It’s interesting how the tone of innovation changes. It starts out like “hey, I can do that better than my competitors!” and that’s all fine, doing something better creating market demand and cash influx. But eventually, the innovation looks for shortcuts… enshitification is the word. Cheaper parts, smaller quantities, subscriptions to hardware you buy but never own… There’s a shift from product/service innovation as means to financial growth to purely financially incentivized innovation.

It reminds me of Marx’s idea that concentration of capital naturally leads to the prominence of financial markets, an indicator of a capitalist economy reaching its “advanced” / crisis-prone phase. The similarity being: there’s an economic shift from industrial investment as means to financial growth to purely financial investment.

Windows to let side loading third party AI onto their baby, with priority access to a bunch of APIs that might actually make them compete on their own OS? I wish.

I might actually be willing to try something very light, if I could control exactly which APIs and methods it could access, plus I could load my own model into it. Why not? “Hey computer, play some lo-fi, open up my email client, and read me today’s unread mail from my inbox.”

But trust is the factor for me here. For example, I don’t want it allowed anywhere near my projects. I don’t want it allowed to screen capture. I don’t want it allowed to do any write operations to my filesystem. I don’t want it allowed to perform Internet activity except within a browser… the list goes on.

File search is fucking terrible on windows, dear lord.

I have tripled that on a drive home from my corner Starbucks before. Fun fact: the servers might be “legally required” to warn you of your poor health choices before they hand you your drink.

but we don’t think over too much longer

Are… are you a seagull?

If that were the case, wouldn’t the ones who didn’t get the genetic engineering be far more likely to reproduce and stride along with natural selection? I have a hard time seeing that event ever happening, short of the human population en mass deciding to engineer every baby on the planet before a single generation of which could have lived life and been studied for its effects.

What I think is more likely as a great filter is humans eventually settling on the idea that organic matter is really terrible medium for life. So, something with much more longevity, strength, efficiency, and brain power gets synthesized and we move in. At a certain point, wouldn’t biological life die off because life tends to yield to its more evolved forms? If us meat bags had to compete, how could we?

and I think there are more interesting answers to the Fermi Paradox than the Great Filter. For example, the expansion of space not being something we can overcome in travel. Or, maybe the way we perceive space is just so anthropic—we’re making poor assumptions about other beings.

All that but we can’t grow new teeth in our mouths. What’s up with that, nature?

Bamboo as well.

I’d buy stock, bonds, or perhaps a lifetime supply of an air freshener. We’ll see.

PC gamers under 30 would be considered a significant minority compared to other <30yos?

Hmm… I don’t know. 30-50yos are raising kids right now. That’s a whole lot of 0-21orso year olds living in the bracket where people have PCs.

Then you have college students filling the gap, who likely have a laptop at least.

intergalactic tour guide: now if you look to your left, you’ll see the natural habitats of the Xpheno217 species. This is the only location in the whole universe they can live. And to your right, a brand new residential community fit with Walmart and their very own Chick-fil-A.

There was once a time when people educated themselves not because they wanted a particular job in the economy, but because they saw value in education and wanted to participate in the human tradition of advancing the specie’s ability to understand and use nature. You didn’t need school to be a blacksmith, for example, but perhaps just an apprenticeship (experience).

There’s a point to be made here, about how this degrades the value of education. It’s great for capitalism, making survival—or “living well”—contingent on qualifications derived from paid education. But what have we lost in this process? It feels, to me at least, like we’ve created a culture where education is a mere lineitem on a checklist. How might that change what education is, what it’s expected to be, and what sort of innovation comes from it?

KeePassXC supports passkeys directly through the Browser Integration service.

https://keepassxc.org/docs/KeePassXC_UserGuide#_browser_passkey_support

There you go. Local, serverless passkeys in the software of your choice.

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Will I fall into this obvious trap for discussing the grotesque volume of time spent on the Olive Garden app? No. No i will not. … fuck.

(Cries in Big Mac sauce.)

Sorry for asking, but what are the chances this gets an IOS release?

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We stand atop, adjacent to, within, underneath, and around foreign surveillance. But stand for? You bet your momma there’s no room for that.