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Of course not, LLMs need to put dots everywhere. Pulsing dots? Even better.

When you SUBMIT a form, yes, then I agree.

I would point you to the insurance companies deciding on premiums based on people’s Amazon purchases as an indicator of risk. There’s plenty of potential for long-term abuse of your profiling data. Nobody cares about you in a specific way, but the algorithms can be designed to target people “like you” and hurt YOU in a very specific manner.

“Oh, we’ll store your unfinished thoughts, privately typed into a text box, on the off-chance that you want to continue writing it on another device. And no, we won’t ask you nor give you any semblance of true privacy.”

Sounds good.

I don’t think you’re looking hard enough…

I use iStat and I don’t think a week goes by without being alerted to some process keeping a CPU core busy for half an hour. It would be reasonable for something sensible such as photo tagging or disk indexing. But the many background processes can get stuck, just look online for the flood of complaints.

corespotlightd, for example, uses >80% CPU (of a core, I think) for long periods of time. I’m talking _days_. The multiple store and iCloud agents also seem to get stuck. If you inspect a process, you can sometimes see it’s been doing something intensive for days or even weeks.

I get notified at 10 minutes of intense usage, but then I just keep looking and it’s really, really typical for a process to spend a few hours doing something, nuking the battery life of my laptop. I’ve been on macOS since 2008 or so and it’s not getting any better when it comes to zombie processed.

Google will now make 10x the vapourware they have no intention of maintaining.

Is this Jeff Vader, head of Catering?

Suspiciously similar to macOS for years, with processes stuck doing something for the entire weekend.

But surely, if we ask everyone to prove they’re at least 18, kids won’t find any ways to do anything the government(s) don’t like.

In terms of internet hygiene, a better solution might be to just exclude the USA from the existing network.

Power is a leverage. The people who control the LLMs have way more power and capacity for harm than Average Joe Misusing Tech. Your comment is pure ‘whataboutism’.

Meetup was fine enough before being acquired by private equity. Development had stalled and there were quite some bugs, but we could put up with it. My group has been slowly moving off it after the acquisition and subsequent entshitification. It’s ok to be commercial, but Meetup’s approach is spectacularly stupid.

The difference isn’t nil, but the point is that these institutions can be quite effective.

I’ve reported issues to the DPA (Data Protection Agency) of Belgium and they handled it reasonably well, which I didn’t expect either.

Marketing tactics are part of consumer issues and many countries seem to have good consumer protection laws. Of course Grammarly’s issue was towards/against a business, and that colours the problem. I think the damage to their reputation is enough punishment, but there might be other ways to tackle this.

I merely fail to see the point of “oh well, the Humanity, what can we do”. Apathy is death.

I reported a brand of baby formula that made our kid very sick, in light of the contamination of fish oil. Not even a week later they had gone to the shop and tested the batch.

Cynicism about public institutions is overrated.

Yeah, they could simplify the catalog and try to offer the same quality across the board.

I don’t see the need to have multiple trail shoes on offer, some of which have a non-replaceable sole. Lone Peaks are almost perfect, keep the stone guard, drop the total stack, and we’re cooking. The longevity of the shoes seems to be compromised by the fancy fabric in some areas, though.

Good luck with the Olympus. Don’t let the lack of prosumer foam discourage you!

Do you have any reason to want non-zero drop? Because that’s one of the main reasons to buy Altras, since it alleviates some of the issues that plague knees and hip joints.

My Altras last about 2x any other running shoe, and I even took them on trail runs (Lone Peaks).

Not defending the company, they’re pricey and the catalog is exaggerated, full of nonsense 30mm+ stack shoes, etc.

“We tried to sell things to women” as the basis for alienating… men? It does sound like a nonsensical take on this. Nike has many flaws, but selling to women isn’t one of them.

Can you give us a few pointers? Although I think I’d like to buy the book, looks good.

I’m not sure the structure of Product Management allows for it.

I’ve worked places where UX Research was telling us exactly what people ask for, but because it has to pass through multiple layers of PM, the end result isn’t what people asked for.

E.g. “families are telling us they want to talk directly with caregivers on WhatsApp” -> we build an admin dashboard with live chat. Nobody used the thing.

Perhaps there is a relationship between layers of abstraction at a business and clarity of product. The more humans in the chain — with their own biases and agendas —, the less likely you are to build what people want.

“People don’t know what they want” is a bit lame. Perhaps they just don’t want your ad-fueled growth-marketed product.

Pixel cameras seem to do tremendous amounts of software-based post-processing but specifically in the official Google app. My partner has tested some camera apps and nothing comes close to Google’s. So I imagine that’s one of the reasons for the disparity.

> I do enjoy using their free AI.

I get it, but at 9–10% error rate, you’re basically gambling with the results.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/technology/google-ai-over...

I don’t think you’re in the majority? 20 new bands a week is… I’ve met music lovers with hi-fi setups that maybe try 3 new albums a week! That’s really quite a lot.

If I enjoy an album, I’ll listen to it some 15-20 times before picking favourite songs or simply moving on. What you’re describing sounds more like consuming albums, not enjoying them. My 2 cents :)

The claim is that people weren’t buying it enough. Which, you know, might be because they made it as thin as a feather and the battery life was terrible…

What’s the overlap between that AND with people that can put 1000+ into a phone? No, but honestly, outside the US?

It might be because of all the time and content that Apple put into the crease. It’s an engineering wonder, but they could tone it down a notch.

Also: if you’re going to charge laptop-grade prices for a phone because it… gets bigger? Well, better make it a really good experience, i.e. no crease that develops fractures later.

I’d rather have that than a really wide phone. Do a whole series on the Predators, please.

I can’t imagine what size library causes trouble, but plugins might also be the problem with slowness or scaling. Could you manually add some indexes on misbehaving queries?

I agree that SQLite might not be the better choice given many Jellyfin users are probably on ZFS or BTRFS.

I don’t disagree with you and I’ve just learned they specifically avoid monetisation to keep their incentives aligned with the community’s. Thanks everyone for pointing that out.

(…but you couldn’t call me capitalistic, that really doesn’t suit me.)

I just hope they can continue to develop the product, because I’m using it daily and don’t want it to go away.

Or, you know, invest the money and try to become more self-sufficient over time, safeguarding development in the future.

Maybe? I wonder how well their allies would do if the USA was less… belligerent.