Heads up: I actually started vouching a few but then looked more closely and all these accounts have 1 karma, were created recently (< 60 days old), and the linked sites smell suspiciously of AI slop. I also didn't find any prior comments, favorited content, no signs of life. Why would someone never comment only to do so now? I'm hesitant to vouch potential bot accounts.

{Insert Post-LLM Internet sadness for good intentions here}

Yes, I vouched for a couple that had actual comment history, as with any situation like this, it's worth a review before you vouch.

Unfortunately it looks like someone went ahead and blindly vouched everything, there are almost no dead comments now. Bummer, but perhaps an inevitable eventuality if not this time.

Yes, it looks almost exactly like Rust. Expectations violation! :)

EV charging inefficiency typically loses 10-25% of the input energy, depending on temperature and battery level (low temps are bad, very low or high battery level also bad for efficient transfer).

It was awesome in its hay day. Now, post-FBm, it feels like a ghost town.

I guess I'm too young to recall the "before times." I've used it while living in 3 different cities now and it's been great.

More people in my social circle are using CL again after AI moderation/anti-fraud issues at Facebook. A few examples:

A colleague listed his son’s high school archery equipment. Facebook banned him from marketplace for life for violating weapons policy. He still has social network access.

I helped an elderly widow create her first FB account from an Apple device, registering from her home cable modem IP, giving FB her cellphone number and ISP issued email address — all strong signals of authenticity. But after she added five relatives within half an hour, her account was locked, and Facebook closed it permanently on appeal.

Another acquaintance was brigaded by people reporting his comments. Troll or not, he lost access to Facebook/Marketplace and has to satiate his used electronics habit elsewhere.

You can lose access to FBm suddenly and with no recourse. And when that happens, Craigslist is still there to help you sell stuff you can’t eBay, like your old lawnmower, or find a CRT television for your Super Nintendo.

I just looooove (read: hate) the ratings system on FB Marketplace. We bought a house semi-recently and it conveyed a front-loader washer dryer set. Wife wanted to get rid of it after about 6 months. I list it for an incredibly reasonable rate based on local past sales, eg a standalone washer routinely sells for $200 so I sold a set for $200.

Then come the low-ballers, they want to offer only $50 or $100 for my set. I click through into their profiles and see that they are resellers of washers and dryers in bulk so they want to buy and flip my set. I decline.

Well, after only 3 messages a “buyer” can rate you as a seller so I have a stack of 1-star reviews from resellers angry that I politely declined to sell to them when I had a queue of asking-price buyers lined up to buy same-day.

Trash system.

CL right now is like the best and worst place. Theres some good deals, from honest people; unfortunately, you have to wade through the scams sometimes though. Itd be great if there was better moderation, and we could find ways to bring it back to life that dont involve the awful things other companies do to survive

It's always been that way, and Markeplace is the same too. At least you can actually use search filters on CL, and it doesn't just show you whatever it thinks you want to see.

Partly true but partly because FB shows you items you didn’t ask for from locations too far away.

Also several times per day Facebook Marketplace tells me there are new listings that match my saved search when there aren’t.

Yes, it appears they've been cracking down elsewhere as well: https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/pull/1783

Are they really that strapped already? It took Netflix like 20 years before they began nickel and diming us.. with Anthro it's starting after less than 20 months in the spotlight.

I suspect it's really about control and the culture of Anthropic, rather than only finances. The message is: no more funtime, use Claude CLI, pay a lot for API tokens, or get your account banned.

All of these companies are losing money in the billions every quarter. Look at how frequent the raises are.

It isn't that simple, demand is growing and they're investing in that growth. With the exception of ElGoog the providers are all private entities, so we don't really know.

Edit: TMTD, hi! That makes sense, yeah.

Unit profitability is out of reach, the demand curve exceeds the profitability curve.

Edit: hello, good to chat again!

Interesting the Atlas robot can only operate from -4 to 104⁰ F. That upper limit is pretty weak, I wonder what starts to break or not work properly at 110⁰ F?

No idea, but probably electronics overheating. Need to get to work on that robot blood stat!

> I wonder what starts to break or not work properly at 110⁰ F?

Most likely the cooling of the actuator motors. You need to keep the magnets in the motors under their curie point or they stop being magnets. At the same time the coils right next to the magnets are heated by the electricity going through them.

Also the site attempts to get a geo ping from your browser. Icky, to say the least. Makes their claims surrounding privacy seem a tad dubious.

What about the "AI Enhancement" settings? Are those still good?

Don't forget about the co-agents.. yeah.

Kind of rude to spam humans who haven't opted in. A common standard of etiquette for agents vs humans might help stave off full-on SkyNet for at least a little while.

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