> "Error establishing a database connection"

RIP, looks like the site got hugged.

It is exactly the point, stay blank if they ask that question!

> "What I want is to change the world".

I don't know if you'll achieve that at OpenAI or if it'll even be a good change for the world, but I genuinely wish you the best. Regardless of the news around OpenAI I still think it's great that a personal project got you a position at a company like that.

These words may mean anything. From "get people extinct" to "make shit ton of money" for myself.

What we know for sure he is not commited to people who trusted him or his project. Consider the project dead. He kinda fits into openai mindset: those people also say right words, use right terms, and do what benefits them personally.

Fine doublespeak there. It can mean anything when talking to the public, and anything else when talking to Sam Altman.

I mean it has the 4chan aesthetic but that's about it.

The corporate speak is crazy. I think the update boils down to this sentence:

> Enterprise Account contracts will no longer be offered to new customers

Yeah I agree. I saw someone say that they were not in KTLO mode, but this seems pretty bad, especially considering it happening at Salesforce.

Location: Los Angeles, California, USA

Remote: Remote preferred, I'm ok with going into an office a few times a week if it's nearby.

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Pulumi, Ruby, Rails, Python, Bash, Go, HTML, CSS, MySQL, PostgreSQL.

Résumé/CV: Check out LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonfigueroa1/, or my personal site: https://nelson.cloud/about. Happy to send over a PDF via LinkedIn as well.

Email: nelsonfigueroa07@gmail.com

I'm looking to get back into a more typical Software Engineering role rather than my current customer-facing position as a "Customer Support Engineer". I would describe myself as a mid-level engineer, but the goal is to reach a senior level title at a company with a high bar.

Some I like:

https://www.writesoftwarewell.com/ - very good software posts, mostly around Ruby on Rails.

https://crankysec.com/ - Cybersecurity rants mostly, fun to read.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/ - Ed Zitron's writings. Good counterpoints to all the AI hype these days.

These come up often on HN but I'll call them out anyway:

https://jvns.ca/ - Julia Evans, good technical content all around.

https://xeiaso.net/ - Xe Iaso, good technical content all around once again

You can actually just paste the link to a youtube channel in your RSS reader and it should work. At least for me it works with NetNewsWire. For example, you should be able to copy and paste this directly into your RSS reader: https://www.youtube.com/@freecodecamp

Looked up Mimestream. So it's a subscription-based app that basically gives you nicer UI/UX for your google emails. Oof.

Only on HN will someone who makes money writing software complain that other fellow developers are asking for money from him for their software.

No, you probably haven't read the conversation piece. The post is ultimately about switching providers because Google's service crosses a line from (1) targeted advertising to (2) using personal and confidential information for model training.

A service to clean up the UI does nothing to solve the issue at hand.

"I tried to turn it off. I can."

The complaint was about the summary, which Mimestream doesn't include.

The dealbreaker was data usage for AI training, not UI:

"We are going to use your email to train our LLMs. I'm not okay with that... my confidential commercial information is NOT okay to use to train your models [...] So... goodbye Gmail."

The title is Bye Bye Gmail.

They admit they can turn that off.

I agree with your comment fully, but it also doesn't follow the guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Fair enough!

That is not what my comment is about.

You might want to edit your comment to explain because that was my own takeaway as well.

$50/year for a nice app that I use on a daily basis to make my life better? Worth every penny.

But google still is presumably still training their AIs on your email content regardless if you don't use their frontend.

OPs issue was more clearly directed at "A week or two ago I was surprised to see a Google Gemini summary at the top of my email on my phone", which Mimestream doesn't include.

The rest of the complaint was about a bug that happened, just today, with sorting and spam control.

OP meaning the author of the linked article? Maybe I missed the mark but I felt his main rejection of Gmail ended up being because they train their AI based on his private and or commercial data.

OP = original poster

"I tried to turn it off. I can."

The complaint was about the summary, which Mimestream doesn't include.

Lol, I'm going to run this for a while on Firefox. I also had a similar idea to swap out "prediction markets" to "gambling".

late december i built an extension (chrome, firefox, ios) that let’s u do just that and anything else ftm. clickremix if u want to give it a spin

Cloud - someone else's computer.

I'm over at https://nelson.cloud

I appreciate your efforts! I love stumbling across personal sites. I put together a list of other personal site directories some time ago [0]. I'll be adding this post to that list!

[0] https://nelson.cloud/how-i-discover-new-blogs/

The ascii stars are a nice touch