> what do you think about LLMs "licensing" the content so you get royalties

which LLMs are doing this?

Ask the makers of this site (cloudflare)... they are successfully blocking their own scanner after all:)

Blacksky and other instances of bluesky are not affected, what are you talking about?

Not true, they were down because they still use bluesky's relay

You mean the one for old ios versions?

You mean the iOS version people are refusing to upgrade from because of the shittified forced UI changes?

You aware that iOS 18 is patched right and "old" means 17 and before?

AFAIK Apple released a patch for EOL devices and not devices which are supported by v26.

False, just updated one a day or two ago, it keeps suggesting iOS 26 but below that was 18.7.7

the amount of people not updating anyway is less than .1%

wasnt ai supposed to get us post-scarcity?

That worked out, for the founders of frontier labs at least.

It's American company... unlikely.

Then fork it.

Besides, the one thing Mozilla could do to be relevant to 99.9% of web users is to move somewhere other San Francisco and turn their office their into a homeless shelter. They should go to Dublin or Frankfurt or Barcelona, anywhere.

> the fact that is the first thing you learn humanises the username behind the keyboard

The username is macOS26. The name is "Agent!". As in "Agentic AI for your entire Mac Desktop". All commits are made by this entity.

Until someone here told me there is a real guy behind it I sincerely gotta say, it looks like there's no human behind the keyboard and actually there's no keyboard at all.

Combined with cancer message on top it made me think some LLM "agent" is trying different tricks because it was prompted to achieve maximum stars and forks. I feel shitty for saying this but how not to be cynical because literally that's what we degraded to thanks to "ai".

> Combined with cancer message on top it made me think some LLM "agent" is trying different tricks because it was prompted to achieve maximum stars and forks. I feel shitty for saying this but how not to be cynical because literally that's what we degraded to thanks to "ai".

AI might increase the volume of shitty things on the internet, but it's not like GitHub accounts weren't anonymous before AI, and it's not like people weren't using scammy tactics to boost their star count before AI.

If the fear of AI turn us into worse people in our interactions, that's kind of on us, not AI

An anonymous account isn't the same as bot account. Number of obvious bot accounts jumped 1000% in the last 4 years or so.

Thanks! :)

I honestly don't think anyone starred, watched or forked it because it was a person with cancer. They starred it because it's a good app. One that is missing on macOS.

Today, I used it to weed out hundreds of Linkedin "followings" with Safari. worked like a champ. It does very well at coding tasks too and automating Xcode builds.

> In my experience, everyone got their act together except Google.

I remember a bunch of spam and fishing emails from weird Outlook addresses. Don't remember any from Google.

I don't have a problem with mentioning cancer, but they should've mentioned which cancer to raise awareness and help others. The ribbon icon is gold which means pediatric/childhood cancer?

Asking for stars and forks is where it gets weird. I understand a crowdfunding program but how is this going to help?

Makes it even weirder that this is a completely anonymous, we don't know who works on it, and actually the project pretends to be authored by "AI". look at commit history and contributors

I don't want to be cynical here, my dad was diagnosed with cancer too but this just feels like some LLM was given a prompt to maximize stars and forks and this is how that went. I am very sorry to say this.

Although not disclosed on this page, the author's name is mentioned on their other projects[0].

> Our founder, Todd Bruss, is currently battling Cancer. Through it all, he continues to pour his heart into InkPen. Your support and encouragement mean the world.

The author has posted about their project on LinkedIn as well[1].

[0] https://inkpen.io/ [1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/principal-software-engineer-swif...

OK, I take it back. What can I say, even knowing he is working on this LLM stuff that's becoming the curse of humanity I still wish him beat cancer.

:)

Where is juggling shop a thing?

It was in the UK in 1993, about the time the web was starting to take off. As the other commenter says, there was a much wider variety of shops then.

I am not the person you're asking, but they were a thing in The Netherlands at least. Not super common, but they did exist. Typically they sold other related things too, like diabolos, flower sticks, etc. This was a while ago, before Amazon, when there were just a lot more different types of shops. I am not sure they still still exist.