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likely just opus being dumbed down to prepare for fable

Great work! Always love more competition driving better products.

I'd make a non competitive mode without mistakes system: I love the puzzles, idgaf about leaderboards

It is not.

Eventually a new startup will replace your large inefficient employer with people working 10% of their time.

You didn't prove him wrong.

You and Paul are both claiming it's extremely hard.

A restaurant won't scale - most ideas won't scale - because they're not useful enough.

These companies are not criminal enterprise and they don't steal money or threaten them with violence: they just offer them products and ecosystem and most people are dumb enough to ruin their life with it. Don't get me wrong: I hate them and I ban social media for my kids, but it doesn't make them evil.

The bad actors are thugs with guns stealing your purse and the government stealing your tax money or threatening you with jail.

To give another, less controversial example, I don't think companies selling products with sugar and seed oils are bad, even though they likely have the highest combined reduction of life expectancy across all people - but I hate them too.

I never understood the appeal for cosmopolitan.

I'd rather have platform specific minimal binaries than a single binary with hacks.

Installing packages is a solved problem

Amazing stuff!

I would recommend an add-on or new feature to detect and remove cookie banners / annoying popups that open on load (eg. sign up to my mailing list).

listing a few examples form fastText could help you.

You might also have the opposite problem though: some websites have content in the base html (so it's searchable by Google and they get views) and remove it on load (so you have to pay).

Capturing the initial html and comparing it to the final version could give you some hints and allow you to repair the removed content.

Best of luck with the project!

my 2 cents:

egui is the clear winner for making desktop applications. I've built a complex application recently (think of it like an AI powered image editor, doing plenty of editor logic and communicating with several python backends for the AI part) and it's been smooth sailing. It would be nice to have a family of components that look native on every platform but nowadays the desktop experience is anyway wildly inconsistent (and web-centric).

Using qt bindings is a good option too, but depending on non rust code means you are more likely to catch some weird crash. My experience with Qt in Rust is years old, so I can't comment on stability.

For frontend development, leptos is really nice and it feels familiar coming from react - but the whole chain is too heavy, your target directory quickly balloons to GBs and that's unacceptable, especially if you have several frontend projects.

I vibe coded a proof of concept leptos (including islands) with a minimal runtime and no dependencies and the size was much more contained. There is margin for improvements but today I would stick with solid.js for frontend development.

The other big hurdle for Rust on the web is the need to compile to wasm. That means that any Rust application will be heavier than a similar app in another JS framework. If we could target js instead of wasm, maybe we could have apps with small bundles.

Generating media attention or protecting from Japanese regulations?

I wonder if it's related to their strict rules on realistic pictures for advertising products

Saying the Agile manifesto was void of meaning is ridiculous.

- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools - Working software over comprehensive documentation - Customer collaboration over contract negotiation - Responding to change over following a plan

The problem is that the Agile industry mostly didn't follow the Agile manifesto and ended up with monstruosity like SCRUM, which is all about processes over people.

Daily Standups, Retrospective, Backlog Grooming = PROCESS

This crap should all be replaced with async written communication (for quality of life and recording), but each team should ultimately be free to decide.

The Agile manifesto was all about freedom and it was turned into a jail.

I have a friend on anti depressants and she mentions the same hollowness and lack of wanting to do anything - despite having a good social life.

When I went through depression I refused meds, self medicated with weed (don't take it as medical advice) and got through the end of it.

I'd blame the meds and recommend gently weaning off them. Once you feel better rebuilding a social life is absolutely possible.

Best of luck with everything

The only useful use cases I've heard about are all about automating using horrible websites with horrible interfaces.

Eg. tell it to book a flight ticket for X without dealing with "modern UX" and 1GB websites

I really don't want to give Google money so the Pixel is off for me until GrapheneOS supports something else.

For now I consider smartphones as disposable toys that can't be trusted with anything sensitive and use a computer for privacy.

I also don't like the idea of running Android, I still hope for a real linux phone at some point.

My CPM is not great (not Google) and that's 25-30k impressions

It's been happening for about a month for me. I had to start monitoring spam because legit emails end up there. Funnily enough I started having the opposite problem too - plenty of obvious spam and phishing attempt ending up in my mailbox.

I had to make a bunch of filters on my side.

One more reason to migrate to Proton

Or Google

Large companies struggle to launch anything due to their staff size.

They're as inefficient as a government

Parakeet feels much more accurate in practice than whisper, it was a real "a-ha" moment for me.

Of course, English only

I invested a couple of days to setup a K3S cluster a few years ago and I still use that for any deployment (and I deployed a few more).

I don't have to worry about cloud providers ruining my life with updates, free cloudflare in front so I get caching.

It's not too bad but there is an initial investment

Why don't you just use Claude?

I don't get all these vibe coding tools when Claude is better than any of them

So, as open source developers building a public good, where is our share of EU taxes?

As someone who's going to write frontend in Leptos in the next 2 weeks, what stops me from recommending wasm for every frontend application is the bundle size. I don't want to ship compiled megabytes to the user to render UI.

If there was a rust frontend framework that compiles to JS, I'd use it for all my frontend code.

I'm sure it has its uses, but for anything with a higher requirement for quality, I think Vibe Voice is the only real OSS cloning option.

F2/E5 are also very good but have plenty of bad runs, you need to keep re-rolling until you get good outputs.

Sorry but the quality is too bad.

I'm sure it has its uses, but for anything practical I think Vibe Voice is the only real OSS cloning option. F2/E5 are also very good but has plenty of bad runs, you need to keep re-rolling.

It's easy to argue we don't really live in a democracy. Plenty of laws and regulations go against the majority to favour a few powerful entities (think about copyright laws, healthcare in the US).

That said, the alternative to democracy is not necessary the increasingly authoritarian governments we see around the world. If we gave more power and freedom to the individual and less to the state, we could have more freedom without democracy.

Democracy after all is the dictatorship of the majority on the minority. Why not just have any entity controlling the lives of others?

I love how you provided the tax breakdown and pretty impressive for Spain (which is notoriously a tax hell)!

I agree but that's because both iOS and Android are pretty bad in several ways.

MeeGo from Nokia was pretty amazing as well and I'm sure it could have launched Linux phones into actual competitors to iOS and Android - if only Microsoft and Elop didn't manage to kill Linux at Nokia.

This is insanely cool but it would be hard for non dev people to join the meetings and there is always an annoying "camera on" policy.

Moreover, this would be competing with Google Meet, Teams, Slack, Gather - way too much tech for collaboration

And I wish we were more async-first and less forced to deal with humans, especially over the network.

Try the latest version, it should be better

Personally, I never registered that as a problem, but I can see the delta in screenshots between versions.

Claude is ChatGPT done right. It's just better under any metric.

Of course OpenAI has tons of money and can branch off in all kind of directions (image, video, n8n clone, now RAG as a service).

In the end I think they will all be good enough and both Anthropic and OpenAI lead will evaporate.

Google will be left to win because they already have all the customers with the GSuite and OpenAI will be incorporated at massive loss in Microsoft, which is already selling to all the Azure customers.

not necessarily, hardware and software gains will make tokens cheaper, so we'll see where we are once the vc money runs out (or the entire US economy, there's a chance AI will pop the tech bubble of the last 20 years: I think tech company evaluation are insanely inflated compared to the value they provide)

I can get gpt 3 level of quality with qwen 8B, even qwen 4B in some cases

i'd go with qwen embedding 3, gemini embeddings or something from mixedbread