Well, if they didn’t care about being flooded with machine generated trash, they wouldn’t have set the limit to books you can self publish down to a mere three per day.

Here’s a basically fully automated service where you can generate a shitty book for $200. You can even have it printed as a paperback for more useless waste or have it AI narrated as a shitty audiobook.

https://www.bookbud.ai/

I hate everything about it.

This can only mean that Google is about to axe a product that people like and instead introduce a new chat app.

I assume by “fail” you mean “didn’t succeed in preventing California from building an efficient high-speed rail system”, right?

You probably underestimate the amount of effort Apple puts into not doing this, to maintain user privacy, and for a good while their services have suffered for it.

As an example I’d highlight the year in review feature between Apple Music and Spotify. “Replay” is significantly worse than “Wrapped” and I believe the difference is data handling is the key differentiator. However, there are some advances in balancing privacy 2ith utility, as highlighted in this post from Apple ML research: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/scenes-differential-privacy

There’s been talk multiple times of turning the Matthew Corbett series by Robert R. McCammon into a series.

I could see every book being turned into a maybe 10 episode season.

A microwave already freezes when you set the time to a negative number.

And it would have a great collaboration, but also a friendly rivalry, going with my robot butler.

I bet with time you could just hold the pill flat on your hand, reach back and your asshole would gobble it up like a horse.

Invent a language, then teach it to a stranger against their will.

Because users, largely, are stupid.

Security usually comes at the price of inconvenience.

You’re not forced to use the app store by any means and if you find it difficult not to, then you’re probably the type of user they want to protect.

No.

It’s a security feature. Right click, select open, affirm that you meant to run the thing, then it works. This needs to be done once for that app.

You can disable this behavior too.

As someone suffering from severe gut hib, I don’t find this very funny. It makes it needlessly hard for affected people to find information about the affliction.

I don’t know if I’m ready to believe, but I hope decentralization is the next shape of the internet, as it was before.

For years I’ve watched smaller businesses give up on having websites in favor of just a Facebook page, or businesses built entirely on YouTube, Instagram or Facebook, with the very real risk of having the rug arbitrarily pulled out from under then for some dumb reason. It’s totally unsustainable to rely on the whims of these platforms to house your canonical home or as a base for your income stream.

Sure it’s nice to reach a wide audience by publishing to platforms with many users, but companies still need to be in control of their identity, so if some platform goes south, it’s not a catastrophe.

I was just thinking the exact same thing. Things seems to have accelerated lately, but I don’t know if this is something regular users even notice or care about and it just feels significant to us because of the recent twitter and reddit idiocy.

I am super excited about all the attention the fediverse is getting. There are still a ton issues to be solved here, but decentralization feels like the next evolutionary step of the web.

One of the issues is “who’s gonna pay for it”? And I think the answer is something like “most users are”, in the sense that you’d pay your local instance, the same way you used to pay for newsgroups. Thus keeping it out of the hands of venture capitalists, hedge funds and billionaires in general, because hopefully we’ve learned that that’s a bad thing.

It’s an actual webapp, so no, it probably won’t unless they convert the codebase to react native.

I’ve only found a few things that I’m missing from a native experience and I’m sure it can be fixed.

Most annoyingly is the “scroll-to-top” by double tapping the top of the screen doesn’t work.

Otherwise I think in terms of smoothness it’s better than Mlem.

Well, if the guy really wants to be Elon and follow the example from the Twitter, then shutting down moderation to let the racism, homophobia and science denial run rampant is all part of the genius plan.