A bare bones microkernel?

In fact, you sell it in all colors and make more money:

https://www.google.com/search?q=black+people+site%3Asalon.co...

It doesn’t have to be good, it just has to sell.

But then someone democratizes the publishing (Substack).

Someone else then mechanizes the producing (LLMs).

And you no longer sell.

Bummer.

The clue to their decision may be right there, potentially going for an increase in sales.

But nowadays it seems they suffer from a lack of vision and drive; perhaps (hopefully) they’ll come around.

> We can cheer someone on when they strike back at the establishment, regardless of how recently they may have joined the cause.

I’m with you on that, I understand I may have come across as bitter in my earlier comment.

What worries me still is the push to more AI as a response even while AI is a main driver for jobs being cut, and it taking a more and more central place in both the establishment (expected) and the revolution (unexpected and unwanted).

I, for one, do not welcome our new AI/SI overlords.

I do like the paradox (oxymoron?) of being made redundant with AI, so they’re using AI to render their former companies redundant.

But in the end it pushes for more AI software; I’m not sure who wins.

The phrase is "that would be good for the economy".

It’s still the notion of trickle down economics at play.

But they did get a 3.5% return on their investment (but not comparable to the equivalent return in the market or even in bonds for the same duration).

That return was in turn used to justify the bailout, but the global macro effects weren’t accounted for: the banks’ fuckup caused misery all over the world for the best part of a decade.

https://man.openbsd.org/mg

Just noting for completeness, as I didn’t catch any mention of it.

> Heck a smart CS junior would come up with it.

That’s somewhat worrisome.

Following the rename we can now call them Xits, the x being pronounced as in Chinese ('sh').

There’s a lot of xit-posting on X, after all.