I wish if more SSG could be made digital public goods as well like hugo, eleventty[0] etc. A lot of such products can really benefit from the funding and in some sense, yes one can use these static site generators eternally and use the same version but I do feel like these tools still fall in a digital public good category.
From my understanding of digital public good, the process seems to have benefits of UN and other nations contributing but the process seems immensely bureaucratic so I hope that UN could cut down on its bureaucracy hopefully just a bit too.
I used to use something similar but from a tampermonkey script extension which had a small button called bookmark on every website which would then use github gist for that. I think I still have it but its been sometime since I have used it.
Yes exactly! I did this kind of thing too for a little while. I ended up using the Gist to access the bookmarks but figured it would be nice to have an optional viewer to search/sort. Also having it across all devices is a big plus. One of the features I miss now that Pocket used to offer with their bookmarklet.
@dang, just wanted to say that it seems that the response to your statement does also seem to be AI generated. Dead-internet theory is turning real day by the day, oof.
I remember running kali linux once on my phone with (termux+vnc) and a vnc viewer app watching some random youtube videos a few years back
So I feel like, Something like this was/is possible but its immensely hard for something like this being used especially when a desktop os on a phone is so bad ergonomically speaking unless you have a keyboard mouse connected
A better option iirc is to use something like kivy[0] directly with termux, not sure if java might have direct options too or not.
I sort of agree although I am for credit cards if they help me with deals since I am frugal personally but even I am thinking to just use credit cards of my close cousins/family if they already have one.
I am giving a transcription of the situation in the video[0] but buy now pay later apps have on average 300% apr (yes this is not a joke) and even ask for tips and have so many dark patterns, both these industries are really similar/the one basically.
> She had just switched to this remote job, which was a pay cut, but it let her stay home and care for her son at the time. And then after she went back to her normal job, she actually stopped using Earnin for nearly two years. She got on a stable financial footing. She even bought this house. But housing costs are expensive and for a bunch of complicated reasons, her child support payment is less this year than it was before. And that put Runeda in this really precarious position, where if one thing went wrong, it would completely throw her off financially. And about two weeks ago, that's exactly what happened. My son wakes up really early sometimes, and it was, like, 5:00 in the morning, and I went to try to, like, open an app on my phone, and it wasn't loading, and I was like did they turn my internet off? And I checked the router, and it said your service has been interrupted for nonpayment, and I'm like, what the heck are you talking about? The bill used to be on auto pay, but for some reason wasn't anymore. they told me I had to pay, like, over $200. I had like 50 bucks in my bank account. That was the first domino, and everything fell apart from there. Runeda borrowed $150 from Earnin to pay the internet bill, the $20 reconnection fee and the $6 Earnin fee.
> Its given me so much and I'm so thankful for it. But, it's not what it used to be. I don't know.
Mitchell, when I was in 10th grade and had to pick my streams which led me to pick comp-sci/stem rather than finance (I am going to college soon), I thought of my dream life and it was being on a vacation/beach using Linux or terminals and opening github and contributing to open source software. I simply couldn't imagine my life without terminal (funny because ghostty is the terminal that I use)
You said that you have been with Github for 18 years, that is longer than the time I have been on earth. You were (and in some sense are!) living my dream life in that sense and github fulfilled its role, it had helped you until recently when it has started to get worse and worse.
my point is you have an special bond with github and for good reason,so to remove an somewhat integral part of all of this (github) after so long will have emotional feelings and outbursts.
I hope that you are doing fine, Ghostty/your-work has a positive impact on my life and gives a hope by being a relaible tool I rely on, I wish nothing but the best for Ghostty and you personally.
Just to add on to this thought experiment, I wish to add that another MASSIVE advantage in this experiment is that if you are a monarch, you basically get political immunity for all you and your friends worldwide.
Like within US and some other countries, its called black card and basically if someone has black Passport/are top diplomat/monarch and they do something illegal in another country, then they would be trialed in not that country but their own and at best the other country can only send that person back to their country.
And if its a monarchy theoretically speaking or courts can't do anything against you, then you basically can do anything. Sure there would be political backlash within the thought experiment but yeah.
Also can a billionaire or trillionaire simply not have enough residents that he can veto himself and put them all in an island citizenship which can be bought for enough to then get the constitution and then amend the constitution to create monarchy. Seems realistic enough to me in the sense that you wouldn't need to pay all the residents as some would be friends or people within the inner circle. In fact, I was hearing some news online about how people want a rich only country, a monarchy doesn't seem too out of order for something like this.
I actually have lots of thoughts about this. There is also a concept of a Country like Somaliland which is recognized by Israel which was insurgents/rebels beforehand and there are many rebel movements going on in africa right now which are funded by Saudi Arabia/UAE etc. so another concept is that its easier for a country to establish another country. So it can perhaps even be a compounding effect if we create a billionaire monarchy which can have weapons and soldiers and funding other countries wars to an higher autonomous degree. Why would a trillionaire be happy at one when he can have 2 and so on...
I do wonder though how the effect on companies might be, like, for example, would they be able to move the stock out of US markets into a stock market of that said country.
It really really depends on the media narrative on how they frame it and what effect it has on the markets, though that being said, the markets are pretty deaf sometimes.
My worries aren't that billionaires can't do it, it would be if the negatives outweigh the positives/alternatives or more importantly, what would the media perception of it be and the impact and if taking that into account it would be worth it or not and just about how deaf our financial markets can get before taking real signals into account. I might create a blog responding to this blogpost, I really enjoyed writing my comment and thinking of this thought experiment. Have a nice day to everyone and thanks for reading to my rants (edit: not rant I suppose but just my thoughts on this thought experiment and adding some more things to it).
So there was a recent article that I read which said that claude is now trading at a trillion dollars (yes with a T) evaluation in private markets.
We are definitely creating corporations and people which depend on AI companies themselves and the reliability of these tools is certainly a question worth asking. I am seeing quite many downtimes in products like github and claude being shown on Hackernews multiple times.
Is there a life cycle of enshittenification of such products which grow too valuable? What are (are there?) some practical lessons for such scalability that these trillion dollar companies are missing or is it just a dose of reality that such massive corporations can't compete with downtime with even my 7$/yr vps?
My question is, Is this an engineering roadblock with its limits in reality for or a management/entreprise roadblock for low downtime?
From my understanding of digital public good, the process seems to have benefits of UN and other nations contributing but the process seems immensely bureaucratic so I hope that UN could cut down on its bureaucracy hopefully just a bit too.
[0]: https://brennan.day/the-end-of-eleventy/
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