"Social media" is such a wide and vague term. We're basically banning people from talking to each other.

If Reddit is "social media", so is HN.

To me, Google switched the "Evil bit" around the time of the Dragonfly debacle (2018)

If OP is only seeing the problems now, they must have been selectively blind.

I mean, I get it. I have a family, financial obligations, etc. Certainly not shaming anyone for fulfilling those obligations working for a successful company. But don't put yourself up on a pedestal and cloak yourself in righteousness behind a veil of strong morals

Gobsmacked to learn that this was originally developed on the Apple II. I always thought of PoP as a 16-bit type of game.

and Disney

and My Little Pony.

I don't think full context should be provided at all times in casual internet conversations.

However, in your defense, "Richmond" is one of the most overloaded geographical names, second only to "Kingston".

Hm. I read that as saying that their users are writing more code with the assistance of LLMs, thus placing more stress on their systems. I do not read it as making any comment about their own practices.

Oh you're right, I misread. They're actually blaming their customer's vibe coding on their problems. I which case I call BS

In our internal metrics you can see a clear increase in PRs and CI runs in general that tracks with agentic coding adoption, and it's significant, so I absolutely buy that GitHub would be struggling to take the brunt of that without big changes

But GitHub's postmortems are usually related to internal rollouts rather than traffic load

A charitable view might be that changing which fingers you're using to plug the holes in the dike is a lot harder when the volume of water on the other side is increasing exponentially.

Is this the OpenClaw effect?

Why are you still assuming good intentions of Vercel? This was them less yhan a month ago : https://vercel.com/changelog/updates-to-terms-of-service-mar...

Those worries are ruled out... for now. Laws can be amended.

Then never go anywhere because eventually there might be a law there you disagree with. This is such a stupid argument.