I think it is this indeed, it’s something decidedly different between me and my kids.

I’d add that I myself had a brief period during which I went from thinking “this is hard because I’m dumb” to “this is hard because it is indeed hard”. I felt like I grew up a little in those years as well (~35-ish?). I realized that grown ups and management are all just doing “something”. There is no grander scheme, no deeper understanding behind it. Like the veil was lifted and what was behind it was a bit disappointing, but I also felt that it could not have been any other way.

Somehow this realization also made me happier. It’s all something that you could have told me before but I would have never really felt it. All these lessons need to land in fertile soil. It takes some time and experiences for the soil to be ready.

If you're from a place like Malta it's basically the only way to do IT and perhaps "escape" it later.

Didn't we used to think the same of Photos?

I'm happy that the Netherlands is still against this. Our currently largest party (D66) was also always pretty strong on privacy. When I contacted them some time back (I think using this initiative), they ensured me that they remained against, but did feel that something must be done (ok fair enough).

For the UK people among us: What happens if you just don't verify your age? Do you not get access to adult things? What if you use a VPN? Will civil disobedience lead to any punishment or just inconvenience? What it's like to live with these invasive laws?

I wanted to ask exactly same question: fellow UK citizens, do your iphones become bricks if you fail to verify your age or what?

Sounds like when we first had smartphones with orientation sensors and we could drink a beer from the phone, so cool... for 2 weeks.

But now you can vibe the same app 1000 times for root beer, coca cola, ginger ale, even a milkshake, and nobody will ever have to have a new idea again!

I wouldn't be surprised that the beer apps cost less to develop than one AI generated video.

Was there a Send Me to Heaven for Sora?

That is for loved things

“What you made with Sora mattered”. Idk why that sentence irks me so much. Perhaps because the “how” is bit vague. I like to think that what I made in the toilet this morning also mattered.

It's because it's vapid corpspeak coming from a class of people who have certainly spent time thinking about how they will deal with the rest of humanity in any number of nasty (however far-fetched) eschatological scenarios caused by them and in which they alone wield incredible power over nature and the human mind. And also because we all know the vast, vast, vast majority, possibly the totality of what people made with Sora did not matter at all.

Reminds me of Facebook's memories feature which used to say: "<name>, we care about you and the memories you share here."

For an app to suggest a personal relationship with you is ridiculous.

Yeah this one is a classic: https://youtu.be/8OzZxjqKG10

Or perhaps a more appropriate analogy, its sounds like the sycophantic language of most of these LLM systems.

Which makes me wonder whether these companies actually dogfood their own tools with this sort of stuff? Was this announcement written by ChatGPT? Honestly, I would find either answer to be a little concerning in its own way. It's either vaguely insulting to their customers or showing a lack of faith in their own product.

It's a wonderful combination of vague, patronizing, and self-promoting. "Mattered" is meaningless. The tone sounds like when you tell a child their scribble is so pretty. And the cherry on top, the users didn't make anything with Sora, they just fed a bit of input into the machine and it made the stuff. So this is really OpenAI saying that what they themselves did mattered.

I think of the medical definition when people use LLMs to "express" themselves: https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/express

That is the original meaning of the word (cf espresso etc)

it feels like if that statement were true, they could have come up with some reason why it mattered, or something better than a platitude.

it reads as "we want to tell you that what you made with sora mattered, but we all know it didn't".

It mattered in the sense that it provided valuable grist for the mill as they attempted to figure out if it could work as a Reels/TikTok alternative for companies to eventually deluge with ads.

It’s “Our Incredible Journey” for a new generation, this time with less optimism and more post-capitalist “enjoy your job while you still have it.”

I find myself increasingly nostalgic for the Clinton era. I am not at all sure I will enjoy the version of fuckedcompany that gets vibe coded when this bubble pops.

Typical PR speak.

Doesn't work well on mobile, it's all spacebar based (hold and tap).

I'm on desktop on vivaldi, i'm holding spacebar and nothing happens

Thanx. I tried to use several of these services (because I don't use Twitter/X myself so got context from a Dutch website) but didn't get it to work (was very probably just me). Xcancel is indeed a much better experience.

Uhm, is it? I have some small repos there, which are private and for my company (ie the website). I didn't encounter any warnings?

Edit, it says indeed (right in your face on the front page):

Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led effort that provides services to free and open-source projects, such as Git hosting.

I just click... click opened a repo and set it as remote and boom. Never thought anything of it... Perhaps I'm... Tolerated for the time being?

You are just a glitch in their system. They won't check the content of private repos, and they probably also do not check if there is free software hosted at the same account, so you might have found the hole in their good will.

But their limit seems around 100 MB storage-usage, so I guess it's within their abilities to tolerate some glitches.

Ah ok, well, save for some drafts I wouldn't mind opening the repo which is just a Hugo system intended for a public website anyway. But good to know. Perhaps I will self-host that forgejo instance then :)