I edited all my comments to be generic observations, so the only really useful metrics would be where and what I commented on

oh shi–

Yeah it’s supposed to be the use of violence to spread fear, usually for some political aim. I guess we’re counting “violence” against property now too 🙄

I just set up a bare repo on a server.

Thank fuck git itself is FOSS. I would be pretty lost without it.

I see, I’ve got mine setup similarly now, and yeah this is more appropriate to my usual workflow / security needs.

Wow it totally is the same implementation. This rules. OK well there goes my last reason to stick with FF.

I do like the way base FF does vertical tabs, though. The only reason I still main that browser for longer web surfing sessions.

If I know exactly where I’m going I use LW, though.

BTW do people really keep the default functionality of LW to clear all login cookies? I know it’s more secure, but kind of a pain to have to sign in to rainwave.cc or whatever every new session.

Really thought the right side showed a waterfall going off the edge at first glance!

Wait it’s REALL??!

I stand corrected!

You folks are cool though

It’s the difference between spending money to have your will enacted, and having your money taken by the people, for use of the commons.

The latter is a very dangerous precedent to set. You don’t want the people feeling like they can have their will enacted.

Wow. You raise some interesting points and according to every reliable source, these facts actually check out.

It’s actually incredible what bullshit masters they are. I consider myself a pretty smart, resolved person, but listening to some of these CEOs speak leaves me feeling confused, deflated, and demoralised.

Exactly. I’m sure countless accountants have pointed to that line item before and somehow we still have a CEOs.

People who are so wowed by the incredible generative output of LLMs and can’t wait for them to fix things need to realise this technology is not for them.

Like all nee tech it may cause a slight shakeup in the beginning allowing for a little upward mobility, but eventually big business folds around it until it only works for the owners.

We’ll all just be working more for less, unless something actually changes.

Yes people love a competent seeming authority. In this way the opaque nature of AI becomes a feature rather than a weakness. It just has to seem correct enough and sound authoritative to fulfill that need.

Some people want AIs to usher in a new age of prosperity.

I get the feeling that many of us (including myself at times) nurture this notion* that we’re waiting for the “adults” to arrive and save us from what a horrible mess we’ve made because we’re o so awful and can’t have nice things… blah blah bling blah… and so this line of thinking goes.

Anyway, to the sizeable number of people who feel this way it must feel like such a relief that, o finally daddy’s home, and I can stop worrying all the time. When ofc in reality, at best, the LLMs only have the same data we already have, and no AI-informed decisions will ever be followed unless it’s what their owners (as in rich fucks) wanted to do anyway.

Great comment by the way. If you say it was written with AI I may just tear out the last remnants of my hairline lol.

* kind of proto-fascist thinking tbh.

Just reread Brave New World, and you’re spot on. I forgot how consumerism underpinned everything in their society.

It was like a tightly regulated market but in the worst way.

We should’ve had that 50 years ago as an “automation tax” and 100 years ago as a “machine tax.”

All this tooling is just dead labour value that is used (by workers) to extract more and more value from workers and nature. We’ve been being robbed for hundreds of years.

Because it’s not about productivity. It’s about separating people into owners and toilers.

I love it