For someone who claims to be versed in logical fallacies, you do like to bandy about the old strawman. I didn’t dismiss the concerns you raised, I reframed them. There’s a difference. Pointing out that the harms you listed are primarily harms of concentrated corporate power isn’t missing your point, it’s pointing at the root cause.

If Palantir didn’t exist, the surveillance state doesn’t disappear. If Altman vanished tomorrow, the RAM supply chain doesn’t magically recover. The tool is downstream of the incentive structure.

As for the LLM accusation, no I wrote that myself. Though I’ll note the irony of deploying an ad hominem to dodge the substance, especially after opening with a lecture about fallacies. Cute. If my prose is too structured for your taste, that’s a you problem.

The Masley link stands. Engage with it or don’t, but the knee-jerk “that reads like AI” isn’t the ‘aha’ you think it is.

Perhaps so, but is that an AI issue or a billionaire tech bro issue? It feels more the latter than the former - and I’d argue the two aren’t as easily separable as that distinction implies.

The people building this stuff largely are the problem, which makes it an AI issue by default.

My read of the poster above is that they’re pointing towards the knee jerk reaction AI discussions cause.

Mention AI and you invariably spark off “online experts” who argue in bad faith - and that bad faith cuts both ways, dismissing legitimate concerns and overstating them in equal measure.

There’s a lot more nuance to this issue than commonly presented.

For anyone actually wanting to engage with the substance rather than the noise:

https://blog.andymasley.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversations-about

That link is worth your time before wading in.

It was too beautiful to live for long lol.

Counterpoint to your counterpoint: this was done by one dude, on (likely) consumer level hardware. From that perspective - and in light of the prior framing - this is actually impressive AF. Or depressing AF.

2 years ago, we couldn’t get Will Smith eating spaghetti right; now we’re doing dangerously convincing fake trailers.

PS: I thought the voice work was pretty good here but YMMV.

Counterpoint:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAzbzMgVA2A

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“The app said scan my eye. It was non-specific as to which”

It’s Tinder; shouldn’t it be scan bobs and vagene?

https://bannedbyanthropic.com/

I believe the word is capricious. Everything cloud based is at the whim of someone else.

There are ways to mitigate against that, but ultimately if it’s not yours…it’s not yours.

No.

Clankers were trained on the writing style of individuals such as myself (ASD). While I do consciously (and subconsciously) code switch, I’m aware I have a default “sounds like ChatGPT” voice when dealing with technical discussions, especially if I’m trying to be precise or guard myself from accusation or attack.

I’m ok with it, but I’m now going to autism at you / over explain it, partially because I think it might help you parse the difference between human and machine when reading these things.

You asked in apparently good faith and you deserve a full explanation.

The underlying pattern comes from a perversion of the “measure twice, cut once” mentality; I create the crux of the argument, forecast likely objections, rewrite to close off said objections, sand the edges off, check if I was unintentionally offensive, check if I presented the facts to the best of my ability, check for logical fallacies, then finally sweep to see if there is any ambiguity or obvious attack surfaces left. Then I read it out loud to myself.

That mode flattens everything into a “safe, palatable, high signal to noise ratio, use dot points so people don’t lose you, don’t write like yourself” style.

(And I still miss typos sometimes. That actually really, really irks me).

Anyhow, when I said the clankers copy us, I didn’t mean just vocabulary. Expand the CoT (chain of thought) the next time you use ChatGPT; you’ll see they made it do this exact same process.

PS: You’re not the first to point it out either. It’s one of the reasons I dubbed my blog Clanker Adjacent

Don’t tell em :)

Sorry - don’t have Android Auto so couldn’t tell you. Please report back if you do?

I’ll take that as a thank you :) It’s good, ya?

monochrome.tf

I get where you’re coming from, but the issue isn’t that YouTube makes money, it’s how aggressively they’re doing it simultaneously.

• Charge advertisers? Fair enough.
• Charge viewers a Premium fee to avoid ads? …ok.
• Quietly tighten the screws on ad-blockers while doing both? That’s where it gets cynical.

The platform runs on creator content, yet payout rates, especially for smaller channels, have barely moved while YouTube’s revenue keeps growing. They’re squeezing every side of the equation at once while the people actually making the product worth watching see the least of it.

Ad-blocking isn’t theft. It’s a rational response to a platform that’s decided unskippable ads are acceptable on top of an already profitable model. If the value exchange felt fair, fewer people would bother. Early days of streaming showed that people accept a fair deal. Enshittification has driven many of us back to the seven seas.

Izzat anything like FreeBSD?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/amirhusain/2026/04/01/ai-just-hacked-one-of-the-worlds-most-secure-operating-systems/

The second one, sadly :(

Still, the infra is there. So, it’s one of those “if you build it, they will come” (eventually) things. Maybe.

Why ewww?

Huh, Pipeline. OK, I’ll look into that. No point in reinventing the wheel.

I was poking around Grayjay last night and saw that a lot of extensions I had in mind had already been added, but still no lean back couch mode (at least, without casting from phone).

That might work for you and I but isn’t generalizable (eg: kids, elder kin etc).

If Pipeline has an android TV fork, it will save me from engineering something out of spite.

PS: network effect is real but we / they forget sometimes that other things exist. YouTube is a frivolous luxury…and the quality has been sliding for a long time.

There are (very few) content creators I regularly watch on YT that aren’t elsewhere - the rest is opportunistic crap and brain rot the kids are in to.

I can engineer around all of that. Most people could.

It would be the work of a weekend to yt-dlp the vids I’d like to keep and then switch off. Hell, I’d set up PinchFlat to run as a cron job twice a week an d/l shit into a folder so I can watch it off line if I have to.

Thinking out loud; I’d need a janitor process too: age-based expiry by default, but treat user likes as a retention signal. Thumbs-up could promote a video to a 30-day TTL; hard cap retention at 2 extensions unless explicitly locked, in which case it gets moved to a permanent archive folder.

If I cap quality to 720p, 1TB gets me rolling stock of what…2000 vids? 5000?

I could integrate that directly as an auto updating folder in JF or Nova Player…shit…now I want to do it.

Anyway, the second Smarttube dies (it will; it’s too good at what it does) or the m.youtube pipe dries up, people will leave in droves.

My guess - and this is a guess - is that Google is deliberately playing whack-a-mole rather than going for one giant hard lockout all at once, because too much pain too quickly risks pushing people to the alternatives.

Boiling frog and all that.

Wonder if its anything to do with this

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/claude-discovers-the-kobayashi-maru-test-what-is-the-benchmark-safety-test-the-ai-chatbot-outsmarted/articleshow/129479347.cms