What happened to their UI? It's so abrasive now it's hard to look at.

Reminiscent of so much online discourse, it's shouty and unnuanced.

Interesting point. It's good to see someone lending a critical eye to method.

I take his point to be: those who work in the tech industry and in academia bear responsibility for their part in the rise of companies like Meta, and their consequences. Which is obviously true. Blaming billionaires is disempowering and doesn't explain where billionaires came from.

I'm confused by the unwillingess of people to take responsibility for their own lives and actions. Drop responsibility and agency, and you cannot be anything but a slave.

Having seen one of his talks on efficiency vs resilience, I'm extremely doubtful fascist is appropriate. For one, fascists are ultra-capitalist and he was pretty scathing of the capitalist mode iirc.

The article is also clearly critical of The Empire, which is standard sci-fi fascism.

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In the next phase of the legal proceedings, due to begin on 4 May, the attorney general’s office will seek additional financial penalties and court-mandated changes to Meta’s platforms that “offer stronger protections for children”, said Torrez.

The design feature changes the state is seeking include “enacting effective age verification, removing predators from the platform, and protecting minors from encrypted communications that shield bad actors”.

Unclear how age verification would play out with their Digital Childhood Alliance efforts.

If you've ever tried using bazel, you might understand why writing a single package manager for multiple languages is a bad idea

This is not a good article

A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless

From wikipedia

Examples of such professionals include ICT professionals, physicians, pharmacists, architects, engineers, mathematicians, scientists, designers, public accountants, lawyers, librarians, archivists, editors, and academics

Are they genuinely claiming all most of this work is pointless?

The article continues

What’s different about this moment is that the questions are not just economic but existential, the kind of questions that cause high-earning technical professionals to contemplate throwing it all away to start a goat farm in Washington or become a surf instructor in Costa Rica.

I'm sure I'd seen memes about software engineers wanting become woodworkers before the AI deluge.

The writing continues with needlessly crass language. I stopped reading.

assert(true);

AI boom is a poor choice of words, even though it's intentional. And I don't believe the article's starting paragraph

For more than three years, AI has propped up global trade and investment and pushed stock markets from the US to Asia to record highs.

However, there is a boom in investment in AI, whether that actually yields anything or not. I read the article as meaning derailing that.

The consequences outlined in the rest of the article look to be agnostic to productivity

Sure, maybe it's fantastic at reviewing PRs. I could imagine that. But

Trust me, you want this.

is pretty condescending, implying those against it haven't thought it through. I personally could list about twenty reasons for not using AI, many of them infinitely more important than code being well reviewed.

Who in the comments is an Adobe employee?

Without reading the article, I assume this is because creating a successful app takes commitment, and vibe coding lets you code without commitment.

I've not seen a single article about Proton that's made me abandon them. Diversified away from, yes, but not abandon.

The privacy community will be under fire from very powerful interests, so I also take all criticism with a mountain of salt.

In the language Gulf of Mexico,

you can use any letters from the word "function" (as long as they're in order)

union foo () => ()

I don't understand your point. How is it good that the developers thought they were faster? Does that imply anything at all in LLMs' favour? IMO that makes the situation worse because we're not only fighting inefficiency, but delusion.

20% slower is substantial. Imagine the effect on the economy if 20% of all output was discarded (or more accurately, spent using electricity).

It's not only LLMs that are problematic. Vision models, for example, present severe mass surveillance problems. Nor are tech bros only involved in LLMs.

Spotify CEO has more money than any musician in history https://www.snopes.com/...

codeberg's fine, but it's not decentralized. It's a single org running a forgejo instance somewhere in europe. It also banned AI generated code and crypto projects. If you're not doing either of those, codeberg is possibly the easiest way to get off github.

If you really want decentralized, you can look at radicle. Or you can self-host but that would be unwise if you're new to it all.

Who's up for making villages where this kind of shit is burnt in a ritual fire?