move that way. Nos…

I’ve always seen the frontier shown as a curve on a plot. Frontier ≠ SOTA

This is true, but I'm pretty firmly of the opinion that these data centres shouldn't be built, or at least allowed to operate until/unless they can be powered cleanly and without c…

My favourite attempt to improve markdown is djot[0] but I think markdown just has too much inertia and most of its issues aren’t really a problem in practice. [0] https://djot.net/…

Everyone’s eventually going to run a binary they downloaded from the same place, if you’ve already decided to do that, why is a curled install script worse?

The only answer isn't to sink to the lowest common denominator. Ban or tax things from the "globalised" world that are just worker/societal/environmental protection arbitrage so th…

"We didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers" The defining motto of the corporate world

Yeah, the Steam Machine is pretty tough to justify against something like the Minisforum AtomMan G1 Pro, or indeed a smaller much cheaper mini PC that’s closer to Steam Deck perfor…

Laws define fraud, terms of service define what a company would like you to do, usually in the narrowest and most abusive and extractive way possible. The idea that anyone would si…

Snapdragon gaming handhelds are much cheaper than a Steam Deck, so I’m hopeful that as an Arm device it won’t be completely crazy.

Agree. I only keep a Chromium based browser around because of Mozilla's asinine decision not to support Web Bluetooth and Web USB that are needed to interact with devices, microcon…

What use is knitting as a hobby after you have already decided it’s reasonable to buy clothes from a shop? …and countless other examples Not to mention the fact that AIs do the pro…

Me, to scratch an itch and because LLMs make it possible. I'll probably throw it out on the internet someday if it gets far enough, but there are no attention/adoption related goal…

If they’re not in it for the money, they’ll be happy to pay more tax

Money, property, limited companies, intellectual property laws, patents, contract law, etc. etc. are things on which all successful businesses depend. These are social constructs -…

Yeah I agree. I’m “vibe engineering” an entire (non-trivial) programming language, toolchain, and standard library, as well as some smaller side projects. I leave OpenCode implemen…

Indeed, but the weights they release are valuable in a way that precisely counteracts the fact that none of these companies are your friend.

My take is that GUI frameworks/APIs have abandoned power users. Yes, there are things like https://github.com/ocornut/imgui , and some (especially open source) applications try and…

Abusive business models should be illegal. Nobody is entitled to harass their customers because their business would fall apart otherwise. Get a new business model or close the sit…

Running the website isn’t necessary. These people should try not running any websites for a bit. It was just fine when most websites were academic or hobby content, not businesses.…

Tracking people around the web (especially without asking) is a big deal though.