That’s a giant turd.

vowing to fight the US government in court to protect Euro customers’ data if needed

Courts don’t work in a dictatorship.

That kind of content reminds me why I pay for the internet.

wdym I’ve eaten already

I abandoned Duolingo 6 months ago. If that’s true, they failed to advertise that to me. In any case, with modern llms you don’t need Duolingo for that. You can ask them. You can copy-paste any article on a subject that interests you, and ask an llm to simplify it to your A1-A2 level. You can ask it to generate exercises, to explain things. Flashcards? Please, Anki is free.

Any good alternatives?

Join a class. These apps are a waste of time.

AI could make Duolingo better because it doesn’t teach a language in its current state. It could explain to the user why their answer is wrong and offer exercises. But instead of doing that, they simply replace employees to save money? What a garbage company. It’s a shame their app is so popular. It gives people nothing but a false sense of learning.

“As a language model, I’m unable to produce a badass quote.”

Hold on a second. For it to be enshittified, it has to be good at the beginning, and I highly doubt that’s possible.

Yeah but I’ll never feel as good as those vegetables.

I still think this format sucks because the punchline comes first.

And then you program a runtime that calls an AI to parse images and execute your code in real-time!

Same. My cat spends 80% of time in a carrier which I put on a shelf. I guess that is his private, safe space.

a bullshit story made up for internet points? Yes

Honestly I though somebody was using drones to throw shit at people below.

Satisfaction.

Notice that it hasn’t amongst mainstream consumers.

What? A niche technical hobby isn’t popular among mainstream consumers? Wow!

Mainstream consumers don’t know words “Plex” and “Home Assistant” either. There are already products that target these people. And there are products targeted at technical people. We need diversity.

It’s like the same but with a background color that has rounded corners.

I for once can’t stand the idea of having my editor run inside a browser…

Well, don’t run it inside a browser then. There is no need to get agitated because of that option. But this is super useful for universities and other organizations that educate people. They can run these preconfigured IDEs for their students and execute the code on the same server, so that even if you have something like a Chromebook, you can participate in classes. This is what places like Harvard do, and this is how Microsoft introduces CS students to VSCode and other products.

theia-ide.org