8311 XGS-GPON bypass represent. Can't believe that fiber somehow got exempted from the bring your own equipment rule for coax.
January 19, 2026 at 9:15 PM
8311 XGS-GPON bypass represent. Can't believe that fiber somehow got exempted from the bring your own equipment rule for coax.
As someone who once bought a couple of sets like this (although this price is also insane) a big issue is the QA. You pay this much and inevitability 1/2 the records have a bad press and they are just all like that and you can't get a quality replacement.
January 17, 2026 at 6:51 AM
As someone who once bought a couple of sets like this (although this price is also insane) a big issue is the QA. You pay this much and inevitability 1/2 the records have a bad press and they are just all like that and you can't get a quality replacement.
The open source ones are the only ones that prevent the companies from dictating what can be made. I think that will likely be the control point.
Companies will release self-host so you can control cost and privacy, but it will be their will.
I think governments are likely to regulate in favor.
Companies will release self-host so you can control cost and privacy, but it will be their will.
I think governments are likely to regulate in favor.
January 15, 2026 at 11:19 PM
The open source ones are the only ones that prevent the companies from dictating what can be made. I think that will likely be the control point.
Companies will release self-host so you can control cost and privacy, but it will be their will.
I think governments are likely to regulate in favor.
Companies will release self-host so you can control cost and privacy, but it will be their will.
I think governments are likely to regulate in favor.
Early on I had a coworker who insisted that we name classes stuff like "ElectricTurbo", "BigHorse", "ZipperZapper", and "Bizzlin". No clear relation to purpose.
Boss eventually bans it. All next week I thought my coworker was actually going to cry when we wrote a class.
Some people are truly free.
Boss eventually bans it. All next week I thought my coworker was actually going to cry when we wrote a class.
Some people are truly free.
January 15, 2026 at 4:39 AM
Early on I had a coworker who insisted that we name classes stuff like "ElectricTurbo", "BigHorse", "ZipperZapper", and "Bizzlin". No clear relation to purpose.
Boss eventually bans it. All next week I thought my coworker was actually going to cry when we wrote a class.
Some people are truly free.
Boss eventually bans it. All next week I thought my coworker was actually going to cry when we wrote a class.
Some people are truly free.
Someone was trying to say a polecat is actually a skunk and g town was ignorant. Wikipedia suggests this is a thing in the South. I'm from the South and I did not realize this. I'm not sure that I really think that's true.
Their source is the Georgia Department of Natural resources.
So there.
Their source is the Georgia Department of Natural resources.
So there.
January 15, 2026 at 4:19 AM
Someone was trying to say a polecat is actually a skunk and g town was ignorant. Wikipedia suggests this is a thing in the South. I'm from the South and I did not realize this. I'm not sure that I really think that's true.
Their source is the Georgia Department of Natural resources.
So there.
Their source is the Georgia Department of Natural resources.
So there.
More like Richard ... Scary.
January 15, 2026 at 2:50 AM
More like Richard ... Scary.
Also just saying you're one of the people I look to most for understanding tech. I would love to hear more about how developers will make it, and even more how society navigates (potential) total capture. We've all read the books and seen the movies.
This fear is what people are responding with.
This fear is what people are responding with.
January 12, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Also just saying you're one of the people I look to most for understanding tech. I would love to hear more about how developers will make it, and even more how society navigates (potential) total capture. We've all read the books and seen the movies.
This fear is what people are responding with.
This fear is what people are responding with.
There's really wonderful and amazing futures too. Every person finally able to fully meld their computing experience to their own unique life without begging the monopoly would be great.
If precedent in law creates drag, maybe that buys us time to craft a better outcome. Do we have to go this fast?
If precedent in law creates drag, maybe that buys us time to craft a better outcome. Do we have to go this fast?
January 12, 2026 at 2:25 AM
There's really wonderful and amazing futures too. Every person finally able to fully meld their computing experience to their own unique life without begging the monopoly would be great.
If precedent in law creates drag, maybe that buys us time to craft a better outcome. Do we have to go this fast?
If precedent in law creates drag, maybe that buys us time to craft a better outcome. Do we have to go this fast?
So many possibilities. Smarter and more accomplished people than me are worried. Like you I don't want perverse legal outcomes for software. I was an old-school copy left type.
If the future is people pay Google the equivalent of programmer's salaries and humans massively deskill, to me that's bad.
If the future is people pay Google the equivalent of programmer's salaries and humans massively deskill, to me that's bad.
January 12, 2026 at 2:20 AM
So many possibilities. Smarter and more accomplished people than me are worried. Like you I don't want perverse legal outcomes for software. I was an old-school copy left type.
If the future is people pay Google the equivalent of programmer's salaries and humans massively deskill, to me that's bad.
If the future is people pay Google the equivalent of programmer's salaries and humans massively deskill, to me that's bad.
People believe it is an existential threat to the profession of software development period. OSS has a complicated relationship to getting paid for software dev, but it absolutely has one. I can imagine a future where people with technical knowledge just don't release OSS anymore, for many reasons.
January 12, 2026 at 12:55 AM
People believe it is an existential threat to the profession of software development period. OSS has a complicated relationship to getting paid for software dev, but it absolutely has one. I can imagine a future where people with technical knowledge just don't release OSS anymore, for many reasons.
I absolutely get that it's complicated and any kind of legal intervention creates new challenges and issues. The feeling that this is a kind of theft (a dubious argument legally? though much less so for say ebooks) comes from an important place. And we need to deal with that.
January 12, 2026 at 12:51 AM
I absolutely get that it's complicated and any kind of legal intervention creates new challenges and issues. The feeling that this is a kind of theft (a dubious argument legally? though much less so for say ebooks) comes from an important place. And we need to deal with that.
The mechanization of that was not foreseeable. Very aware of the decades of pain in OSS over this relationship. That situation was bad enough. This (potentially) creates an existential threat to the entire market. And it's exactly that point that judges have been waffling about.
I'm not a lawyer.
I'm not a lawyer.
January 12, 2026 at 12:47 AM
The mechanization of that was not foreseeable. Very aware of the decades of pain in OSS over this relationship. That situation was bad enough. This (potentially) creates an existential threat to the entire market. And it's exactly that point that judges have been waffling about.
I'm not a lawyer.
I'm not a lawyer.
It wasn't obvious to people volunteering their work on GitHub for 15+ years that it would be used for (potentially) profession ending monopoly capture. Many would have chosen to withhold this work completely.
We can like fair use and also wish for new law.
www.theverge.com/news/693437/...
We can like fair use and also wish for new law.
www.theverge.com/news/693437/...
Meta’s AI copyright win comes with a warning about fair use
Another big AI copyright ruling.
www.theverge.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:36 AM
It wasn't obvious to people volunteering their work on GitHub for 15+ years that it would be used for (potentially) profession ending monopoly capture. Many would have chosen to withhold this work completely.
We can like fair use and also wish for new law.
www.theverge.com/news/693437/...
We can like fair use and also wish for new law.
www.theverge.com/news/693437/...
This doc is really great and reading the whole thing helped me feel a bit better.
A lot of people are navigating this stuff and it's really painful, glad to read some constructive and nuanced perspectives on these issues.
Thanks for posting about it.
A lot of people are navigating this stuff and it's really painful, glad to read some constructive and nuanced perspectives on these issues.
Thanks for posting about it.
January 10, 2026 at 11:49 PM
This doc is really great and reading the whole thing helped me feel a bit better.
A lot of people are navigating this stuff and it's really painful, glad to read some constructive and nuanced perspectives on these issues.
Thanks for posting about it.
A lot of people are navigating this stuff and it's really painful, glad to read some constructive and nuanced perspectives on these issues.
Thanks for posting about it.
In the top video you can see the first dude kicking a chunk of ice, and the "smoke" is snow from the kicked ice chunk. It is in many other ways a very weird and ambiguous scene. I have no fucking idea why I'm getting involved in this argument.
January 10, 2026 at 6:24 AM
In the top video you can see the first dude kicking a chunk of ice, and the "smoke" is snow from the kicked ice chunk. It is in many other ways a very weird and ambiguous scene. I have no fucking idea why I'm getting involved in this argument.
If you use the browser MCP it's totally over after maybe 3 screenshots on pro. Very funny and also educational in many regards!
January 7, 2026 at 2:11 AM
If you use the browser MCP it's totally over after maybe 3 screenshots on pro. Very funny and also educational in many regards!
"wait for the midterms" isn't it the Dems are not even messaging well on this.
January 5, 2026 at 2:50 AM
"wait for the midterms" isn't it the Dems are not even messaging well on this.
There's a big difference trying to prompt your way through a production project and doing something greenfield.
And the difference in those experiences is a wedge being exploited by tool vendors and ambitious engineering and product people.
Appreciate seeing your example on expectations. Thanks.
And the difference in those experiences is a wedge being exploited by tool vendors and ambitious engineering and product people.
Appreciate seeing your example on expectations. Thanks.
December 31, 2025 at 9:39 PM
There's a big difference trying to prompt your way through a production project and doing something greenfield.
And the difference in those experiences is a wedge being exploited by tool vendors and ambitious engineering and product people.
Appreciate seeing your example on expectations. Thanks.
And the difference in those experiences is a wedge being exploited by tool vendors and ambitious engineering and product people.
Appreciate seeing your example on expectations. Thanks.
Oh yes definitely. If you care it's an incredible experience. My problem isn't what I do with my own time.
Honestly it's worse than I first said. The only dimension now is time. Quality was tolerated because it was needed for time. People believe the bot isn't affected by quality. It of course is.
Honestly it's worse than I first said. The only dimension now is time. Quality was tolerated because it was needed for time. People believe the bot isn't affected by quality. It of course is.
December 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Oh yes definitely. If you care it's an incredible experience. My problem isn't what I do with my own time.
Honestly it's worse than I first said. The only dimension now is time. Quality was tolerated because it was needed for time. People believe the bot isn't affected by quality. It of course is.
Honestly it's worse than I first said. The only dimension now is time. Quality was tolerated because it was needed for time. People believe the bot isn't affected by quality. It of course is.
As someone trying to set expectations, I'm curious about the line on time savings.
Sometimes the bot finds things I didn't. Most of the time "what humans alone would do" is only constrained by time.
How do I convince people to meet a higher quality standard than before instead of more output?
Sometimes the bot finds things I didn't. Most of the time "what humans alone would do" is only constrained by time.
How do I convince people to meet a higher quality standard than before instead of more output?
December 31, 2025 at 9:17 PM
As someone trying to set expectations, I'm curious about the line on time savings.
Sometimes the bot finds things I didn't. Most of the time "what humans alone would do" is only constrained by time.
How do I convince people to meet a higher quality standard than before instead of more output?
Sometimes the bot finds things I didn't. Most of the time "what humans alone would do" is only constrained by time.
How do I convince people to meet a higher quality standard than before instead of more output?
Surprised at how much better his pronunciation and confidence has gotten. Pretty quick! Much respect.
December 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Surprised at how much better his pronunciation and confidence has gotten. Pretty quick! Much respect.
At least one new person every time will learn the truth, be disgusted, and eventually (maybe not this week or this year) become the next person helping to remind. At least that's what I tell myself...
December 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
At least one new person every time will learn the truth, be disgusted, and eventually (maybe not this week or this year) become the next person helping to remind. At least that's what I tell myself...
If the goal is the dissolution of all remaining public trust... well... going great I guess? It's rough for sure.
December 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
If the goal is the dissolution of all remaining public trust... well... going great I guess? It's rough for sure.