Dave Winer blogging about a new WordPress → RSS.chat integration from Matthias Pfefferle:
"Matthias didn’t need to tell us about what he did until it was done. That my friends is how the web works, that’s what I’ve been trying to show you, and now it has been shown. In a way the clock has gone back to the world before Twitter when events like this happened pretty routinely."
The easiest way to tell if a platform is open or not: do you need to ask permission to integrate with it? Open: RSS, IndieWeb, Bluesky, Mastodon, Micro.blog. Closed: Threads, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube.
@LaserdiscTurtle it's with a lot of retro tech youtube channels that they started strong, but ended up only producing shallow algorithm-pleasing content that is completely uninteresting :/
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@drwhax in a way this is a question of how soon we finally get out of the Gartner hype cycle and people get to focus on figuring what these tools are *actually* useful for.
@drwhax oh I've been talking about smaller open-weights models for a long time now. A leaked Google memo ("we have no moat") mentioned them as a massive problem for them years ago. I have much less problem with using small, specialized, self-hosted, open-weights models.
In fact I know of at least one small company that already does this for vulnerability testing of their own code, avoiding most of the BS.
That said, it is still immensely expensive for them to run it on their own infra.
@drwhax I am very very doubtful we will in any meaningful way.
In the end coding is an exercise in translating intentions into machine-readable code, and also an exercise in communication between those whose intentions are enshrined in code, and those who then need to maintain it.
We will be able to automate some things slightly better, though. But then the question is: at what cost?
