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This is the worst headline that I ever had the misfortune to lay my eyes on.

I cannot unsee this and it is forever now an additional burden of unwanted knowledge on the existing reality of Japan’s declining population and fertility crisis.

Each time there is a glimmer of hope of a trend reversing or going back to normal, a headline like this just unfortunately confirms in some sense what I already know.

Now this news made this situation even worse.

Happy for them, hoping this is a super strange outlier, But holistically unhappy for the course of humanity.

Sad.

SPAC.

Luminar was an exit scam in the SPAC era, they went public during that time and they have been struggling.

Also Lidar is hugely expensive.

Their Lidar deal with Volvo fell through and now it's bankrupted them.

no.

Why do you need to use Git as a CMS?

That seems backwards and hellish when you want to grow your content and marketing team as they have no clue on how to use this arcane tool.

Now the engineers would need to be bothered by the marketing department time and time again to add blog posts, wasting engineering time.

This is the reason why CMS's like Sanity, Wordpress, Directus exist.

using Git as a CMS doesn't make sense at scale.

A better approach: Pub/Sub

Citation Needed.

More importantly, benchmarks needed.

Cannot claim something X is better approach than Y without benchmarks, it is an idea but needs to be proven to be better.

Until then, this post is nothing more than yet another opinion.

Assuming you're a builder just do 1 and 2 as small side projects, no need to go full on in an industry that is going to crash anyway.

1 and 2 are now trending essentially to 0.

3. Will get harder to get a job in the years to come.

Stay at your role, build a small side project if you can. Don't leave.

Close.

Stars can be faked and botted. It is not the lock in.

The lock in is the distribution of GitHub, (issues, outside contributions, sponsors, etc)

This person doesn’t seem to be well.

I hope they get help at some point.

Does this really need AI?

Doesn't Google and others do this already?

Is this really a massive problem with humongous 1000x growth potential upside or an IPO?

I hope the VCs and Angels asked the serious questions and not invested because she is the daughter of the Microsoft founder.

I only wonder of the many 99.9999999% of startups were turned down by VCs of funding because "they don't know them", "they didn't go to the same school as me", "too much risk", or the infamous and vague "not now".

Alas, in this brave new world it is great to support our new underdogs.

Ads should not exist at all.

They are psychological, manipulative, influencing tools. It's like an annoying wasp that appears out of nowhere and follows you around.

Nobody asked for this.

When this comes to StackExchange, use a PiHole and protect yourself from this barrage of irrelevant ads.

A friend of mine who raised money once said:

"Before I raised money I had one product, after I raised money now I have two products"

You've now got two products to sell man, the hard work begins.

Good luck.

This project has potential but there are some issues with "Marketing" (I call this lying depending on how it's done)

Please stop with the false urgency and borderline lying to people saying there are 17 spots when they most likely aren't.

Doing this to sell more is unethical and dishonest.

I think if this project didn't do this it might work and go far.

Not really understanding the negativity here. We know for a fact that most of the people that master intellectual problems do so via pattern recognition, not by reasoning.

The lifetime membership + launch discount was a good marketing bait I felt for.

The negativity here with me is because it feels like clickbait and like a scammy ad to manipulate me into purchasing.

It is almost lying. I find it unethical and I don't think there are 17 lifetime access spots, it's just artificial hype that doesn't make sense to me.

Marketing (at least like this) is basically lying.

Until Redpanda becomes enshittified.

Sigh.

This is the best model IMO as it supports creators directly and not the advertisers.

If Daring Fireball had this membership subscription model and not selling highly and questionably expensive ad slots I would definitely subscribe, even if the price would be $20 a month or $200 a year. (I would argue he can make more than he charges for ads does already given this model.)

But $11K (a week!) is outrageous to support Daring Fireball.

Daring Fireball has been doing the one ad a week in RSS with no tracking for over a decade. The sponsors must think they work.

I have no interest for anything sold in ads in their RSS and I assume they are tracking in the links that you click too (otherwise why spend all $11K for no results?)

He claims to never look at his server logs and got rid of Google Analytics ages ago.

That is a good start, hopefully he should consider switching to a community supported model rather than rely on advertisers.

AFAIK, Daring Fireball never runs these tracking ad networks with tons of flashing and annoying ads. It does one tiny graphical ad on the web page and has a weekly sponsor post, both of which can be easily ignored. The graphical ad does not even appear in the full RSS feed.

For me an ad is an ad, in graphical or text form and I very much didn't ask for it.

I feel it is psychologically trying to convince me to buy or make me be aware about something I don't want or need and very much not want this ruin my flow of consuming content.

On his links Daring Fireball IS tracking, they all do tracking in the URL of the sponsored post otherwise it doesn't make sense for the sponsor to pay $11K (a week!) for the spot.

It does one tiny graphical ad on the web page and has a weekly sponsor post, both of which can be easily ignored. The graphical ad does not even appear in the full RSS feed.

I mean, yes I could ignore them, but would massively prefer if these ads didn't exist at all, I have no interest in anything that is being advertised there. Luckily Ublock Origin blocks Daring Fireball ads by default and not sure if his advertisers would be happy about this, but if I spend $11K a week on ads to find most people block them by default, I don't think I would bother wasting another ad slot.

To be fair maybe it is a sign that instead of ads, a membership, patreon or whatever would be much more sustainable, freeing, less scammy and more profitable than running junk ads that people don't want.

Ads support content creators and free services. If you value specific creators or platforms, consider supporting them directly through memberships or donations rather than relying solely on ad blocking.

Sometimes this isn’t available.

I would like to support Daring Fireball (a publication I read a lot) but the only way is to buy an ad slot for $11K which seems like a scam to both the viewer and the advertiser.

The advertiser isn’t getting any ROAS (since we are blocking the ads) and since the ads are annoying and repetitive, the viewers would just go elsewhere.

I wish more creators would have a “remove ads” tier or an alternative membership tier as a different way to support their content rather than ads.

Anyone have a method for blocking ads in RSS?

I regularly read https://daringfireball.com and sick of their ads showing up in my RSS feed.

It is bad enough and distracting that ads show up on the site (thankfully Firefox and ublock origin does the job already) but on RSS blocking ads is impossible.

forex is a scam.

good content

Failure rate comes down the more experienced you are.

Don't expect the first one to be a home run.

Remember OpenFeint? the founder of that failed successfully into an acquisition which later on the founder made something called Discord.

You can always try again.

I would also very much like it if Orion was open source, it would make me feel a lot better committing to and recommending a browser if I had actual assurances it's behaving appropriately, beyond a company saying "trust me", no matter how nice/cool they seem at the time.

Kagi isn't 100% open source but you still use it and recommend it?

How do you know they aren't spying on the backend?

Any company?

Don't you think if Kagi introduced spyware it would ruin their reputation quickly, why would Kagi want to quickly ruin that brand reputation?

The answer is that there is no incentive for 'spyware' on Orion as you can pay for Orion+ to support development.

https://kagi.com/onboarding?p=orion_plan

One word.

Consistency.

You can just do things.

Don't stop.

I think Kagi / Orion should go down the independent auditor route like TrailOfBits, Cure53 and others.

That way the software would be audited and it doesn't have to be open source.

Why would and what incentive does Kagi have to put 'spyware' in a browser?

I'm assuming the people who are asking for Orion to be open source are not paying for it.

I think a blog post on Orion's transparency is enough. The fact that there is Orion+ is enough to warrant no need to have tracking or 'enshittification'.

If you like Kagi and Orion, supporting development by paying for it makes sense.

Open sourcing everything of Orion means that Orion+ will be open source which defeats the point of supporting development of Orion directly.

I've seen projects start open source, change to closed source and then add in the enshittification later. It doesn't matter if the code is 'open' the source code would eventually be unmaintained and have security holes which there is no time in the world for anyone else to maintain.

Would you pay for Orion not to be abandoned?

There is Orion+ that can be paid for that keeps development going.

If the JS ecosystem continues like this, we're Duned.