Government has a massive network of cameras, drones and facial recognition devices.
You basically can't walk anywhere in Michigan without getting your face scanned.
https://www.atlasofsurveillance.org/atlas
Readit NewsDonnyV commented on Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language markojs.com/... · Posted by u/ulrischa
DonnyV commented on Amazon Demands Perplexity Stop AI Agent from Making Purchases bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/monkeydust
Anyone know why Amazon wants AI agents to stop making purchases?
I used to make Amazon purchases through ChatGPT Agent before Amazon blocked them. I could take a picture of a wrapper and say "buy a new one on Amazon" and it would handle the whole process. Awesome. I actually started shopping at other retailers when Amazon blocked their agent.
One theory I have is that an AI agent can more efficiently price-compare the dozens of different listings of the same item and order the cheapest, cutting into Amazon's margins.
You never want to lose direct contact with your customers. Having someone insert themselves between you and the customer is a recipe for disaster.
DonnyV commented on Falling panel prices lead to global solar boom, except for the US arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/Jtsummers
what makes you so sure it'll fall? plenty of autocracies last for decades, or generations
Incompetence, our "leaders" are woefully incompetent. MAGA, GOP and the right are filled with idiots. The Liberal and Neoliberal Democrats at least were a little better at stealing everything from us and delaying progress. They would bury people in culture wars and keep their followers busy with DEI rules. They used legitimate racist issues and then said everything was caused by racism and not that the 1% was just stealing everything.
DonnyV commented on Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it ajmoon.com/posts/mesh-i-t... · Posted by u/alex-moon
The hot one for me right now is C#'s Blazor, which is not too young, bout 8 years now? Basically you can either have it do all the back-end dynamic rendering with C# for your front-end (Server Blazor) or you can compile it to Web Assembly. I have not written any JS in over a year, and the UI is very similar to how Razor pages are made.
I'm of the opinion that this is the future of web development for numerous web frameworks should they invest in tech similar to Blazor. Phoenix's LiveView also comes to mind. I am hoping a brave soul builds something for Django (I've been meaning to try, but I have too many side projects going on atm) that is similar to Blazor.
Blazor will die like Sliverlight. Just learn HTML, CSS and Javascript.
DonnyV commented on Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it ajmoon.com/posts/mesh-i-t... · Posted by u/alex-moon
Congratulations, you have recreated NodeJS but with GO and HTMX.
DonnyV commented on Do I not like Ruby anymore? (2024) sgt.hootr.club/molten-mat... · Posted by u/Vedor
I started my programming journey with VB6. Ruby reminds me of Visual Basic. But its never evolved past that. Python became popular because it was a scripting language that had classes and a nice built out framework of features. But it has a god awful syntax and should never be used for a large project. Also their package management is a dumpster fire.
This brings me to C#. At .NET 10 there will be another option then python. .NET 10 brings the ability to run C# script files without the need for a proj file or a main method. This will bring the full .NET Framework and NUGET eco system with it. I can't wait to replace all my python scripts with this.
DonnyV commented on AI is predominantly replacing outsourced, offshore workers axios.com/2025/08/18/ai-j... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
H1B is a type of visa, the holders of which are workers.
It was implied that is was American workers being replaced.
If you have any questions I'll be sure to answer them.
We recently crossed a massive usage milestone with over 3M weekly downloads (we're nearly at 4M!) - see https://www.npmjs.com/package/@electric-sql/pglite
While we originally built this for embedding into web apps, we have seen enormous growth in devtools and developer environments - both Google Firebase and Prisma have embedded PGlite into their CLIs to emulate their server products.
If anyone wants to help out who has compiled the postgis extension and is familiar with WASM. You can help out here. https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/807