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That's a good guess! Checked eBay and iCloud locked M2 MacBooks Air go for around $400.

Just FYI: manifest v3 extensions are already cross-browser. They are all based on the WebExtensions API. However, browsers have very specific constraints that require complex alternative solutions (e.g. Safari does not allow reading httpOnly cookies, so auth can't be handled easily).

Oh I don't argue about art. Most of these decisions are driven by financial constraints, not the artistic vision. And this is not going to change.

Christopher Nolan can afford extreme artistic choices like not showing ads or previews before Oppenheimer. That's such a rarity that I wouldn't make any extrapolations even in today's world. Betting that gen AI will result in an alternative type of art and not just replace multiple roles and production techniques in existing industries is not something I can see happening considering that professional art is business.

E.g. we didn't see CGI creating an alternative movie industry that exists in parallel to non-CGI movies. CGI is used by everyone, including artsy independent creators.

I will forever love Studio Ghibli animation. But if in the future the same level of expression can be achieved with CGI/gen AI - I just fail to see them not switching their tools (possibly in the post-Miyazaki world).

> What's hilarious is that the execs still don't fucking see it

Why would they? Very few people can notice and appreciate the level of detail you are describing. And I am not even sure we will never be able to replicate it computationally. In 10-20... 50 years? Don't see why not.

Do they mention anywhere what DALL-E version is being used? I have a suspicion it's not DALL-E 3 but happy to be proven wrong.

Apparently Mozilla is working on that for over a year now (announced in Feb '22).

Ah cool. Yes, that makes sense!

Would you allow people browse the list of existing communities and join them, or are individual communities invite only?

Sounds good. One problem that you will likely encounter in FF is that you can't open the native extension popup (the one that is attached to the action button) programmatically. That severely limits how you can present your UI, with the most obvious choice being injecting an iframe with the extension UI directly into the body of the page. The other choice is opening a new popup window, which is less convenient than seeing things side by side.

I really like the UI:

1. using the new Chrome Sidebar API is a great choice!

2. selecting actions to show in the context menu is also a convenient customization idea

Are you considering porting it to FF? Other than the Sidebar API it should be a very straightforward process.

This is an interesting take. A couple of observations:

- Small groups of people who know each other IRL are very sensitive to breakups. When a couple breaks up, it frequently splits their friend group into 2 camps that "follow" one of the partners (strange behavior in my view but certainly observable and prevalent, especially in the US). Dealing with this complexity is going to be a challenging task.

- Small groups of people rarely have many already connected people that would consider dating each other but for some reason don't. And expanding the group dating pool might be awkward as users will start inviting people from completely different circles with a potentially lower and lower overlap in interests, attitudes, etc.

- Dating websites are very often used for short term dating or hookups, which, I guess, is not going to be the focus of your app. Taking that into account, reaching a meaningful number of profiles in a circle might become an unsolvable blocker (i.e. having 4 friend profiles is not a much better experience than just introducing friends via socials/IRL)

It's too early to say who is winning/will win, of course. But so far the UI and its accessibility have made a huge difference in how different gen AI models are being used.

For example, I struggle to see DALL-E winning over Firefly if Firefly is integrated into a very rich environment, whereas DALL-E is basically prompt UI only (while DALL-E 3 is a better model IMO).

This is quite an exaggeration. Integrating DALL-E into MS Paint has basically no similarities to the vast gen AI feature set announced by Adobe.

- Firefly Vector model

- Generated templates

- Res-up upscaling for videos and gifs

- Fast-fill for videos

- Distractor removal

- Individual item replacement

Too many to mention. Not to say OpenAI/MS are not capable of building similar features. Just that Adobe's tools are incomparably more advanced than integrating a prompt into MS Paint.

Personally I think that’s the best selling point of passkeys. Most non-tech people don’t use password managers and have to memorize passwords, reset frequently passwords they can’t remember, etc. Security is way harder to sell than convenience.

Saying that, I am struggling to understand what is the expectation for ordinary user behavior in terms of hardware-tied credentials. Eg so many people upgrade their iPhone every 1-2 years. If passkeys are not transferred to the new phone, what is the industry suggesting people do?