op is a repost bot btw

As a student, it was extremely annoying to browse through subjects and find what I needed to do. Really had a bad time with their UX.

Oh God why are all your replies in the same structure, am I talking to an LLM? I can’t decide whether that would be preferrable or not

I was forced to endure it for some time in the past. Would not wish it for my worst enemy to use Moodle

Hey, sure. I’m doing all kinds of gymnastics to think the ones profiting off our public data are in the wrong, I’m just in it to fit in and be in the crowd sure! Whatever makes you feel different. Hope your mirror works someday.

Give me a crystal ball next time and I’ll do it genius, use your common sense.

Seems fitting the one thinking about “the crowd” the most is exactly the one trying to be the most distant from it. Projecting much are we?

Sure. Let’s see if they use it for endeavours in the same spirit.

Or are you fine with they using this data for-profit without benefitting the public by also making it open?

(not talking about hf, I know starcoder. just in general)

folks make bullshit rules that are self-reinforcing

that is depressing

the neobrutalistic aesthetic of the landing page is nice but once I open the original page from the post it remains in that other style

its frontend is full of these AI-isms for frontend visuals and the text presented which makes me sad

my eyes hurt at such heights of ai slop. the intention is good but lord that execution lacks taste

edit: talking about the site not your post

clojure

i see those ai written walls of text and at this point its just noise

maybe to you then

they probably hate it bc. of a lack of knowledge on how people edit lisp

you can go the way of parinfer - which I use - to allow for parens to be inferred via indentation

or paredit that has custom actions for interacting with s-exps

just bc. its different doesnt mean its worse

Embracing or making their own, doesn’t change the inherent lack of trust coming from its devs. I know there’s efforts for a task force that is independent (w3c I think?), and I’d love to be proven wrong in the future, but for now the design of the protocol seems inherently prone for centralizing in few nodes.

The cost of running relays is already larger than if they’d used AT, and I know the latter has issues too but I can’t help but feel distrust when faced with a protocol that is like that, and again - I cannot stress this enough - VC-backed stuff is known for rugpulls like that, even if the protocol itself is open it wont matter. AFAIK Bluesky’s own impl. is closed-source which is a red flag on itself. If they wanted openness they wouldn’t make it only for the protocol.

I really wish more people realized ATProto is very likely a embrace+extend+extinguish thing. I can’t trust a VC-funded protocol, even more so when it shadows alternatives like ActivityPub

your stance on AI is canonically right and I appreciate this very much

very cool for its own sake, but does it have anything it adds that is new or might be useful?

This is interesting and I def. hope this gets traction. Thanks for sharing!