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  • The parallels between Musk and Stark seemed perfect on paper. Both are billionaire tech innovators with a flair for the dramatic and dreams of changing the world.

    They’re not, though. Stark is a rare engineering powerhouse who personally pushed past a lot of engineering boundaries, and Musk is an investor/programmer who mostly puts his name on existing things.

    I might change my mind if Musk personally invents AGI, nanobots, and a previously-unknown clean energy source capable of powering a 1/3rd of NYC with a room no larger than a foyer, like Stark did, but I’m not holding out much by way of hopes.





  • But this isn’t voluntary moderation (though that might also have that issue), this is about the people who moderate for a living. So people on Facebook, or X (formerly known as Twitter), who see the posts that you report, and have to work with all of that.

    Those people typically aren’t going around just hoovering up a mod spot for the fun of it.





  • But an operating system isn’t meant to be “interesting”. It’s an operating system. It should only be meant to operate the system. The interesting should be up to whatever programs it is that a user puts on top of it, something that makes it work better (like optimisations), or at most, make it look nicer. Recall is not that. Your car should be functional as a car. It doesn’t need to be capable of baking souffles, or be a fully-functional mobile office suite. An OS should follow the same principles.








  • Unfortunately, I doubt it. Chrome made it as big as it did because it had one of the biggest tech and advertising companies in the world behind it. Other than Microsoft with building in Internet Explorer into Windows, thereor Apple doing that with Safari, isn’t anything else that could compete as easily, and we all how that went for Microsoft.

    And it would only be harder today, since they’d not only have go contend with Chrome, but also that a lot of websites are being built around Chrome/browsers using the Chromium engine. People would go to a website that either refuses to work, or doesn’t work properly for their browser and hop over to Chrome instead.

    Netflix requires specific DRM addons that are really only available for the major browser engines, as an example. If someone is rolling their own, like KDE does, then that’s going to refuse to work outright.



  • How so?

    They’re using it in a way that it was designed for (creating little virtual mirrors of real displays/data to reference) when performing surgery.

    It might not have been what Apple intended it for, but it’s hardly the end of the world like “surgeon peforms surgery according to LLM” would be.

    It might benefit the surgeons and patients, if it helps reduce fatigue, mistakes, and/or miscommunication, like the article suggests.