> I feel like this is going to end up being like cookie laws

Companies will implement it in the worst way possible? Nowhere in the cookie laws does it say you need to add a banner, you just can't spy on users without their consent.

The point of the banner has always been to malicious-compliance the users into being annoyed by the laws. Same as when one of the food delivery apps responded to a fair wages regulation by adding a special line item to every single order with help text that directed the user to appeal the regulation, it's just cookie banners usually don't say it explicitly

The web’s ad markets bake in a loss of privacy by design, and so every website that wants to participate in those ad markets has to dupe as many users as possible into handing away their privacy. Couple that with declining web ad revenues because of the move to mobile apps, and you get a web filled with malicious compliance cookie banners.

Had google offered a privacy-preserving ad model (basing the ads off the content of the page instead of who the user is) things would be very different.

BOYD is corporate to me, BYOC LANs were common here

Updates? To an ESPHome device?

Isn’t that what they advertise as a “feature” on their website?

I heard this one a lot 6+ years ago

> Geist Pixel isn’t a novelty font. It’s a system extension.

Okay LLM

To be fair, that's a direct quote from Vercel themselves introducing Geist Pixel: https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-geist-pixel

Some people wrote like that before LLMs polluted the water.

Just like people used em dashes before LLMs.

I used bullet points heavily before LLMs.

I felt personally attacked when LLMs came out: I'm an avid user of "—", bullets, numbered lists, and the word "delve". It's been a miserable couple of years.

LLMs write like that because people wrote like that. Enough, unfortunately for my remaining love of humanity, to cause the LLMs to adopt the quirk.

I know. That’s my point.

People talk about LLM writing style like it’s a unique butterfly and humans don’t write that they. But we do. Which is why LLMs do too.

Many many years ago I wrote a book for Apress, and the style guide for that instilled in me a lot of practices that now make my writing feel LLM-ish to some readers:

- Use bulleted lists, but always introduce and conclude a list with prose; a list can't immediately follow a heading or end a section.

- Use a mix of long and short sentences; in long sentences with parentheticals, use a mix of commas, parens, semicolons, and em dashes.

- With multiple continuous blocks of prose that aren't naturally broken up by an illustration or heading, start a paragraph with an inline bold statement to help anchor the reader.

I still use bullets extensively. You can easily tell when a human writes them when they are trees instead of lists.

I don't think even that is a reliable indicator because I'm currently reviewing an LLM generated bullet tree right now.

Oh interesting. Before the LLM craze, I only ever saw good bullet trees in legalese and git commit messages. The trainwrecks were far more likely to be the rare attempt by HR in a big email or in the odd Jira epic by a PM.

I wouldn't think LLMs would have much to train on. I still see some bad ones, but I don't feel like the quality ratio or overall quantity has changed. I do see more bullet lists though.

For sure, but I don't think I'm going to give Vercel benefit of the doubt that they aren't writing their copy with an LLM.

but what does that even mean?

I noticed the slop immediately and ejected it from by brain.

> So many tech writers seemed to suddenly decide this was a possibility at the same time

Wonder if any large geopolitical rifts happened eh. I soul would not host my application in Russia either for instance

For a specific group of people in the world anything but "USA nr1" is hard to image, I understand. Can the nuanced take be: Europe does it better sometimes? Not the best slogan but you're not in marketing

We can all run this through our LLM if choice, why post this?

When there was only a single terminal it was common in Europe to just... walk to the counter and pay for the meal card in hand. No other way to type in your PIN

Not universally true. I had a couple of cards without a chip because, reasons. I still was walking to the counter myself, because giving somebody my card feels weird.

Sometimes you start reading comments like this being like "interesting viewpoint", but then somehow Russia deciding to invade a foreign country is the fault of the west and you're like "ah it's a Russian troll"