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It’s on Plex. It’s all on Plex. (Or Jellyfin, if you prefer.)

Piracy in the 90s and early aughts mostly didn’t solve for price so much as for distribution and availability.

I absolutely could, by removing everything past the first 3-5 sentences in the article. But that probably wouldn’t satisfy the site owner’s desired metrics and SEO targeting.

[Radicle](https://radicle.dev/) gets a wee bit closer. It’s selfhostable and federated. You’ll have a hard time finding something with the same social gravity well as GitHub; it remains to be seen whether that’s a separable element or if it needs to ship as part of the forge itself.

The irony of that linked page dragging a reposted mid tweet into multiple scrollable pages of “content” and in doing so reading exactly like a celeb news article

We’re all tasteless and unrefined morons for something. You enjoy art and have developed a sense of taste, and that’s valuable and valid, and I would assume brings a lot of depth and meaning to your life. Could you differentiate mass-market vs lovingly handmade beef jerky? Or do you want to spend the time researching the precise-to-certainty best vacuum cleaner (ha, did that subconsciously) for your specific apartment, average particulate size and volume and texture?

I’m really trying not to make a value judgment here—tbh I also care a lot more about artistic integrity (in the arts I’m in a place to understand and judge, anyway) than beef jerky. Just landing on: the mass market is there to satisfy the majority of people that don’t deeply care about the particular slice that the mass market serves, because we’re all mortal and can’t be arsed to refine our tastes and decisions on everything.

In context it seems your recommendation is to instead send those data to models within Chinese nation-network space. I’m not here to defend US frontier model companies; your accusation is probably accurate. But I doubt sending data to China is an improvement.

Agree on this, specifically that it's breaking _expectations_. Which, as it turns out, you can do without pissing people off by acknowledging it and resetting expectations. Three sentences at the start: "The following text is generated, not human-written. The intention isn't that you read it (if it was, I'd have human-written it) -- it's that you ingest it into your LLM of choice and interact with it. Hope you enjoy it!"

I've settled on writing these bespoke per project/client, typically as a harness plugin in its own repo. Not infrequently that maps 1:1 with a single target repo. There's something to be said for having the tools and memories you need and _not_ having those you don't, and it simplifies the full mental model not to have to handle moving from machine to machine and keeping all that in sync.

Go-to stack for this in my case is to start off with a MEMORY.md, and then keep a long-running agent session going to observe human-operated tmux sessions, surface/respond to occurrences where there's something significant learned (typically the human operator redirecting away from an agent/LLM decision), then start having it integrate into and read out of DuckDB. The latter becomes dense, easily searchable data for agent skills and commands and, yes, memory and such.

We _are_ doing something about this. We’re locating concentrated millions of years of trapped fossil energy and moving it into our atmosphere as fast as we possibly can. To a first approximation, that is the world economy.

Or did you mean to do something differently?

To build software that you understand yourself. Next question.

Setting aside that this is subjective, I think it’s safe to say that from the POV of most of this site’s target audiences, that “start” happened a long time ago. PG’s essay on submarine articles didn’t come out of nowhere, and he hasn’t been active here in…a decade? Ish?

Okay.

I want all my nation’s taxes to contribute to a more-educated populace and I’m willing to vote to effect this.

I want my taxes to go towards a more educated populace, full stop.

This is basically the entire reason the field of consulting exists.

Indeed. But the feds have picked a side, and right now, it's not yours.

Having everyone on a team have different personalities is managerially inefficient. You have to deal with each team member in a different way instead of being able to have a unified emotional approach. So we required frontal lobotomies for everyone on the team.

I know this is obvious trolling, but it’s close to a truth. Selecting for a passion for languages that aren’t anyone’s first language gets you polyglots—folks that’ve had to abstract their knowledge and understand what’s an ecosystem feature vs what’s more broadly applicable.

Joking about Rust users rhymes with joking about vegans; it’s true both parties generally can’t keep from talking about their choice. But you do want to hire someone who’s thought about their options and made a decision.

Ursula K. Le Guin on this in 2008: https://harpers.org/archive/2008/02/staying-awake/

OpenBSD's security stance being the stuff of legend, I'm curious how many vulns have been found over the last couple months while the big model companies are flaunting their ability to find exploits. It'd be super cool to see it remain tiny.

What killed forums wasn’t that they were crappy, or that Reddit exists, or that they were passé. They were killed by the combination of spam and regulation. Same reason Craigslist no longer has personals—we shifted the legal and labor burden onto operators, killing all the small ones.

Yep, this—we aren’t as close to the equator, but there’s less atmosphere to filter UV. Not so much in terms of beach days, of course, so sunburns here tend to be less than full-body.

All that said: a daily mean of 13-14 is past what we’d see here—and yeah that is some serious burning.

Denver, CO, USA resident here -- this looks _super_ useful and I'm likely to start using it heavily. Our weather here is usually very outside-encouraging (if getting hotter over the years) and our UV is _ridiculous_; I see the index hit 11 and 12 with some regularity. Thanks for the link!

Hm. Am I understanding correctly that this is a repeated and periodic complaint, not a new thing being raised by ISPs? Most of my familiarity with ISP policies is from being stateside, where there's a large overlap in ownership between ISPs and media companies and predictable alignment in policies.

If you want to realistically compete in a market with state-backed firms, you need state backing. Aerospace is a prime example.

My mistake on tech; it’s a beautiful display. Alas, I speak from experience when it comes to the thermally-caused color shift. Hopefully it’ll be AppleCare covered.

Don't forget that your OLED screen will start to color-shift as the heat cooks the panel!

This strikes me as the right move, but the timing isn't lost on me. Model training companies want easier access to data, and they have a lot of money and are growing their lobbying and political influence muscles.

The culture of the people should belong to _the people_. Let's make sure this doesn't just turn into a transfer of which small subset manages to profit from it.

That’s a nice short-term solution. How do you envision adding an infinitely-deep-pocketed state-sponsored supplier to the mix over the longer term?

I lived in Dallas for about four years. There’s not a lot I miss, but I sure do miss Central Market (an HEB brand).

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”