I always thought it stood for user. I even say it that way.

This is worse than getting a pizza party for turning a profit.

AI ingesting the output of AI ingesting the output of AI…

But unlike a lot of the other products they cancel, I’ll have actually known that this existed first.

The European competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, said a smaller fine would have been nothing more than the equivalent of a parking fine and the €1.8bn was designed to act as a deterrent against a repetition of such practices by Apple or others.

Still a drop in the bucket for them (that sounds crazy just saying that) but def a step in the right direction.

Same. I was a Perl dev back in the day. It’s excellent for massaging data.

This

Used Google Reader and now use Feedly. I go ahead and pay for Feedly since I like it enough to do so.

I can’t imagine not using RSS to consume stuff. It just makes things so much easier.

Newpipe has been working very well for me… for now.

Google: oh ok, is cash good? gets out wallet

Man, I heard about this from a friend who just came back from there. Pretty gross.

I’ve visited pages in Chrome without an ad blocker… Almost unusable, my eyes couldn’t even focus on what I actually needed to do.

I tried to bring this up as an issue back on Reddit, and I got downvoted into oblivion.

I think sometimes switching your use agent to Chrome can bypass some issues.

Thanks for the link! I’m really close to pulling the trigger on this.

Absolutely. Touch would just be a nice extra feature to me.

This was another route I was thinking about. Any idea how hard it is to do now?

So the AI will keep trying to do searches in its status update bar?

The only possible use case I can think of, but I’d still want to restrict the thing to its own VM out of paranoia.