They were confused that people saw right through it so fast.

Because their burn rate only gets worse. They can’t make money with it. The only way to be profitable now is to charge $100 per prompt. They have to own the market everyone uses first.

Nope. Total information domination. If AI don’t tell it to us it ain’t happen.

Anything less is the utter failball we said it was the whole time.

Not “afraid” to “ditch” a monopoly. It’s a monopoly.

What’s “Windows” ?

So basically you need to spam me. Because a donation plea every so often . . .doesn’t get enough addresses to sell?

I’m saying it’s a flawed implementation is all.

Having lived it, imma pass but glad to know its good.

You can see the permissions section is greyed out, and the app has default access to every sensor (including my microphone, call logs, body sensors, camera, and nearby devices) and data point available. You can’t revoke any of these. Location is allowed all the time and I can see that it accesses my location every couple of minutes.

The article is really well written, if you haven’t enjoyed it yet you should. Maybe in ten years you’ll be thinking about it and trying to find it again.

holy shit

Blackburn published her letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Friday, just hours before the company announced the change to Gemma availability. She demanded Google explain how the model could fail in this way, tying the situation to ongoing hearings that accuse Google and others of creating bots that defame conservatives.

Typey computers are hard!

Hey let’s all change what we do and how we do it to accommodate the monopoly Microsoft. Again.

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This would be easy to stop if we had hundreds of billions of dollars.

Still not serious about their maps eh.

https://www.comaps.app/

Fair enough.

Public speaking is a performance and like any performance some people are good at it and some become good at it and some aren’t really good at it.