Ash retweeted
Cloudflare today launched their own Email Sending service
VERY cool, because by default every email service we use for sending for our websites gets acquired by private equity or IPOs and goes to shit
It happened to MailChimp, then SendGrid, then Postmark
It's just the nature of the beast, it's not a good business to be in, but it's essential for any website to be able to send emails
@Cloudflare is so big ($75B) that for them it can just be a service as part of their general offering
Because in 2025 maybe email sending should just be a feature, not a company
P.S. please let me use Cloudflare Email with a basic JSON API, preferrably SendGrid/Postmark-compatible
nah, someone in the comments went “you can just do things” 😭
Community Notes: “No, our boss probably never had sex”💀
This is a seminal moment in my understanding of Elon Musk
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Contrary to Grok's answer here, Musk's son X was also conceived through IVF.
people.com/elon-musk-and-…
Ash retweeted
Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.
ALT Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of millions of pirated books. But details around the torrenting were murky until yesterday, when Meta's unredacted emails were made public for the first time. The new evidence showed that Meta torrented "at least 81.7 terabytes of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive, including at least 35.7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and LibGen," the authors' court filing said. And "Meta also previously torrented 80.6 terabytes of data from LibGen."
ALT “Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed
ALT A photo of Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) when he was 19.
hey @_mattwelter, you have a growing fanbase now lol.
check reeels.com
reddit.com/r/startup/comment…
that's also why you're better off focusing on your product... distribution.
Ash retweeted
I don’t understand two things:
Why is OpenAI focusing on the application layer (like Tasks, Operators etc) instead of developing better foundational models and providing a better API for developers?
Why are OpenAI wrappers seen as a bad thing?
Historically, companies that built operating systems (e.g., Windows, Mac, iOS, Android) didn’t build the application layer. It was done by developers.
Ash retweeted
The people who built Silicon Valley and changed the world in incredible ways are gone. Much of the current generation are hype mongers, asset gatherers, get rich quick gurus, ponzi schemers and corrupt oligarchs.
Ash retweeted
one of the biggest grifters on YouTube
5 months ago - AI is dead
1 month ago - this changes everything
now he's selling his own Chatbot Wrapper 😂
Ash retweeted
If you’ve enjoyed using Scira and would like to contribute or sponsor the project in any way, you can do so here:
github.com/sponsors/zaidmuka…
