- Brendan Eich was garbage, though, and on top of that he made Brave which is basically a joke, so not exactly missing him.
- Last time I was at school requirement analysis was a thing, but do go off.
- > I'm anon, but also the farthest thing from a progressive, so I find this post amusing.
Oh I know. I called it hijacking because the result is as progressive as a national socialist is a socialist.
> What I'm saying is people are communicating better.
Actually they’re no longer communicating at all.
- It doesn’t. You’re not entering anything with an LLM.
- I mean, kinda, but also: not only are someone’s meandering ramblings a part of a process that leads to less meandering ramblings, they’re also infinitely more interesting than LLM slop.
- I hate when people hijack progressive language - like in your case the language of accessibility - for cheap marketing and hype.
Writing is one of the most accessible forms of expression. We were living in a world where even publishing was as easy as imaginable - sure, not actually selling/profiting, but here’s a secret, even most bestselling authors have either at least one other job, or intense support from their close social circle.
What you do to write good is you start by writing bad. And you do it for ages. LLMs not only don’t help here, they ruin it. And they don’t help people write because they’re still not writing. It just derails people who might, otherwise, maybe start actually writing.
Framing your expensive toy that ruins everything as an accessibility device is absurd.
- Hear me out:
Containers. Or even just go full VM.
AFAIK we have all the pieces to make those approaches work _just fine_ - GPU virtualization, ways to dynamically share memory etc.
It's a bit nuts, sure, and a bit wasteful - but it'd let you have a predictable binary environment for basically forever, as well as a fairly well defined "interface" layer between the actual hardware and the machine context. You could even accommodate shenanigans such as Aurora 4X's demand to have a specific decimal separator.
We could even achieve a degree of middle-ground with the kernel anti-cheat secure boot crowd - running a minimal (and thus easy to independently audit) VM host at boot. I'd still kinda hate it, but less than having actual rootkits in the "main" kernel. It would still need some sort of "confirmation of non-tampering" from the compositor, but it _should_ be possible, especially if the companies wanting that sort of stuff were willing to foot the bill (haha). And, on top of that, a VM would make it less likely for vulnerabilities of the anti-cheat to spread into the OS I care about (a'la the Dark Souls exploit).
So kinda like Flatpak, I guess, but more.
- Fascinating. And what in the world compelled you to announce your short attention span to the world?
- RealPlayer was 1995, so a few years later, and arguably was a start of the trend of enshittification. Flash videos was around the times things really got bad.
That does mean we go, essentially:
Step 1: We barely have video at all.
Step 2: Everything is terrible.
- Because that’s the real top spot. It doesn’t take a lot of effort to realize there are many drawbacks to cashless.
- "Fuck, sorry, we're going to take the bot behind the barn and shoot it. Hopefully one day we can make it up to you. Also the person responsible for this atrocity was just fired."
Or, alternatively, if you do not intend to even try to do better, at least be honest: "ok, bye."
- > It's hard to have human relationships only by writing.
No, it's pretty easy, actually, people did that since writing was invented, with mediums much slower than a modern mailing list.
It _is_ much easier to manipulate people behind closed doors, as well as lie about what happened there.
- > As someone from the Netherlands I read absolutely 0 condescending or patronising behaviour in this.
Not really painting us in good colors here, are you.
- ...because a lot of us like Firefox and hate seeing it slowly die?
- The channel was already open, right there in the thread. There was nothing to win by going private before maybe being bullied into backing down.
- Anything has an "psychological effect," and tricking a person into thinking any old junk is "better than therapy" is trivial - look at all the people who spend time and money on AI chatbots. It's also pretty clear it's not actually _good for them_.
And there's zero surprise here it would be used to manipulate potential athletes.
- Wow that’s bleak. “Look at that fake photo of you but better.”
- The amazing thing about Turbo Pascal was that my memory was better, my focus was better, I could stay up much longer and my right knee didn’t hurt.
Edit: I think there is a lot of “do it because we can do it not because we benefit from it” in modern software. But fetishizing the past gets a bit silly. I do still remember getting plenty of useless documentation in old TP. And blasting through an interface that lags behind your typing is how you end up doing something completely unpredictable because one keystroke was a bit off.
- If by impact you mean “turn off people from the movement” then sure. I happen to know multiple people who either met or even hosted him, and not a single one of them was impressed. Stallman was a horrible promoter.
Give me more money now.