This is more of a parallel of the video game crash that happened before. When the video game consoles created a bubble in the US every body suddenly started creating video games, to the point many were so bad they were literally unplayable. When the market got flooded with bad games, people stopped buying games (since no one trusted the quality anymore), leading to a crash in the industry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983

Maybe a little, but the rise in the costs of AI will make a huge number of people to stop using it since it’s not that life changing, bringing the prices down again.

You just lose access to the internet eventually.

Well I did, the Amazon Prime Video has many weird behaviors on Firefox compared to the Chromium engine, even YouTube used to have before.

Any web developer knows it isn’t as simple as “code once, work everywhere”. If companies don’t test on Firefox (which is a reality nowadays given its small market share) bugs happen in very weird and unusual ways.

If you rely on the extensions API you have no choice. If those browsers want they can just add ad blocking somehow, the code is open source. In fact Brave has its Shields applied directly in the source code without relying on the extensions API.

Nope, Shields are built into the browser itself, not as an extension which uses those APIs. [1]

[1] https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/

Because Firefox is a different engine and might not work well with certain websites.

And I feel like this war with Iran will just accelerate it. Lots of AI investment come from Arab countries, right? The ones who are suffering the damage from the war that Israel started because of their alliances.

Certainly, but hopefully you won’t turn on your PC and have 50 popups and 10 different buttons blinking and getting in the way of each other begging you to try AI.

Also TIC-80.

They’d probably spend resources on that if there was a critical mass of people. The reason they don’t care is that people aren’t on the Fediverse.

I always said the end will come not from nuclear weapons, or solar flairs, asteroids etc. it will come from something that’s seemingly silent on the news and popular perception, but that will destabilize the whole system we depended on. It’s not just bugs that are vanishing at unprecedented rate, but all species.

Also if there is constant outages as well, it’s not just about Internet connection. The impact is much larger on everything.

Yeah, the definition is (or at least used to be) that a startup doesn’t have a business model yet.

Some other analysis: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/youtube-views-are-down-dont-panic

I’d love to play around with something like this, as a programmer myself, but unfortunately the cost is prohibitive in my country.

I don’t know, even people here are already considering it a loss of the only way is through ADB, because it’s not practical for everyday usage. But it’s better than nothing.

I think adb can also work over Wi-Fi, just like Android Studio can connect to the phone and build and install without plugging it.

But I guess those don’t have Google Play or anything Google, they’re more like a limited Android.

This might be another example of over reliance on AI to judge what’s good or not to show users: https://news.clownfishtv.com/p/reddit-asks-did-youtube-break-itself