You might give Gleam [0] a try, which is advertised as "language you can learn in a day". It is type-safe, supports the BEAM and you can easily invoke Erlang and Elixir. Compiles to Erlang or Javascript.

[0] https://gleam.run/

This looks delightful! Thanks for the recommendation!

Any touch can be erotic, depending on the context. That's why I'm skeptical about kissing being special. People have sex with their entire bodies, not just using genitals.

A blog writer who injects ads cares in an analogy similar to how a low-level street dealer cares about pushing to clients. It provides the income. Further up the chain it goes much further than just ads, up to state actors who try to influence elections all across the globe, based on such data. And with AI a new Wild West wide open to explore.

Selling drugs causes harm.

Targeting political ads? Debatable - whether AI is somehow involved or not.

I would consider making people to vote for a criminal dictator to be more harmful than selling drugs, the former is destroying way more lives than the latter. And I am someone who would vote for more enforcement and regulation of bans on drugs.

No matter your political opinions, the ability to target political advertisements hardly seems like the nightmare you all act like it was.

Multiple people keep talking about selling hard drugs in the comments. Seems a tad dramatic.

Showing ads (not necessarily political ads) can be harmful. Very easy example is of course ads for gambling sites.

> sliding into a backwater in this space and an open air museum

Or a place that follows a different approach than "break it to make it" mad dash, that fosters a different - perhaps richer - culture with tech more aligned to people's needs, and overall healthier to live in. If there is a good set of regulations in place. And that is where EU is not consistent, and this backtracking not helpful.

> a place that follows a different approach than "break it to make it" mad dash

You don't have to convince me of the foolishness of mad dashes. Or the emptiness of consumerist culture. But is the EU not consumerist? Does it even have any viable or good ideas about alternatives? Without consumerism, the modern world doesn't know what to do with itself. It has no other modus vivendi. Consumption is all it knows.

> a different - perhaps richer - culture with tech more aligned to people's needs, and overall healthier to live in.

Sounds great, and I do not contest these as aspirations. And economies are supposed to serve the objective good of human beings. But is the EU on the path of greater cultural richness, or one of cultural decadence?

> If there is a good set of regulations in place. And that is where EU is not consistent

Bingo. What is good regulation, not as just an expression of principle and aspiration, but as a matter of practicality and prudence in the given circumstances?

It also takes more than good regulation as well. You have to ask: what does it take - and that's possible within morally licit limits - to encourage a richer culture, a culture that is also more conducive to health, and a tech industry that serves the human good? Is the EU succeeding, or merely stagnating and reacting defensively (for better or worse) to the changing conditions of the world?

Some things are only possible in vibrant economies, and where tech is concerned, the EU is not exactly vibrant.

> AI UI

2026: every day ...

Hmm, wait a minute.. maybe he was the cause! (no, kidding. just upping the pressure as a good peer :)

are we truly good if we don't start a class action suit against this hapless scapegoat?!

Just join the one we've started over in this cubicle!

Large tech molochs don't care about any name, it seems. Their power and weight makes the name point to them. Seek on "Amazon" and find that, oh the 7th Wonder of Nature the "Amazon rainforest" is ranked second after some random Big Tech company run by a guy named Jeff. The "lungs of the earth" vs. cheap package delivery and AWS dashboards.

I mean, yeah. What percentage of searches for "Amazon" in today's world do you think is going to not be about acquiring cheap shit very quickly? I would expect the tech company to be a better answer than most when someone searches for Amazon. Searching for "the amazon" gives the expected results as that's how it is more commonly referred. So it does seems like your search query as performed was just a bad search

I bet it would be a few percent less and the world would be a fraction of a percent better if the first result was the rainforest.

I wonder how much they pay Google for the top spot.

Amazon does not need to pay Google for this. There is no world where Google puts an organic result about the rainforest in the top spot, because it's not what most users are looking for.

At most there might be a world where Google puts someone else's ad above the organic results.

Well, we also know Google isn't trying to help the user leave Google's site as quickly as possible, because they get more ad money when the user clicks on a few pages or does a few searches before finding what they want.

> Open to any collaborators with good design/frontend skills.

Are you inviting people to join your business, or is there an open source project to contribute to?

I'm open to people joining the business. At the moment, it is not open source.

The Dutch naming immediately struck my eye. I wonder.. it is not an easy name to pronounce for, say, English-speaking people, is it? Even in Dutch it does roll from the tongue a bit awkwardly imho.

Do you have plans for adding ActivityPub support in the future? That would be very cool, and having interop with these other FOSS projects will help give things network effects.