You’re defining a hustler as someone who can’t manage a small company or who is unwilling to do extroverted or operational tasks. I don’t think that’s helpful because there are plenty of hustlers oriented around those tasks, who now also can advance the software side and a lot of the paperwork with a smaller team, perhaps even with a semi-technical team or cofounder. The existence of these people means that to me, a person comfortable with thorny operations, marketing, and compliance issues, the existence of lazy vibe coders don’t affect my estimate of profitability of a medical device startup.

What is the bare minimum they are seeking? It seems like advocates would give varying answers depending on their technical ability.

They're pretty up front about the fact that the final result is going to have be some sort of compromise.

Based on the words of the most involved proponents of the movement have said, the absolute least they could be forced into accepting would be "Developers can't sue people hosting reverse engineered servers after the main game has gone offline". Which is trivial to comply with (just don't sue someone), but probably insufficient for living up to the main messaging of the movement (since there's a lot more games that people care about preserving than games people care enough about preserving to completely re-implement servers for).

Slightly more reasonably, there's the pitch of "release your server binaries". As the market stands at the moment, that'd be difficult, because in large studios it's common to have all sorts of licensed software involved in hosting your backend, but it's the kind of thing that's pretty trivially responded to on new projects: companies selling software for game service backends would have to adjust their licenses in response to their customers' legal requirements, but that's far from impossible given all the licensed code that's running on client machines already.

In the best possible world, consumers would get access to the source code of the entire project after the company is done making money on it, but everyone involved seems to think that's a pipe dream.

It’s a nice sentiment (librarianship runs in my family) but there are still issues with accessibility for library institutional subscriptions, compared to easily shared links. Relying on institutional subscriptions for revenue isn’t enough for the publishers and journalists. It’s also hard to target donations towards certain parts of the collection; at most libraries almost none of your donation would go towards periodicals.

None of these problems are unsolvable, but typical libraries would need to significantly change their focus and invest in new shared technology first.

I do recommend contacting circulation, reference or technology direction to share your desire to see the library play a larger role in making journalism accessible to the community.

The gist is the OP went nuts replacing Google and Meta with self-hosted tools, and now he's feeding more data than ever into Anthropic or OpenAI (didn't specify, or I missed it. Skimming AI-generated blog posts tires the eyes.)

That's par for the course, honestly. News-cycle-driven anti-big-tech sentiment is weak fuel for a lifelong commitment. Something new was going to come along.

I am always happy for anyone who felt stuck on their side projects and no longer does, though.

To be fair, OP talks specifically about that -- that's a full quarter of the post:

> I’ve spent the past year moving away from surveillance platforms... And yet I willingly feed more context into AI tools each day than Google ever passively collected from me. It’s a contradiction I haven’t resolved. The productivity gains are real enough that I’m not willing to give them up, but the privacy cost is real too, and I notice it.

Yes, it's glib, though (and just a generated thought.) No real reflection on what sent them down the privacy tools route in the first place.

This paragraph made me laugh out loud:

>I’ve settled into an uneasy position: AI for work where the productivity gain justifies the privacy cost, strict boundaries everywhere else. It’s not philosophically clean. It’s just honest.

> I’ve settled into an uneasy position: Crack Cocaine for work where the productivity gain justifies the privacy cost, strict boundaries everywhere else. It’s not philosophically clean. It’s just honest.

Whoa, that caught my eye. Offworld Trading Company is one of my favorite RTSes. What are you looking to do with the open source server?

I was about to post the same thing. It is cyclical, and over the last several decades, the percentage of long-term unemployed during low unemployment periods seems to have steadily increased more than the rate during high unemployment periods, covid excepting.

I like a TUI when I always want an app to run side by side with a CLI. It’s easier to do split windows in a terminal or tmux/zellij panes than to script two separate app windows to stay locked together as a pair. Although, I’d welcome advice as to how to do it better.

I also find TUIs are easier to program for the same reason they’re limited. Fewer human interface aspects in play and it’s not offensive to use the same UI across OSes. (There are still under-the-hood differences across OSes, e.g. efficient file event watching.)

> It’s easier to do split windows in a terminal or tmux/zellij panes than to script two separate app windows to stay locked together as a pair. Although, I’d welcome advice as to how to do it better.

Did you try some tiling window managers and decided you did not like that?

I prefer most apps to not tile. Tiling window managers might still work with config.

Always enjoy Raymond Chen's musings.

My sister and I were so excited to discover this on the CD as we were clicking through every folder. Awesome song that kicked off a love of the blue album, Pinkerton and the green album. (I had off-campus lunch privileges, so was sent to Borders to pick up copies of the green album on release day.)

We'd heard of Happy Days, but we didn't know if the show was like it was portrayed in the video. We may have thought the band was from Wisconsin. I don't think either of us ever became Happy Days fans.

> My sister and I were so excited to discover this on the CD as we were clicking through every folder.

This was a common experience back then, you got ahold of some new "piece of software" and you started discovering new stuff in it.

My fondest memory ever is one day in February 2001 browsing through the Windows 98 Add/Remove Windows Components dialog and realizing I could install the same Desktop Themes I remembered from like 1996 from my friend who had been lucky enough to have Plus! for Windows 95 (which had, years before, disappeared from his computer in that endless virus/reinstall cycle that characterized those times). Next day I showed the themes to said friend and we were speechless.

It was this promise of endless discovery that made me want to study CS.

I want to give a huge shout out to the UK magazine PC Format for the most absolute banger 90s magazine CD that I ever encountered.

It didn't just have Demos of new games, if you poked around you'd find that it had "this cool program called Scream Tracker 3" and a whole bunch of these ".MOD files" that played music that sounded like a CD![0]

[0] - Well, it was the 90s, and typical bundled multimedia speakers were so bad you couldn't tell the difference...

At their best they had an exceptional amount of demoscene / game development content overall, as well as several full (usually "previous") versions of various creative software like 3D modeling or photo editing apps.

Later on with the Internet biting into the cover disk magazines, they started to steadily fall towards the lowest common denominator and shift to the gamer lad segment. But I wouldn't have had as much fun with computers if it wasn't for a subscription back in the day. Thanks for the reminder.

mod files include their own samples, so they could have very easily been (close to) CD quality while still being quite small.

You only need to encode the notes you play on the instruments you use.

> I had off-campus lunch privileges, so was sent to Borders to pick up copies of the green album on release day.

What kind of college doesn't allow students to leave for lunch? Lord.

Probably a US high school, where off-campus lunch is usually reserved for older students.

That's fine...never heard high school grounds referred to as a campus before so assumed college.

This is fairly common in warmer climes in the US like California. Rather than have a monolithic high school building with lots of wasted space for hallways they will have a bunch of smaller buildings that students go between outside. They are "campuses" in the same sense that various tech companies call their cluster of buildings a "campus".

I remember watching a TV show set in socal (Beverly Hills 90210 maybe?) in the late 80s I think? And them having high schools and even lockers outdoors just blew my mind.

The climate makes it work. I wish it was like that for my high school, but alas we just had the stifling building.

High school ... 20+ years ago probably

That's fine...never heard high school grounds referred to as a campus before so assumed college.

Others covered it. This was high school, not college. :) it was upperclassmen only and your parents or bad grades could get the privilege revoked.

School grounds are also commonly called campuses in the US, not just colleges. Our high school called it “off-campus lunch”.

For me, they fell off during sleep less often after I did the tip size testing.

(I don't really want to be wearing them while asleep, but my body sometimes has other plans.)

Could be a use for the $50 extra usage credit. It requires extra usage to be enabled.

> Fast mode usage is billed directly to extra usage, even if you have remaining usage on your plan. This means fast mode tokens do not count against your plan’s included usage and are charged at the fast mode rate from the first token.

After exceeding the increasingly shrinking session limit with Opus 4.6, I continued with the extra usage only for a few minutes and it consumed about $10 of the credit.

I can't imagine how quickly this Fast Mode goes through credit.

It has to be. The timing is just too close.