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> I still don't understand the point of Ghostty, Kitty, Wezterm...

If you're genuinely not trying to be dismissive and just have a sincere question you want to have an answer to then I _strongly_ implore you to be more aware of and careful about how you express yourself.

Because as your first sentence is worded virtually all readers will assume you are hostile and not asking in good faith.

> I'm half convinced the first run of the LHC split the timeline and we've landed in the evil one.

Sadly the real answer is much less dramatic: we did this entirely to ourselves, voluntarily, purely out of lazily taking the path of least resistance offered us by companies that don't have our best interests in mind.

Why would you have to give consent? It's a legal requirement that the information is public. I genuinely don't understand your point there, do you also complain that you had to pay taxes and you weren't even asked for consent?

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70% of the posts on HN are already satire and performance art

Sort of like how there's a running joke, "this meeting could have been an email"; I think that for all the substance I found in this "4 minutes to read" blog post, it could have been a one-sentence comment in some discussion thread somewhere instead.

Are you as familiar with "condescending" as you are with "passive aggressive"?

> ads in search

Right, but you know what's even more effective than ads in search? Biased (towards paying customers) information in LLM output.

This is no specific comment on the article or its contents. But I am getting extremely tired of headlines that follow the "X just Y (and it changes everything you thought you knew about Z)" pattern.

You're almost right, but "class" and "caste" are not synonyms and cannot be used interchangeably.

Where's the accountability here? Good luck going after an LLM for writing defamatory blog posts.

If you wanted to make people agree that anonymity on the internet is no longer a right people should enjoy this sort of thing is exactly the way to go about it.

Every day that goes by makes the Butlerian Jihad seem less and less like an overreaction.

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