Real change starts with real pain. People aren’t interested in obsessively checking privacy settings in apps or disabling tracking everywhere and I don’t expect them to. Governments don’t protect them because of gestures widely at status quo. People will realize those services are important and there will be a massive realignment. That’s how I expect things will go.

I see people in this thread complain about the acquisition but the source code of uv is right there [1]. Fork it and move on. If ClosedAI enshittifies uv, gather with a bunch of other people and prop up a new version.

[1] https://github.com/astral-sh/uv

No, you.

These comments are so silly and condescending. You aren’t being clever or smart. You think that you need to go to GitHub and find the repo for uv and put it in a little footnote? You think that you’re being a clever boy by doing that? Everyone knows how open source works. We are developers.

I know the whole package system across most languages is a dumpster fire but for Python, uv solves a lot of problems.

uv init

uv add unsloth

uv run main.py % or whatever

Yep UV is fantastic - should have just that default!

> But my question is always, 'How much of that is genuine concern, and how much is just performative?

Would getting an answer to this question change anything to your worldview?

Personally, I feel sad when I see another person in distress because I imagine myself in their shoes.

I’ve been watching some storage and homelab-themed videos and I heard there’s a lot of optimizations you can do to lower power usage - spinning the disks down, turning the machine on for a limited time, etc.

That doesn't work for me. The main server is constantly using the disks to record security cameras, run VMs 24/7, Plex, a web server, a VPN (so I can dial in to my local network remotely), and a lot more.

“there's a specter haunting my LLM”

You forget the step where the company and investors try their best to kill any competition that eats into the margins.

After they have their niche by the balls, they enshittify the product as much as the users are willing to tolerate and then some more.

Jeremy Kun's A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics is also a good one.

The Computer History Museum [1] has a YouTube channel where they post interesting interviews. You can pitch it to them.

[1] https://computerhistory.org/

The Apple Watch has an interesting vibration-based navigation. Assume you’re going straight and if it vibrates you have to turn left or right. Additionally, it has specific vibration patterns for left and right so you don’t have to look at the watch at all. I use it while driving to remind me to pay attention to turn instructions or exits.