yep I think so too. as I think I posted here a while back:
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and now suddenly it's Launched Again! but with limits. gotta whet those appetites just a bit more! sales will totes follow soon!
been a little while since we had A Programming Dot Dev here, I think. guess it was time
I wish them a merry cable grounding fault and happy earth buzz to all
to get on my developing-nation[0] soapbox for a little bit: it is, and it's also hilarious how often this sort of shit happens with things developed by people who you could largely handwave as "their smallest computer is a 3yo max-spec mbp" (I know this isn't precise but ygwim). "talk to your users" is obviously useful and it's often largely clear that a lot of these orgs don't, but it's even more clear in places further down the economic ladder. the one thing people in such markets often have is bucketloads of time. I do like that the phrasing used in the article was "you do not actually have to spend any money" rather than calling it "free" - this is still work. but you will readily find maaaaaany people who will do this sort of thing
[0] - speaking from experience, large consideration in stuff I have to design for in services
SAP without SAP for those who think they want SAP who feel they can't afford SAP who'll end up paying SAP prices anyway, because no-one involved will just stop and think for a fucking moment
you know
I actually meant to post that (a friend sent it to me earlier, and it was why I even got around to starting the new stubsack)
adhdbrain is a fuck
(it is a fucking hilarious tweet tho)
bit of a combo-sneer this morning
CNBC put out an article uncritically repeating yet another round of lieboy pulling the exact same shit. I don't recognize the authors immediately, not sure if they're typical bootlickers or not
openai is going in hard, hiring ex-NSA person that was appointed by the walking talk racist mop (via dan gillmor). for the .... safety role! ah yes, I'm sure we'll all be so very surprised by this attempt consolidation of power.
I near-exclusively use awful from a client only on awful and I can tell you, without reservation, you get a pure enough experience
By which I, naturally, don’t mean that our mods “don’t do their jobs”. They do. Oh dear god do they. But the visible context is many.
this is not the place to satisfy your desire for degradation
Given the recent SBF all% speedruns…
LLMs continue to be so good and wagmi that they've progressed to the serving ads part of the extractivist SaaS lifecycle