What is AI gold then?

I expect all my public posts to be scraped, and I’m fine with that. I’m slightly biased towards it if it’s for code generation.

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Penultimate Truth. Predicted containing the cattle using fear of something that doesn’t even exist in reality.

A coworker from Alabama once told me that programming is like kissing your sis: you can’t get better at it by reading books, you have to try and make mistakes to learn

2025. The year of the Linux laptop

AI is already running all software companies as the principle growth philosophy, but that’s like saying that gold used to run Colorado and California in 1800s. The executives have no choice at all but bet all in on AI now.

Good observation. Could it be that Microsoft lowers profits by including unnecessary investments like acquisitions?

So it’d take a 100M users to sign up for the $200/mo plan. All it’d take is for the US government to issue vouchers for video generators to encourage everyone to become a YouTuber instead of being unemployed.

Have you tried NewPipe? YouTube changed the API a few times, and it broke for a day. Otherwise, it’s excellent. I had trouble with Google Pay lately, which is really frustrating, I reverted to cash. No trouble with Chrome or Gmail on Android.

M chip MacBooks are pretty sweet. Especially if you want Xcode.

It’s a miracle that Google botched messengers, Google+, cloud ('member app engine?). They could have been even more dominant. I still like them more than MS and FB.

The Twitter format is crap. It’s bad for search (Mastodon users don’t wanna be searchable). There is a huge recency bias: observed in echo waves of circlejerk memes (CEO stuff being the most recent one). It limits discussion depth compared to the reddit format. Here on lemmy people often read all comments, and I like it even if mine get downvoted :)

The subscription model rarely works. Netflix now shows ads, Twitter is still in the red. The donation/self-hosted model is even less successful. I have an unpopular opinion that ads are still the best way to pay for servers and staff. Reddit users hated ads, and that led to them turning into a data repo for Gemini.

I hope Fedi becomes more accepting of ads, but it’s a tall order given that it’s still mostly pinkos and nerds.