velox_neb

The snap situation seems like a travesty. For example, the Firefox that's installed by default on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS can't save pages or images. I had to google for how to install the non-snap version, and that fixed it.

However, then poor people would just rent out their identities to spammers to do their spamming with.

The solution appeals to me is reputation systems. People give ratings to each other, then you can choose a few people that you personally respect as "root nodes" and everyone else will get a rating based on the ratings that flow from them, according to some algorithm. Then you can filter out content from sources with a low enough reputation.

(Maybe this could be done in a decentralized way, using the dreaded bl*ckchain, but anyway it would be non-financial application.)

Hope to see something like this happen in the coming years.

Funny, just the other day I was reflecting on how HN seems so lifeless and generic these days, so much of it just people throwing around predictable talking points, and wondered what percentage of the posters are bots.

There must be some bot commenters here, the idea of creating a GPT-3 hacker news poster is so obvious that a bunch of people would do it just for the lulz.