1-2 tokens/sec is perfectly fine for 'asynchronous' queries, and the open-weight models are pretty close to frontier-quality (maybe a few months behind?). I frequently use it for a variety of research topics, doing feasibility studies for wacky ideas, some prototypy coding tasks. I usually give it a prompt and come back half an hour later to see the results (although the thinking traces are sufficiently entertaining that sometimes it's fun to just read as it comes out). Being able to see the full thinking traces (and pause and alter/correct them if needed) is one of my favorite aspects of being able to run these models locally. The thinking traces are frequently just as or more useful than the final outputs.
Ha, it's been ages since I heard about Prezi, thanks!
Related to Prezi, but not my earlier comment: I'm actually messing with a little toy project: a Playdate (http://play.date) remote to control presentations/media/Claude Code
It would be (useless, but) fun to be able to control the animation transitions (like those in Prezi) using the crank!
The implementors of the banners did it in the most annoying way, so most users will just accept all instead of rejecting all (because the button to reject all was hidden or not there at all), check steam store for example their banner is non intrusive and you can clearly reject or accept all in one click.
The law wasn't poorly written, most websites just don't follow the law. Yes, they're doing illegal things, but it turns out enforcement is weak so the lawbreaking is so ubiquitous that people think it's the fault of the law itself.
> [...] most websites just don't follow the law. Yes, they're doing illegal things, but it turns out enforcement is weak so the lawbreaking is so ubiquitous [...]
I just checked the major institutional EU websites listed here[0], and every single one (e.g., [1][2][3]) had a different annoying massive cookie banner. In fact, I was impressed I couldn't find a single EU government website without a massive cookie banner.
I don't know if it is due to the law enforcement being so weak (or if the law itself is at fault or whatever else). But it seems like something is not right (either with your argument or EU), given the EU government itself engages in this "lawbreaking" (as defined by you) on every single one of their own major institutional websites.
The potential reason you brought up of "law enforcement is just weak" just seems like the biggest EU regulatory environment roast possible (which is why I don't believe it to be the real reason), given that not only they fail to enforce it against third parties (which would be at least somewhat understandable), but they cannot even enforce it on any of their own first party websites (aka they don't even try following their own rules themselves).
What do you mean? The original post mention 1000 cookies and no button to reject them. The sites you mention do have only two buttons (accept/reject). So they are following the law and not engaging in dark patterns.
That is unfortunate, EU could well present itself as an example of how things can be done right. Unfortunately incompetence and/or indifference, plus lack of IT talent willing to work for the public sector is also a thing in politics. It's an opportunity lost for sure.
> Attempts at "compliance" made the web browsing experience worse.
Malicious compliance made the web browsing experience worse. That and deliberately not complying by as much as sites thought they could get away with, which is increasing as it becomes more obvious enforcement just isn't there.
Because the issue is due to a failure in the law. The failure of not enforcing the "do not track" setting from browsers that would avoid the need for these annoying pop-ups in the first place.
I like to call this approach MISS (MISS – Make It Stupid, Simple) or better:
Make
It
Stupid
Simple,
To
Experience
Revenue
= M.I.S.S.T.E.R.
i.e. keep removing features until the idea fits in your head, the value can be explained concisely to a small group of people to whom it'll just 'click'.
I love your blog. As an aside, on OBEY - I also love smoking and have quit - except for one time - for years now. And a thing that's helped immensely, is just sitting and becoming comfortable with the idea that I will always want cigarettes. It's just biology. When I tried to do things like to distract myself, like your suggestions in OBEY, the desire became stronger. So, my suggestion is to lean into the discomfort of not having something you want. Or wanting something, and deciding not to take it.
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