I'm very unclear to me what the thesis of the article actually is. Yes, push notifications run through the vendor's servers. Yes, Apple fucked up hard by modifying the text within them - and I contend that such modification is impossible to perform automatically without unreliability becoming the norm.

The author also appears to believe that "broadcast copy" - otherwise known as Spam by those who like to write slightly more honestly - is a legitimate use of push notifications. It is manifestly not, and any app that tries will at the very least be immediately silenced. I wish I could find the tweet that put this sentiment more entertainingly than I ever could.

If App developers continue to abuse the push notification system in this way, Apple and Google will be forced to take steps to solve what becomes an end-user's problem. Yet another tragedy of the commons.

Maybe there's an interesting story in there, it's certainly possible. But the "author" could not be bothered to write it, and so why should we waster our time reading it?

It has been so transparently clear for years that nothing these people sell is worth a damn. They have exactly one product, an unreliable and impossible-to-fix probabilistic text generation engine. One that, even theoretically, cannot be taught to distinguish fact from fiction. One that has no a priori knowledge of even the existence of truth.

When I learned that "Agentic AI" is literally just taking an output of a chatbot and plugging it into your shell I almost fell off my chair. My organisation has very strict cybersecurity policies. Surveillance software runs on every machine. Network traffic is monitored at ingress and egress, watching for suspicious patterns.

And yet. People are permitted to let a chatbot choose what to execute on their machines inside our network. I am absolutely flabbergasted that this is allowed. Is this how lazy and stupid we have become?

Which is why it's

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Boring shit article about obvious problem.

Horrible soulless dross.

The speed. Imagine the performance. There are plenty of mature C++ web server frameworks, it's really not difficult. If you're afraid of C++, you could choose something else. Rust if you're insane, or golang if you're insane but in a different way.

Anyway. Nginx is not going away, so the argument is a bit silly. "What if js went away". Same thing.

So you take the output of an LLM, which is obviously impossibly to guarantee correct, and use that to choose a tool and execute it. Like, send an email or whatever. And you take the input for that LLM not only from prompts, and various files, but also your system and random stuff you download from the internet.

I am telling you people, this is lunacy. No good can come of this.

This is not the beauty of writing. Everyone's writing needs editing. The "raw unedited emotions" are not something anyone wants to read, and this article is no exception.

The author tells us that English is their fourth language, which is certainly impressive. However their writing is messy and poorly constructed. It's difficult to read, and not at all enjoyable. The choice is not between doggerel like this, and LLM empty perfection.

It's too late in any case, the Internet as we know it will eat itself. It will be destroyed by AI, and AI agents from without. And it will be destroyed from within by stupid laws such as the ones under "discussion" in this AI-edited and AI-illustrated nothingpiece.

By which I not mean the infrastructure. I mean the current crop of social media websites. The infrastructure will remain, and perhaps something better will come along to use that infrastructure.

I've had three long and very memorable conversations on internaltional plane flights in the past, with three extremely interesting and intelligent people. I don't tend to take those flights anymore, they were for work and the novelty of international travel for work wore off. Now I get out of it whenever I can.

But those three conversations have stayed with me.

Fortunately, the vast majority of the internet is of no real value. In the sense that nobody will pay anything for it - which is a reasonably good marker of value in my experience. So, given that, let the AI psychotics have their fun. Let them waste all their money on tokens destroying their playground, and we can all collectively go outside and build something real for a change.

My laptop has been up for 43 days, not very long in a server world, but excellent for a personal device that I use for development, hardware design and audio production. The last time it restarted was probably for an OS upgrade, but I can't recall.

My work linux laptop is also pretty reliable, but this is only because I never upgrade anything on it and only use it for development. Its battery life is terrible, so I only use it plugged into the wall. My work linux desktop has issues with bluetooth audio and graphics, neither of which I can be bothered to fix.