On the other side of the coin, those of us doing tech support for unsavvy family members do not want them installing software from any source but some vetted app store. Making it a bit harder is a real boon for those of us that still carry the mental scars of so many Bonzi Buddy removals.

Do you consider F-Droid a "vetted app store"?

Yes I do but I don't want to help my parents install it

The whole AI corner of the computer industry is based entirely on vibes, why stop now?

A few years ago i went to the International Spy Museum in Washington DC[0]. It was really interesting and had a lot of cold war espionage stories, although it is one of the few museums in Washington DC that charges admission. Worth it in my opinion if you're interested in this stuff and have the opportunity to go

[0] https://www.spymuseum.org

> if the clone does not become popular, the West loses

How? if the original product being cloned is popular, isn't the west still winning?

I think the OP meant "if the cloned item becomes popular 'in the west'".

Cool site, thanks! it seems to also be backed by archive.org, i wonder if there's a way to move more stuff into that interface. the nirvana performance in the article isn't there for instance.

One of the authors/maintainers of Relisten posted that they are working on adding the Aadam Jacbos collection - https://bsky.app/profile/saewitz.com/post/3mjawvvklls2v

Oh hey, it's me! Happy to answer any questions

We landed an update on mobile last week that brought all 4,000 artists with a "collection" onto Relisten. That'll be coming to the web and sonos shortly as well.

We've been discussing the Aadam Jacob's collection with the archivists for some time. It comes with its own unique UX[0] and data constraints so we've been iterating on that and waiting for a critical mass of uploads before tackling it. We're getting closer though.

I agree with most of the sentiment in these comments. Archive and share non-comercially all the things!

[0] it's not "one" artist so it requires some custom UI, it should be unified through a single Aadam Jacob's collection, and it has a unique data path/structure on Archive.org relative to other collections

Scenario 2 makes the assumption that no technological development can happen without AI, which seems like a stretch to me. Honestly, the worst scenario i can think of is 40ish years of AI assisted development followed by a technological crash due to there being no competent engineers left to fix the slop.

I didn't say all technological development would be halted, just that tech "in many fields" would have to be stalled for safety (AI development, algorithm development that would reduce the cost of training models, etc)> Naturally if AI is considered an existential threat there would be a huge safety radius for things that would allow bad-actors to train AI models.

> Meanwhile.. just.. ask an LLM if you can mix certain cleaning chemicals safely.

the cost of the wrong answer to this question is so incredibly high that I hope nobody is sincerely asking an LLM for this information. The things people trust to "machine that gives convincing answers that are correct 90% of the time" continue to shock me

> is so incredibly high that I hope nobody is sincerely asking an LLM for this information

Google trumps the search results with it's LLM box. There's only one reason to do that. They know their audience is not engaging in discretion.

> The things people trust to "machine that gives convincing answers that are correct 90% of the time" continue to shock me

People are having intimate relationships with chat bots. There's a deeper sociological problem here.

The liability of google's search box saying "Ammonia and bleach mix to make a great cleaning agent!" (disclaimer: please don't do that it will kill you) seems really high. I feel like we're all living in crazy world.

I think they're biased toward code that will convince you to check a box and say "ok this is fine". The reason they avoid abstraction is it requires some thought and design, neither of which are things that LLMs can really do. but take a simple pattern and repeat it, and you're right in an LLM's wheelhouse.

Good. Don't send spam. If you're sending spam, then you clearly don't care about your complaint rate.

Except that compiler is a non-deterministic pull of a slot-machine handle. No thanks, I'll keep my programming skills; COBOL programmers command a huge salary in 2026, soon all competent programmers will.