Another day, another company trying to extract more money out of our data. Today’s company: eBay! Go to your Account Settings and turn that shit off. Well, assuming that toggle actually does anything, because we’ll never know, right?
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
“Anthropic IPO filing: the disaster in numbers”: $4.6b in revenue (at best), $12.65b in operating expenses, and $500+b in commitments they can’t possibly cover. Meanwhile, the Conservatives always lecture us about “government spending” and “balanced budgets”, LOL.
“Copyright and the Vibe-Coded Adobe Clones”: A good summary of the problems waiting for these vibe-coded clones we’ve seen popping up. Still, I’m grabbing some popcorn because things might get interesting.
Congrats to our Albertans neighbours for going out en masse to vote against a bunch of silly disinformation, but it’s only the start of your work: there’s still 1 in 4 of you that believes secession is going to accomplish anything worthwhile.
Video games studios: <are risk adverse and want to lay-off people willy-nilly, so use contractors for 80% of their production>
Video games press: “THIS GAME WAS MADE WITH A VERY SMALL CORE TEAM!”
Dog in fog / dog above fog
“Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First”: A little classic from the Onion, which is relevant again for my fellow French people!
Congrats to the neighbouring city of Vancouver for ousting Ken Sim and electing their first Green Party mayor Pete Fry! (plus mostly Green and COPE councillors!) Here in Burnaby, we apparently just went with the same old formula we’ve had for the past decade 🤷🏽♂️
That popular post about renaming vibe-coding into “cuck-coding” is funny, but my wife tells me it should really be “porn-coding” because you give some vague instructions before watching someone else do it. 😅
