I think we can concede the WWW vision of distributed libertarian publishing has been dead for a long time. LLMs were just the final straw.

We ended up concentrating syndication on a few media companies like Google, Social Media companies.

Look at the profit margins of advertising companies vs producers and you’ll get an idea as to why.

The only reason it worked has been expansive money policy and a larger share of the cost of goods being dumped into marketing value while manufacturing costs dropped abroad. so no one bothered to check.

MTTR = optimize the ability to correct failures when they occur.

He's describing leaders who believe quality no longer matters because any faults or deviations can be corrected so quickly that it doesn't make any sense to waste time on quality.

I would be the target customer, but I keep making convenience concessions and buying the nice car / appliance with smart stuff.

I appreciate this guide from a technical perspective, but despite a lot of the stated preferences, I’m not seeing a huge market for it.

Convenience is paramount.

Federating to self-hosted means you are depending on google for discovery, which will never rank.

If you need a backup remote, just backup to Google Drive / iCloud. Private team collab? run a server.

While I understand the frustration with github, the prescription to self host seems like cutting off your nose.

They missed a great opportunity to create a special user interface experience supporting multiple tasks (e.g. Gemini-CLI, anti gravity, Gemini-chat, browser) while sharing the same context . It could have been an awesome developer device . Imagine virtual desktops all sharing the same context with various tools : Gemini-CLI working on infra and artifacts, Antigravity running development , Gemini chat generating graphics assets. Hardware enabled with special shared memory / NPU.

Instead, I see a Chromebook with the nagging MS Edge “right click for copilot”.

I buy 95% of my food and most of my household items from Costco. I will blindly buy any item without reading reviews. Out of thousands of purchases I can count the failures on one hand.

Many ridicule Costco for being excessive. But frugal buyers can produce great value out of 25 lbs of flour, 10 lb bags of rice and so on. With proper home economics you can still eat like a king on a lower-middle-class budget. I'm very proud of the nutritious and luxurious meals I produce with what most people are paying for Doritos & Mountain Dew.

I will never live out of reach of a Costco. It's the second most important factor when I live somewhere.