The average people don’t know the concept of browser. I saw people using Google search (the app) as a browser. I saw people trying to login in their webmail using Google search (the app), then in order to see what photo they wanted to upload they went back to home by closing the WebView, watching the photo, then using again the Google search app to login in their webmail. Extremely infuriating, I wanted to die.

Yes but let’s remember everyone that Apple did their “best” in this. If a developer makes a browser that doesn’t use WebKit, then can publish that version only in Europe. For the rest of the world it’s still forced to publish the usual “Safari skin”. Basically doubling the work and the monetary cost of developing a browser.

Resisting? It was a clear strategy: use VC money to give away something for free then charge/monetize to give back those investors all the money, with interests

TIL that my country has bended over the copyright trolls and blocked Archive.is, need a VPN to view…

Probably this might be related to why tencent removed cloud backups from WeChat. It used to be like telegram, when you login it loaded all the previous messages, now when you login using the sms confirmation code you need to ask (with a different chat app!) three friends to send you a session specific passcode and then all the previous chat history is wiped clean.

(It was a problem to login back to me as I didn’t have three friends)

It seems like incorporated in Rhode island around the time Nintendo sued Gary Bowser for the switch modchip

They don’t have it. It’s a limited liability company so in this way they will pay only the sum of their assets (=bankruptcy) which is lower than legal expenses against a Goliath and definitely lower than 2.4 million. I’m guessing 1000x lower than the settled amount or they wouldn’t have reason to found the LLC in first place or to settle this easy and this fast

Why would someone pay to train a LLM on Tumblr???

At least Google paying for reddit content, would have something useful mixed with all the memes.

But Tumblr would definitely poison the results

I honestly couldn’t see how they could offer so much for free

We just saw that it wasn’t profitable and the business plan was to find an exit strategy via acquisition

I’m really curious about the amount of money exchanged. It must have been an enormous amount in order to do a “I’d even sell my mom for that” and don’t feel dirty

Of course not. They install Facebook that has one ad every two posts, ads in WhatsApp is nothing

They don’t seem good at all, long and weird

I don’t know what text the LLM sniffed, but those aren’t average at all

English word + four numbers

There’s no official installer for steamos, only a recovery image for the steam deck. Then, some people in their free time hacked that image to allow installing on other hardware (except Nvidia GPUs) but imho not very easy