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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Like, what is Sam Altman's moat?

Sam signed a deal that made OpenAI much more dependent on Microsoft than Microsoft to OpenAI.

Microslop could ditch ChatGPT tomorrow for something made in house, and customers wouldn't even notice because OpenAI allowed MS to white label ChatGPT as Co-pilot. They don't even get a "powered by ChatGPT" tagline lol.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Digressing again—Funny that OpenAI issues a code red to pivot to business related applications in the same week Microsoft issues an apology to its business customers for shoving AI into all their business applications.

I suspect OpenAI is cooked and Sam Altman is terrible at making deals. OpenAI has nothing going for it but a viral product launch three years ago. They don't have physical infrastructure like Microslop, or even a software ecosystem like Office.

They barely have brand loyalty.

jwz wrote:

If someone has an explanation for who gets "Unsupported file type" and who gets "Download / Open / Pick wallet app", that would be nice. I assume it has something to do with "Play" [sic] having its claws in?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

The irony of AI is that it makes building things more accessible to the layperson but it comes at a time when technical literacy is at an all-time low.

A former colleague hit me up six months ago very excited about creating an app using AI. Every once in a while, I'll text him and ask him where he is with the project. And slowly, I've watched that excitement turned into confusion and frustration.

He simply doesn't have the knowledge to move this project past the sandbox

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

After 20 years, I can confidently say that I am a pretty damn good project manager and information architect.

But sometimes I worry that AI makes my role obsolete. Then I talk to a client who doesn't know what a browser is, and still sends photos in Microsoft Word attachments, and that anxiety is quickly alleviated.

This is the irony of AI. (Sorry this is a digression from the thread).

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z_everson@journa.host ("Zach Everson") wrote:

Good morning!

Since Trump was re-elected, Forbes estimates—

💰His net worth is up $1.9 billion, to $6.2 billion

💰Eric’s is up 10x, to $400 million

💰Don Jr.’s is up 6x, to $300 million

💰20-year-old Barron is worth $150 million

And Jared became a billionaire last year.

Have a great day!

#news #uspol #trump

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I haven't been able to stop thinking about this thing I read (can't remember who wrote it ahhhh) about how AI will kill the outsourced coding market. And how project managers essentially assume that role.

As someone who considers themselves a project manager first, coder second, this is where AI affects my business the most.

Clients expect projects to be completed faster and cheaper.

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malison@soc.nochn.net ("Carsten Müller") wrote:

#vibecoding

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JustaJason007@beige.party ("JustaJason 🦜") wrote:

@fromjason sad part is the headline is true in so many ways. Most women I know would rather screw a robot anyhow. 🫠

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Deep sea cable connecting the states to India, South Africa, and Brazil. Meta has also spent billions on improving latency, which is one of remote robotics biggest hurdle.

I haven't harped on my "Meta is pivoting to the cloud" rant in a while lol but, it sounds an awful lot like Meta found a way to outsource our country's service industry.

We might get— Applebees: Now Powered by Meta Robotics 🤮

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-undersea-cables-internet-connectivity-india/

jwz wrote:

FYI, this is what it looks like on iOS. No intervening clicks needed besides "Add".

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

It's wild how so much of AI is just an abstraction layer for slavery.

It's a magic trick where the magic is just low-wage labor extracted from the global south.

Deep sea fiber optic cables across the world so that American's gain access to robot maids and robot sex workers operated by Africans.

What a silly future they want for us.

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

On the positive side, if you want to abolish ICE, I can’t think of a more efficient way to make that happen than forcing the business travel class to interact with ICE agents on a regular basis

#USPol

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

That's a long walk for a mediocre pun lol. But that should totally be Tubi's slogan.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

INT LIVING ROOM—A couple sits in front of a TV looking for a movie to watch. They watch the trailer for a Hamlet remake, then click "rent for 4.99"

The character in the trailer hops out of the TV, demands $5 from one of their wallets, then proceeds to light the money on fire.

CUT TO: product monologue for Tubi. "Don't light your money on fire by renting movies"

Character: "Tubi or not Tubi. There is no question."

BF: can I have my 5 bucks back?

End

jwz wrote:

If those of you using Android could click on this link and tell me whether it does anything even remotely useful, and if so, some detail about how horrible/stupid the whole experience is, that would be helpful: https://www.jwz.org/images/2026/test.pkpass

And tell me what version you're using, obviously. Possibly this requires some "Play" [sic] stuff to work.

UPDATE: Thanks! You can stop now.

(Unless you have read the dozens of replies and have had a materially different experience than those.)

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

(not really, i'm going to support both, obviously)

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

(no, i'm just going to use kqueue like it's epoll and make the filehandle nonblocking)

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

am i going to have to take up kernel hacking just to make a thing that should just work work?

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

oh, apparently freebsd now considers anything but sockets and raw disks unsafe by default now. so no async io on files for you?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

AI Is African Intelligence:

“It [Sex bot work] required a lot of creativity and fast thinking. Because if I’m talking to a man, I’m supposed to act like a woman. If I’m talking to a woman, I need to act like a man. If I’m talking to a gay person, I need to act like a gay person,” he told me at a coworking space I met him at in Nairobi. After doing this for months, he, like other data labelers, developed insomnia, PTSD, and had trouble having sex."

This is abuse.

https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

accessibility question: for a series of images in a blog post that are only slightly modified in sequence, is it okay to assume context from the previous alt text? seems bad to repeat the same descriptions

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i am just trying to read and write /dev/zero for a test program to avoid faffing with tempfiles. what is this new hell where that's unsafe?

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

okay, i've gotten my little program to run. i had to use sysctl because apparently aio_read on a file is 'unsafe'? what on earth?

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vincent@social.lol ("Vincent Lammens :prami:") wrote:

how much intrest would there be for a omg.lol pubnix instance?

What is a pubnix you ask: a public linux system where everyone of the omg.lol community could log in, play with linux, run scripts, and host webpages.

I'm looking for an excuse to get a server...

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

This schlocky piece of bad science presented as entertainment takes itself seriously? I despair for science in this country.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/22/the-last-andy-weir-movie-i-will-ever-waste-money-on/

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i abandoned netbsd and went back to freebsd. i have successfully built and run the code i needed it to test and i can actually finish that code and test it now.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Media coverage predictably favored Apple's event. It didn't help that the BB820 had WiFi issues at launch.

https://www.wired.com/2007/09/8820-wifi/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Example 1: WiFi

July 2007—BlackBerry announces the upcoming BB820, RIM's first WiFi enabled smart phone.

Apple waits a month, just a week before BlackBerry's event, and announces "the beat goes on," a special event set for September 5th, the day after RIM's BB WiFi official launch.

Apple launches the new iTunes WiFi music store, "offering music fans the ability to browse, search, preview, purchase and download songs and albums from the iTunes Music Store over a Wi-Fi network"

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Apple's Counter-Launch Strategy: How iPhone beat BlackBerry

Stay with me. I know you've seen hundreds of analyses with similar titles. But this is different, I promise!

I meant to write this like a decade ago, did my research, then forgot about it (surprise surprise).

I love/hate a good marketing strategy. So let's get it.

When the iPhone launched it had all the momentum. Apple used that momentum to execute what I guess I'm calling a counter-launch strategy.