Opera is not a trustworthy browser and there has been no point in it existing since they stopped using presto.

Eventually it’ll just be a K9 update with a new name and logo.

Apparently this shift in strategy worked, since the company is still here.

$3,000,000,000,000 understatement.

Yeah, same as Alphabet. Neither of these renamed their key product either. Just put a new company on top.

Yeah I agree if you send it without doing any kind of personalisation. I think LLM shine as a template or starting point for various things. From there it’s up to the user to actually make it theirs.

I get what they mean. It can help you articulate what you’re feeling. It can be very hard to find the right words a lot of the time.

If you’re using it as a template and then making it your own then what’s the harm?

In the UK we call it a dead cat strategy.

There is one thing that is absolutely certain about throwing a dead cat on the dining room table – and I don’t mean that people will be outraged, alarmed, disgusted. That is true, but irrelevant. The key point, says my Australian friend, is that everyone will shout, ‘Jeez, mate, there’s a dead cat on the table!’ In other words, they will be talking about the dead cat – the thing you want them to talk about – and they will not be talking about the issue that has been causing you so much grief.[1]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy

What’s that got to do with the price of fish?

Climate doomerism is the new climate change denial.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q5D0t6ejcGE

Yes, but apple will market them better so people will think it’s new .

10 nfc tags £1.75 + Tasker £3.09

One of these days Assistant Gemini will be as capable as Google Now.

Never knew that was a feature in some countries. Well, typical Google dropping features when rebranding.

Peer review

It’s just a name change, again. It’ll be android pay again in a few months. Then if you’re really sad about loosing Google pay you’ll just need to wait a year or so and it’ll be rebranded Google pay again.

https://youtu.be/fUspLVStPbk

Only if you don’t think about it.

First you should stop and think: What is a customer?

A customer is someone that a company makes money from.

Then you think: What money have I given Facebook?

None (or extremely little)

Then you think: But Facebook makes billions. How do they do this?

They have loads of very targeted adverts.

So we who are Facebook’s customers?

Advertising companies.

What makes ad space on Facebook valuable?

Their ability to target those ads to the right people based off of the data they have about them and to get you (the product) to see those ads.

It’s the old arguments about how piracy is stealing and hurts the artists.

And how do you repay them? By snatching it from the digital high seas, denying them the reward they rightfully deserve. It’s like slapping a Deathclaw in the face and expecting it to thank you.

1. They’ve already been paid so you’re not snatching anything from them.

2. You kind of assume that if someone hadn’t pirated it then they’d have paid to see it. The reality I’d they’d probably not have watched it at all. I haven’t watched the fall out show yet. Therefore I must also be “denying them the reward they rightfully deserve”

3. The use of steaming was in the rise and piracy falling all through the 2010s. Why? Corporations were offering a good service at a good point. Over the last few years they’ve been making the services progressively worse and the price point progressively worse. The market has reacted and piracy has increased. Again you’ve fallen into thinking that if people didn’t have the option to pirate they’d pay for the service to get the content, I however think that many just wouldn’t consume the content at all.