“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: […] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.” —Jonathan Swift
I understand the justification but just don’t think it holds in 2026 unless you’re in a worse position than even paycheck-to-paycheck. 50% is solid odds for that reward, there’s a difference of two orders of magnitude, those two orders of magnitude are actually meaningful, and $50,000 in 2026 money is “tread water a little more comfortably for a while” money while $10 million – 200x more – is still “invest and go do whatever you want” money.
Congrats, Sharon!!
Wait, what? That seems so trivial. As a sanity check (and assuming I’m reading this right): unless you’re utterly destitute or you’re ground floor on some insane, foolproof investment opportunity but have no spare capital, you literally always go for the expected $5 million, right?
That’s Bayerische Motoren Wankers AG to you.
Why did they make her look like she’s about to terminate the waiter at Chili’s who brought her soggy fries?
If you couldn’t make bunk
I made small but meaningful contributions to a reasonably well-known project still used by millions of people.
Maybe don’t assume I made bunk just because I have an iota of humility to acknowledge that a hard fork of a modern web browser announced by someone on Mastodon who spent a collective five hours patching main is a pipedream.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tantamount
My point if you didn’t get it is that this has basically the same effect as expressing strong disagreement – inasmuch as it’s extremely likely this won’t see any meaningful usage or development and will quickly fizzle out.
Source: worked two years on a FOSS project vastly less important, complex, dangerous, and time-sensitive than a web browser.
Source 2: Obviousness.
It’s not wrong tho. There’s a new initiative.
Hence my point: announcing “a new initiative” doesn’t denote an actual amount of demonstrated momentum, but it certainly connotes it.
And, so far, they are showing lots more than all the other wannabes and nobodies who complain the same on the internet but don’t deliver.
Dude, it’s a patch on top of main that removes Firefox’s tepid, trivially disabled AI features. What do you mean “lots more”? lmao this is tantamount to a strongly worded letter about Firefox’s inclusion of LLM tools.
“There’s a new initiative” is doing a fuck of a lot of lifting from “someone on Mastodon said they’re going to try”.
YoFrodo, my allegiance is to the city – to urbanism!
Honestly fair. Goodbye.
I’d likely be so continually high on a cocktail of chemicals that I’d be having lively conversations and never fully realize I was the only real person left.
Pretty bold assumption that out of over 8 billion people jumping off a cliff, not one of them would survive in a way that they could rescue themself. (Fuck it, if we’re assuming it’s literally “a cliff”, singular, they’d probably physically have to stop at some point.)
Shaka, when the walls fell and gas was 15¢/gallon.
The perfect number of varieties.
A+, would stick my hand in and sensually squelch the beans between my fingers.
It’s been always baking since the earth’s been quaking.
And hornyposting about beans, yes.
Tesseract has reunited us in our common cause.
Perceptron: Seer of Light
[ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ 400/400 ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ]