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Why a cloud provider and not a local VM?

Just an example. I personally have it running on a local Mac Mini (obviously aware that this isnt a perfect security measure, but I couldnt install on my laptop which has sensitive work access).

That's why I only allow user input of alphanumeric ascii characters. No need to worry about sanitation then, and you can just remove all the characters that don't match.

(It's a joke, but it is also 100% XSS, SQL injection, etc. safe and future proof)


Each discord server can decide whether they only will allow people with a phone number on. When you hit one of those, Discord will ask you for your number.

Those require a phone for you to send messages and interact. It will ask you to 'Verify phone', but you can chose not to and stay on the server as read-only, Discord itself won't bother you about it. I am on a few like that for quite some time.

And there is no YouTube, Facebook or Instagram (#2, #3, #4) default integration for Mozilla

Firefox has YouTube integration of course.

Here's a Firefox file [1] specifically for integrating YouTube videos into their picture-in-picture system. Your random video website won't get this treatment of course, need to be a popular one.

Here's a piece of C++ code [2] in the Firefox engine that specifically rewrites old YouTube embeds from their old HTML embed snippet to the new one. Again, your own video website will never be so deeply integrated into Firefox because it's not a top 10 website.

Firefox Readability mode makes pages more readable by removing useless stuff like videos. Unless it's a YouTube [3] or other top-N popular video website of course. YouTube videos are given special treatment because it's popular and having small integrations like this make the user experience better.

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/1f43fe5ffadd...

[2]: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/1f43fe5ffadd...

[3]: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/1f43fe5ffadd...


What data did you let Mozilla have?

Google didn't pay billions to Mozilla for a search bar because it increased the visibility of their competitors. A default LLM in the browser is likely to be retained. After all, there is more stickiness to that choice than typing a different URL when you had to choose one.

Google didn't pay Mozilla to add a search bar. Mozilla added a search bar because that's a sensible feature, Google just paid to be the default.

If the search bar didn't exist and Google paid to be the home page, fewer people would find out about alternative search engines and id switching was more effor that changing one setting, fewer people would do it.

I just opened the AI sidebar for the first time and it gave me a list of 5 options, along with a link to a help page that compares them and links to each one's privacy policy. This is 1000x better than the current way people use AI, which is to bookmark ChatGPT and never try anything else (well, unless Gemini is shoved down their throat).


> With the time I spend on reviews I could have done it myself, so if they don’t start learning…

Then? Your job is still to review their code. If they are your coworker, you can not fire them.


Then just start rubber-stamping their code. Say you "vibe" read it.

> If this were to work, could theoretically make nice revenue and it shouldn't show up in any metric anywhere.

Except production GDP, the standard measure of economic activity.


Correct me, but if two people create a SAAS that can replace a 50 people SAAS, compete on price and the competitor is forced out of the market, wouldn’t this show up as an reduction in GDP? Efficiency (GDP/time_worked) should be up though, and AFAIK it isn’t.

2 people are now producing what took 50 people previously.

What are the 48 other people doing now? Presumably some other economic activity.


Yes, when prices of goods and services go down so will GDP. I've not seen evidence of the prices of SaaS going down in the past few years.

In the US you can legally be compelled to keep certain warrants a secret. They can not legally compel you to make a statement, even if the lack of a statement reveals a warrant's existence.

> It’s no different than a company issuing bonds to buy back its own equity.

Which was illegal until 1982 and could be made illegal again.


A firm can be capitalized by debt or equity. They can have a public offering to and sell share to retire debt. They can issue bonds and use the money to buy back shares. There shouldn't be a moral component to this.

That being said, it seems criminal to take an enormous management fee while sending a company into bankruptcy.


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