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I don’t really relate to many comments here stating “my approach is X”, or “I went from servant-leader to process-master-whatever leader”.

I’ve found that trying to be anything but flexible to the environment is unrealistic and even egotistical.

E.g, There are some environments where the CEO is so “command and control” that the “I want us all to bring our authentic selves to the peace circle of work, and from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs, we will figure out a synergy that works for all” just won’t ever work.

And for me, being unable to adapt the approach to environment suggests ‘one trick pony’.


‘one trick pony’

Yeah, shallow dismissal of people's effort to try to make a change must be because they are a ‘one trick pony’. Is that all you brought to the conversation?


I tried to think about how we might (in the EU) start to think about this problem within the law, if of interest to anyone: https://www.europeanlawblog.eu/pub/dq249o3c/release/1

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the EU will actually be able to put any meaningful guardrails on AI, as evidenced by the AI act. I honestly don't know whether it's an off-the-scales level of incompentence or just blatant corruption (I vote both), but in any event, I think AI regulation has already failed, somewhat irreversably.

I’m more optimistic. I see there being iterations developed in conjunction with industry. It will sooner or later become strongly enforced and then to whatever extent it provides guardrails will be down to provisions in the act, plus interpretation.

Perhaps sovereign compute is the answer? We have open weights models, as a sort of ‘public commons’ that democratises that layer, but compute is still the bottleneck for big companies..

How so?

My company (live with a few design partner users, but still on waitlist publicly) just experienced “search hijacking”.

Our site is https://visibil.ai, and somebody has created “visibili.ai”.

Our response is to throw more vowels at the problem: https://visibilii.vercel.app/


I expressly bought this software (Designer, Photo, Publisher) out of principle, against Adobe's enshittification and monopolisation, and because it was premised on "pay once; own it forever".

This is obviously the 'tech circle of life' in action, but... how depressing...

I've always been guilty of preaching market diversification but sticking with the big(ger) players, but this sort of thing illustrates the need for multiple, viable players that all have good market share, so that – whenever one gets cannibalised and debased into some VC-money-addled marketing funnel – there are others to which people can flock in support/protest


"use turnMyBrainOff";

"use blackBoxWrapperForEverything";


You beat me to it!


I suspect none of it is a mistake. Allowing granular search would not get companies the job advert views they might be “paying for”, and also might reveal the sparseness of the jobs that match your exact criteria.


I’ve been using https://readest.com and very much enjoying it. I just wish there were a “lifetime purchase” option.


Looks nice. Shame it doesn't have OPDS support, but it's nice to see that it's a planned feature in their GitHub README!


What are you paying for? I see no mention of paid features anywhere (play store, GitHub readme, website, in-app settings). If the app isn't entirely free, this send pretty misleading...


There's a cloud-based sync service (500mb of books; 10k translation chars). I'm currently storing 24 books (as I haven't moved them all across from the Kindle app yet) and I'm using 12% of this storage.

I suppose if you want to implement your own cloud-based (Dropbox? Google Drive?) storage service and circumvent the author's monetisation model, you could.


To be clear: I am currently _not_ paying for it; I can just foresee a day where I'd have to.


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