Some other viruses and malware.

That said, there’s nothing there not saying that this won’t be abused in some cases.

A rare triple negative!

And how will we continue to have senior devs to coordinate teams of AI agents if there’s no more room for junior devs? Regardless of how good a tool is, it needs to be wielded by someone who knows what they’re doing.

We’re in the infancy of AI in the sense that widespread use, testing and properly-funded development of these technologies only began a few years ago when massively parallelized processing became affordable enough, even though the concepts are older. You could say we’re in the infancy of practical AI, not theoretical.

The other missing variable is actually knowing how to use the tools. Vibe coding still produces slop. Good AI-generated code requires understanding what you’re trying to achieve and giving the AI clear context on what design paradigms to follow, what libraries to use and so on. Basically, if you know how to write good code without AI, it can help you to do so faster. If you don’t, it’ll help you to write slop faster. Garbage in, garbage out.

Sure you do. It’s not at all a transparent attempt to prolong the bubble.

You must be so much fun to hang out with IRL.

I use DDG and SearXNG several times per day. It’s better at finding information in StackOverflow and Reddit threads than directly searching in those sites and it’s the only way I know how to actively seek out websites I haven’t been referred to by anyone.

Every day I thank the Gods for having met my partner, and no longer needing to use dating apps is a huge part of it.

Anyway, does the word “enshittification” even make sense when the service was already shit to begin with? How do we even refer to a move like this? “Shittiness diversification”?

I use Jellyfin for video but it doesn’t strike me as the best for audio…

Thanks a lot for the tips!

It’s a self-hosted music streaming server. Basically a build-your-own-Spotify. Available as a Docker image.

Haven’t Amazon and Netflix been doing that for a long time already?

Likewise. I’ve been putting off setting up a Soulseek+Navidrome stack on my home server. I’m sure there’s a way to integrate ListenBrainz suggestions too. First ad I hear, I’m doing it.

Interesting, thanks.

How do you mean about India? Please pardon my ignorance.

Great analysis. But I’ve never heard of an OS that comes pre-loaded with porn, or with any media content other than the wallpapers and a few stock samples. Though I suppose there’s nothing stopping anyone from creating Bukkake Linux and shipping it.

You’re right to give that warning, but Brazil isn’t a surveillance state like China or the USA. Our demons are different.

Of course, that could change in the future so a law like this shouldn’t stand regardless.

Not the Brazilian government, is what I’m saying. At most they’ll tell ISPs to block a few websites, and they won’t comply without a judicial order. Our Supreme Court, STF, is actually sane unlike our legislators, so no such order will be given.

Speaking as a brazilian resident, the law will not be enforced. No such laws are ever enforced here. Everybody openly pirates everything, people sell retro gaming systems preloaded with thousands of ROMs openly online and in physical shops, and the government doesn’t even have 1% of the surveillance infrastructure needed to make enforcement attractive. The law is just electoral posturing and lip service to please evangelical idiots… but I repeat myself.