alt Hacker NewsFeels pretty Luddite to me.
I remember when people were crying about how much power a google search uses. This is the same thing all over again and it is as pointless now as it was back then.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/google-says-it-dropped-th...
> Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year. The company claims that a text query now burns the equivalent of 9 seconds of TV.
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idiotsecant • today at 2:45 PM
No, it's entirely justified when quality of code matters. They don't want a thousand gallons of unreviewable slop. They want a reasonable amount of code that can be sensibility reviewed.
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The audacity to call an organisation that works on making mobile phones and other small PCs work with free software Luddite is impressive.
That's like calling a person going for seconds a conservative (in the USA political sense).