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  • People have a psychological bias to humanize anything that communicates with them and companies are trying to latch onto that mechanism because they benefit when people get an emotional attachment to websites. So I think Google and many others are trying to make people think of websites as things with agencies, rather than machines controlled by people. And yea I think they are partly successful.

    Not dissimilar to how LLM AI is marketed nowadays.

    My mom asked me the other day whether a virus warning was a scam or not. It was a webpage in her browser. She did not understand that it was not her computer system warning her, but just the website itself. People can’t even tell the difference between their operating system and their apps.








  • (Piefed will probably replace Lemmy as the go-to eventually)

    I think rather we’ll see more software popping up and diversifying the ecosystem. Then you can pick whichever you prefer. Which is the whole point of the fediverse. I’m currently working on my own implementation. Might take a long while before any alpha version as I’m super busy but I try to do at least a bit of work on it every day.






  • I think I read somewhere that part of the motivation is that they won’t need a runtime to be installed to use it, but Go could fill that role as well of course.

    But I think you said it yourself:

    I know this is blasphemy, but why not Go? Why Rust? I love writing Rust CLIs

    I guess they also prefer Rust to Go. I’d choose Rust over go for a CLI any day. Why do you say Rust wouldn’t be good in an “industrial setting”? I use Rust professionally and I don’t see any problems in that setting.