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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • Microsoft needs to keep chucking “AI” into every single one of it’s products to get their AI usage numbers up.

    That number needs to go up so they can keep getting funding from investors.

    It doesn’t matter if it makes the products worse, or it’s worse for the users who use the products, or it’s worse for the developers who make the products, as long as that AI number goes up.

    But what happens when investors have put all their money into AI and there’s no more money to put into the bubble? The investors will want their expected profits, but it isn’t going to be coming and each investor will sell their stock as fast as possible to get as much money back as they can.

    In the end, the tech sector is going to be left a husk for a while.


  • I think some of the downvotes might be annoyance at not knowing what servo is.

    Everyone in the web and rust communities would know that it is the original rust application that the rust language was made to create: a new web browser built with memory safety and safe parallel execution as first concerns.

    Parts of it ended up in Firefox then servo died when Mozilla fired a whole swath of their own devs.

    It was stuck in limbo for a few years but has seen a revival under Igalia who have a history of fixing bugs and supporting/adding features to the existing browsers which the big players don’t have the resources or the will to work on.


    I do think every project needs a non-marketing-speak description of what it does on every major page that a user might visit (e.g. Homepage, project readme, releases/downloads page), but I wouldn’t really call version 0.0.1 a proper release.