They already entered into legend. The 3310 laughs at death.

There’s sustainable practices and sustainable businesses. The latter is what others are arguing. Undercutting competition to take over a market is a sustainable practice IF you can hold out long enough. I’d wager the country of China can hold out longer than General Motors.

After the auto industry intentionally killed public transport.

The fact that one of the most powerful monopolies in the world went bankrupt and was forced to be bailed out by taxpayers more than once should really be a disqualifier for any future endeavors.

I’ve also used it in a hacky script pipeline to bulk download podcast episodes with yt-dlp, create searchable transcripts, and scrub ads by having an LLM sniff out timestamps to cut with ffmpeg.

This is genius. Could you appify this and I’ll pay you in real or pretend currency as you prefer

I’ve found it great for DMing TTRPGs — simply record your session with a conference mic, run a transcript with WhisperX, and pass the output to a long-context LLM for easy session summaries. It’s a great way to avoid slowing down the game by taking notes on minor events and NPCs.

Okay that’s just crazy. ;)

TL;DR;

A few days later, someone pointed out an issue in SerenityOS where a new contributor offered to update the documentation to include gender-neutral language instead of always assuming the person building the project was a man. Kling rejected it with the statement: “This project is not an appropriate arena to advertise your personal politics.”

…Kling and the Ladybird project doubled down on rejecting active inclusion in the name of being “apolitical.” Others tried to explain that rejecting inclusivity is inherently a political decision.

If you’ve watched enough of these things play out, it’s usually the doubling down that causes a lasting split, more than the original disagreement.

So not some kind of JK Rowling transphobia or even stock republiQan misogyny as much as a fairly tone-deaf executive position on documentation that became a thing.

Making documentation gender-neutral is not radical or ‘political’ other than it’s trying to reflect the reality that more than just men use and create code. It seems like Kling thought his project was under threat of takeover by some radical pansexual furry anarcho-collective (not that there’s anything wrong with that) and said something stupid like “documentation isn’t a place for political debate” which, is sort of true and also not relevant to the change requested.

As the article states, the real issue is the doubling down. That’s not good.

This is the exact block I came to quote.

The rest of the article is good too, though.

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Disagree. All they need is a small army of marketers to keep convincing executive idiots they need to have MS Office 365.

Firstly, let’s call them what they are, hucksters.

Secondly, I cannot think of anything I give a shit less about than their burnout at making internet videos of themselves.

If you’ve talked yourself into a world where you must be on social media, you are absolutely fucked. Get out. now.

If microsoft stopped producing anything today, they would still make billions per year for many years

That is definitely the C-suite

Big Tech didn’t used to be fascist.

Somewhere around firing everyone and AI they just said fuckit, masks off.

What an excellent platform. Gosh it would be so hard for me to leave a fascist information sewer and tracking network with AI generated ‘facticles’.

They said I was mad when they removed the headphone jack - well who’s mad now??! AHAHahahahaaaaaaahhhhcrap it’s me.

I’m still mad. Fuckers.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwww YAH

I dunno, ICE cars weren’t on my list to start with. I assume.

That’s equivalent to buying a subscription to a car. I would never buy that car. That’s koo koo bananapants unsane.

Of course, I don’t have a facepals account either so - what do i know.

No, I haven’t bought a new car in many many years.

That’s absolutely unacceptable. I would have the dashboard pulled out in minutes. Wherever the modem is, it wouldn’t be there for long.

It was a part of the zeitgeist!