Sorry, forgot about a few. Sam Altman, Sundar Pichai… Honestly, it’d probably be easier to list the white cishet billionaires in tech than it would be to list the exceptions. There’s tons of them outside of tech, probably the majority tbh, but within tech it’s far too diverse.
Don’t forget about the other big players! Jensen Hwang, Lisa Su, Lip-Bu Tan, Satya Nadella, plus the memory cartel (Samsung, SK Hynix, etc.)
This particular war is a class war.
Probably people reading the title and not the body.
“Such speech may be offensive to many, but it is not Meta’s role to police offensiveness,” the company added.
I don’t really know what else to write here because the quote is already enough. Anyway, if anyone still had any doubts about Meta for some reason, there you go.
There are a few tools out there that can recommend improvements to grammar. For example, a tool might suggest rewriting:
Benchmarks are a tool to validate a list of things, contrast, page load, images using modern formats, dead links, time to first paint, and semantic HTML, a
<button>isn’t a<div>.
to:
Benchmarks are a tool to validate a list of things: contrast, page load, images use modern formats, dead links, time to first paint, and semantic HTML (i.e. a
<button>isn’t a<div>).
Many of them are now LLM-based, so you could probably just ask a locally-running Qwen3.5 or something for advice as well. Just be careful if you do this to constrain it only to grammar suggestions and not allow it to rewrite your article (LLM-speak is easy to spot).
All feedback in the post is welcome.
Would it be rude to recommend a grammar checker? The topic and supporting arguments for the post are fine (if a little disorganized, but that’s common for blog posts). I just found the run-ons a bit distracting.
Otherwise, I agree that the internet is getting shittier. More ads, more walls to defend against scraping, less accessibility, etc. There’s no real metric for how well a page presents its contents, only metrics for specific things like load times, layout shift, and so on. I also suspect that, over time, page scoring will shift toward which sites present the data in ways that are more usable by LLMs.
What’s yours? Pay Anthropic $2k/mo to generate fake C&D letters and send them out to random businesses?
Unless you have a plan that doesn’t rely on the service-based models, then I don’t see where you’re going with this. Sure, you can use self-hosted models, assuming you’re fine paying for the GPUs (Jensen Huang? Lisa Su? Lip-Bu Tan if you’re feeling special?) and power to run them of course. But you’ll be “behind” the big cloud-based models, endlessly chasing after them.
Or, hear me out, don’t use them and do it all yourself and you won’t have to pay these companies and make their execs richer.
SQLite allows for more efficient querying of data than doing it by hand, can enforce constraints on the data, and I can query it from my shell.
Of course it’s not going to replace a commonly-used format for a domain. If no such format exists, it’s a perfectly acceptable data format for data that’s tabular in nature. And it can by sync’d/backed up the same as any other file.
I don’t know why it’s worth arguing (both of you) over the versioning scheme of a LLM-assisted/generated project that was posted by a new user with no other activity, but anyway…
PyPi (and Python) do not require semver, nor do all packages in the ecosystem use semver. However, Python tooling depends on packagers following a semver-esque versioning scheme while still allowing some freedom to maintainers to pick a scheme that works best for them.
One.
The recent news was about network traffic, not market share. Anyone talking about increased market share is making up their own conclusions from the data.
The data is interesting, but not sufficient for that kind of conclusion.
Edit: other market share articles are interesting if they actually show new data and aren’t making up a conclusion.
Code shows signs of LLM use, in case anyone’s curious. Unless, of course, you normally type em dashes in your documentation I suppose.
Anyway, this feels to me like a small part of what is essentially a durable task framework. If you need atomicity and durability, consider one of those. If all you need is atomicity, a database guarantees it through so many methods, from inserts to locks*.
*Edit: and transactions, of course, but long running transactions aren’t usually a good idea.
With a saguaro.
To answer the question posed in the title: if you’re processing images given to you by strangers, you should normalize RGB values by 255.
The author isn’t advocating for you to do so. They are just exploring the two approaches. Even in the sentences following this one where they mention where 256 might work, they conclude with your colleagues breaking it all anyway by using 255.
Sure, Mexico has its problems, but I wouldn’t dare classify a whole country of people as stupid.
And Canada?
I call it a car subscription, and it’s for people who make poor financial decisions. It’s better to buy a car you can afford, pay it off, and own it until it becomes unsustainable to keep it running.
I would guess it’s a lot of people finding out the price of the Steam Machine ($1049 with no controller is a lot!) and deciding instead to run Linux on a PC instead
If this were the case, then they’d be zipping through the waitlist. I’ve been waitlisted since release (with the small hope that prices come down by the time it’s my turn, otherwise I’ll most likely give up my spot lol) and I’ve seen no emails about it since then.
They have been selling them, but they are also struggling to get RAM allocation. My guess is that they are being held back by RAM (and possibly storage to a lesser extent) and aren’t able to make them fast enough to satisfy the current demand.
Many tech influencers have been advocating Linux due to how bad Windows is and how great Linux is at this point. I’d expect most growth to be coming from there.
Unfortunately, any tools a screen reader can use to read the page are tools a LLM can use. Without challenge-based solutions like Anubis, I’m not sure what can really be done that isn’t IP whack-a-mole.
If it comes down to losing accessibility or losing the website due to scrapers obliterating the hosting costs, then I think most website admins would rather just put a “use OCR” message at the top of their skip nav.
As much as I hate using JS for this, I wonder if there’s a JS-based solution that gets the best of both worlds while killing off scraping. Serve this obfuscated trash initially, then swap it out after completing some challenge sometime after FCP.
Well that was a dodged bullet. I’m glad we settled on a different car when we got ours recently.
Still, I think pretty much the whole industry is moving towards SaaS bullshit. Everything from subscription heated seats to ads in the infotainment. Hell, even in our new car, I can’t start the car without it begging me to connect to Amazon and setup Alexa. It’s making me miss my older car’s basic dash and infotainment honestly, but getting Android Auto/Car Play and a suspension that doesn’t feel like the Tower of Terror (or whatever it’s called now) whenever we go over a speed bump was life changing.
This shit should be illegal. At the very least, I hope that ad isn’t playing while driving.
You can block Facebook ads by blocking the Facebook domains. This is what I do, anyway.
Even if you get through the ads, there’s nothing of value there. At best, you’re maintaining superficial relationships while wading through AI slop and ragebait. If you haven’t actually talked to the person in years, consider whether there’s even a real connection there or if you’re just inflating each other’s egos by pressing a like button every couple weeks.