johneth

All good points, but I think their main point of poor governance is still the pure motivation.

You can change the audio track back to the original.

Not sure if it remembers your preference, though, so if it doesn't that probably grates.

Why is it their job to evaluate a 1m+ line code rewrite?

All it takes is one determined journalist running experiments, or one whistleblower inside the company exposing these systems.

Plus, you'd have to offer this service somehow, meaning you'd have to describe it to potential customers... just another bunch of people you'd have to swear to perpetual secrecy.

I'm not denying it could (or even will) happen, though. Anything for a buck for these companies.

I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't some sort of legal action against Google, the monopoly, to make the distinction in how their crawlers use scraped content.

That's almost certainly illegal in many jurisdictions, and they'd definitely not be able to hide that they're doing it indefinitely. A sure way to be massively sued.

A lot of the time they hallucinate the sources, too.

Are you forgetting that you need to launch from one of those "suffocating regulatory states"?

So it's a lot less dumb if 50 really difficult and borderline physically impossible things happen. On the word of a conman. Right.

> The people who control the capital are building autonomous armament to protect themselves against both foreign and domestic enemies.

Rich people can build all the fortified bunkers they want, but they still need to get their food, water, and air from somewhere. It would be very easy to cut them off or smoke them out.

(I'm not advocating for violence in any way, I'm just pointing out that nobody's invincible, no matter how obscenely wealthy they are).

It may be incompetent malice.

> Anyway, there is no sense to listen to Trump. TACO is a thing.

It's never a good idea to disregard something just because you want it to be true.

Trump's done a lot of shit that he said he'd do (tariffs, capturing foreign leaders, wars of choice). He's incredibly stupid. You can't predict stupid people.

It's easy to cancel a direct debit / standing order from internet banking.

> Providing Internet to the entire world that's faster than fiber.

Bullshit. You're not going to be faster than fiber from orbit, with congested bandwidth.

> Providing space launch capability that's 1/10th what NASA charges.

NASA isn't in the commercial launch space.

> Providing quite good AI at 100 tokens/sec.

It's the weakest of the slop machines.

I would assume most sites that block access to your AI assistant do so because they want to show a human ads, i.e. not run at a loss. Seems reasonable.

> This is ultimately just going to give them training material for how to avoid this crap.

> The arms race just took another step, and if you're spending money creating or hosting this kind of content, it's not going to make up for the money you're losing by your other content getting scraped.

So we should all just do nothing and accept the inevitable?

> this seems anachronistic, written for a human artisan laboring over each naming choice directly

Some of us want to write well thought-through code, rather than letting an AI just spew poorly thought-through unmaintainable shit.

Re: the design of the site. Please use higher contrast colours, especially the barely visible grey text on black background. It's annoying to try to read.

I think the county list is set in stone because Royal Mail refuses to update them (for some idiotic reason they still control the postcode database, which I guess lots of websites use and therefore use the old county names / boundaries). For example, it's still Humberside, even though that hasn't existed for decades.

RFC 1738 was superseded by RFC 3986 (URIs) 19 years ago, and the URL Living Standard.

> Revolut works similarly. You don’t pay any fees on transfers to other Revolut accounts, but you do for other bank accounts.

Does it? I'd be surprised if it does in the UK at least, as all banks do free transfers to every other bank in the UK via Faster Payments. I thought it was the same in the EU?

Or just use <input type="checkbox"> in the first place and save humans and machines a whole bunch of time.

The only downside I can think of is that links to your website that are shared on Facebook / WhatsApp / Messenger won't be able to show a rich preview because they won't be able to access the OpenGraph tags on the shared page.

Rich previews are known to cause higher clickthroughs than non-rich previews (if you care about that).

Comments as short-sighted as this give me confidence in the future job security of people who actually know how to write software.

> the gatekeeping has now been removed

'Gatekeeping' being 'knowing'... nobody was stopping you from learning.

> The security and maintenance aspect of apps is just a claude skill away to be a solved problem.

Incredible joke. Got a good laugh from me.

It's a classic American worldview.

UK-India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%E2%80%93United_Kingdom_C...

UK-EU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU%E2%80%93UK_Trade_and_Cooper...

As of a few days ago, yes: https://newsroom.tiktok.com/announcement-from-the-new-tiktok...

Only TikTok in the U.S., though; everywhere else it's Bytedance still.

Is this only for companies within the EU or EFTA? I can't spot a single UK company listed, even though there are plenty that would fit.

Similar to Trump and MAGA, Reform UK's popularity relies on Farage's cult of personality. Without him, they're significantly less of a threat. He's not a young man (not as old as some, but not young), and he smokes and drinks heavily; make of that what you will.

Palantir is a mediocre company staffed by mediocre people making mediocre products, owned by a mediocre person.