I'm developing Wallpunch, a censorship resistant VPN for people in China, Iran, and Russia. Userbase is pretty small as I'm still polishing things up, but I hope to expand my marketing efforts a lot in 2026!
Cool video! I think it would have given the entire video more structure and a "plot" to engage the user if you started with the original "Jeremiah Johnson" clip, and then explained why it's a lot harder in real life and how you plan to do it.
It's definitely a useful code assistant for some tasks (Bash scripts wow). Search-wise I think it's just brought us back to the level Google results were at before the SEO apocalypse, but it's slightly worse because I can never trust the AI summaries directly. I have to click the link into the authoritative sources to make sure.
It's an interesting idea, sort of a more persistent Omegle. For me though 48 hours would be far too much time. I'll either make a connection and want to remain in touch (on some other platform) within 15 minutes of the initial conversation or I will want to talk to someone else.
> You have to be willing to be direct and to the point. Beating around the bush only shows you don’t believe that what you need to say is valid or worthy. Stuttering or dancing around the topic at hand conveys uncertainty and undermines your position. You must be intentional and explicit in what you say, if you want the other party to fully grasp where you are coming from.
I don't know about the premise of the article but this suggestion definitely resonates with me. It's easy enough for misunderstandings to arise even when people are trying their best to communicate what they mean. Once you start beating around the bush it's almost guaranteed the other party is going to hear something completely different than what you intent.
This is awful. How about instead of increasing traffic by generating mountains of useless "humanized" filler content you create some novel, useful content?
I don't need them to convert it into fiat immediately. Even a single lump sum at the end of the month would be acceptable if it allowed more users to pay.
> Wage growth has severely lagged compounded capital, causing ordinary people increasingly see their best shot at real upward mobility in negative EV jackpots. Online gambling, 0DTE options, retail meme stocks, sports betting, and crypto memecoins all testify to the phenomena of exponential wealth preference. Technology makes speculating effortless, while social media spreads the story each new overnight millionaire, luring the broader population into one giant losing bet like moths to a light.
I don't think exponential wealth preference is the cause. For many people doing nothing is already (or at least feels like) a losing bet. At least if you YOLO what you've got into a losing bet there is a chance you come out ahead.
It may be that the "denialists" persist and are so vocal because of the excessive hype, most of it marketing driven, around AI. Personally I think it's good to hear some counterpoints, even if both the denialists and the hypsters are way off the mark.
Those early machines really were impractical. From the Wikipedia article:
"The typewriter employed 36 keys divided into four banks: the first was numbered 0 through 5, and the other three were numbered 0 through 9. To type a character, the operator simultaneously pressed one key from each bank. Each four-digit combination corresponded to one of 5,400 Chinese characters, punctuation marks, numerals, letters of the English alphabet and other symbols etched onto a revolving drum which had a diameter of seven inches and a length of 11 inches. The drum made a complete revolution once per second, allowing the operator to achieve a maximum typing speed of 45 words per minute."