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Comment by jonas21

12 hours ago

It does have these details for the current generation hardware. And if you want more, click on the link at the top:

https://hackernoon.com/the-long-now-of-the-web-inside-the-in...

Yeah, this is just blogspam. Some guy re-hashing the Hackernoon article, interspersed with his own comments.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's AI.

It's time to come up with a term for blog posts that are just AI-augmented re-hashes of other people's writing.

Maybe blogslop.

  • You and I must be different kinds of readers.

    I’m under the impression that this style of writing is what people wish they got when they asked AI to summarize a lengthy web page. It’s criticism and commentary. I can’t see how you missed out on the passages that add to and even correct or argue against statements made in the Hackernoon article.

    In a way I can’t tell how one can believe that “re-hashing [an article], interspersed with [the blogger’s] own comments” isn’t a common blogging practice. If not then the internet made a mistake by allowing the likes of John Gruber to earn a living this way.

    And trust that I enjoy a good knee-jerk “slop” charge myself. To me this doesn’t qualify a bit.

  • That pattern shows up when publishing has near-zero cost and review has no gate. The fix is procedural: define what counts as original contribution and require a quick verification pass before posting. Without an input filter and a stop rule, you get infinite rephrases that drown out the scarce primary work.