To be charitable, according to at least some reports, the Model Y was the best selling car of 2024.

I was googling the data for 2025 and it seems that it’s number 2 now (behind the RAV4 to my surprise) with the Corolla at 3.

No idea how accurate these are, finding global numbers was harder than I thought.

We might as well call it “vibe valuation“ since that’s what it is.

> and mac os is absolutely awful. I have no idea how people use Mac.

Not sure about other people, but in my case I spend 99% of the time using software made by 3rd parties so my exposure to the OS is very limited.

Latest OS is making life miserable though, compared to all the previous releases.

> Who among us is brave enough to try and stop this?

That could be you. And it would be a great thing to do if you worried for the future generations.

Lot of people seem to be happy to live without the last two unfortunately.

> US origins of the key technology here give the US a veto here regardless of ASML's Dutch headquarters.

Is this an actual thing? Genuinely asking. Not that rules and laws seem to matter anymore to the current US administration anyway

Yes, the mechanism is effectively EAR/FDPR and you can check (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ultraviolet_lithograph...) for more detailed history, but the EUV technology ASML further developed and commercialized (no small feat) was licensed from a US Govt created consortium by which the government maintains their IP rights.

Not sure why IP law would be respected if the king actually pulls the trigger on taking Greenland.

That’s not guaranteed at this point, but it’s also not off the table since all the old rules are being shredded as fast as possible.

We had shit in a box way before the banana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s_Shit

Your point still stands though.

> how much does Return of the Obra Dinn or Outer Wilds really change the player as a person?

That’s an odd bar to cross in order to define art, if that’s what you mean there. I’ve seen plenty of art in my life (not hard to do living in Italy) and most of it didn’t change me as a person. It was still art though.

You are 100% right. But so is the person you’re replying to. Not everything coming out of AI is slop. This almost certainly is.

“AI slop (also known simply as slop) is digital content made with generative artificial intelligence that is lacking in effort”

Your homepage says:

“Paste a YouTube URL (yours, a competitor's, or a viral hit). LandKit extracts the genius and converts it into a structured, SEO-optimized article in 60 seconds.”

Tell me how that’s not the definition of low effort. And also tell me how that adds any value. An original video already exists. You’re doing nothing but generating noise that makes the whole situation worse.

AI can have beneficial use cases. This is not one of them.

I’m looking at the site and right at the beginning it says:

> Standard.site provides shared lexicons for long-form publishing on AT Protocol. Making content easier to discover, index, and move across the ATmosphere.

Which part of these required a new protocol and couldn’t be built before @at existed? Seems to me we’re reinventing the wheel for I’m not entirely sure which benefit. But maybe someone who’s more into this part of the web can educate me on this.

> Which part of these required a new protocol and couldn’t be built before @at existed? Seems to me we’re reinventing the wheel for I’m not entirely sure which benefit.

The atproto folks went and categorized all of the other attempts to do this at the time. (They even had some I hadn't heard of!)

All of them make various tradeoffs. None of them were the set of tradeoffs the team wanted. So they needed to make some new things. That's really the core of it.

My sibling has one of the largest and most specific things, but this is the underlying reason.

> The atproto folks went and categorized all of the other attempts to do this at the time. (They even had some I hadn't heard of!)

Is this study/exploration available anywhere? I’d love to give it a read if that’s available. If you have a link to share I’d really appreciate it.

I believe that https://gitlab.com/bluesky-community1/decentralized-ecosyste... is the canonical link, it's not the one I read originally, but is linked from the "related work" section of https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.03239

Thank you, will give this a read. I appreciate it.

One answer is right under Introduction:

> Content portability

> Users move between hosts without losing their content, audience, or metadata.

Did that require an entire new protocol though? I am 100% sure that if Twitter, Facebook and all the other platforms decided that they want to offer a way to move around accounts they could do it.

Maybe, coordination is the problem. What does that data look like, what does the target look like, can they be transformed?

ATProto has lexicon, which are more about social coordination than schemas for data correctness

https://pfrazee.com/blog/lexicon-guidance

The protocol is much more than data portability, it essentially turns the global social media system into a giant distributed system anyone can participate in at any point. Imagine if FB also let you tap into the event stream or produce your own event stream other FB users could listen to in the official FB app. That would be a pretty awesome requirement for all social media apps, yea?

https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers

> it essentially turns the global social media system into a giant distributed system anyone can participate in at any point.

Don’t we already have that and is called “the web”? It’s already a giant distributed system anyone can participate in at any point.

What are we really gaining here?

A shared event bus, lexicon for coordination, apps that store user data in the users database, separation of client from app data

if they decided to, sure they could. they don't want to and never will.

I am not debating that. But this same reasoning applies to @at or any other implementation. You have to be willing to implement the features and use the protocol. So I still don’t see why this is any different.

You keep asking questions, rejecting answers, and then saying you don't understand.

Perhaps it is time to read more about the protocol directly instead of asking questions on HN to poke holes in it from a position of ignorance.