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- Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025 6 days ago:
Society has been steadily forgetting the importance of reliability, all in the name of convenience. And in the end, you get neither.
“They don’t make it like they used to”. Sure. Sure. Old man yelling at clouds. Blah blah. But when your light switches stop working because of some overly complex system that requires the switching data to travel twice around the world just to fucking turn a light on (or an AI to invent 15 Python scripts and a mathematical proof just to add two integers together), you’ve got a really fucking fragile system.
And you know what isn’t convenient? Fucking fragile products that break as soon as you touch them. Who the fuck wants a hammer made out of salami? Sure, it might look like a hammer, it might taste great, but it can’t drive a nail for shit. That’s a garbage product that belongs in the garbage.
An LLM can tell me a (lame) joke. So can Bob. Bob can also turn on the lights, and is pretty good at that. But those things together don’t automatically mean an LLM is good at turning on lights. They are fragile, by design, like the salami is!
Stay in your fucking lane tech companies.
- Comment on The Enshittification of Plex Is Kicking Off, Starting with Free Roku Users 4 weeks ago:
Enshitification is the specific process of capturing a supplier/consumer market through short term subsidies, squeezing out the competition, and then squeezing the suppliers and consumers directly.
Increasing prices alone isn’t enshitification. But increasing prices after sustaining artificially low prices for the purpose of creating a monopoly or quasi monopoly is enshitification.
Plex most definitely was providing a good quality product but was not generating revenue, and has little to no competition (Jellyfin is a bit debatable) as a result. Was it intentional or just incompetence? Hard to prove either way. I’d say the biggest argument against enshitification is that Plex is mostly a product instead of market space hosting suppliers and consumers, like Google, YouTube, AirBNB, Uber, etc.
- Comment on 'Ending that completely': Facebook gets rid of fact-checkers in wake of Trump's election 11 months ago:
The generation that warned their children about brain rot have succumbed to that brain rot.
- Comment on California Approves Privacy Bill Requiring Opt-Out Tools 1 year ago:
GDPR gave us the cookie banner that both consumers and website owners hate. Legislation absolutely can affect change.