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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I think your take is completely reasonable but I think the ‘first to 100 million users’ is actually noteworthy because if they can become entrenched and people become unwilling to learn anything else, they’ve won and can charge nearly whatever the fuck they want (at least in the medium term). See Microsoft and Adobe. They charge whatever they want for their subscription programs because what else are you going to do, use GIMP? Even in situations where the FLOSS alternative is legitimately good, a lot of people will still refuse to switch. I don’t think Anthropic can survive long enough for them to become the only thing Susan from HR knows or is willing to use, but I think there’s a path to profit somewhere here.





  • Something I’ve been wondering for a while is why would someone use a BSD over a Linux distro? There’s some applications that seem more obvious, like I’ve seen diy router builds using some flavor of BSD and there’s server stuff I’m sure that some people prefer over (or are just better than) other options, but people have ported KDE Plasma and a lot of other stuff to it and… Why?