Yes turns out humans are just dumb animals with a limited attention span and capacity for knowledge. We act like we're civilised, but look at the state of the world lmao. The "me and mine" attitude applies broadly across the HN audience as well; just look at the responses I've gotten when I've suggested that it should be illegal to own second homes in the middle of a housing crisis. We're all in it for ourselves and work together only enough to benefit our tribe, like animals.
I, of course, include myself in this as well. Give me dat dopamine and serotonin!
Eh, this has happened before, is happening now and will happen again. The articles always act like the users affected were of average intelligence and or completely sound mind; I don't think that this is true at all.
And there are millions of people who chat with AI each day who do not run into any issues like this at all.
So all of these articles are just more playing on the hype of "ooohohooh AI did this ooohohoh so scary new technology!"
When it's like...probably more than 100k people use a circular saw each day...but a very small portion of those are going to injure or maim themselves in an accident while using it.
Look at the number of vehicular deaths compared to AI, looks like deaths directly caused or inspired by AI are at about 1-4/year recently and that's all internationally...2024 only just the UK had 1,602 road deaths.
I feel like at its core its a mental health/isolation problem and that our species' refusal at large to address mental health is the real meat of the issue.
Meh. Plenty of landlords suck, if anything his only mistake was not making it available to others in the same building.
The last apartment I rented (London) I never even met my shitty landlord hiding all the way up in Scotland. Randomly one day after getting home from a long day at work, my fob wouldn't let me in at the front door. Message the landlord ("SMS only, no calls") and it turns out that he'd got another copy made in case he needed it - when he got this copy made, the security company disabled the current fob (my one).
Initially he was going to make me wait until a new fob could be sorted out. After much anger and aggression I got his fob sent down to me in the post. Was still not able to access my home for several days and had to emergency crash with some friends.
Didn't get a discount on the rent and the fucker came up with every excuse under the sun to take my security deposit upon moving out as well.
ESP8266 came out 2014, around the same time as the first Pi, besides the myriad of wifi enabled uc options before that. First Arduino (let's say for ease of use) with wifi built in was 2013.
Lmao people already getting mad. It's honestly just way simpler doing something like that with a microcontroller/realtime rather than a pi running all sorts of processes/reboots/sd card issues etc.
Oh yeah for sure and if they had come back with "oh yeah we only had that" (they did) I would've been like "ah okay makes sense!"
But for people to react negatively to my comment in the first place is hilarious and predictable human behaviour. Honestly it doesn't really necessitate explanation, imo.
We had to come up with something wireless for authentication as we did not want to install anything visible like RFID readers. We also had a few Pis lying around.
A friend was telling me yesterday that this is how you can set custom ringtones on iOS. He seemed really excited about it, how cute.
Because I literally could not believe the archaic process previously used until very recently to set a ringtone on iOS. And now it's under the share menu?! Why do Apple people put up with this shit?
I've been able to set a custom ringtone in Android from the OS settings/any file browser app for at least 15 years and I would not be surprised if Android launched with it.
>Apple still sells 30-second song ringtones for $1.29 each through the iTunes Store app.
Native apps were never a part of the original iPhone release, all the apps were essentially web apps, running one at a time (no multi-tasking/running in background unlike it being built into Android from the get-go).
To your last point surely it makes sense that they'd probably be rolling something like RN or similar where at that point they may as well build for Android app as well right?
Versus with proper PWA support across the board, a single button on the company's site that installs a PWA no matter which platform your customers are on.
Papa John’s doesn’t need a website seemingly and everything you can do on the app you can do on the website. Why is the app so much faster? I can say the same for banking apps, Airbnb, hotel apps, etc
There must be some reason that every major company decided to have an app even though today all of the same functionality is available on the web.
Are you mad because they probably found the same thing I did when doing web stuff that had to run on iOS (going as far back as about 2012~) that iOS required so much more hoop jumping, hacks, polyfills etc? It was just assumed that every other platform worked fine, time was always allocated for inevitable issues on mobile Safari.
Nonsense. Firefox on Android (and I'm sure everywhere else) allows endless redirects without prompting me about the redirect, sending me to sites I never wanted to go to.
And even then, where does one draw the line on "privacy"? Especially given that every other app on the user's phone is granted every permission under the sun and feeding on as much data as possible.
The core of the problem isn't supporting web bluetooth etc or not...the core of the problem is that dumbass humans will go "yes use all the permissions" because their hands are already shaking from tiktok withdrawal.
Not if it's an Open Source project made by a bunch of people for the love of the game. Install a PWA and you have it even when the site is down, if not code available on GH. It's possible to do on a computer (write code and distribute an app not via an app store)...but not in the magical protected-profits land of mobile devices.
Your way of thinking is the reason why we now have a half dozen trillion dollar companies controlling the world.
I, of course, include myself in this as well. Give me dat dopamine and serotonin!
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