VibeSurgeon

I don’t think there’s even an expectation of privacy to be had on a public discord, in open channels. Closed channels are presumably not indexed.

This is false, Microsoft does not own Discord

To be clear, this is really good - so much information has moved from being accessible on the open internet in the form of public forums, to being inaccessible in the form of public discord servers. This brings back that lost information.

Again, you’re drawing conclusions from the event that are not supported by the facts.

It is increasing their revenue, which is the intended effect

I’m not really clear on what you mean here - Netflix are not having any trouble with their subscriber growth/churn numbers

A drop in consumption could be equally well explained by lacking content quality, leading to disinterest in consumption.

Arguably better explained, given that they laid off the director of content.

The metric of interest in the context is the effects on churn/subscriber conversion, in which Netflix significantly overperformed following the enforcement of family plan rules.

There’s no reason to believe that that’s related to the family plan enforcement, so it’s really not relevant to this discussion

The lost art of actually reading the article is not alive here at all

Christ, that UX sounds horrifying, honestly. I’m sure they appreciate your effort, but realistically I wouldn’t expect anyone to use it over any streaming solution

Jellyfin is based on the Emby-codebase before they relicensed it as closed source.

That’s basically saying that they shouldn’t use Claude at all.

Ed Zitron’s predictions are essentially worthless - see https://danluu.com/zitron/

The article plainly states that the production company says it wasn’t AI, but instead that it was human error that led to the data loss.

The AI-thing was merely a rumour.

It means you:

• Pay off the investors by licensing the tech, so they get made whole
• Hire whichever employees you feel like taking from the team, typically the founders + their favourites
• Leave the rest of the company in place

You can do it as a founder as a type of exit where you get paid a whole lot of money.

The bad part is that every other employee at the company basically gets stiffed. The “social contract” of startups is that you forego a big tech-level compensation package in favour of stock options which may provide returns at the point of an exit. In reverse acquihires this social contract is directly violated.

There’s no surprise here - the founding team already got picked up by Google in a reverse acquihire. What was left was just the corpse.

If you’re trying to take this as a sign of impending AI Business failure, you should look probably elsewhere.

Reverse acquihires should probably be illegal to be honest. It leaves a lot of people out in the cold.