There are only 500K or so full length feature films so we should be able to encode them in about 18 bits or so. Who needs mp4 anyway!

But using the outputs to train would make their statement false, since they are influenced by the inputs

There is potentially a world of difference between how you interpret what is fair and what the terms of service contractually guarantee.

That’s a naive take.

Generating above market returns on capital is probably the most competitive arena ever. Why do you think CEOs make so much money? They typically are not the ones that own the capital. They are the people the capital owners pay extremely well to maximize their returns. If it didn’t matter who they picked they would just pick someone and pay them a few 100k and keep the rest.

HTML/Javascript would like a word

we need a way to access locally running web apps without doing an ugly http://localhost:8022 and having to remember that.

I'd say http://localapps should give an overview of all web apps running locally, with links to them. Those links should follow a naming scheme where the hostname ends with `.local` or smth.

So: http://claudecode.local

Hah, I was dealing with this problem today.

My approach: Add entries for my localhost apps to `/etc/hosts`, and set up nginx as a reverse proxy.

Now when I go to `http://myapp.local` in the browser, `/etc/hosts` tells it to go to `localhost:80`. The http server sitting there knows which port to send the request to. I also made a systemd service that starts nginx automatically.

Now I have meaningful URLs for local apps, and I don't have to remember which one is listening on which port.

Rather than typing http://localhost:8022, name each app and put them behind one local proxy:

1. In /etc/hosts (or dnsmasq): 127.0.0.1 ourapp.test 2. Caddy in front: ourapp.test { reverse_proxy localhost:8022 }

Caddy auto-provisions local certs, so you get https://ourapp.test, no ugly ports and no "not secure" prompt.

For the overview idea: a tiny local dashboard that scans common dev ports (3000, 5173, 8080...) and lists each running app by name is a ~100-line utility. This is exactly the kind of small tool I build, happy to make a quick version for you.

Cool! I'd say we need a big linux distro to buy into it, so that it provides it's config-panel and package manager UI in this format.

Won't that be cluttered by various random processes listening via 0/0? Perhaps we need a standardized service that web apps can register with.

> I'd say http://localapps should give an overview of all web apps running locally, with links to them.

Malware will thank you.

Bring back installable PWA on desktop

Definitely not weightless. So much bloat has been dedicated to various frameworks for it, and modern browsers are notorious for how much RAM they require. I'm particularly reminded of this each time I try to visit websites on one of my older Raspberry Pis. You are just pushing much of that complexity and overhead to the client.

That same Pi won't even blink at a local TUI.

I think about this too. It would be easy enough to make your own DNS alternative or use the exact same protocol but remap domains as you please.

How much of this is a cultural problem with Americans though?

Immigrant families save a higher percentage than Americans even when they make less money. Americans notoriously overconsume and are not big on saving.

That there are cultural issues around consumption is absolutely not in question. That said I watched one of my great uncles raise three kids and put every one of them through college cultivating ~400 acres with equipment he owned outright and could readily maintain and repair himself when issues arose. Fast forward 40 years and "small" farmers are forced to take on and then service literally millions in debt just to break even (if they're lucky and the weather holds). So while I agree wholeheartedly that the modern cultural acceptance of living well beyond one's means is deeply problematic I'd prioritize breaking big industry's chokehold on all the things before telling folks they should tighten their belt.

Agreed it’s a multitude of issues.

I just think if people want results they should focus on the factors they can control. Changing government policy and industry policy is a slow process and can take decades for results and often has unintended consequences.

Reducing consumption helps immediately.

Reducing consumption is a luxury of the middle class. The working poor don't really have any corners available to cut.

There are plenty of inventors that made more money than the capital providers. Nearly every founder (Jobs, Zuck, Musk, Google Guys, Gates) all made more wealth than the investors that bought in along the way.

I didn't say that was impossible. It can happen from time to time. But Jobs, Zuck, Musk etc. are terrible examples of it, because there's a third "type 2", besides investments and loans, that I should have mentioned. It is employment.

An employer, too, isn't going to employ someone in the long run unless they make more money on them than they pay them. Jobs, Zuck's etc. investors succeeded (well, on average) in getting back more money than they gave out. But Jobs, Zuck etc. got rich by convincing a lot of others -- their employees -- to take the same kind of deal: make me richer than I make you.

The reverse is also true though. I am not going to work for you unless you pay me more for my time than it is otherwise worth.

That's still a "Want something more than money" or rather a "Want money more than something" trade, the one I've called type 1. Not a trade money for more money, type 2. It does nothing to counteract the problem of accelerating accumulation.

But if a billionaire pays you $100k and makes $110k in revenue the inequality went down, right?

Their wealth went up by 10k and yours went up by 100k.

Sure, but now ask: who gave you that $110k, and why? There are two reasons people may give you money (not counting charity)...

I dunno, just seems like an okay system to me.

We both get richer, I press some buttons on a keyboard then get paid and go hang out with my family.

I am sure it could be better, but there is no organization I trust any more than corporations these days. USG is untrustworthy. Religious institutions untrustworthy. Academic institutions are untrustworthy. A typical American likely believes in anti-vax, MAGA, Religion, or other conspiracy, so its not like you can trust the broad population.

So yeah being able to work for the corporate overlords looks pretty appealing.

If you believe in AI hype (which you seem to) you should acknowledge the passive investors are the ones funding the massive data center buildouts, infrastructure investment, and paying for R&D that has not yet proven profitable.

This may make you sad, but the system exists to allocate capital to projects like this. And without large financial institutions and concentrated wealth, none of that would happen.