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warkdarrior · 2026-04-29T04:42:57 1777437777

Should the GPL3 software you download and run also be yours?

warkdarrior · 2026-04-28T20:49:54 1777409394

Why would the AI companies advertise that most of their users do not use their subscription in full??

warkdarrior · 2026-04-28T20:48:06 1777409286

> Most developers in China or India have a monthly salary of 1 K USD. If you expect them to pay way more then 200USD thats like asking US Devs to pay 5K a month. Yeha not gonna happen.

That's exactly what is going to happen. India/China prices will be $100-200/month, US prices will be $5000/month. Keep in mind that most of these costs will be covered by the employer. It'll put downward pressure on dev pay, of course.

warkdarrior · 2026-04-28T20:46:23 1777409183

Microsoft made $17B/month in 2024, Google made $25B/month, Amazon $48B/month. And the computing market is growing.

warkdarrior · 2026-04-28T16:23:28 1777393408

> Seems to me like they say one thing, do another, and all of us hold the bag at the end of it all.

On the other hand they kept their promises of deporting and killing immigrants, and of getting rid of woke ideas like science and education.

warkdarrior · 2026-04-27T02:02:42 1777255362

Microsoft - doing fine

Netscape - dead (server) and/or dying (Mozilla)

Intel - almost dead

Palm - dead

Qualcomm - still around

nerdsniper · 2026-04-27T02:09:55 1777255795

INTC shot up >300% in the past 8 months and is now at its highest stock price ever, fwiw.

cyberax · 2026-04-27T02:12:33 1777255953

I guess Netscape counts. Palm produced devices, so it was not really picks&shovels.

Who else? Borland quietly withered away, but it had never been focused on tools specifically for the Internet.

warkdarrior · 2026-04-24T20:45:22 1777063522

> Google existentially needs AI for advertising.

What's the explanation behind this? I am sure they use AI in their ad network (matching web sites with ad offerings, maybe generating ads automatically), but is there more to it?

crumby · 2026-04-24T20:56:20 1777064180

I know AI companies are selling ad training into the models so the models know about your product. I'm not sure if that is what they were referring to, but it could be related.

warkdarrior · 2026-04-23T17:10:45 1776964245

I am failing to make the connection with the topic of the article. Are Americans sad because they are not efficient with their waffle-batter cups?

bjourne · 2026-04-23T18:12:52 1776967972

Yes. They are wasting their abundance on dumb shit. Even poor Americans have more resources than me. But their society is ridiculously inefficient.

warkdarrior · 2026-04-23T17:02:38 1776963758

The article shows that the decrease in happiness is across the board, so even the wealthy cohort (the upper arm of the K-shaped chart) is unhappy.

pkilgore · 2026-04-23T20:38:42 1776976722

Did I miss the breakdown by class/wealth? I saw a bunch of other cross tabs. Not that one.

shimman · 2026-04-23T20:01:15 1776974475

Yeah but the point is that Derek Thompson commonly rejects political materialism in favor of supporting the capitalist class and attacking unions (see his comments at Centristfest 2025).

Hard to not see him as an enemy of change and in-favor of elites over workers.

warkdarrior · 2026-04-22T20:18:33 1776889113

This is where you use id bridging.

1. Website fingerprints the browser, stores a cookie with an ID and a fingerprint.

2. During the next session, it fingerprints again and compares with the cookie. If fingerprint changed, notify server about old and new fingerprint.