we may have not been able to replace bash yet, but the popularity of alternative shells that are not bash compatible is growing. there is fish, elvish, murex, nushell, oils (also includes a bash compatible mode to help with the transition) and probably some others that i missed.
We're talking about add-on services, and you were comparing to cloud providers and implying it doesn't really matter because vendor lock-in didn't really happen as feared. I made the case that it's the add-on services that create the lock-in.
> I’ve got by with paying for compute, network, and storage on the barebones services.
Yes, as I mentioned, that type of migration isn't difficult, which is akin to migrating to a different model provider, but that's not what we're discussing. You can't hand wave the issue away if you're not even talking about the the topic at hand.
That said, I agree with your suspicions of how it'll shake out in the end, because most businesses behave the same way, and always try and lock-in their customers.
More like people try doing anything other than use the base OS, and realize the bottom-tier x86 mini-PCs are 3-4x faster for the same price, and can encode a basic video stream without bogging down.
If the RPI came with any recent mid-tier Snapdragon SOC, it might be interesting. Or if someone made a Linux distro that supports all devices on one of the Snapdragon X Elite laptops, that would be interesting.
Instead, it's more like the equivalent of a cheap desktop with integrated GPU from 20 years ago, on a single board, with decent linux support, and GPIO. So it's either a linux learning toy, or an integrated component within another product, and not much in between.
The Human Rights Index for the United States dropped from 0.93 in 2024 to 0.83 in 2025, which is not a good thing. Meanwhile, China scores 0.18 on the index, which is significantly worse.
I'd bet money that the gun lobby is behind this. What better way to dilute the anti-gun sentiment then to get useless legislation that targets a group that has traditionally been anti-gun. Even the EFF, which generally doesn't touch second amendment stuff, is speaking up. Massive gun lobby win right there.
* EFF definitely did not think that the regular printer tracking dots mechanism was appropriate.
* You could probably argue this either as a modus ponens or a modus tollens -- that is, in either direction -- but one criticism that we made of the tracking dots was that they were (mostly) secret voluntary cooperation between industry and government, not an actual law. Perhaps an actual law is preferable because the public can understand in detail how it's being restricted, as well as oppose it politically and potentially challenge it in the courts.
Of course, the current 3D printing restrictions are proposed as an actual law. That does seem largely better to me than "we got most 3D printer companies to put some secret software in their printers to enforce some unspecified policies that the government asked them to, and the companies and the government don't want to talk about it", although one way it's better is simply the opportunity to oppose it in the legislature.
Flock's facilitation of data-sharing is a huge part of their value proposition over other cameras, and why their customers buy from them over their competitors.
As such, even if they can contract it such that they are not legally responsible for such use, they are very much knowingly facilitating it. If this was physical goods, rather than data, they would probably been as responsible as their customers.
> Rarely(never?) have I found new knowledge on youtube, however its a great source of joy/emotions/slop.
I suspect you are not looking very hard. I have learned a tremendous amount about everything from stone cutting to metalworking to welding to Kalman filters to linear algebra. There is a lot out there. The main annoyance I have is keeping AI slop out of my feed so that I can instead learn from genuine experts. There is a huge amount out there.
Fat and carbs are energy, properly treated as calories.
Protein is not (in a non-starving person) used for energy, and it should be measured in grams not calories.
If the authors wanted to make an honest argument here, they would show the relative conversion of feed calories to animal protein across different livestock.
It depends on the scope of the mission. If you're going to commercialize long term space travel then you're going to want some form of artificial gravity.
If you build a better toilet you need a better pooper to use it. And they need to use it correctly every time or you're going to need a really good waste cleaning and disinfecting strategy for your ship.
2 parent comments above say that you can use older version of claude code with opus 200k to compare.
my guess is that eventually you’ll be able to set it in model settings yourself
I’d be curious to know how many people suffering from depression have been diagnosed with NPD. Focusing too much on oneself - like the writer of this substack- is unhealthy. If it doesn’t drive you mad, at the very least you’ll end up depressed.
A normal standard level of happiness comes from thinking about other things and other people.
Obviously the brain is a physical organ, like the heart, lungs or eyes, brains can be “defective.” You can’t think your way out of schizophrenia. That said, the power of thought and meta cognition (and neuroplasticity) is underestimated far more than it’s overestimated.
how are you making them lose money by blocking their ip ranges? Your are pretty much giving them money because now they dont need to pay for bandwidth.
> But I feel the deeper threat is internal. A generation of critical theory and identity politics has captured universities, media, and cultural institutions. The Western tradition is now taught as a system of oppression rather than the foundation of the very liberties that make the critique possible.
> The people most protected by liberal institutions are working hardest to dismantle them. We’re throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
Give me a break. The universities aren't running the show. Christian theocrats now control the White House, the Supreme Court, and large parts of Congress. The White House has forced the universities bend the knee, by holding the purse strings. The university professors and students get beaten, literally, by the police if they raise a fuss.
This happened to me, a drive I rarely use silently died, and backblaze gave no indication that suddenly the whole drive was missing. Customer support explained to me how "backup" doesn't actually mean "backup"
Yes, but once everything has been deployed through their web UI or the cli command, and fine-tuned over the weeks and months as kinks get ironed out, how do you port it all to your own?
Nothing insurmontable or even complex; just laborious. Friction. That’s all it takes to lock users in.
