why does an LLM need to know about my silly little blog?
Readit Newsrocketpastsix commented on Add llms.txt and fix robots.txt for AI agent discoverability · Posted by u/nishiohiroshi
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Can someone explain to me how Discord got so big in the first place, particularly for non-gaming uses?
I saw this coming a mile away when folks started ditching slack for Discord - Slack being problematic because a) it was profit-seeking and would use its leverage over your personal data to seek rent and b) it was antithetical to the open web.
Discord has the exact same two issues so was obviously not a solution.
Why did the internet en masse fall for it again?
As far as I can tell, Discord doesn't delete history so you can join an older discord and scroll back. 99.99% of slacks that are free lose history after some arbitrary timeframe (used to be 10,000 messages, now I think its 90 days). Plus you can connect Discord to your Steam/Playstation/Xbox account, which gamers like.
Discord's previous statement:
> "Identity documents submitted to our vendor partners are deleted quickly— in most cases, immediately after age confirmation"
So now it's not "immediately" but 7 days? I don't know how anyone can trust any statement from these guys.
"I don't know how anyone can trust any statement from these guys."
this is the fun part, you can't!
the damage is already done though. Discord just burned years of goodwill and trust. Im in a few discord communities and while they aren't moving Im not looking to join any more right now because of this whole thing.
rocketpastsix commented on Should I add this acknowledgement/shoutout by xAI/Grok to my resume? · Posted by u/aehsan4004
thank you.
May I ask, why you think I should NOT add it to my resume ?
because Grok is incredibly toxic. If I saw that on a resume I'd be weary.
rocketpastsix commented on Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal micasa.dev... · Posted by u/cpcloud
Thank you for ironically proving my point, I guess. The main value add here is everything is integrated into one app. I always wonder if folks said the same thing when Salesforce or SAP were created.
Anyways we document our reasoning here: https://homechart.app/docs/explanations/architecture/#separa...
I dont know what Salesforce or SAP was when it started, but Im guessing it grew to what it is today over years, not out of the gate.
rocketpastsix commented on Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal micasa.dev... · Posted by u/cpcloud
We've been building https://homechart.app for years (without GenAI...) and folks just don't realize that home managers exist as an app. They're too used to single purpose solutions, so they don't think to look for more comprehensive options.
There's also the inherit struggle of being everything for everyone with an app like this, and focusing on features 80% of your users want and leaving the other 20% niche features on the backlog upsets people, mostly the power users.
I checked out HomeChart, and boy howdy it feels like its doing way too much.
1. no tests, no static analysis.
2. avoiding composer. Why write your own autoloader when Composer can do it, and keep things up to date pretty easily.
3. associative arrays being passed around. There is no type safety on those arrays, and you aren't using a package like PHPStan or Psalm to at least try and enforce _something_ at run time.
4. I find it odd you are anti-composer (one of the best things to happen to PHP) yet tell people to configure a web server with various extensions, permissions, etc.
If I was going to install this, I'd want composer support and tests.