The difference between light-up arrows pointing the way "forward" for a car turning onto the expressway the wrong way, and doing so with the possibility humans might see and attempt to flag them down before they're too far to turn around.

People will make mistakes, and AI holding their hand and guiding them while they do it can have disastrous consequences.

But it's nice that the arrows will appear to also guide people going the right way I guess.

In theory it should be possible to allow users to upload ciphertext that they can then share a decryption key with their intended audience. I believe atproto has dissuaded against this with the argument that ciphertext shouldn't be in public view, but this seems to hinge on the idea that the cipher is insecure, or will be in the future. I don't see why using a post-quantum encryption scheme shouldn't provide the appropriate security, which may still not be foolproof, but it certainly would make indexing the data much more difficult

For the commenters who have made similar comments, I'd be curious to hear what they think could be cut. I suspect different readers will have different opinions on this, which means it's probably a good thing you didn't make cuts.

This is true, but the tech world is very interconnected and broadly supports/enables human rights abuses and war crimes to agree that most industries are not.

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft develop tech used in the genocide of Palestinians, this is basically an IBM and Nazi Germany situation. And many more directly support genocide and human rights abuses as well, while many others are happy to pay those companies millions of dollars for their services.

Are you me?

> but it seemed like others didn't think much about society or politics, beyond how "great" everything could be made with tech

A wake-up call for me was when I requested fair trade coffee for the office due to potential human/child slavery issues with coffee, even sourced the roast from our supplier that was fair trade (which wasn't more expensive), then after getting one order of it, since one of the execs preferred the other coffee we stopped getting it.

> These days I only work in tech-related projects when it's about supporting social organizations get their (digital) shit together, moving to open source alternatives or understanding how to deal with things like LLM/AIs.

How do you find work that aligns with your values?

> Wealth as we describe it today is effectively directly correlated with consumption of natural resources

I think the more relevant factor is control of natural resources

At least in my view, wealth is the accumulation of the resources, money is a claim on that wealth, and control (or force) is what props up that claim.

Redis is called a cache but is also often used with some expectation of persistence

Not the person you responded to, but I very much liked this. Thank you for sharing

The relevant word here is MAY[1]

It's true that if an API requires the devs of its consumers to have consulted documentation in order to respect the RateLimit header, they can just as easily include custom API logic for traffic control, but this does provide a nice standardized way to do so nevertheless.

And since the word is "MAY", APIs may also use standard responses that don't require an custom handling. As an example a CLI-builder library which parses OpenAPI spec can adopt changes to handle the RateLimit header automatically, in the situations where consulting docs is not required.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2119

I'm incredibly relieved they didn't join Vercel (which everyone else seems to be doing these days).