same :(

just use seamonkey oor palemoon

I hate the china fear mongering. It's like the 50s red scare but 10x dumber since by all realistic accounts china is just. another government. a scary one and powerful one, yes, but so is the us. They aren't a rogue state like the DPRK or Iran, aren't funding terrorism by any realistic, and realise that starting any wars is a very bad idea

I don't think I've ever clicked on an ad on purpose

Yet, ads are super effective. Think of the many Apple ads you watch, and how enticing those devices look.

Brand awareness is all that matters. Apple isnt counting on me clicking on the ad to buy the macbook

Is it the most used LLM because people want to use it, or because it literally can't be turned off aside from an obscure search parameter or using a slur in your search

my dad is using it every single day, without clearly even understanding this is llm. He knows chatgpt, but he is using voice search that lands llm 80% of the time.

Is there a difference?

I hope number 3 gets them. A modern icarus

I'd be both saddened and wryly amused if it was #3. I can just imagine the day: first the 500 server errors whenever you went to do a Google Search, then the frantic denials that there is a problem, the poor SREs that would be working overtime without any idea how to bring the system back, the pushes toward other projects, the Wall Street damage control, followed by the stock market crash as people realized it wasn't coming back. Imagine how much your habits would have to change if you couldn't access Google: a lot of people get to all their favorite websites through navigational searches.

It'd have to be a major black swan, though, because there are many layers of canaries and metrics checks and rollbacks and backups in place. I think the issue now is that an increasing number of Googlers don't realize why these are important, but Search was built for robustness.

Doesn't even have to be a query where you intend to spend money, I can't tell you the amount of times I look something up wondering if it exists or to learn more about it and it tries to sell me something

This is, annoyingly, because bare noun phrases as a search term are highly correlated with an intent to buy.

You get completely different results if you search for "what is a sofa bed" instead of "sofa bed".

I say it's annoying, but it comes from real user behavior.

This is partially why search is doomed. Sure LLMs are overtaking search, because search has been enshitified to the point you need an LLM to even get thr answer you’re looking for.

I keep thinking how often LLMs are used to “solve” problems we created.

“Meeting starts at 3” gets fed into an LLM to turn it into a 3 paragraph email, only to be summarized by a different LLM on the other email client end as “Meeting starts at 3”. What a waste.

it's not like this couldn't be chained with some other exploit to get remote access to get remote root access which seems like a bit of an issue

I could see this turning into a more modern and sane usenet replacement

it's not impossible to implement encryption elsewhere, gemini pretty famously requires it

Of course not, the context here is ATProto which literally stands for "Authenticated Transfer Protocol", and it uses other protocols than just http/tls, so of course there are other ways :)