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greyman commented on Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next? disassociated.com/persona... · Posted by u/gnabgib

stevoski · 3 months ago

The premise of this article is 100% incorrect.

Personal blogs are not "back". The article has zero evidence for this.

Ironically, Darren Rowse (the "problogger" person cited in the article) hasn't published a new blog post since 2024-07-24, more than a year ago.

greyman · 3 months ago

Yes indeed, and also the title promise - I looked forward to read how the personal blogs are back, only to discover the author didnt provide any evidence, but not even examples. Maybe they are indeed back, if we count Substack newsletter archive as a "personal blog".

greyman commented on Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy openai.com/index/fighting... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

nlh · 3 months ago

Man, maybe I'm getting old and jaded, but it's not often that I read a post that literally makes my skin crawl.

This is so transparently icky. "Oh woe is us! We're being sued and we're looking out for YOU the user, who is definitely not the product. We are just a 'lil 'ol (near) trillion-dollar business trying to protect you!"

Come ON.

Look I don't actually know who's in the right in the OAI vs. NYT dispute, and frankly I personally lean more toward the side the says that you are allowed to train models on the world's information as long as you consume it legally and don't violate copyright.

But this transparent attempt to get user sympathy under insanely disingenuous pretenses is just absurd.

greyman · 3 months ago

Why it is absurd? Conversation between me and ChatGPT can be read by a lawyer working for NYT, and that is what is absurd.

greyman commented on Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy openai.com/index/fighting... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

jcranmer · 3 months ago

"How dare the New York Times demand access to our vault of everything-we-keep to figure out if we're a bunch of lying asses. We must resist them in the name of user privacy! Signed, the people who have scraped literally everything to incorporate it into the products we make."

OpenAI may be trying to paint themselves as the goody-two-shoes here, but they're not.

greyman · 3 months ago

But that vault can contain conversation between me and chatgpt, which I willingly did, but with the expectation that only openai has access to it. Why should some lawyer working for NYT have access to it? OpenAI is precisely correct, no matter what other motives could be there.

greyman commented on ChatGPT Atlas chatgpt.com/atlas... · Posted by u/easton

sloankev · 4 months ago

Im still weary of OpenAI being legally required to retain all of your data even if you delete it [0] . This means everything you expose to this tool will be permanently stored somewhere. Why isn’t this a bigger problem for people?

Even privacy concerns aside… this would be the world’s most catastrophic data leak.

[0]: https://openai.com/index/response-to-nyt-data-demands/

greyman · 4 months ago

I conditioned myself to not type too-revealing texts about myself into the computer. It isn't ideal but of course this is quite a big problem.

greyman commented on The Socratic Journal Method: A Simple Journaling Method That Works mindthenerd.com/the-socra... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

ednite · 5 months ago

Author here. I didn’t expect this to hit the front page. Thanks to the OP for sharing, and to everyone for reading and commenting.

The mix of encouragement and critique is motivating, and it came at the right time since I’d been wondering whether to keep going.

I’ve spent decades in IT, mostly software dev and consulting, but writing and storytelling are new to me. The blog’s a work in progress, rough edges, a few nuggets, but I’m learning by doing. If one post helps someone else, that’s a win.

Thanks again for the thoughtful feedback. It really is a gift.

Glad to answer questions if anyone has them.

greyman · 5 months ago

Keep going with the blog, I found several good topics there.

greyman commented on A blog does not need “analytics” thisdaysportion.com/posts... · Posted by u/FromTheArchives

lukan · 5 months ago

Current direction seems to be rather banning ad blockers.

I am still amazed how anyone can stand surfing the web without.

greyman · 5 months ago

Another direction is that more and more content is directly put on social media. I found I am visiting websites less and less, I even dont care about ad blockers anymore (YT is an exception).

greyman commented on EU startups fail because their press refuses to hype them up twitter.com/RnaudBertrand... · Posted by u/ryzvonusef

izacus · 9 months ago

Why is it "required"? What's so desirable in the american mindset that folks so badly need in EU?

greyman · 9 months ago

Because all that scepticism, non-support etc. are like small micro-defeats that will suck the life energy. Not to mention all those taxes which sucks money energy. :-) But the deeper reason I see in in Europe is that everything is biased towards big and old, and not new and small.

greyman commented on EU startups fail because their press refuses to hype them up twitter.com/RnaudBertrand... · Posted by u/ryzvonusef

intothemild · 9 months ago

Aussie in Norway, and have been part of a founding team here, as well as lead teams in companies you've definitely heard of.

I think the OP on X gets it right. It for sure is a marketing problem. The media machine in Europe is most likely fractured by languages. So take Norway. Sure we have our fair share of tech blogs/news/etc. but all are in Norwegian. Which cool for the local market, but outside that it's not the language that others are speaking. Where as the US publish in their native language, which so happens to be something most people speak globally.

I'm not suggesting that the local tech journalism is doing it wrong. But what is lacking is some kind of large European tech journalism, or heck even all the smaller ones writing about each other's cool new startups.

greyman · 9 months ago

>But what is lacking is some kind of large European tech journalism

Yes, even when tech media in europe would want to hype the original OP startup, they are not that influential in general. I follow tech news daily but all of them are U.S. media, there is nothing comparable here.

greyman commented on Claude Code SDK docs.anthropic.com/en/doc... · Posted by u/sync

Vanclief · 9 months ago

Claude Code is my favorite way to use LLMs for coding.

However I feel what we really need is to have an open source version of it where you can pass any model and also you can compare different models answers.

(Aider and other alternatives really doesn't feel as good to use as Claude Code)

I know this is not what anthropic would want to do as it removes their moat, but as a consumer I just want the best model and not be tied to an ecosystem. (Which I imagine is the largest fear of LLM model providers)

greyman · 9 months ago

Question: I agree, but doesn't that other model need to be trained so it knows how to work with MCP servers? Or that isn't an issue?

greyman commented on How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare ingau.me/blog/how-i-write... · Posted by u/ingav

ingav · 10 months ago

By "fully owned," I mean that I control the entire stack:

- Content is just Markdown files in my local Obsidian vault

- Hugo builds the site locally - no dependency on external editors or platforms

- GitHub is just used for version control and deployment

- Cloudflare Pages handles static hosting, but I can move it elsewhere anytime

greyman · 10 months ago

Thank you for your post, it's very sensible setup. Does Cloudflare Pages offer unlimited bandwidth?