I think X led the way in robotic hellscape innovation that’s now being adopted by Reddit.

Oh cool, I did not know about this

You are so right.

This is a big help! Thanks!

To the supreme court they go… I think we can predict the voting there down to the individual justice.

I agree with the OP on this. Tie them up defending against an attack that will never happen. NATO is a defensive alliance.

I generally hate them in consumer-targeted apps. Theoretically, there’s nothing wrong with the model. Devs have to keep the lights on, especially if there is a cloud service behind the app. It’s all about what pricing model they set. However, pricing is hard. A lot of companies really screw this up right at the start. I also think a lot of businesses cannot resist the temptation to boil the frog and ask for more and more over time, until their pricing is way out of alignment with value delivery.

This one really surprised me.

example: https://www.adblockpodcast.com/

I think it’s because privacy is less an issue with podcasts (ads don’t have as many options to track) and enshitification of the experience has been on a slower roll than, say, youtube. Lately some solutions are out there in the form of commercial apps but they are limited and who knows if their biz model will survive. I’d like to see an open source solution but I haven’t found one.

NPR New Music Friday is helpful a lot of the time

It’s all a bit of an arms race (to the bottom). If my competition is freely allowed to obscure the true cost, I’m at a disadvantage not to do the same. Government intervention is needed.

Cost of doing business. This is a rounding error somewhere.

I don’t attribute it to an organized plan but they are stumbling and shuffling their way towards a dark future, one step at a time.

They are laying the groundwork for an autocratic government. With the right measures in place, it could happen fast.

This is not good. Thanks for highlighting this. I flagged this for my company’s enterprise risk management committee to consider and act upon.

class act

When you ask it to summarize, add “in one paragraph” to your prompt.

“This article discusses the decline of fish and chip shops, particularly in the East Neuk of Fife in Scotland. The closures are attributed to various factors including rising prices of ingredients due to geopolitical and economic factors like the war in Ukraine and complications from Brexit, as well as increasing energy costs. The article explores the challenges faced by fish and chip shop owners and the impact of closures on local communities. It also highlights the cultural significance of fish and chips in the UK and the nostalgic attachment people have to this traditional meal.”

They will find something to moan about, probably several somethings. Most of it will be made up bullshit non-issues or things they do themselves when they are in power. This is the Party of Grievance.

A lot of so-called low code can be a trap. I’m less afraid of SaaS so long as there exists an equivalent on-prem option. SaaS has a place for sure. SaaS-only is a concern, I agree. I agree with a lot of the assertions of this article, except I would probably first recommend Camunda 7 or 8 over SWF. Camunda is developer friendly, open source and has more mature offerings. A large part of the value of adopting process orchestration tools is the ability to support a model -> run -> monitor & optimize type of closed loop cycle. Camunda does this very well.