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I know you are right, but there just aren't enough hours in the day to fight against every injustice or underhanded business tactic. Plus it takes a toll on my mental health to obsess about these things and I have to force myself not to do it. If there were a viable open source alternative that I could run, or better yet, a pre built version I could buy and plug into my TV then that's about the right level of righteous indignation I can muster for this particular case.

I vaguely recall a news article about some company, I want to say Apple but I'm not sure, patenting a process to use the camera to track your eyes to verify you're actually watching an ad to make them truly unskippable.

Roku makes me so sad. They had a product I really enjoyed using and admired them for making. Then slowly over the years they keep becoming more intrusive with their ads and more invasive with their data/privacy practices. My first Roku didn't need any sort of account, you just plugged it in and went. Now you have to register an account and I'm sure they are tracking everything I watch. They blanket the home screen with ads and I'm convinced they have programmed their remote to enable the microphone when I press pause/play every rand(20) < 1 just to remind me I can talk to my remote. Just waiting for the day it's revealed the mics on the remotes are always hot and feeding into their advertising models.

We are using Amplify and I can't agree enough with this. The gen 1 to gen 2 migration docs are literally: just stay on gen 1.

What was the source data here? It seems like a lot of the graphs are just the author's intuitive feel rather than being backed by any sort of hard data. Did I miss it in there somewhere?

"I stopped checking Facebook so frequently." "I probably managed 4-6 hours a day".

Sounds like a real A player.

Another day, another article where Vox is hating on OpenAI.

First time in a long time I kind of wish I had a Windows machine to try this out.

Yeah, but their platform is basically a janky PDF parser which is why I don't understand what the hype is about.

It's easy to cherry pick a PDF for marketing purposes and claim you're better. I didn't miss it, I just don't believe marketing announcements at face value. I tried their parser on a PDF with a bit of complex formatting like multiple columns, tables and a couple images and it choked, spitting out one big markdown header with jumbled text. Not impressed.

Hmm, I have to say I'm pretty unimpressed with my initial experience here.

1. The sign up with email just endlessly redirected, click link in email, ask to sign up with email, put in email, click link in email, etc.

2. Fine, I'll sign in with Google.

3. A PDF parser? Seriously that's what all this fuss is about? There are so many options already out there, PDFBox, iText, Unstructured, PyPDF, PDF.js, PdfMiner not to mention extraction services available from the hyperscalers. Super confused why anyone needs this.

Personally, I have always struggled to find enjoyment and meaning while working at a big company so I would ask yourself if a big company is right for you. If you decide to stay, try to make a couple of friends. People need to eat so see if anyone wants to eat lunch with you. There are always people who have been there for decades who understand how everything fits together, so seek those people out. Play the "new guy/gal" card, and see if you can get some time with them just to tap into their historical knowledge and start building a relationship with them.

You can't have someone be an effective leader in the company who doesn't believe in the mission anymore. As the leader now, you need to give them the speech that as you build this company, people are going to get on the bus and people are going to get off the bus. We value their contributions and everything they did to help us build the company. You can get through this.

Is there a link without a paywall?

So, X is starting to show ads without labeling them as ads? One more reason to not use Twitter.

I know they don't rely on GPL much, but what does the ruling here suggest for OSS foundations like Apache and CNCF? Specifically this part: only the author can initiate the lawsuit.

Does that mean failure to adhere to the terms of licenses like ASLv2 or MIT would could only be settled in court if the person who wrote the code actually bring suit and that OSS foundations basically become (more) toothless?