A long post, but it explains how the major tech firms huffed the paint and believed their own bullshit to block competition but were blindsided by the Chinese. Oops.
Great review and analysis, with a bit of biting commentary. Glad I saved the article until I had time to digest it. Makes me nostalgic (for a time that never really was….). Maybe it’s time to go live off the grid?
Unpopular opinion: the Internet was a better place before graphical browsers. Lynx ruled. When text was all there was, and your words painted the picture your online friends saw, there were far fewer assholes and trolls, and the ones there were had to up their game to keep from getting PLONKed.
I was quite alive and working when all of this happened. I went from DOS to Netscape and all the other iterations. I also had to do a bit of research into AI during my tenure. You made this whole scenario much easier to understand for the layperson.
Thanks. Even enjoyed reading the foot notes. Not fond of acronyms, too much of them in the service and then the railroad and now they are everywhere. Lol
Great review and analysis, with a bit of biting commentary. Glad I saved the article until I had time to digest it. Makes me nostalgic (for a time that never really was….). Maybe it’s time to go live off the grid?
Alas, it is almost impossible to truly go off the grid
Unpopular opinion: the Internet was a better place before graphical browsers. Lynx ruled. When text was all there was, and your words painted the picture your online friends saw, there were far fewer assholes and trolls, and the ones there were had to up their game to keep from getting PLONKed.
I was quite alive and working when all of this happened. I went from DOS to Netscape and all the other iterations. I also had to do a bit of research into AI during my tenure. You made this whole scenario much easier to understand for the layperson.
This by 404 media is just epic: https://www.404media.co/openai-furious-deepseek-might-have-stolen-all-the-data-openai-stole-from-us/
Sam Altman is whining that Deepseek is using their data...
Irony has died, been drawn and quartered, sewn back together, and hung from a streetlight.
That’s hilarious! Pot meet kettle.
Thanks. Even enjoyed reading the foot notes. Not fond of acronyms, too much of them in the service and then the railroad and now they are everywhere. Lol