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Thanks, bought a few too

I am very sure Trump does not actually think, at best he works based on instinct, but so does his chaotic band of mouth-breathing, blood-seeking raging insurrectionists.

Or it is protection money. “Nice apple you got there, would be a shame if anyone took a bite out of that”….

Beste wensen gappies, dat het maar mooi mag worden!

But very salty

Ah, Swiftkey just wanted something themselves, that’s okay.
Weird that you have different votes in your view though, I see 27 up, 2 down.

Edit: wait, geico is insurance? Be safe op, Swiftkey may be warning you….

What is everyone having for dinner today?

FWIW, you do not seem interested in an honest discussion, merely arguing in bad faith or trolling.

Yes, but solar cells are in the end very simple products made of very simple resources, with a limited task: concerting one type of energy into another. That said, there is still research in making them more efficient and cheaper, and the that research isn’t cheap.
But generative AI / LLM takes an insane amount of resources to train and maintain, is complex to create, with a very complex task, and a slight increase in quality takes progressively more resources (like, say 10% better would be 50% more energy use - I don’t have the numbers anymore but iirc they were even worse). A better LLM would therefore be much, much more expensive while people are apparently already underwhelmed with the latest models. With the growing competition, fast rising costs and meagre quality updates, while already unable to financially sustain themselves right now, I truly don’t see it. Honestly, this is why I think Microsoft is cramming their subpar Copilot into everything - to sort of justify all the money they pumped into this.

I am honestly very very curious: how?

Hahaha. April 1st is early this year.
They are never going to make enough money by selling licenses and subscriptions for the cost of their current models (smarter people than me have made good estimates), let alone the future ones. Those future models are at a much worse performance-cost ratio. Ads will at best bring in about 1 usd per user per month (estimated by Facebook revenue and number of users) - double or triple it just for lolz, and they would still be losing money.
So… how will this be pulled off? Only wrong answers!

I’ll leave it as it is now, but you are probably right.

Thanks, both of you! Truly appreciated.

Hard disagree: anything is a target for criminals like the NSO Group; blaming Whatsapp specifically for this muddies the discussion. Sure, you should avoid it - for other reasons, do a proper risk assessment please.

With what we have seen recently all over the world… I’d be very careful with expectations like that.

I’m sorry but libertarians and ancaps are just proto-feudalists that may like to smoke weed.

Ah indeed, I was talking about the screenshot. Sorry about the confusion.

It’s not an Amiga, looks more like an old grubby fvwm or dec osf1 with uuhhh what was that window manager again?

You mean because of Freedom of Speech? I think it’s not that hard; your freedom ends where someone else’s freedom begins. Propaganda and advertising for example are designed to force you into believing something / thinking in ways that you wouldn’t, so you are effectively cut off from thinking and believing like you would have been doing without that pressure.

Anyone who is following EU politics knows that the governments aren’t sucking up… they are in on the ride. Almost every country now has an extreme right wing government, some with open connections with Putin as well. Welcome to the 21st century, where every lesson learned is going down the drain.