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Tobacco is a good example. Legislation that you could not smoke inside or nearby buildings did a lot to curb usage.

What’s challenging now is that corporate interest in government seems to have increased rapidly. It’s unclear if legislation is viable.

I agree with everything the article says. I think there are two questions that we should be asking.

1. Can we point to a time when Capitalism peaked in terms of a balance of maximal benefit for as many people as possible? In my lifetime, it was somewhere in the late 1990s and early 2000s. No singular answer but something better exists than where we are now.

2. How do we rewind capitalism to that point?

They employ 3-4 people to man their drive through. No wonder it's such a great experience. Subconsciously, I think I pick CFA over alternatives, in part, to not have to deal with poor customer service.

Odd. I receive a non English website when clicking on that link.

I understand that technology has advanced us in many ways. I also think it started to regress us in other ways. At rates where the regression feels faster than the progression.

I think many of us feel this. Even if it is expressed differently.

I feel your pain points.

The second problem is it can't just work with the file system structure and organization

I presume you know about storage templates and ruled them out.

Oh wow. Thank you and great to run into folks from that community.

I’ve preserved all of the tags and albums from my Trovebox library. Had high hopes of integrating it into Western Digital NAS devices but…big co :/

I don’t trust Immich myself :). Its read only external library feature is what made it an option for me.

Given this is a largely technical crowd, I feel it my duty to share just how good (and free/open) Immich is.

If you’re like me and don’t want to be an “admin for life” then it’s still for you.

What has worked for me for over a decade is to keep the source of my photos in a boring old folder (backed up to my synology and Dropbox). And then layer photo viewing and sharing apps on top.

The day I’m sick of Immich and there’s a better alternative, I switch.

I’ve written about how it works as I’ve gone along. Recommend reading and putting your own twist on it.

https://jaisenmathai.com/articles/my-ridiculously-robust-pho...

https://medium.com/vantage/understanding-my-need-for-an-auto...

I’ll definitely try this out. I have a Claude project for our home and many chat conversations about my lawn.

What I don’t know yet is if the DIY I’m doing with the help of Claude is going to materialize into a lush lawn.

It has me doing pre-emergent spray, broad leaf weed killers, and moss killer.

It’s a lot of work and I’m sure there is a much better UX than saved chats.

If you’re going to run your own NAS then consider swapping Google Photos out with Immich.

I know it’s not the question you asked but I feel not enough people know about it as an option and it’s really as good as Google Photos.

I do something similar. When I have an errand to run, I ask Claude to draft a detailed explanation of something I’m interested in which would be the amount of my driving time when read aloud.

Then I have it read it to me aloud on my drive.

Agree. I didn’t mean stronger in that sense. I meant how it naturally extends to Claude Design, Claude CoWork, Claude Code.

ChatGPT is too awkward to do that with.

The branding of Claude is so much stronger than ChatGPT. Even Anthropic is such better branding than OpenAI (especially considering they're not open at all).

My wife knows about Claude because that's what I use and we pay for. She uses it also as a result. And inevitably she will talk about Claude to her friends.

I imagine there are ways for existing investors to achieve liquidity while still raising venture funding. But an IPO is "the" liquidity event and I imagine there will be pressure from investors for that.

I also imagine that venture funding rounds have a lower ceiling than the public markets - but at these rounds I'm not so sure!

Truth is the wrong word for a future outcome. But…

Weren’t Schmidt’s comments on AI the harsh “truth” from the perspective of someone who directly benefits from the wealth extraction capabilities of AI?

It’s not the only possible truth. And definitely not the one I’m rooting for personally. That’s what you are hearing from the audience of graduates who are probably quite fearful of their future and also prefer another possible truth.

The question is not whether AI will shape the world. It will. The question is whether you will help shape artificial intelligence.

It's a cute thought that big tech wants our help to shape artificial intelligence.

1) Google doesn't get paid for the SEO, so even is crime is involved, Google isn't directly responsible.

Google doesn't get paid directly for the SEO but they definitely benefit monetarily. Do a recipe search and ask yourself if these are the results the user would like to see. Google benefits by not penalizing sites which litter themselves with ads. It's not that indirect.

I think what was left out of the blog post was "helpful to the advertiser".

The meta point is that advertising has become so ingrained into society it really is difficult to differentiate if a need or desire originated intrinsic or externally. It's really great for companies selling stuff.

I am on the board of a non profit and Claude has enabled workflows that just would never have happened. In 1 week I've done the following for them:

1. Automated ingestion of hand-written tuition scholarship applications into Google Sheets. Near flawless OCR to structured spreadsheet ingestion and image extraction.

2. Revamped the website completely from a simple static website to a dynamic one which accepts donations (started with Claude Design, handed off to Claude Code). Old: https://csmforchrist.com --- New: https://stage.csmforchrist.com

3. Included sponsorship applicant pages (from #1) to let supporters read profiles and choose who to support through the website (this used to be a fully phone/email process before)

As an aside, it feels great to use AI for something that improves people's lives today.

Learning how to use a proper IDE is a change in workflow.

I never made that switch. The muscle memory of 2 decades of using a software is under appreciated.

For me, it is about preference for what to optimize for.

My non technical wife knows both ChatGPT and Anthropic (admittedly, because of me) but doesn’t know Gemini. This is amazing to me.

Surely she has seen Gemini in Google search but even her use of that is plummeting.

Google has so much revenue that they’ll be around for a long time. But I feel they are fumbling the opportunity with AI. Even in corporate, where we have Gemini. The conversation is fully around Claude. No one talks about Gemini.

I advise a medical non profit and we ran a series of tests against cases doctors input to our system looking for specialist recommendations.

Our findings found that gpt-5-mini performed better than gpt-5, sonnet 4 and medgemma.

I think these studies are very hard to accurately score. But in any case, AI seems to do a very good job compared to humans. Unsurprising, really.

That’s pretty cool - I hadn’t seen it.

This is the approach I used and tried to make a product from. I’m not pursuing that anymore but sharing for folks who want to run wire without dealing with drywall.

https://trywireshark.com

(yes I’m familiar with the other well established Wireshark)

That’s very cool - did not know about that.

Listening for commands to run seems similarly dangerous as having a proxy installed!

I only learned about Native Messaging this week.

I've been hacking away at a browser-based tool that uses anthropic APIs on the backend. But what I really want is for the browser to talk to my local claude becuase I have MCPs, skills, network access for a bunch of things.

I started with a little proxy installed on my computer that the browser can call but knew it would never pass any security review. The alternative I didn't originally know about was Native Messaging.

It's a fairly benign way to let a browser talk to and execute commands on your computer. But doing it without disclosing is, I agree, very bad.

(tool I'm hacking away at needs to talk to local claude and acli: https://withlattice.com)

This has been great for me too. Every feature starts and completes with /gh-issue <issue number>.

Every issue is created with /spec and a conversation with a human. Once the spec is materialized as an issue it’s sufficient for an agent to implement.

Everything is documented. It’s amazing.

Both things can be true.

AI can help you in the near term and harm you in the long term.

I think the more people use AI the more their view shifts from the former to the latter.

After 25 years of writing code in vim, I've found myself managing a bunch of terminal sessions and trying to spot issues in pull requests.

I wouldn't have thought this could be the case and it took me actually embracing it before I was fully sold.

Maybe not a popular opinion but I really do believe...

- code quality as we previously understood will not be a thing in 3-5 years

- IDEs will face a very sharp decline in use

We've seen a steady shift in music over the past 2 decades from full length albums, to single hits, to artificially generated.

Surely there's some gained and some lost. But coming from the era of buying an entire album, spending time reading the CD booklets and art, and listening to 10 songs which tell a larger story ---- what's being lost really hits home.