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What's the end goal here? Only local governments?

Capitalism itself has no function against wealth accumulation besides taxation, although the efficacy is questionable.

So how does non-FIAT and dismantling the government help? Even less taxation... in a currency that can't be controlled - the capitalist dream, I guess?

But "AI" tools have more or less seeped into every mainstream product... this is a strong "defensive move" for companies in anticipation of more to come.

We aren't leaving MS Office or Adobe because they already pushed out some minimal innovation. But what about the products you don't even know about? For lawyers, doctors, logistics, sales, marketing, wood workers, handymen? In Europe or Asia?

New product by bringing true innovation could easily push out legacy business by "shiny new thing"(AI) and better UX alone. A lot of software in these areas simply hasn't improved for 10 years - with a great idea and a dedicated team it's a landslide waiting to happen.

The travel and tourism industry is growing at around 4% YoY. So there is still a need (a growing need!) for "experiences" and "moments".

The "online bullshit" combined with no simple way towards ownership for younger generations are among the highest growth factors here in my opinion.

Still agreeing with your points, just wanted to add this context as there's likely a difference mentally between "social media" and "real world" authentic.

Is 100dvh preferred over 100svh in this case?

I never noticed a difference between them as the viewport size mostly doesn't change without scrolling... which shouldn't happen for both, right?

I agree with that, although for me it's books that I really enjoy currently.

After quitting most of social media, the jump-cutting in a lot of shows and movies nowadays gives me headaches weirdly... maybe that's just me though.

Also, everyone that's at least a teenager has grown up on human produced content - most of this worry will only manifest if there's a generation that strictly prefers AI produced content instead of it just being a complement (e.g. the generated pictures in articles, or automatic clips from Twitch streams)

Fundamentally, all social medias have two purposes:

1) Connecting with family and friends... for me, messaging Apps already solve that.

2) Curating new, exciting and relevant content.

What I always find interesting is that most projects try to solve 2) by building a platform that is exactly like the competitor but "decentralized".

If such a system instead runs entirely on the users device the curation could even use data such as browser bookmarks or history without infringing massively on privacy.

I feel the same way about programming, but there are plenty of people that don't enjoy it.

I recently was chatting with my friend that wanted to automate one of his tasks by writing a python script with AI -> because all the influencers said it was "so easy" and "no programming knowledge" required.

That might have been the single funniest piece of code I have seen in a long time. Didn't install the dependencies, didn't fill in the Twitter API key, instead of searching for a keyword on Twitter it just looked up 3 random accounts, 25 functions on like 120 lines of code?

Also, the line numbers in the errors weren't helpful because the whole thing lived in Windows notepad. That was a flagship AI and a (in my opinion) capable human not being able to assemble a simple script.

As a longstanding Minecraft player, that's played less and over the years, I simply don't know how I feel about this.

A side of me hopes that this technology gets used to drive progress in self-driving cars, robotics etc. My intuition says that having a sandbox that looks similar yet functions unexpectedly could greatly help with sniffing out edge cases.

On the other side I fear that this ends up in the next generation of social media - never ending generative short-form content. Obviously, in its current state the effects on the brain regarding object permanence could be... devastating?

How could it ever be considered a protocol?

It's a platform - a marketplace for buying opinion.

Even just "organizing" the code requires great amounts of knowledge and intuition from prior experiences.

I am personally torn between the future of LLMs in this regard. Right now, even with Copilot, the benefit they give fundamentally depends on the coder that directs them - as you have noted.

What if that's no longer true in a couple years? How would that even be different from e.g. no code tools or website builders today? In different words will handwritten code stay valuable?

I personally enjoy coding so I can always keep doing it for entertainment, even if I am vastly surpassed by the machine eventually.

Also what's the reasoning behind not wanting to store passwords?

It's not like the rest of the customer's data is not valuable? If you don't feel comfortable storing passwords, the amount of data I'd trust you with is strictly zero.

EU needs to clear out its own backyard first, kick Hungary out... Orban has brought nothing but chaos and costs.

After that, why not? Turkey has been in discussion for ages and is barely in Europe. Also, South Africa might be interesting in the future if they can see eye to eye on political and economic issues.

Not using services funded by Google is pretty high on my personal privacy checklist. Also, they offer some services (like VPN, Relay, Pocket) that usually end up as annoying bloatware in Firefox.

Most user will probably want images, slightly more styling and recommendations on what to read next... other than that it's a perfectly usable website for the everyday user, something that can't be said about most news sites today, sadly.

I mean who even reads ad-spam websites in the first place? They used to host little bits of knowledge you'd search for... now I can reach that better via ChatGPT (eg. How to do mission X in video game Y)

I can only imagine... I read some well crafted news, no ads, no malicious tracking, no ad-blocker-blocker popup, no newsletter popup - and at end of the article: "This experience was great because we're supported by XYZ company, they have no control of our editorial process" (with company logo). Tasteful, still supported by ads, probably completely unsustainable.

LLMs still completely won't admit that they're wrong, don't have enough information or that the information could have changed - Asking anything about Svelte 5 is an incredible experience currently.

At the end of the day it's a tool currently, with surface-level information it's incredibly helpful in my opinion - Getting an overview of a subject or even coding smaller functions.

What's interesting in my opinion is "agents" though... not in the current "let's slap an LLM into some workflow", but as a concept that is at least an order of magnitude away from what is possible today.

Usually a couple Brits can't behave themselves at larger events (Oktoberfest, Euros) and make it into the news cycle - commonly paired with a backhanded comment like "The British underestimated the potency of German beer yet again".

There's also a large rivalry in soccer and balconing; combined with history and Brexit it really isn't a mystery.

How does that explanation work when Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts are trying to do exactly the same?

Most of the "funding" that Germany does usually goes to companies that can "play" the bureaucratic process instead of the ones that would actually deliver anything of value - so it probably won't be an effective strategy to accelerate FOSS.

A good starting point would be to require all government software to be OSS in the EU - similar to what Switzerland started a couple months ago.

Hi, German here as well - there are plenty of political news for us to sit through these days...

I personally don't feel compelled to move away from my Apple devices as of yet, but this'll certainly influence my future purchasing decisions.

Why? - With politicians like Trump you'll always have to draw the line between campaign talk and real politics - When actions start or the relationship between the EU and US starts to deteriorate it makes more sense to jump ship.

From a bureaucratic standpoint I hope that the EU takes this as a wake up call to finally deregulate - to allow more innovation and trade with other parts of the world if it comes down to it.

"AI generated code" essentially means using Github Copilot or an alternative - these barely write a function without errors, nor are they even close to implementing a new feature autonomously.

I expect these tools to improve productivity for new-ish developers, however for anyone that is literate in a programming language the effect is marginal at best ("Copilot pause" etc.)

I absolutely support your claims about the leaderboards, it's an obvious show of cheating in CS2. There's also a strong incentive for cheating companies to be there so it might not be descriptive of the average experience. However, I can't speak for that level as my peak was barely over 25k (top 1%?) and the leaderboards are simply orders of magnitude away from that.

Regarding cheaters announcing they're cheating - I haven't encountered that in a long time, but I have heard of it often enough from new players... so it might be an issue with trust factor, but who knows?

I have actually been playing CS off and on since around 2017 - at least in my experience the current cheating situation isn't worse than it was back then, but it's also not better. The only time it was meaningfully better was when prime released around 2021.

However, it's also true that I started playing more after the release of CS2... and the aforementioned 10k Elo mark was a real pain point for me and my friends. Every time we were due to pass it we ran into cheaters, smurfs and even a server crash once (incredible luck?). After over 3 months we made it past 10k and climbed above 15k Elo within 2 weeks. - This is my experience and I have heard similar stories from other players. (Although ranks have been massively imbalanced at that time as well, which partly explains this?)

Nevertheless, it's good to have a discussion about cheating - in CS2's case the experience can be so different depending on the region, ELO, trust factor, ... with Valorant the discussion simply gets shutdown way to often because of "Vanguard" and without a replay system you're just left to your own devices.

As someone that plays CS2 and Valorant regularly...

Vanguard hasn't been effective for a while now. The cheating situation is a lot worse than CS in my experience, but every discussion gets shutdown because... well... it's Vanguard.

With CS2 I have talked to many players about this and everyone says the same thing: "There's a very noticeable decline in cheaters above 10k Elo."... personally I have pushed beyond 15k and briefly above 20k Elo and the amount of cheaters have steadily declined (although less obvious cheats, eg. wallhack, are probably more common at that level) - for Valorant it has pretty much stayed at a constant amount of "cheatiness" across the ranks.

CS actually has a rich history of features, functions, services?... that aren't strictly anti-cheat...

Overwatch gave players the option to "police" others players replays - this wasn't only against cheating, but also griefing.

Prime? Is it still even a thing? It was great when CSGO went F2P... all the cheaters just annoyed the non-prime players (F2P).

The ominous Trust factor which is probably the single most effective piece in making my personal experience great. But there's no real way to tell?

Also, VacNet - which is running? is AI based? banning players? lowering their trust factor?... with Valve there's no real way to tell most of the time, but it's probably existent in some shape, way or form.

Not to say that CS2 has solved cheating, it's far from it - but neither has Valorant.

I had largely the same experience.

As long as you're just traveling with one company it's usually fine - especially DB, you can usually just hop on the next train.

However with a journey spanning multiple companies you're out of luck... and with seat reservations on TGVs you commonly have to wait until the next day.

It's something that shouldn't be too hard to fix: Give passengers an easy and forgiving way to continue their journey (and make the causing company pay) - ideally this should automatically show up on the App and give the passenger options of new connections etc.

None of this fixes seat reservations on TGVs though, which are also annoying for offers like Interrail/Eurail... EU should probably start regulating seat reservations /s

A "pocketable" gaming console in the modern world is essentially a smartphone with analog sticks.

There are "controller grips" or "controller mounts" for phones readily available and you can even pair it with Steam in-house streaming or Moonlight to play games at a quality that is impossible at this form factor for cheap.

Even at larger sizes it's difficult - The Nintendo Switch only worked because of great franchises and IP. The Steam Deck also required great technological investment into Linux and platform familiarity.

It's not hard to see why barely anyone's trying...

The future in this space will probably stick to what IDEs have done from the beginning: Leaving the "core platform" unchanged while providing additional AI powered features around it.

Microsoft Office, VS Code, Adobe Photoshop and most other large software platforms have all embraced this.

I have genuinely not seen an AI product that works standalone (without a preexisting platform) besides chat-based LLMs.

Great demo! The drone-space is really interesting at the moment. There's great hardware and open source software available to hobbyists.

Potential use cases are almost endless: agriculture, first responders, defense, maintenance, planning, transportation...

A lot of the value proposition will probably come from getting these drones to be as effective and autonomous as possible - this is easier to do if you have a domain-specific product.

As for myself, I am currently writing my own flight controller for Quadcopters in Rust targeting Linux and STM32s - quite the journey as I had no embedded programming experience before starting that project.

The ethos I have seen around these is usually "It doesn't have to be proper if it isn't making money"

I think it's a fair attitude if your only goal is to make money, but it completely misses "why" you should build something... if you truly care about a problem you wouldn't haphazard it anyway.

I don't know if there's a physical port in most cars, but it uses the CAN bus which has been around since the 1980s.

Also, most cars that have distance assist and lane keeping probably have the required hardware to control speed and steering to some extent.

Nevertheless, it's still impressive that so many cars are supported... and that it can be retrofitted like this at all!

A lot of brokers offer read-only logins/API keys for these cases. I still heavily agree with your general sentiment - purchasing power is among the most valuable information to businesses and advertisers.

It's definitely unique, but the "out of the box" experience is suffering for it in my opinion.

I actually recently had to fix something small in a Python project, pip refused to work because of homebrew, homebrew didn't have the dependencies and directed me to pipx, pipx finally worked - It was a strange experience.

And for the record NPM mostly has a bad reputation because of its past... nowadays it's perfectly usable and can lock dependencies and node version "out of the box".