scared_together's comments

On: Price of a bot army revealed across online platforms

[scared_together]

In your jurisdiction, are there regulations and taxes on the sale of cigarettes and alcohol?

And are there any comparable regulations on social media?

On: America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom

[scared_together]

> The only ones who lose are those who are want to do boring work instead of something creative.

Aren’t the creative jobs also being taken by LLMs and image generators?

On: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy

[scared_together]

> Apple isn't the only one standing in the way of a Google hegemony.

Who else would you consider?

Chromium-based browsers from companies other than Google are still contributing to Google’s hegemony. And Mozilla is funded by Google.

[bigyabai → scared_together]

KHTML, Gecko, most Blink forks.

[StopDisinfo910 → bigyabai]

KHTML development stopped nearly ten years ago and I don’t know any significant Blink forks.

On: Our obsession with efficiency is costing us our humanity

[scared_together]

You are phrasing this as an individual choice but people have poured billions of dollars into making software mediate creativity (image and text generation), and connection (social media, dating apps). Whereas the repetitive work of assembling products in a factory is still being done by humans in China and other middle income countries.

Where is the VC profit from letting people “re-humanize”? Nowhere, because people were human before they were profitable.

On: John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta

[scared_together]

What if instead of writing the entire OS, a company were to pick up an existing “hobby” OS and refine it?

For example any of the systems listed in Carmack’s post. Or perhaps Serenity OS, RedoxOS, etc.

[dmurray → scared_together]

In that case, why wouldn't they "just" fork Linux? Or 10-years-ago-Linux?

The technical justification for Meta writing their own OS is that they'd get to make design decisions that suited them at a very deep level, not that they could do the work equivalent of contributing a few drivers to an existing choice.

[monkeyelite → scared_together]

How is that different than what they did? Meta stuff is on Linux. PlayStation and Nintendo on bsd, etc.

If you mean exotic ones then the answer is the parts that are written are the easy parts and getting support for hardware and software is hard.

[ellis0n → scared_together]

ACPU OS is also good for that https://www.acpul.org/blog/so-fast

On: Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account

[scared_together]

I thought that incognito mode in Chrome[0] and private mode in Firefox[1] already disables extensions by default.

[0] https://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/answer/2664769?hl...

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/extensions-private-brow...

[jraph → scared_together]

Absolutely, except for extensions you explicitly want to have in private mode, which is opt-in.

[chrisjj → jraph]

So? Extensions are opt-in in regular mode too.

[jraph → chrisjj]

I'm agreeing with my parent comment, to which I'm adding some precision.

[dolmen → scared_together]

private/incognito mode doesn't protect against XSS.

On: SaaS Is Dead

[scared_together]

> Want to import recipes from a website or pull your bank transactions into your new dashboard? Just ask. In this future of open pipes…

If we truly had open pipes devoid of ads, tracking, subscriptions, custom data formats and other obstacles to third-parties, we wouldn’t have needed AI or ephemeral software. There would have been an abundance of third party software for commonly-found backends.