I like the big search bar in the middle of my screen

That’s a great question. I couldn’t find anything online, presumably because it just happened.

It might be regional.

It might be regional.

It might be regional.

Yeah, I hope so. Them buying an advertising company and then pulling this shit has got me feeling paranoid.

Are you implying Mozilla paid AccuWeather to have placement on it’s browser?

No, AccuWeather paid Mozilla. Mozilla sold the data to AccuWeather. Mozilla made money.

No, sponsored in this context means that AccuWeather paid Mozilla to put their little widget on everyone’s New Tab screen.

The amount of pixels doesn’t matter if the amount of information is too low. The latter is harder to quantify in a way that doesn’t make you account for the actual compressibility of the data, so people try to maximize pixels for advertising while minimizing the real amount of data to save money.

Seems like a reasonable streaming service should add an option to manually make a video buffer more so that people intending to watch it after it buffers can, but reasonable streaming services don’t seem to exist anymore.

The Copilot app says, “Copilot uses AI. Check for mistakes.” I think they could be more clear, but they didn’t bury it in an EULA.

It’s not going to stop spammers and foreign disinformation campaigns. Making companies responsible for what their AI can generate without giving them the option to provide it as a no-liability no-guarantees tool is just going to make them clamp down harder on censoring and lobotomizing their models to make sure they’re incapable of making false claims even if it renders them semi-useless. I do think they should need to make it abundantly clear that their language models can and will lie and make stuff up.

It doesn’t count if it costs money, which mail does.

I resolved to never give Epic a dime when I got a popup forcing me to agree to a binding arbitration agreement in order to launch games I already have installed and in my library. It tells me that they think people will have good reasons to sue them in the future.

All I’m trying to say is that they’re not necessarily doing the same thing now that they were back then. They’d have a strong motivator to be better than google nowadays instead of just copying their results because google’s results suck now.

This is funny, but it was also 13 years ago. A lot can change in that time. I don’t personally use Bing though, so I don’t have firsthand experience either way.

I see, interesting. Do you know if there’s a way to completely prohibit an app from running in the background other than just using the “restricted” battery mode for it, which doesn’t stop it completely?

I only have 1 app active in the background and it’s a custom DNS. I’m very good about keeping all my apps closed when I’m not using them and notifications are disabled for most apps.

Phone batteries still do that

That sounds too completely absurd to be real, which is why I believe it. Yikes.