They should make a new chatbot called “healthy” that gives you pointers about how vaccines cause autism or tell you to enhance your immunity by swimming in super fund rivers and eating rotting, severed whale heads.

Just kidding, they should all go fuck themselves.

Sounds absolutely fucking awful.

IMO the best way to use this crap in software development for projects that already exist is to have the fucking things write up or amend docs.

Developers mostly hate writing docs, and in corporate software I’ve found that the docs are usually added once and then never verified again.

Writing up profuse gibberish that contains some amount of useful information is what these bullshit machines were made to do. Have it write up some docs, read them and make sure they aren’t completely insane and get a pat on the back from your boss for working with “agentic AI”.

Framework laptops are about as upgradable as you’re ever going to get. The 16 now even has a video card upgrade.

That’s great we really need to get the AIs playing the game for me so I’ll have more time to spend on things I enjoy: like standing in the bread line.

It’s obvious that Windows and Microsoft remain as evil as they were in the 00s when they basically singlehandedly held back web development with ie6 for a fucking decade.

A key difference here is that Framework is trying to build a “community”. At least some of their value depends upon community if you think about it for a bit (e.g., if nobody uses the marketplaces, they’d be empty of goods and a lot of the point is lost).

If they center assholes as being representative of what the community is about, they naturally exclude others by doing so.

It’s easy to take the “can’t we all just get along?” stance with this, but some things require a little more reasoning and philosophy than platitudes.

What good is a big tent if most normal people left the tent because you platformed assholes at its center?

To use another example, a musician might be known to be an asshole during their lifetime. Then they die. Is it harmful to listen to their music if you’re not contributing anything to their estate or their estate isn’t run by similar assholes? It’s debatable and a gray area, but I’d probably say no in most circumstances.

How about if they’re known to be an asshole and you buy their albums anyway, you go to their concerts, and you loudly pronounce on social media how you support them and that their work is great? That’s a much easier case to make to say, yes, you’re being harmful.

You’re supporting someone who is an asshole, and you’re doing–at least–two types of harm:

(1) you’re demonstrating tolerance for shitty behavior which does not provide a good negative reinforcement to correct the shitty behavior, and

(2) you’re positively reinforcing the shitty behavior through your support

It might be more nuanced if there were higher stakes involved, such as if the good belying this debate was of crucial need to help along a much larger good cause. But that’s where particulars matter. The contributions these assholes are making are not solving world hunger. They’re nerdy little Linux bits.

Use the bullshit all you want, but for fuck’s sake stop materially supporting and going on a promotional tour with the assholes that made it.

To put it in terms of your analogy, it’s one thing to use Mengele’s research after he’s been stopped. It’s another entirely to give his research funding when he’s actively running the program.

One is making use of knowledge that comes out of terrible things, the other is complicity that borders on collaboration.

This means it’s also sending your text across the Internet and feeding the stupid fucking models with it.

You know, just what you want from a fucking notepad app.

Yes but that would require them to regard all children as being worthy of protection by the law.

They don’t.

And the worst part is even if it succeeds you’re still running Windows.

I honestly don’t understand why I would ever write up or share a Microsoft document.

As for word, it’s just fucking rich text format. It’s obvious they’re manipulating the format to lock down users with less computer knowledge. Otherwise, why is it so fucking complicated?

Markdown accomplishes 90% of what a word doc does and it is legible with or without rendering.

EDIT: If I want data in or out of a spreadsheet program, I’m using CSV.

All of the “special features” of office docs wind up being security nightmares, unusable junk, or both.

This is such a stupid name for this.

This is what happens when software companies adopt the business model of LA Fitness.

Oh well, add it to the pile.

We’re all forty plus years into the great atomization project and we no longer have any ability to tackle even minor systemic issues. There’s no way in our current state we’re removing plastic from even newly manufactured items.

Yeah ten years seems like plenty of notice

Nobody seems to have noticed that the business model here is to funnel as much traffic and spend to the big AI corporations as possible with no foreseeable return (except vague nonsense about “productivity gains”).

Just wait until someone requires one of these things to make a profit, that’s when if you’re a corporation that integrated this shit deeply into your business, you’ll be covered top to bottom in rug burn from the inevitable rug pull of price increases.

Yet somehow this is going to be the super intelligence that solves climate change (while we’re building data centers for it that will cause more emissions).

What’s really sad about it is that most of the shit they believe is complete sci-fi bullshit and they won’t build a super-intelligence nor escape the planet no matter how much of their finite time they pump into these futile efforts.