Woah, that is a crazy interesting read!

Hard disagree. Societal change and more inventions are needed, not a degrowth attitude.

I wouldn't lump up all inventions into this. The incentives are warped and we're too focused on adtech and filling human lives with screentime. It should be entirely possible to live a fulfilling life without having to carry a phone everywhere you go.

What societal change and what inventions, exactly? Some societal changes are for the better, others for the worst. We are heading toward the "worst" direction in full speed.

Some inventions are for the better, other mostly don't matter and yet others make the world actively worst. And the "for the better" things dont seem to come from our industry anymore. Nor for rich VCs, nor from private equity investments etc.

Like Dear Alice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Ng5ZvrDm4

What's the difference between the two exactly?

I switched to GPT 5.6 Sol for the hardest tasks, the rest Qwen/Kimi/Deepseek can do.

So far not looking back to Anthropic. They lost me.

Phahaha, Nostr and inclusive?

Oh come on now.

Why is it not? I'm sincerely curious. It seems to include users that were excluded from other platforms, by virtue of making centralized censorship impossible, so I would argue it's more inclusive than anything else. Or do you mean its follow-based mechanism doesn't allow you to silence users you not only don't want to hear, but you don't want anyone to hear? This, again, makes it more inclusive to me, not less.

What a helpful comment.

I am still surprised that this made it into the zine. Maybe it wasn't as obvious "back then", but my god that is so clearly - and badly - written with AI.

I really like the idea of this!

How hard would it be to combine the power of a couple phones for a server? I'm sure someone has done something like that already, right?

Posted up thread: https://research.google/blog/a-low-carbon-computing-platform...

Did you mean to post this on Reddit instead of HN?

I get what you were trying to say, but the quality difference is actually extremely low.

That is pretty cool! Anyonehad success with this kn a Tolino reader? I'll give it a try too

Earlier I got an email from Substack telling me to check out my stats for my bewest blog post.

It has 2 views, lol.

I just post it all to blog.ciefas.cafe now, I have no audience so I feel like Substack is useless to me.

Eh, that is if they pay. Trump already made threats for tariffs in regards to those fines.

Which is a federal sales tax against the citizens of the United States countries abroad do not pay no matter how many times taco lies.

You're splitting hairs in this case, while that's unquestionably true, it's irrelevant if there tariffs are only set on one party.

That's why Trump's tariffs on everything was so ... Uh ... "Interesting". If only one party gets the tariffs, you end up with other parties selling the goods instead, which does cause meaningful damage to the tariffed party

Or the tariffing party just continues buying very nearly the same amount of things at higher prices in many categories because those items don’t have perfectly elastic supply and demand.

Technically true but highly misleading. The amount of good like that are few, less then 30% of the EU -> US trade.

That’s actually kind of like not a good statistic though.

For 30% of transactions with the EU it’s just the US shooting itself in the foot and passing on higher costs to average Americans.

Imagine enacting a tax where 30% of the money collected was a net negative. I can’t think of many taxes that are that poorly constructed.

For the 70% of transactions where US companies and individuals decide to buy less or use alternative sources, doesn’t that at some point harm US businesses? At the very least you’re now artificially lowering competition, which tends to drive overall prices up and quality down.