etchalon

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http://www.thisismess.com

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Comment · 23 hours ago

This is a wild re-imagining of what "Fair use" means in the US courts, which have a relatively straightforward four point test, and of which OpenAI, a commercial venture that produces exact copies of an article and thus acts as a market-replacement for the original work, fails handily.

What OpenAI wants is "free use".

Comment · 2 days ago

SO suffered from its success and, bluntly, the laziness of humans.

I remember when I started the getting the distinct feeling that most of the questions being asked weren't being asked by genuine developers struggling with a concept or problem, but were basically "do my job for me" types, largely overseas developers.

I stopped contributing.

Comment · 4 days ago

I want one and I don't know what I'd do with it

Comment · 5 days ago

I don't understand why you'd build an operating system that has to work on top of the operating system you have to use to run the browser that runs your operating system so you can use the apps that run on your operating system that run in the browser that's running on an operating system that has versions of the app you're running in the browser that's running your operating system.

Comment · 5 days ago

`puter` looks like a great project and vastly more interesting than the slop-code knock-offs you're doing with `everything`. I don't know why you pivoted from "genuinely interesting idea with real intent and thought" to slop.

As for the "what I've done" ad hominem, yeah ... I don't spend a lot of time working on open-source anything because I run a services-based agency. My "computer time" hours go to billable work, and I don't have a ton of time to spend on open-source anything. So my personal public GitHub is mostly empty and my agency one (https://github.com/thisismess?q=&type=source&language=&sort=) isn't much better.

Basically, I'm a professional who writes code for money and when not writing code for money, I do other things.

As for TLS, it's a static site with a contact form my cofounder threw together in a weekend because our previous site was like 8 years old. No one noticed or cared we'd forgot to check the box in Cloudflare to enforce TLS. But it's deeply hilarious to lean on that as some type of "rebuttal".

The site gets 10 hits a week.

Nothing I posted was "attacking you personally" beyond asking some fairly basic questions based entirely on the quality of the repo posted here.

Because it's deeply hard to look at this and think "This person has expertise and experience in software design" and not "someone told Claude to make them a product and they’d like some credit for that.”

Comment · 5 days ago

Monorepo's don't solve dependency hell. They amplify it.

Comment · 5 days ago

There are already open-source and free alternatives for every mega app.

Comment · 5 days ago

Turns out product design is a lot harder than "Make me a product. Don't make any mistakes."

Comment · 5 days ago

Are people not aware that every single one of these already had open source, self-hosted alternatives? Why do we need to add a pile of slop-code knockoffs? Why does it need to be one giant repo? Does this person have any experience building and releasing software that wasn't built and released for them by a robot?

Comment · 5 days ago

Jesus. 25% is ... a lot.

Comment · 11 days ago

Monkey paw curls.

Comment · 11 days ago

New languages do in fact come out, and old languages get better, and old codebases are thing some people have to maintain.

Comment · 11 days ago

It is such a ridiculously cool thing that we're reaching an era where the programming language you chose is as temporary a choice as the name of a variable.

Comment · 12 days ago

Except the execution wasn't being presented as a somber recognition of the brutalism of the death penalty, but a celebration of vengeance.