I am curious, do we have any confirmation that the "AI hit piece" thing is real? It feels like everyone is just assuming it is, but it would be nice to see some confirmation.

Additionally Geerling raises good points, but I am not sure we should jump to his conclusion yet.

I am glad markdown is very reliable to you (and many people), and if you’re just talking about something with very light, formatting, then it can be. However, link have documents can be incredibly hard to read. I am dyslexic. I find markdown documents, markedly worse for me. All I’m saying is that we can’t universalize this experience

You might not, it depends on your use case. However SQLite is very small and lightweight, and amazing for read heavy databases. Using SQLite lets you bypass a lot of setup and configuration; then adding something like marmot lets you add being distributed after the fact.

Yet they didn’t get copyright extended again in the 27ish years after, and Mickey is in the public domain (well steamboat willy).

Because accessibility should be front of mind for all apps. We don’t want disabled people to be treated like an afterthought or only using specialty apps. Anyone can become disabled and need these features, either temporarily or permanently and shouldn’t have to change their entire tool chain to adapt

> We don’t want disabled people to be treated like an afterthought or only using specialty apps.

We also don’t want non-disabled people to be treated like they are disabled (to not use other words). And no, gray on gray is not accesibility, Narrator is not accesibility, dumbing down things is not accesibility.

And where did I say any of that

I mostly think of when geohot wanted to make his own RISC-V core and cranked out some basic verilog. It was incomplete and barely commented, and never touched again. I suspect we are going to get a few blog posts of analysis and then he moves on to something else

I think you missed the last paragraph.

Not really, I should have acknowledged it, to be sure. I am just saying a lot of people put a lot of faith into geohot's musings/side projects/whathaveyou, that doesn't pay off.

It’s been around since at least occam, maybe longer

Not just Chinese companies, Ti has done this forever with their Sitara SoCs. This is the chip in the beaglebone. The chip includes two PRUs which are microcontrollers that run at 200mhz and share memory with the rest of the system.

TIs latest version of it (AM625x) has four A53 cores, one PRU, and a Cortex M4F. It is similar in performance to the Qualcomm chip in my own benchmarks

Help me understand your point better. How do you want the services to work? Is there some standard you are advocating for, or for them to mimic existing services, or what?

By not harshly penalizing those who legitimately use VPN's, proxies?

I'm using FreeBSD - This is on the hit list

I'm using Waterfox - This is on the hit list

I'm using my colocated server for a VPN from a reputable provider - This is on the hit list

I eliminate the last two and suffer with my ADSL. My ADSL isn't a standard domestic provider so I'm hit with that too for using an alternative provider. I am still being penalized for using FreeBSD.

Every page I encounter that uses Cloudflare ends up with a captcha. Why isn't there a way to verify myself that I am an actual legit person? I've clicked the captcha enough times, why does it have to be every single time?

Why can't I whitelist my IP?

If this is truly the only way to restrict bad actors, then it's pathetic. Am I'm going to be hit for using Xorg and not Wayland in the future? Their "bot" protection technology is years out of date.

I don't like that Cloudflare has total control on how I can see the internet. I don't need any of their services, I don't want any of their services and others may praise them but to me not required.

This may of worked five years ago, but like cookie banners, it doesn't work now. Yet they wish to spin up new modern services and neglect the old that actually made Cloudflare and not some power-hungry MiTM service. That's what it feels like but not that they will listen. I hate the fact that any point they can just go full anal and force you to X.

The internet is suppose to have some sort of freedom, it's less than freedom. Using the internet now is like an animal in a cage. Heck, I would even register an account with Cloudflare if it allowed me to verify legitimacy.

This is exactly my experience as well... I guess we are still technically such a tiny minority that it doesn't make business sense to try to support us.

The problem is that better is not an abstract measure. It is better at what, for what purpose, in what context? I like fossil in the abstract, but it isn’t integrated well into any of my tools; there is only one hosting service I know of; and they took away the wysiwyg option from the build in wiki (a preference of mine). So it isn’t better for me

Your better will be measured against different criteria, etc.