I couldn’t get Netflix to play at high resolution on my old Roku because of some DRM crap. And I was a legit customer! Once again, piracy would have provided a superior experience.

I have a Kobo and it does OK. Nothing special.

I will never, ever purchase a book I can’t remove the DRM from.

And there are people out there who are absolutely fanatical about book preservation. They will photograph every single page and run it through OCR and recreate an ebook just so it gets preserved. DRM is absolutely pointless and stupid.

It’s not desirable to have a foreign government in control of TikTok. But it’s far, far less desirable to have your own government in control of TikTok.

Good God… I don’t even think there’s a place in my entire town that charges that much. :(

Another potential route: your public library. Mine prints for 5¢ per page and has a web interface for uploading documents from anywhere and printing them when you go in.

Keep the donations coming. IA is worth a million times more to humanity than all of these publishers combined.

Hero. There’s only one gas station I use that has ads and I’ll try it there for sure. I deliberately avoid screened pumps.

In the 6 years I’ve been with Firefox on Linux on my 9-year-old laptop, I could count on both hands the number of sites that didn’t render correctly, and on one hand the number that didn’t run or weren’t performant.

Maybe I’m just lucky, but I definitely feel for folks who are stuck with Chrome and all those ads.

I have seen no evidence that we as a species in general will be able to harness LLMs for good.

Way back in the day I was making $500 a month with AdSense ads on my sites. And then one month I started making $250 a month. I hadn’t changed anything. It’s a risky thing to rely on.

My buddy graduated and took a gap year. That year happened to be the dot com crash. So he kept backpacking for another year then started looking for work. 😁

“Average” is the key word here, for sure. Our goal as humans is to be better than the AI. If you’re not such a good writer, average is a step up. But maybe we should all try to level up, instead.

I’m pretty sure every time you use AI for programming your brain atrophies a little, even if you’re just looking something up. There’s value in the struggle.

So they can definitely speed you up, but be careful how you use it. There’s no value in a programmer who can only blindly recite LLM output.

There’s a balance to be struck in there somewhere, and I’m still figuring it out.

If I wanted to raise superhumans, I’d simply not give them smartphones until they turned 18.

Additionally, I’m not paying that evil company a dime. All the people I follow on YT get way more money from me on Patreon.

LLMs won’t get smarter in the next 10 years, but they will rapidly outpace humans.

“He is an halibut.” --Monty Python 😁

Will AI finally replace CEOs?

I just installed the original about a month ago to try it again. I hadn’t played it since the early 90s on a VT220 attached to a MicroVAX II.

Didn’t make it past the first level. 😅