bananamogul

Dan Goodin is listed as the author on the Ars Technica article.

Not factored in is the fact that there is just so much media now.

I think we could stop all content creation today and everyone would still have enough to last through their grandchildren's lifetimes.

And unlike a lot of things, media doesn't expire. I still regularly find albums, movies, and books from decades ago I enjoy today.

Media of all forms is just worth less now due to oversupply.

"I have used many photos and drawings which I have found on the Internet, and in many cases the source of such photos and drawings is not clear. I have assumed that images which appear on the Internet are in the public domain and do not need to be individually referenced."

That's a pretty bold assumption.

Hasn't Sam Altman achieved AGI three different times now?

All the states that participated in the class action settlement got $725 million combined.

New Mexico decided to go it alone and gets $25 billion.

Great timing for the AG who’s up for reelection on November 3 (even though it was the previous AG who made the call).

40% of web sites run WordPress. And there's tons of other CMSes out there as well, so I don't think the majority have moved on.

"Adds to" is underselling it. WordPress is used by about 40% of websites.

OpenBSD man pages are the Sistine Chapel ceiling of man pages. Just glorious.

I think he means macOS as official, certified Unix is dead.

macOS as a more Linuxy-friendly place to work on Linuxy-type software, sure. Definitely true compared to Windows. But no one cares if macOS is blessed as Official UNIX.

How many people are writing software that they need to be able to run on Linux, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX in 2026?

Yes, Unix = Linux for all intents and purposes in 2026. When I started in the early 90s, there was a galaxy of Unices - SunOS/Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, and many others people people don't even remember (ConvexOS anyone?). Heck, back then if you wanted to run a particular software for your industry, you might have to buy and install a specific proprietary Unix.

Today? It's all Linux or Windows (of course, now also Web/SaaS). All these different Unices have fallen by the wayside in favor of Linux. Yes, some are still around but the mindshare has been in Linux for the last 20 years.

I suspect you could rip out a ton of autoconf rules and no one would notice.

"AI will do politics"

If only.

They certainly can't do them worse than humans.

"I would say not 2026, yeah. We’ve got a lot of stuff to do."

Why is this even a "would say" kind of thing. Surely AGI - they've achieved it three times now, right? - has lead to a datacenter full of PhDs who will perfectly time the IPO.