can someone explain like I am five?
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MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser Automation
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Re: MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser Automation
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
But then, how are there so few commits in its profile graph? I suppose I may be admitting my ignorance of how public GitHub works, but still curious.
I was guessing Anthropic asked them to turn it off. Though why not also ask to delete the old activity of the person you bought the account from? Like: https://github.com/fotinakis/swagger-blocks/issues/3
Wow! Now I wonder how many bucks they paid for it.
Because for sure they didn't DMCAed their way to own that account, right? Right?
Re: MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser Automation
#113Prediction: this will go the same way as RSS. Companies don't like you to be in control of how you use their data.
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#114Prediction: this will go the same way as RSS. Companies don't like you to be in control of how you use their data.
> Prediction: this will go the same way as RSS.
Meaning what? RSS remains ubiquitous. It’s rare to find a website which doesn’t support it, even if the owners don’t realise it or link to it on their page. RSS remains as useful as it ever was. Even if some websites only share partial post content via RSS, it’s still useful to know when they are available (and can be used as an automation hook to get the full thing).
RSS is alive and well. It’s like if you wrote “this will go the same way as the microwave oven”.
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#115> If I asked you to build a table and gave you a Home Depot you probably would have a harder time than if I gave you a saw, a hammer and some nails. I doubt that, first and not least because Home Depot stocks lumber.
And, I imagine, Home Depot might have better and more precision tools available, plus professionals who know how to use them.
Re: MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser Automation
#116Prediction: this will go the same way as RSS. Companies don't like you to be in control of how you use their data.
Isn't RSS a smashing success? I changed readers after Google Reader died, but otherwise, my feeds have been working seamlessly for nearly 20 years. I rarely meet a site with updates that doesn't support RSS.
Re: MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser Automation
#117Prediction: this will go the same way as RSS. Companies don't like you to be in control of how you use their data.
> Prediction: this will go the same way as RSS. Meaning what? RSS remains ubiquitous. It’s rare to find a website which doesn’t support it, even if the owners don’t realise it or link to it on their page. RSS remains as useful as it ever was. Even if some websites only share partial post content via RSS, it’s still useful to know when they are available (and can be used as an automation hook to get the full thing). R…
The built-in RSS reader in Firefox was removed. (But extensions exist to add RSS reader to Firefox.)
Google killed Google Reader. (Other products exist you can use instead.)
Facebook removed support for RSS feeds. (You can replace it with third party tools or API calls.)
It’s not dead dead, but it did seem to lose some momentum and support over time on several fronts.
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#118> If I asked you to build a table and gave you a Home Depot you probably would have a harder time than if I gave you a saw, a hammer and some nails. I doubt that, first and not least because Home Depot stocks lumber.
You're supposed to "hallucinate" the lumber.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
But then, how are there so few commits in its profile graph? I suppose I may be admitting my ignorance of how public GitHub works, but still curious.
Oh no it's not done through that account. Seems to be some sort of ephemeral account scoped to the repo.
What's in authour/commit meta is orthogonal to which github.com account you are actually using. Anyone can commit as anyone as long as you have any way to push and if you want better than that you need signed commits. There are no "ephemeral accounts" in play here.
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#120Prediction: this will go the same way as RSS. Companies don't like you to be in control of how you use their data.
Indeed. Though I guess a better example would be: it'll go the same way as REST APIs (which happen to be fundamentally the same thing as MCP anyway).
Remember the time when REST was the new hot thing, everyone started doing API-first design, and people thought it'll empower people by letting programs navigate services for them programmatically? Remember when "mashups" were the future?
It all died before it could come to pass, because businesses quickly remembered that all their money comes specifically from denying users those capabilities.