This been said so many times, and look where we are today.

Being arrogantly confident that a bad idea can’t become a reality, in 2026, at this point is just plain ignorance.

The reason a lot of these enterprises are looking to offload developers is because they see AI as accelerating their workforce. These businesses are doing the same thing as they were before, but with AI, which means they don’t have enough workload to justify having that many people on anymore (as long as they are using AI workloads). If one developer with AI can do the work of 3 to 10 developers without AI the logic is that they can have their developer headcount and still be ahead.

Not that I agree with what they’re doing, but this is the logic behind it.

You then conveniently ignore the point that they made, which is that, by volume, there are more sites, but by traffic and load, definitely not.

Welcome to the future, my friends, where soon enough you will not be able to own your own at-home compute because it’s too expensive, and instead you’ll just have to pay hourly to use someone else’s compute.

Low key win to everyone in New Mexico

I doubt New Mexico will ever see the money.

What are they going to do to actually punish Facebook for not paying?

Large corporations are somewhat immune from actual consequence these days.

Except for all the local government departments who only provide information on Facebook, and Facebook who loves to sign-in wall information.

It’s absolutely infuriating, but it is an unfortunate reality that many will be unwilling to not have a Facebook account simply for that reason, even if they don’t actively engage on Facebook.

This and several other reasons make absolutes like yours somewhat unworkable. Participating and being “part” of Facebook means you’re supporting it. Having an account does not as there are innumerable reasons to have an account that don’t involve supporting Facebook, they are not difficult to think of.

Eh. I use Usenet and honestly the reliability sucks. I almost never successfully get quality media from there. It’s either missing too many blocks, doesn’t exist, or is grossly mislabeled.

It’s reasonable to be annoyed by this.

I’ve built automatic tools within client software that handle file types and basic security better than this, < 5 years into my career as an inexperienced dev.

It’s crazy that not only is executable downloading not blocked by default for a media downloader, but as fast as I can tell it’s not even doing magic bytes based format detection…?

Wait, wtf, this isn’t on by default??

Okay, but define standing there, and define public space, and define blocking.

Is standing in a public space for 10 minutes blocking?

What if you’re standing in a line? What if you’re standing, looking at a parking meter? Perhaps you’re waiting for the walk sign on the road, and you’re standing on the edge of the sidewalk?

Is there now a large list of exceptions? Does that mean standing in a public space where your activity is not part of the list of exceptions means you are now obstructing it?

What if you’re standing in a public space, but you’re a worker and are actually tasked with working on that public space? Technically, you are standing in a public space, so you are blocking it, no?

Is there some temporal element to this? If not, then are you technically blocking a public space simply by existing in that public space? If at any point you are in that public space, you are not actively moving out of that public space?

So on and so forth. This can continue forever.

The implications of something like that are pretty far-reaching, and the ambiguities are great.

Yeah, but standing on a sidewalk and allowing people to pass you by is not blocking anything…?

So, even if that’s the case, it seems pretty weak.

Your rights are being slowly pulled tighter around your neck, and the legal system is not your friend anymore.

When communicating online, like we are right now, is longer considered a legally protected activity, do you roll over like a good puppy and stop communicating with others online in information free forums?

It was legal to kill Jews. Does that mean it was okay, since that was a legally protected activity? Does that mean living as a Jew, no longer being a legally protected activity, requires that you turn yourself in because you are no longer allowed to exist where you are?

Almost no activity is a legally protected activity in a society and government hellbent on control.

The law did actually use to mean something, as it was, to some degree, written and enforced with care and consideration.

The law means considerably less now that it has been captured and written by those in power without consideration and simply as a tool to selectively enforce their power and target undesirable sub cultures.

Just like flock cameras, no one cares if someone goes and spray-paints or vandalizes some wandering piece of corporate equipment from corporations that are abusing their power and cuddling up to the current regime. It being a legally protected activity or not doesn’t matter, because what is considered a legally protected activity no longer matters. The law is no longer something that applies based off the will of the people, but instead is something that applies and is built based off the will of a select few (many of whom are loyal and funded by the same corporations).

This kid is the difference between idealism and reality.

In an idealist world, automation would fund UBI, which would fund a higher quality of living for everyone. Which is effectively parallel to what you’re arguing here, in it’s fundamental mechanics.

As you can probably see, many Western nations don’t have UBI. Why? Because automation doesn’t give back to the people, automation provides more wealth to a few corporations and individuals.

The same thing goes with delivery robots. It largely benefits the corporation, which can cut additional expenses by not having to pay a human. Where does that money go? It goes to line someone’s coffers. If it was taxed appropriately, then that money could go back into the public, but it doesn’t.

People don’t want to work crappy delivery jobs. They do it out of necessity in order to buy food and pay rent, and the buying of that food and the paying of that rent also increasingly goes to smaller set of large corporations.

That’s the reality.

… What?

I’m incredibly productive, and have had the joy of working on productive teams. And unless they are working with hundreds of full time, high performing, engineers. You ain’t changing 10 million lines in a month.

With AI, it’s technically possible, but I can only imagine the slop. It’s likely incomprehensible at this point.

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