Some local radio DJs frequently play songs I enjoy that have under 1K plays on youtube. No algo or platform is surfacing those. Local radio gets me both local and international music. A friend of mine prefers critically acclaimed stuff, so he streams radio shows from NTS and the like.
A bit of OT, but I have four iPhone 5/5s/SE (the SE is peak design and form factor, fight me) lying around that I use strictly as offline devices for things like saving data from my heart rate monitor, controlling my action camera, doing voice/field recordings through the 3.5mm connector – stuff I'd prefer never to leave my device (or data that should be open to user control but requires an invasive app to work, I have very few apps on my daily driver).
These devices are are small, snappy and powerful enough in 2025.
This is based on HSBC's model, which assumes some incredible numbers, such as:
> user numbers on an S-curve that by 2030 reaches 3bn, “equivalent to 44 per cent of the world’s adult population” ex China.
Unfounded statements (outside of language tasks, fwiw), such as:
>LLM subscriptions will become “as ubiquitous and useful as Microsoft 365”, HSBC says.
As well as this bold claim about OAI's potential to double the conversion rate:
>It models that by 2030, 10 per cent of OpenAI users will be paying customers, versus an estimated 5 per cent currently.
Does not include a major player in its market share analysis at all:
>Google is excluded entirely
And, still, it suggests that:
> OpenAI is expected to still be subsidising its users well into next decade
I've been distro hopping recently and missing the Web Apps application in Linux Mint. Somehow, Tangram slipped my radar until now. Seems to have never been mentioned on HN too.
>Several European governments have jailed people for social media posts. Many Europeans support this - they don't understand how government censorship can quickly get out of hand.
I think quite a few Europeans have lasting and direct experience with totalitarian, oppressive regimes. Which might also explain why they have stricter (or simply more precise) laws governing expression – not as an oppressive tool, but as a safety valve for the society.
This reads like someone desperately sticking band-aids onto a raging dumpster fire.
It certainly doesn't help that the journalist wrote more words on kayaking than trying to get Berners-Lee to square the circle of wanting data sovereignty AND as much data on the web as possible.
The training data is full ads. For books, you have publisher-influenced rankings, SEO slop and promotional social media posts. It's GIGO, and has been that way from the start.
since this is coming from a "technical SEO consultant": how about website owners and businesses stop bloating their sites with (mostly useless) trackers and analytics scripts first, before worrying how fonts are _crippling_ their performance
It's sad to know that sobriety groups use addictive tech for check-ins.
> Replace scrolling with building - building out my RSS reader, my website, my personal link connections, my skills in using a static site generator, etc.
I've personally found that this approach is just not enough. Sure, I might be "building" something with distracting stuff just a click away, all the while I'm still sitting, staring at a screen, and, fundamentally, in denial that life is possible without the Web.
Took me a couple of years to come to this realization, I went through the whole schtick of getting off doomscroll portals by deleting accounts and using alternative frontends, using addons on my browser to limit and then block those sites, using screentime limits, removing apps, reducing colors on my phone, getting into static websites, web publishing, audio editing, etc. – all of this effort to end up here, commenting on a VC-backed forum during my working hours, because it requires me to sit in front of a screen.
It's like strapping yourself into the chair from A Clockwork Orange (and managing/maintaining each strap) just to pretend that, for many of us, this tech is not a clear net negative, and that those negatives don't come from all sides, i.e., it's not just particular apps or sites we use, it's the tech itself that makes us stationary, distracted, obsessed, overstimulated, etc.
There's something fundamentally wrong if I'm picking up my distraction device because of a "touch grass" notification, much like trying to fix radiation poisoning by trying a different isotope.
Then again, those that make a more radical shift and get off the web don't waste time publishing blog posts about their framework to get off the web. Of, for that matter, comment on said posts...
Being passionate about hats is one thing, but being passionate about sharing something you care about with others is the real driver for publishing. As LLMs degrade web discoverability through search (summaries+slop results), there's no incentive for the latter people to continue publishing on the open web or even the bot-infested closed gardens.
The web is on a trajectory where a local dyi zine will reach as many readers as an open website. It might even be cheaper than paying for a domain+hosting once that industry contracts and hosting plans aren't robust enough to keep up with requests from vibe-coded scrapers.
> They replaced an always on-screen OS navigation button that's been there since Windows 7 with an ad!!
That must be doing wonders for the click rate. I can see the pre-promotion powerpoint slide now: "User engagement with Copilot is showing exponential growth"
Some local radio DJs frequently play songs I enjoy that have under 1K plays on youtube. No algo or platform is surfacing those. Local radio gets me both local and international music. A friend of mine prefers critically acclaimed stuff, so he streams radio shows from NTS and the like.