Vast majority of people are really stupid.

That’s hilarious. Keep it up!

What’s the difference?

When do you think we’ll see Americans jumping over a wall to get into Canada?

My local ALDI has guanciale from time to time and when it doesn’t I just use bacon. I would say guanciale takes it from 8/10 to 9/10. There’s difference but bacon does the job. Same with parmesan. I’m sure pecorino would be better but you can still make correct carbonara with the things you can easily find in most stores (at least in Spain).

I don’t have issues with scrambling eggs. I add a bit of pasta water (as you should) and heat it up slowly. I don’t remember the last time I fucked it up. And I ate carbonara made but different people and I like mine to most :)

It’s definitely not a “throw ingredients into a pot” recipe but it’s still fairly quick and easy.

I honestly don’t know what part of this is enshitification and what part it’s actual inability to protect their ranking algorithms. There’s so much money in SEO now companies are willing to do crazy things to position their spam. They host entire networks of sites that link to one another, pay people to write spam content and so on. Maybe they could spend more money on detection and keep fighting it, maybe at this point it’s impossible.

Interesting. Now check how many motorists are killed by cyclists and vice versa.

I do this but with olive oil, garlic and dried tomatoes :) Tried it in some restaurant one time. Dead simple and really tasty.

Another dead simple pasta: mozzarella and cherry tomatoes. Just let the mozzarella melt with cooked pasta, add tomatoes. Presto.

Carbonara is also not much harder.

I think it’s the smell. I remember some scientist did a experiment where he sat in a room full of mosquitoes and counted the bites to different parts of the body. He got most bites in the feet but when he washed them and tried the mosquitoes stopped attacking feet more than other body parts.

most mosquitos would be hanging out under your desk where your feet are.

Nooooo! No my feet!

1. Announce plans to build shitload of datacenters
2. Sign deal with NVIDIA to buy chips for those centers
3. NVIDIA’s stock goes up. NVIDIA invest profits in AI companies
4. AI companies use this money to offer tokens below market price
5. AI companies say usage is up so they will need more datacenters
6. Repeat until everything explodes
7. Profit

It’s all clear, thanks :)

I get the “throw some stuff in” style. I do the same for lentils or beans. Just throw everything into pressure cooker (do sofrito first, of course), you can do the quantities by eye with a bit of experience. Get super tasty results every time.

For tomato based pasta I just use tomato sauce they sell here. It just tomatoes and olive oil, tastes amazing. Add some black olives, onions, garlic, capers and you’re done :)

What’s your favorite recipe? Something quick and good?

Maybe you’re right. People have less resources and less spare time. Maybe we are fucked, even in the short-mid term. It looks pretty good to me (a lot of big players rely on Linux and core open source infrastructure, open source/self hosted tools are generally recognized as better for the business, we moved out from proprietary standards to open ones, there’s push for interoperability and so on) but maybe there are deeper issues I don’t see and it will all collapse sooner than I think.

I don’t have stats on all the restaurants in my are but restaurants in Spain are usually pretty good. I like my food better than all the cheap and fast options and all the medium level options which I estimate are 90% of the places. You can easily find higher level places with really good food and they can have things that are better than my cooking. I know what I like and I make food the way I like it. Restaurant food has to be really good to beat that.

You’re missing the point. Sure you do, that’s a nice anecdote, but the data shows most people don’t. You are part of a shrinking cohort that is already insufficient to maintain what we need in the long run.

But you accused me specifically of not contributing. If you’re making a broader point don’t single me out.

And then what ? Only large corporations can finance their own in-house tools and they gain even greater advantage against the rest of society ? What a great outcome…

Yes, that will be the outcome. And it will suck. I’m not optimistic, I’m realistic. If people wills top caring about open source it will die. Throwing AI at the problem may buy us some time but in the end LLMs also require resources and without support from community all the models will be controlled by corporations.

My sensation is that we’re doing fine for now. The community is still big enough for a decade or two. No idea what will happen after that.

Skill issue, obviously. I’m not a great cook and the food I make is better than 90% of restaurants.

CEO of big market chain in Spain (Mercadona) claims people will not have kitchens by 2050. They started selling ready meals some time ago and are now expanding it.

most people, like you, think that the free infrastructure around us is a fait accompli which doesn’t require us to personally get involved in their maintenance

I do contribute time and donate money to open source project so… miss?

With less contributors simply mean we will have to be smarter about which projects we supports. In open source it’s a natural process. People support projects they actually use and need. If we can’t get enough resources to support even the most basic infrastructure then the experiment will end.

search engines are willingly making their results less useful

Search engines are being flooded by shit content gaming their ranks algorithms. I guess open source engine could be so niche that no one would try to game it and it could help. The moment enough people start using it, it would have the same problem as all the other engines.