Notices by dreid (dreid@wandering.shop)

The people selling shovels in a gold rush are the people who have a financial interest in creating unrealistic expectations about the likelihood you'll find gold.

This was true for the gold rush.

It was true for Bitcoin.

It's true for AI.

I don't worry about arbitrary code execution because all my code is arbitrary.

Advertising isn't inevitable, it's a thing that was invented, it became the dominant funding model on the web because it appears to have no cost to the user and it doesn't appear to interfere with the free and open access principles of the early web.

It actually has significant cost to users, we pay in time, privacy, experience, and security.

It's eroded the free and open web, spawned walled gardens whose only goal is to capture more of the user's time.

FYI I am completely uninterested in discussing how cryptocurrency/web3 — a thing that does not solve any problems — can solve this problem.

I don't know who needs to hear this but:

Computers absolutely do not work and there is nothing wrong with you when you can't make them seem to work.