1. Have a project works well
2. Amass a massive community with lots of goodwill
3. Project gets bought/merged/under new management
4. new management destroy everything that attracted the community and goodwill
5. ???
6. Somehow, not profit

I wonder where it’s gone wrong. What would it have cost github to keep operating decently for the vast majority of small users, and still have a business side?

Remember people, in today’s USA, it’s better to be a sex offender than literally anything else. It’s even better if you meddle with kids; that could secure you a position in the government. But girls liking girls? Big no-no.

For the “online video call” part, plenty. For the whole integration with agenda, persistent chatroom, etc… plenty, too. Nothing is 100% a match on his own, but depending on what your users actually uses, you can basically self-host a whole “meeting/project tracking” stack on your own with nextcloud at this point.

Or if you’re a little bit fancier, alternative management tools. But we did not need fancy.

What does having a git server have to do with copilot subscriptions?

New meme dropping: “telling you I told you so? Yes, I think I will”

Oh, people didn’t like the idea of giving their ID to third parties? Let’s move up to irreplaceable body parts. Next step: your fucking blood. Good luck declaring that one stolen when the database inevitably leaks.

The youtube website itself isn’t enough “first party” to you?

That would be a good way to do it, if the goal was to be able to restrict/protect kids. Unfortunately, this have very little to do with that.

but I don’t see an alternative

An alternative to what? This will not prevent children from accessing content. The weak point is the humans that willingly allows it in the first place. Having an extra step won’t stop them if it can help them not be bothered by actually having to look after their kid.

This is not sacrificing freedom to gain security; it’s sacrificing freedom to not gain anything.

Fucking onion.

And there’s never been any kind of international cooperation between law enforcement ever, anywhere.

You sure about that? They have a legal obligation to keep this trace, and it sounds like it would easily qualify as a legitimate interest. We’re not talking about some third party logging a visitor’s IP, but an ISP, that have a requirement to keep this information.

The GDPR isn’t making all personal identification data inaccessible, they restrict how they can be stored and accessed. If there’s a legal requirement and/or a legitimate interest, they can be stored, and if the data exists and is requested by law enforcement, it’s likely that higher agreements will hold.

do they think people will keep expressing these kinds of opinions publicly? Oh course not

People are already pushing all kind of extreme and suspicious opinions on multiple websites under their “official” name that can be found on their ID. This won’t change. And the risk isn’t people stopping saying thing at one point; it’s the list of “allowed” topics changing over time, then going back to older content.

When looking at an IP for an investigation, they don’t use GeoIP. They use “ask the ISP who had this IP at this time, oh, thanks for the full name, address, bank info, phone number”.

Because in the end, you, the person that is forced to use various AI chatbot/agent/model/whatever, will be held responsible for anything that happens after one of the 3000 decisions they imposed you to make with no way to check everything turns out to cause the slightest problem. When that happens, YOU were supposed to know that NOTHING the AI tells/says/do is to be expected correct, so it’s your responsibility if something’s gone wrong.

Bluesky leadership: slightly worse than JD Vance. It must not have been easy for them to reach that, but what an achievement.

There’s an easy workaround : install W10 with a local account, then upgrade. No need for any kind of workaround. Disclaimer : this might have worked because I’m in Europe.

Otherwise, there are workarounds for a vanilla install with only local accounts that still works to this day, I did that in a VM. But that’s flimsy.

Of course, this leaves you to the whim of “fucking microsoft, we’ll screw you forever, bork your data when we want, force you to change computer every other year, and you’ll love it”, but the option exists.

Thats all there is to it.

Not really. Even with (theoretical) infinite context windows, things would end up getting diluted. It’s a statistic machine; no matter how complex we make them look. Even with all the safeguards in place, as these grows larger and larger, each “directive” would end up being less represented in the next token.

People can keep trying to hammer with a screwdriver all they want and keep being impressed when the bent nail is almost flush, though. I’m just enjoying the show from the side at this point.

I’m sure this will be fixed with an ever increasing context window and more “plz be nice” inserted left and right.

Well, too bad. Do something else.

But as long as people have some brain, if the market gets a majority of “smart” devices to the point there’s enough people looking for alternative, some people are likely to try and fill the gap. It might become a new niche market, but it’s one place where supply and demand will work to our advantage.