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They might not have the conflict of interest but they also don’t have the business interest either. Meta is a spyware company who makes all of their money from collecting personal data to sell to advertisers. They have zero incentive to dedicate any kind of significant resources to supporting millions of websites using their internal UI library.

I’ve been doing web development since 1997 so I feel like I can have a few opinions at this point.

Reacts insistence at the time on everyone should use hooks was hands down one of the dumbest things I’ve seen in all my time.

Not only was it on extremely shaky grounds technically but now you have huge swaths of developers have this extremely React specific mental model of building apps that translates poorly to almost everything else out there.

There is a reason why almost nobody else out there followed that trend. Classes are actually the ideal abstraction for building a component based on UI.

It’s time to start moving away from React in general.

I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would intentionally pick it in 2025 unless there were serious constraints that forced them to.

I think there’s an extremely high likelihood that we just DON’T see huge advancements at least in terms of accuracy or capabilities which are probably the two major nuts to crack to bring it to a different level.

I’m open to the possibility of faster, cheaper and smaller (we saw an instance of that with deepseek) but think there’s a real chance we hit a wall elsewhere.

That’s some very impressive engineering

And they have no intention of doing so they are actively on the side of the flaggers but you’ll be called a conspiracy theorist if you suggest that despite months and months of evidence.

A real “at least hitler made the trains run on time” moment.

A hell of a lot of absolute slop as well… it’s really not at all obvious that it’s a net win in any way at this stage.

Actual real life case studies that people can point to where they deployed it and it all went great are actually very hard to come by. It was only the other week that there was that study that said the number was as low as I think they said like 5% or something.

No shortage of excitement though, but a lot of things seem to be riding on some big breakthroughs coming down the pipeline that may never arrive.

I think the problem is bigger than that too. If you have a problem set where you cannot afford any kind of mistakes LLMs are never going to be the right tool, they are never going to get to that stage.

If you have a problem set where some mistakes are tolerable however, all you need to do is slightly increase your tolerance budget for mistakes and you can run something like deepseek locally at a tiny fraction of the cost.

Which means these giant data centers are useful for training but the economics of running ongoing inference for customers doesn’t make long term sense for the vast majority of people.

Which leaves you with a huge huge huge financial problem, one which may have devastating large scale impacts on the economy.

This absolutely does however happen in practice.

It’s a bit ironic in the sense that the EXACT logic of what you’re saying here is precisely what makes it such an ideal thing to target.

I think sometimes people put way too much faith into the concept of open source as being some kind of meaningful shield against attacks like this. Like absolutely nobody in an intel background for example who does stuff like this for a living would agree with you.

It only ever needs to look plausible and I don’t think it’s all that complicated a problem to come up with a reason as to why you’re introducing some code that is suddenly very focused on reading mouse sensor data.

I think the world’s richest company could have at least attempted to push back. They aren’t some helpless victim here.

Imagine my and everyone else’s surprise to hear your silence on this one a full day later… couldn’t have seen that coming a mile away but go on and tell me more about how it’s on everyone else to do the hard work and convince you with detailed arguments. Heaven forbid you had to lift a finger here yourself.

Sorry, I genuinely can’t even tell what you think we are talking about here at this point.

If there’s a coherent point in here I genuinely can’t find it.

You’ve just completely made up something here to presumably make yourself feel smart? Literally tens of thousands of words have been published on this topic. Asking someone to read them isn’t some unreasonable request.

What is unreasonable is turning up in a discussion and saying either none of that pre-existing material counts for nothing or that I shouldn’t have to do any work here and instead you should “debate me bro”.

Listen, I’m going to be honest with you, when you say that you’re well informed and it’s just everyone else overreacting I don’t believe you.

But I’m happy to be proved wrong so why don’t you go ahead and show me by giving your best faith interpretation as to why you think someone might call him a fascist.

I think the onus is on you at this point to go and actually read about what he has done in the last ten years. It’s not up to someone else to spoon feed it to you.

What on earth would you need that for in this instance?

As a side note, when Apple finally gets their shit together WebTransport is excellent for most socket like use cases.

It could be replaced with a fucking web app if they built it properly the first time around.

This is why you should be developing for the web and not the App Store in the first place.

The moderators genuinely seem to think that everything is going perfectly according to plan and if you ever try to suggest that there’s a group of users who flag things in a coordinated fashion purely because they personally don’t align with their politics you will be told that you’re a conspiracy theorist and that you should just trust them that they are doing a great job but also at the same time no you’re not allowed to see any of the rational behind their moderation decisions, there’s no log, you just have to take them at their word even if we can all see clear as day that there is no link between the rules as they are written and the rules as they are enforced.

JFC what a moron he is…

It’s really hard to overstate just how much this administration has lit the entire country on fire for absolutely no good reason in a way that isn’t going to magically bounce back either for at least a generation.

It requires a staggering amount of ignorance to be anything other than an incredibly high contrast difference. You aren’t crazy.

Never a bad decision that you don’t seem to rush to the comments section to defend.

Fuchsia actually continues to receive hundreds of commits per week and is under VERY active development including moving into Android itself (although fuchsia itself remains uncoupled to Android and cna be used in other contexts)

Fuchsia actually continues to receive hundreds of commits per week and is under VERY active development including moving into Android itself (although fuchsia itself remains uncoupled to Android and cna be used in other contexts)

After the end of the Second World War large numbers of Nazis escaped to Argentina in order to avoid any repercussions and to this day there remains a bunch of Nazi sympathisers as it became a bit of a magnet over the years.

He knows.. he just didn’t care. You should treat him and treat his company accordingly.

It’s very literally the only thing providing them protection in the first place. They have something the US can not lose and can not replace.

What on earth do you think is going to happen when you suddenly help them not rely on your infrastructure anymore.

There is no way in hell you could ever trust Trump to pick up the phone if you needed help. This is blackmail from a position of weakness from the US here.