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Fortunately JB broke that addiction for my by first moving the commit dialog behind an option, and then removing it completely. If I have to learn a new workfrow, I might as well learn a new tool

Currently the plugin version still works but they made it clear it will be unmaintained in the future.

OpenAI is really weird about this stuff. I tried to get good minor chord progression out of chatgpt, but it kept running into guardrails and giving Very Serious Warnings. It felt as if there’s just a dumb keyword filter in there, and getting any amounts of verboted words will kill the entire prompt

This is why Grok is important.

So far it's rarely been the leading frontier model, but at least it's not full of dumb guardrails that block many legitimate use cases in order to prevent largely imagined harm.

You can also use Grok without sign in, in a private window, for sensitive queries where privacy matters.

A lot of liberals badmouth the model for obviously political reasons, but it's doing an important job.


Qatar and exorbitant cost are an iconic duo, surprised they haven't gone through the trouble considering the general trend of glamor and excess

Host your personal blog on wordpress.com or similar

When your cost per host is $0, even $5 / mo / hacked host profit can make for an ok business

The great Fermi Filter maybe

It makes me irrationally angry that cryptos have given a clear monetary value to raw CPU time, and a very strong incentive to create botnets.

Society doesn't get improved by doing incremental work on a browser, and Mozilla's mission is to improve society

Yes it does. Having a browser that truly has the user's back, without always trying to compromise the user's interests in favor of advertisers - that would be a benefit to society.

I wish Firefox would be that browser.


Possibly, but that's an absurdly overbroad mission.

Organizations with clear, focused missions are much more likely to be able to achieve them than organizations that want to be everything to everybody.

"Make and maintain Firefox as the best browser for people who care about internet freedom, privacy, and extensibility" would be a perfectly reasonable mission.


Music has mandatory licensing: you can play any songs on your radio station as long as you pay the fixed, standardized fees. And yet the music industry is still alive

Not strictly true. An artist can refuse to license their work to a given station. That never happens in practice, but politicians being refused use of music has happened.

So, true in practicality.


> An artist can refuse to license their work to a given station.

Via what means?

First, radio stations in the USA aren't required to pay royalties to a recording artist, only to the songwriter via a Performing Rights Organization (PRO) like ASCAP or BMI. It follows that recording artists don't even have a say in whether their recordings can be played on the radio.

Second, songwriters don't have any control over public performance once they've licensed their work to the PRO. It's all or nothing. Songwriters can withdraw their works from the PRO, but then they have to negotiate with public performers through some other means. Radio stations don't have the means to enter separate negotiations with every songwriter, so they'll likely forego it, which practically means no airplay for artists who haven't submitted to the PROs.

> politicians being refused use of music has happened

That's not radio, and different license terms apply for campaign events. See https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF12775 for the details.


This reminds me of the ”I just want to serve 5 terabytes” thing

Google does not want your money, they don’t know how to count so low


Broccoli Man! classic

https://youtu.be/3t6L-FlfeaI (2010)

To be fair, a lot of this changed after that video became a meme.. but I'd bet that the broccoli man template is still trending on memegen



Hey man, nice slop! (No, really, that's great.)

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