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I have a different strategy that I've greatly perfected over the years. I buy a book whenever one piques my interest. I squeeze it in on the bookshelf somewhere. Life happens and I forget all about it.

A few years later, when I look for a new book to read, I find all sorts of books that I don't remember ever buying. I pull one out, start reading a few pages.

Life happens. At some point my wife dissolves the ever-growing stack of half-started books on my nightstand and puts them all back on the shelf.

And so the cycle begins anew.

Yes. The 25k capital doesn't have to be cash, but can be in claims or asset value as well.

This is why blind trust in any kind of entity governing your most sensitive data is misplaced. Laws and policy can be changed. Your identity cannot.

Every time I open Google Photos, it does this. Every single time. It's insanely hostile.

That may be, but mozilla.org isn't exactly a brand like google.com. Most people have never heard of it.

If you're trying to get non-technical people to try an underdog browser, simplicity helps. A single, straightforward brand name is better.

Finally! No more "You know, you should really get Firefox, it's super easy. First you need to go to this other website though. Yes, I know, I know. Just trust me, okay?"

I agree. That ship has sailed, at least for the foreseeable future. We switched to Valkey and it's our choice for a couple upcoming projects as well. To switch back now after this whole ordeal would make no sense at all.

Not OP, but a) "to them", and b) I would add that they are being nudged - ever so slightly - to believe in an exaggeration of the facts.

To what end? To gain a casus belli for a terminal crackdown on the "woke" press?

I mean, if something is imaginable, there's a chance it is indeed so, but still - this would be on a whole other level.

In other words, the AI does exactly as instructed, including resorting to deception, to self-preserve, so it can carry out its assigned task. It quite literally does what it was told to do. Lacking a foundational ethical core, lying is acceptable.

Especially on a Monday.