This is a really valid point, especially because it’s not only faster but dramatically cheaper.

The thing is, summaries which are pretty terrible might be costly. If decision makers are relying on these summaries and they’re inaccurate, then the consequences might be immeasurable.

Suppose you’re considering 2 cars, one is very cheap but on one random day per month it just won’t start, the other is 5x the price but will work every day. If you really need the car to get to work, then the one that randomly doesn’t start might be worse than no car at all.

He keeps trotting out the same old schtick though. Just yesterday / today at his mara lago presser, more Biden stuff.

Obviously. Why is that threatened by this antitrust ruling ?

4. His thinking is completely inflexible. He’s quite simply unable to adapt to his new opponents. He’s spent so long practising insulting biden in the mirror and now he can’t use his repertoire.

Nonsense. The users who have left are an infinitesimal portion of users.

This article doesn’t even bother to explain the connection. I don’t get it if I’m honest.

booking.com is the worst I’ve encountered. There’s a captcha type anti-bot thing that I can’t pass with firefox. I think it uses canvas.

edit: another I use all the time is called echo360. It’s the platform my university uses to host lecture videos. The player just plain doesn’t work in firefox - blank screen.

So that makes odysee’s behaviour OK?

Yeah it really does seem this way.

I’ve never been a “free speech absolutist”. I acknowledge that censorship is problematic, but it seems much less so than the alternative.

I hadn’t heard of this.

The FAQ says it’s not a 1 for 1 replacement. There’s a lot of features which can’t be ported.

It’s probably better than nothing for most people, but not as good as uBO was.

Still, I wonder why it’s not mentioned more often.

Meh.

Librewolf already breaks loads of websites with it’s fingerprinting resistance - just get used to turning it off.

In any case, you already need a chromium fork handy for all the sites that just plain don’t support firefox any more. I’ve run in to weird issues in firefox that don’t arise in chromium several times in the last month. This is going to get much worse.

As for changing browsers. I don’t care very much. I don’t use many browser features like bookmarks or passwords.

The article seems to be based on a number of flawed premises.

Firstly, that chatgpt is the only LLM. It’s not, and better, stronger, cheaper alternatives are likely to emerge.

Secondly, that LLMs are a step on the way to AGI. Like any minute now they’re going to evolve. They’re not, they’re a one trick pony which is making coherent sentences. That’s it.

I think idiots actually prefix searches with “reddit” like “reddit best toaster”.

They don’t realise that it’s all bot content like the rest of the Web.

That doesn’t matter though. If bing doesn’t have those results it will drive users away.

This is my impression.

My partner doesn’t care about ads at all. I installed newpipe on her phone but she prefers the yt app, with ads.

Usually in these threads someone starts espousing the virtues of “responsible” or “appropriate” ads.

A common argument is that its the most efficient way to pay for online content. I strongly disagree.

Suffice to say, I think ads are so normalised that most people don’t see them as intrusive.

I have a lot of love for invidious, but I love in fear of yt finding a way to nullify it with some fuckery.

Recently they started blocking ips of VPS providers… so I can’t run an instance on a VPS, it has to be local.

Sure I guess.

I have the luxury of not having to decide.

I’m not going to judge someone who feels they absolutely need to participate on twitter in order to avoid poverty.

I certainly wouldn’t like to do that myself.

if Kampala staying on Twitter meant winning the election then sure.

It’s my strongly held opinion that it won’t significantly effect the outcome. A savvy media team could play it to her advantage.

Honestly how many swing voters are going to follow Kamala.

I disagree.

If anything the momentum is moving against it. The only question is how long it will take for alternatives to become viable and / or for twitter to lose its network effect.

Presently its only the inertia of users maintaining the network effect.

When the owner starts publishing misinformation I’m order to manipulate an election, that’s something more than merely a consideration of features, users, and UX. Users really ought to emphatically withdraw their support, even in cases where it may be inconvenient.

My point is, it’s becoming unethical for public figures and their followers to remain on the platform.

I just can’t believe anyone still uses Twitter for any purpose.

At this point remaining active on the platform is more or less unethical.