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some thiel news, in which the tiny little man keeps trailblazing being the absolute weirdest motherfucker:

He has found religion recently. I don’t know if you’ve been following this, but Peter Thiel is now running Bible study groups in Silicon Valley.

now you may read this and already start straining your eyes, so I strongly suggest you warm up before you read with the rest of the paragraph, which continues:

He said in a few interviews recently that he believes that the Antichrist is Greta Thunberg. It’s extraordinary. He said that it’s foretold that the Antichrist will be seeming to spread peace. But here’s his thinking. He says Greta wants everyone to ride a bicycle. (Now, that’s a gross caricature of what she’s said.) But he’s said Greta wants everyone to ride a bicycle. That may seem good, but the only way that could happen is if there was a world government that was regulating it. And that is more evil than the effects of climate change.

you know you could just write your own posts, right? it’s free! you don’t need to regurgitate the marketing that’s being pushed by all these vendors. they already have paid marketers to push the bilge

it’s like a magic phrase! remarkably effective

soz kid, you’re definitely not tall enough for this ride. maybe go over to the back there and have a lollipop

it's also a great test for knowing whether you're dealing with a mature/competent developer or not

I wonder what’d happen if this person read, like, any international code at all

go for some malware shellcode! you can find italian php! russian perl! it’s great!

(and that’s before one even gets to the variety of stuff that existed/exists as completely separate tech bases - russian pdp clones, japanese minicomputers, etc etc)

a truth, but not one to "give to" felon

(I do realize you weren't doing so, more posting this for ..... others. that may come upon this thread. and decide to volunteer as bodyshields.)

[ANNOUNCER VOICE]

Reminder: All AGI Estimations Not Declared Within The Established Timelines Are To Be Considered Heretical

[/ANNOUNCER VOICE]

whoops e_thread

so it looks like openai has bought a promptfondler IDE

some of the coverage is .. something:

Windsurf brings unique strengths to the table, including a seamless UI, faster performance, and a focus on user privacy

(and yes, the "editor" is once again VSCode With Extras)

so it looks like openai has bought a promptfondler IDE

some of the coverage is .. something:

Windsurf brings unique strengths to the table, including a seamless UI, faster performance, and a focus on user privacy

(and yes, the "editor" is once again VSCode With Extras)

(caveats: ianal, and not familiar enough with US corp law)

took a brief look at this last night and no, don’t think it entirely kills it. they’re changing two notable things: one is converting from whatever they are into a Public Benefit Corp, and the second is turning their weirdo ownership thing into actual stock

while those AG paragraphs do indeed indicate that they got told to get fucked, perverse incentives still apply and saltman still needs to try find a way out of the squeeze they’re in. don’t think they’d be doing either of those changes if they didn’t see a possible path to exploiting it

I checked out their profile. the person is (one of?) the host(s?) of this trash

dhh having a normal one

(got this as a mail, didn't immediately see a link in the mail to a published post for this)

plex has decided that it is no longer worth maintaining merely partial tax on those who "want more", and has decided to continue on their path to become the bridgetroll:

As of April 29, 2025, we’re changing how remote streaming works for personal media libraries, and it will no longer be a free feature on Plex. Going forward, you’ll need a Plex Pass, or our newest subscription offering, Remote Watch Pass, to stream personal media remotely.

As a server owner, if you elect to upgrade to a Plex Pass, anyone with access to your server can continue streaming your server content remotely as part of your subscription benefits. Not sure which option is best for you? Check out our plans below to learn more.

got your own server and networking and happy to stream from your home setup? no more. the extractivist rentlords are hungry.

these people are fucking insufferable

aaaand this from 22h ago: an insta showing what looks like triple (or more) bodies than that first group

guess they feel comfortable that they worked out the launch kinks? but that also definitely is enough people to immediately stress all social structures

found another from early march

trying to follow up on shillrinivasan's pet project, and it's ... sparse

that "opening ceremony" video which kicked around a couple weeks ago only had low 10s of people there, and this post (one of the few recent things mentioning it that I could find) has photos with a rather stark feature: not a single one of them showing people engaged in Doing Things. the frontpage has a different photo, and I count ~36 people there?

even the coworking semicubicles look utterly fucking garbage

anyone seen anything more recent?

as a thing both parallel and tangent to usual sneerjects, this semafor article is kinda notable

I'll try gather previous dm sneers here later, but some things that stood out:

• the author writes about groupchats in the most goddamn abstract way possible, as though they're immensely surprised
• the subject matter acts as hard confirmation/evidence of observed lockstep over the last few years by so many of the worst fucker around
• the author then later goes "oh yeah but no I've actually done this and been burned by it" so I'm just left thinking "skill issue" (and while I say that curtly, I will readily be among the first people to get extremely vocal about the ways a lot of this tech falls short in purpose sometime)