It’s the classic American route of attempting a technical solution to a societal problem.

Technology is what solutions are made of. The "nontechnical solutions to societal problems" are the things like "wishful thinking", "pretending the problem doesn't exist", "wishing it away", etc.

(Which is fine when the problem is bullshit and there is nothing to solve, which actually may be the case here.)

ever heard of things like laws? like culture? like changing procedures instead of means?

unless you want to argue semantics and go 'actually they're all part of technology', but that makes your argument even less meaningful.

Right, I would argue they are part of technology, because bureaucracy clearly is, laws move in scope of what's possible and economically feasible, and culture is entirely downstream of that.

Or, put another way, you cannot "just change culture", not any more than you can make a river flow uphill by pushing water with your hands. You can splash some water around and make a little puddle, but it'll quickly flow back to rejoin the river and continue on its way.

Culture is always seeking a dynamic equilibrium, in a landscape defined by economics and technology constraints. The only way to achieve lasting change is to change the landscape.

>Right, I would argue they are part of technology, because bureaucracy clearly is, laws move in scope of what's possible and economically feasible, and culture is entirely downstream of that.

then you’re using different definition that everyone else, and bring nothing into discussion other than confusion.

>Or, put another way, you cannot "just change culture"

it isn't shaped just by technology. There are economic factors and cultural exchanges between different cultures.

This is purely tautological line of thinking, that brings nothing to discussion.

> There are economic factors

Literally repeating what I said.

> and cultural exchanges between different cultures.

What do you think distinguishes exchanges that are forgotten to those that achieve lasting change?

It’s the speed of the JavaScript compiler, on those old browsers they were expected to handle a few kilobytes max of event listeners. The chrome vs Firefox browser wars sped up JavaScript compilation by 10x at least

An intranet could be a secure environment walled off from the internet

Deregulation of financial markets and glorification of monetary wealth above all else was also their doing? Gen X were kids when Carter and Regan sent us down the path we’re on now.

They're not kids now

They were not kids a decade ago

Two decades ago

Why is it 20-30 somethings of 40-50 years ago put the world on an immutable path but 20-30 somethings now are stuck with?

If prior 20-30 somethings that "put us on a path" had free agency we do too

Especially when those old 20-30 somethings are now 70-90 somethings

Kids in the 1980s who rolled over in their 20-30s

Who speaks old English and writes like Shakespeare? Social truths die off. So why do we still speak 1970?

Everyone was just copying the French

Rent out your spare compute, like seti@home or folding@home, but it’s something someone could repackage and sell as a service.

It’s nice having control and ownership of your software.

I’m assuming it’s similar to why people run plex, web servers, file sharing, etc

Also personally I’d rather not pay monthly fees for stuff if it can be avoided.

These agents are all calling APIs that are well beyond your control. How does it matter whether a thin CLI wrapper is running on your computer or not?

Piggybacking on this - I think it well equips us for a future when local models are stronger. I for one am grateful for efforts like these

This is somewhat novel unlike say weapons manufacturing. Also assuming that the GP is in the tech community to some degree, it makes sense they’d have a stronger reaction.

There’s lots of bad stuff humans shouldn’t be doing.

Also less awkward to make it right the first time, instead of explaining why someone can’t type their name or an emoji

Did time machine start using the APFS features? I thought it was still doing HFS+ stuff?