Not defending Mr. Mark but what’s the nepotism angle to his story?

Anyone noticed the trend of tools being more read than write, with writes shifting to agentic tools and natural language instruction?

It makes me wonder about the web a bit and whether it becomes glossier, more video driven but ultimately less directly maleable.

Do people prefer streaming text over static pages?

It's just continuing the process. Most of the internet these days is TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, YouTube, etc and those are basically image + video sites at this point.

> and whoever is at Google

Reminds me of “this guy Diego…”

https://gist.github.com/vyp/8c7a58d2f9a521070283

This is gold. Thanks for sharing. Also Dario’s last name looks a lot like ‘a model’

This hacker entered the thread thinking this was a good idea but leaves muttering “man, things are complicated.”

funny but presumably this law predates hn. is it actually attributable to him?

full disclosure, this user did not read the article.

> processing is not recording

Debatable and definitely semantic - at the very least this requires putting the audio into a buffer, so a newly mallocd block of memory. Sure, it’s not a recording in a conventional sense, but it is a copy of data.

This is such a programmer view. No lawyer would think that a graphic equaliser records audio.

You'll be delighted to learn that this exact reasoning had, in fact, been used by the copyright industry against (illegal) movie streaming websites. If I remember correctly, this was in Germany and was, after a relatively short time, no longer accepted by the courts.

The World Cup is broadcast in many different languages with the same video feed. That’s likely one of the main reasons audio fingerprinting is better than video. You also get better idea of the target demographics language preferences and that leads to more relevant advertisements.

> Imagine we had that for software - "your JS is too big, you can't ship until you get it under 50 kB".

We’re one decade into cookie banners and privacy regulations by jurisdiction. There’s some vague similarities with interference here.