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Were most forums pushing the outer boundaries of acceptable speech online? Reddit mods make and enforce the rules. Reddit gets involved mainly when subreddits do borderline illegal stuff. Is this a real problem, or a hypothetical one?

I'm not aware of any "AI-driven engagement mechanism" for subreddits. You can sort by new, top, hot, best. Hot/Best are opaque heuristics, but they function reasonably and you aren't forced to use them. And for most communities, tags function as adequate topic groupings.

You're rewarded for participation with fake nonsense points, same as all the forums of yore.

Valid points. I was never a member of any forums with closed, invite-only registration, and I've never been part of a reddit community that had to deal with front page traffic or brigading, so I sort of assume this is the median experience.

The maker communities, music subs, and local/city subs I'm in do not have any of these problems.

I'm not sure I understand the difference between "crappy forums" and subreddits. They have all the same features. Tags function as sections. You can sort threads chronologically. Karma.

I suspect there's no actual difference, the author just liked the sort of people who were willing to deal with the traditional "crappy forum" interface for the sake of connecting around some niche hobby, and it provided enough friction to promote adherence to the community's culture.

There are just more people on the internet now. The problem always boils down to some version of Eternal September.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

I read this post while sitting at Broken Clock Brewing here in Minneapolis, one of the 13 listed and my favorite brewery. There are actually 2 in my city. I actually picked up an ownership card and anyone can buy in for $200, but dividends don't start to pay out until some indefinite point where the voting owners decide the business can sustain it.

https://www.brokenclockbrew.com/

https://www.workerowned.info/marketplace/beer-brewing

Could you say more about what you didn't like? This seems pretty indistinguishable from existing tools.

A C++ ray tracer from scratch was the course project for my computer graphics class in 2016. I enjoyed the exercise immensely. Not nearly as robust as yours of course.

They googled "meta down". This is the top result for that search.

Could you imagine? I know it won't happen but what if we get a statement that they suffered a catastrophic data loss and full service couldn't be restored for a week or something. It would be a modern miracle.

Not password managers of course, but thanks for reminding me that I should figure out how to ditch Authy.

https://github.com/BrenoFariasdaSilva/Authy-iOS-MiTM is going to be my project for the afternoon.

Name one major password manager that blocks or paywalls export.

I think this is a little hyperbolic. The product may drop features, increase prices, and squeeze its free tier users. Everything enshittifies. But the idea that password export might disappear or be degraded? Nah. You'll be able to jump ship any time you want.

How you use the tool matters, yes. But the freedom to demonstrate and understand this weakness with watermarks is much more important to exercise than saying "shhhhh don't tell people about this".

The takeaway should be that watermarks aren't very reliable and you should keep your guard up anyway.

Checking openrouter (it's not available yet) and, uh, what's up with the spike in Qwen usage from early april here? https://openrouter.ai/qwen

Is this normal humans kicking the tires on a new model, or a few whales doing serious benchmarks?

Your soul is nourished by navigating congested traffic and searching for mundane stuff on the internet? That's not how mine works.

I have a Dell U3225QE with a built-in KVM and 2 macs.

One connects with Thunderbolt only. The other connects with Display Port for video and USB-C for the rest of the built-in dock.

It's OK most of the time with the nipple switch. My one piece of advice is *avoid HDMI*. I learned after getting this monitor that the HDMI protocol is a petulant unstable little shit that does not tolerate renegotiation well. Get yourself a USB-C to DisplayPort cable.

I think you might be confusing Umami with Plausible? Plausible is a total mess of heavy-idling containers and ClickHouse. I dropped switched to Umami and have had no performance issues of any kind. It's running on ~12 year old shitbox. I do only deal with ~10K events per day max though.

> Go is absolutely an easier/simpler language than JS/TS.

You're suggesting that a language with concurrency is simpler/easier than a language that does not have concurrency.

I was really into Andy's blog when it first came out, but he might be doing the same motivated reasoning he complains about everyone else doing.

https://blog.andymasley.com/p/data-centers-heat-exhaust-is-n...

> The one remaining question: why the clean step change?

In the middle of this piece, he runs into a critical flaw in his reasoning and just shrugs it off.

This is a weird take but I think I like it?

Indeed. _everyone_ has noticed it. Nobody really has any plan to fix it. IMO the urbanism movement comes closest to having some practical plans.

> I hope to make it within this year.

What's your plan?

An orthogonal observation: Bearblog seems to have become an anti-AI echo chamber. Their community responds very positively to posts exactly like this one [1] [2] [3]

I think it's just important context to keep in mind that these sorts of takes are very typical to top https://bearblog.dev/discover/ in the same way that certain types of posts are designed to rank well here. I considered migrating my blog there earlier this year and ended up deciding that, while I loved the product, the community was not healthy.

[1] https://forkingmad.blog/ai-summary-blog-post/

[2] https://blog.spu.io/you-dont-want-to-make-things-you-want-to...

[3] https://blog.happyfellow.dev/simulacrum-of-knowledge-work/

Is the movement to pause or halt datacenter construction filled with naïve children or sleeve-roller-uppers?

This critique reads to me like "capitalists should have asked anti-capitalists about whether or not to do capitalism". This is either going to get resolved through the political process as is proper and good, or else our politics is broken and it will be resolved through older and less peaceful means.

The chorus of people been calling for a pause has gotten louder. I'm ready to join them. Until recently, generative AI was more of a promising novelty than a useful tool. Work theater rather than work. Sometime over the last 6 months this changed. LLMs can do real work, enough that workers and companies and governments need time to catch up to the present state of things.

I noticed this feature earlier in the week and found it helpful and intuitive. I suspect they tested this well and most users liked it. GitHub usually has top rate UX.

Performance is poor and there are a million other reasons to beat up on GH. This is not one of them.

The traditional cursor is so 2025. It's predictable. Familiar. old.

AI is the future, so we need cursors of the future that simulate the frustrating lag and imprecision of LLMS. Dots chase other little dots around and do inscrutable little animations.

Actual answer: You need javascript to see their dumb custom cursor.

How do you find the token speed of open router with kimi?

I have tasks that used to take ~3-5min with Sonnet 4.6. With OpenRouter Kimi, the same task takes 10+ min. It's also just obviously slower in opencode sessions. The results are good, and I love the lower cost, but the speed can be frustrating.

> When I try ChatGPT on current events from the White House it interprets them as strange hypotheticals rather than new

Any specific examples?