"all complex ecosystems have parasites"

a particularly egregious one, wow

> clicks in to read what others thought

> _that_ comment somehow has floated to the top and cannot be closed or hidden with ESC

> ⌘+w

I do this constantly. I have always assumed I was the only one, because if I were even kinda like other people, it'd be one of the quickest ways to destroy your own website.

> goes to about page

> "We're a cultural intelligence platform for progressive brands who want to make better decisions, discover new opportunities and stay relevant."

> now this all feels fake .

PlantStudio from 1997-2001

https://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/PlantStudio/screens.htm

PlantStudio Botanical Illustration Software is a tool for creating 3D plant models and 2D illustrations. PlantStudio simulates herbaceous (non-woody) plants like wildflowers and cut flowers, vegetables, weeds, grasses, and herbs using a parameter-driven simulation of plant growth and structure.

Looks like Plant Studio:

https://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/summary_plantstudio.html

https://github.com/pdfernhout/PlantStudio

Others have already told you the name of the project, but if you happen to be on Arch, I have a PKGBUILD written for PlantStudio. I haven't published it to the AUR since I don't necessarily want to be the maintainer though. Shoot me an email (in my bio) if you're interested

Some other links you might find interesting:

https://youtu.be/IU0cJaUqVM8 https://youtu.be/8YOpFsZsR9w

That is really the cringe bit… If “web3” is “decentralised”, how could “web4” powered by AI which most of the LLM model currently are hosted in a centralised server? It seems contradictory by definition, and that “web4” are just basically Web 2.0 with AI features…

I basically just read that website the post referred to, sounds like AI slop to me: https://www.netguru.com/blog/web-4-0?ref=protein.xyz

just to be clear, that was a suggested edit added to the writing and not the original narrative. You can find the full version here: https://substack.com/@thealteration/p-175538961

I'm on Neocities. I use it as my low-effort gaming website. https://dungeonhack.neocities.org/

It wasn’t written by an LLM. It’s literally just a trimmed-down version of a much longer piece I wrote. I was asked to add references for further reading, so I borrowed some of the conceptual language from my full draft and pointed it toward the people and projects that shaped it - like jzhao.xyz. Soo yes, when you squeeze a meandering, reflective article into a neat little “commercial” package, the wording gets more abstract. That’s not AI, that’s what happens when you try to fit a whole thought process into a carry-on.