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Yeah I was responding to a post asking why we should allow open access, given that some of those with access will do bad things.

I agree with you. Ethics doesn't demand that existing private tech be made available. Who's saying that??

OpenAI is just catching shade because their initial founding mission was to democratize access to AI tech and they've gone pretty far the other way.

This ^^ + many other mitigation/analytics use cases.

You’re probably right but it will be an arms race with ever more sophisticated mitigation techniques being deployed to filter.

I’d say Neil Stephenson has a pretty good take on what this might look like in his recent book: Fall, where in everyone has a “feed” and those that or more savvy/wealthy have better editors (AI, etc) of their feed.

That’s an understandable view point. However, “Security through obscurity” just doesn’t work. Worse, trying to keep something from people really only punishes/limits the rule followers.

The bad guys get it anyway so this gives the good guys a chance.

100% agree that release timing is part of the allure of WWDC. That’s part of the show! You know you’re going to be using this great stuff very soon.

I disagree that Google’s products aren’t as interesting. They have great tech. I’ve been very interested in the Pixel phone and other Android related products. But Google has different drivers.

With Apple, everything is aligned on the show. They put everything they have into making stuff we want to buy and use. It’s like a singular goal.

Pixel could be great. It was getting there —I switched and loved it in the Pixel 2 / iPhone 7 era. But they are not committed enough to making it the best for the consumer.

In a word: showmanship.

Apple makes its sales events (WWDC is a sales event) feel like something big, an occasion, something special to look forward to, like the revealing of a secret to the in-crowd.

This focus on the spectacle, the presentation and the perception, is a huge part of the company’s DNA.

People love this. Google is pretty terrible at it. Like Microsoft, they are getting better by watching Apple but showboating is not in Google’s DNA.

This isn’t just about Apple presentations. It’s all through the products and everything the company presents externally (internal tools are sometimes ugly and shit though).

Go back and look at the release of the original iMac; an outdated computer with a shoddy OS, built into a curvy, shiny, colorful case… people literally lined up to buy them. I refused on the grounds that I knew what was in that box… yet I still want one today. Mmmm shiny…

WWDC is the same. It’s not an accident. They think and work hard on making it happen.

I suspect there are many edge cases that cause this.

It’s not just the WiFi scanning or Airplay / Touchbar. I noticed this delayed ping pattern as far back as 2016. I spent some troubleshooting time and suspected it was something in MacOS but gave up.

I disagree. The modem was the transport mechanism of the BBS and it did shape the experience. With that said, just as we are still seeing great new games being produced with 8-bit style graphics in a world where the hardware can do fully immersive VR, I believe that the experience of the BBS is still just as relevant today over IP, especially in the context of this original post.

“Make it easy for them to start a BBS”

You mean, like this?

https://enigma-bbs.github.io/

Yup, did the exact same thing to back up all of the Wordpress installs on a free server I ran for friends.

100% correct. This isn’t just a C64 demo. This is a game that was an Easter egg included as an audio track on the vinyl album We Are Stardust by Lukehash. I didn’t know any of this before you linked the site so thanks!

Now I’ve got a copy of the sold out Vinyl coming in from eBay.

We used to ask the same question. TBH I haven’t read the f’ing article yet but… I’d summarize this as load=Run-que length. Number of run-eligible processes blocked by something where something is usually IO in a low CPU utilization scenario.

Thank you, super cool.

Oof. I’m selling my Fiverr stock right now.

How would you describe Twitter’s ideology as compared to Musk’s?

What would be the point?

His new books are the same. I love it! =D

Gibson is still telling the same story. If you read his more recent works, like The Peripheral, you'll see it. It's still Cyberpunk. The aesthetic has been modernized. It's less neon and more black and a little too familiar, but the message is the same: Even in an overtly corrupt world, knowledge and information are supremely powerful. Because of this, an underdog can beat the system change everything.

As a 16 year old kid back in 1990, this message meant everything to me. It inspired me and gave me hope. His new stuff has less neon but is just a great to read and feels the same to me today.

As others have said, you can set up aliases / groups and those do not require additional accounts.

Also if you’re the only account then you can just configure a catch-all in the routing section so that anything@your domain goes to you. That’s no additional cost even on these basic accounts I believe.

I use this so I can also track by using a new address for each service (e.g. twitter@mydomain.com, ebay@mydomain.com, etc)

1. The crypto market is moving to Poof of Stake, rather than Proof of Work. It is already rapidly getting more energy efficient because of this. Most new solutions like Polkadot and Ada are PoS, ETH will be there soon. BTC is energy inefficient because it’s old.

2. Retail payments are an abstraction above currency. When I pay with a Visa card, I may be spending cash, “credit”, crypto, etc… Visa/MC is probably the most pervasive non-Fiat/cash retail payment method in the world and it currently works with crypto thanks to Coinbase and others. Then you have Venmo, PayPal and the many others that work well in retail. There are / will be lots of great retail solutions that are abstracted from the base value store.

3. Crypto is very useful for P2P and B2B payments without approval from gov, banks, etc.

4. I lived in Argentina for a while and it’s true about the taxes and corruption. When I lived there I had to pay rent in cash but often the banks would just close or stop withdrawals. Crypto is better for this application (P2P payment, not super time sensitive).

Sometimes I hit the comments first because at times they’ve been more interesting than the article as topically educated folks weigh in on the content.

What happened?

So cool! Now I can convert my 86 Lazy Daze RV to electric…

;D

It may seem odd to some, but I think the world was better off with McAffee alive. I doubt he took his own life. He seems to be the sort of fellow who would in some way enjoy going to court, even if only to have his point of view heard.

Super cool work! Those bits are worth working to recover! Unlike the bits about disk/disc ;)

All hail Jason Scott. As may have said, this guy has brought so much joy by preserving and highlighting all of this content.

I've known Jason for years from the old scene and was one of the old school original (uberspace) textfiles mirrors, which was hosted on a modified Cobalt Cube running NetBSD from my 22nd story apartment (Golden Gate Apartments) in SF, which at the time, happened to include free internet on a full T1 back in 2002!

@textfiles, thank you for continuing to bring joy to the world. Personally I've most recently enjoyed your MAME archives as I'be been building Retropie boxes from Arcade1Up cabs to play the classics with my daughter. Thanks for all you do.

Sigh... 10 minutes of cursing trying to troubleshoot the LTE connection on my phone. Sadly Slack has become a fairly critical part of our communication.

Side note: This is my conference. For videos from past events see: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjeM1xxYb_37bZfyparLS3Q

Interesting data point. Thanks for sharing. I'm no longer in SF so may be out of touch with current salary gaps.

That said, this is makes sense to me. Google's stock options aren't making employees wealthy these days. Yet it's still a fantastic company and obviously compensates with salary. On the other hand, no startup that I know of can pay 3-400K salaries for 3-4 years exp.

Also it should be said that the type of work you likely do and the culture at a large public company will likely be very different from a small startup. Culture, ability to influence direction, large potential upside (though unlikely) are reasons people continue to pick startups despite lower salaries.

In my experience the salary difference isn't usually that large. Sometimes it is, and some companies do pay unusually low salaries in exchange for options, obviously increasing risk, perhaps to an undesirable level.

I'm CEO and co-founder of a funded company. We pay competitive salaries + options. I don't begrudge someone who isn't interested in options. Options are actually expensive to me. We are still fairly early stage (Series A funded) so the founders own most of the company and the option pool primarily dilutes the founders. I want to give options to someone who wants them. I'm fine paying more salary in lieu of of options.

I think of options like a profit-sharing plan in a mature company. If the company does very well then the employees should share in that success. Some folks feel that paying very low salaries and heavy options breeds loyalty. I personally don't subscribe to that. I prefer to pay something competitive and have options as nice upside for the employee.