But today these things are looking more and more like burdens to me. I'm finding it easier than ever to write near-zero dependecy software in HTML, JavaScript and CSS that a) I don't have to update, b) I don't have to trust a network of maintainers to keep secure, c) I don't have to work around integration issues between packages and versions and, d) isn't bloated with code I'll never use.

The only code I have is the code I need and it works exactly how I want it to.

Not to mention I'm not locked into hosting, ever changing tech stacks or anything else.

Before letting your LLM of choice default to nextjs the next time you start a project, it's worth trying to go zero-dependency and see how far you can get. I'm liking it so far!

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I agree this outcome is very painful to see and I really feel for Rob. It's clear people (myself included) are completely at breaking point with AI slop.

In this specific case though it's worth spending 30sec to read the website of AI model village to understand the experiment before claiming this was sent by Anthropic or assigning malicious intent.

E.g. If you set your session timeouts to a ~1 day then by the time your session cookies are up for sale on the dark web, they will be expired.

The article doesn't mention this and it's the main reason I advocate for auth sessions that are as short as practical.

China owns an increasing majority of global GDP and Trump seems to be either taking a path of peace, populism and or stupidity by pulling America out of its global alliances.

https://www.squiggle-language.com/docs

I just wanted to chime in to say the Foliate code is really beautifully written too.

I was able to hack together an epub audiobook reader by running a custom version of foliatejs in Microsoft Edge (which has an amazing and free text to speech engine called "read aloud"). It's VERT hacky but you can try it here: https://nathansherburn.github.io/foliate-js/

Works on mobile and desktop Edge.

Politically I disagree with so much of what Trump says and does but I would never wish this on him. We can't let the extremists on either side win.

But I'm not ready to say absolutely everything should immediately be shared with everyone. At least not until it's clear we know what we're dealing with.

I know it can be hard to trust people but the fact is we have to. Even today, there are many people with the power to end the world (nuclear weapons, viruses etc) but we trust the people who have these capabilities not to abuse their power. We do this because we don't want anyone to have the right to launch nuclear weapons. And I think that's wise.

I definitely don't know for sure but AI may be another one of these technologies.

Either way, you can fight against regulatory capture, the downsides of capitalism etc without being an open source absolutist.

When you drill into specifics there are almost always exceptions. For instance, in your example about sharing research, there are certainly some types of research we shouldn't automatically and immediately make publicly available like biological superviruses or software vulnerabilities.

I think the same can be said about AI. We should aim to be as open as we can but I'd be hesitant about being an open source absolutist.

Side note, what a breath of fresh air Gnome on Fedora is!

[1] https://github.com/amebalabs/TRex