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Seems promising, will have to try it out. It really is grating to read output from opus 5 currently. Never heard of the term "mannered prose" before. I'm constantly debating with myself whether to add more to my claude.md, or whether to simplify it before adding new stuff.

Under Questions: "which languages" only lists 7, with no possibility to view more, that I could find.

Yeah, would be good to have confirmation that this happened to others as well.

But it really seems like an own goal if true.

Although I'm slightly relieved there is a way out of Googles verification system, it's still pretty wild if you compare this to installing software on a Windows pc. I'm sure Microsoft is heading in the same direction with Windows, but today its still "only" a few confirmations to install anything.

This will sadly still put a major damper on adoption of open source apps, while giving a false sense of security that apps from the Play store are safe.

Years down the road, the low usage of apps installed from outside the Play store will be used as an argument for removing the functionality completely.

Very uplifting read in these times. See myself in some of these mental traps of sorts.

This looks pretty interesting from a laymans perspective. Can anyone with more in depth knowledge relate this to the current state-of-the-art auto regressive models? are diffusion models closing the gap in a meaningful way, or are they still in the experimental stage?

Thank you for this well written comment. I was not aware that passkeys are developing in the exact direction i feared, when i first read about them.

The court subtracted a fee for the artwork and for the display of the work, which he does not have to give back - so the artist did in fact get paid for his empty frame artwork. Now he just has to give back the money he lent for the originally agreed upon artwork that he did not create.

Seems like a fair deal, since he also got a ton of publicity out of it.

I wonder if this could be used to finally get universal audio streaming from the device, kind of like airplay. Perhaps using the received audio stream to create an internet radio station, which could then be played by most multiroom speakers, without needing specific support for each player app on the device.

Wow, this sounds like a really important decision. I wonder what Metas next line of defense will be, if any. The article says Meta can appeal, so I guess they will try that.

It will be interesting to see how many users will decline to opt-in to Personalized ads. Meta will probably still try a range of dark patterns to keep users from making that choice.

To avoid syncing my calendar and contacts to the cloud, I'm using wireguard as a always on VPN on my phone, to connect to a locally running CalDav/CardDav server. Wireguard on Android can be setup to only affect specific apps, so my DavX app is the only one using the VPN.

Thunderbird mobile will be open source, so they, or anybody else can fork it, and continue development independently of Mozilla, using a different brand. It will not be "Mozilla property".

I'm happy to support Thunderbird; it's great to see a healthy project supported by donations.

It would be pretty great if Firefox development could be supported by direct donations too. Although maintaining a browser is probably orders of magnutide more expensive than Thunderbird.