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AI slop

Not surprised. There are worse things in the works.

Disagree. Misplaced context

Overruled.

Looks more like AI slop with paragraphs like these; > The pattern is identical across the board. Price for adoption, not for economics. Lock organizations in. Make AI a load-bearing part of every team's daily workflow. Worry about the bill later.


When I saw the name, Googlebook I had my fingers crossed that Google had finally built something that could compete with the Apple MacBook. If that ad is anything to go by, this will flop and there will be no shortage of consumers who will go along for the ride.

If it ends up having ML-centric hardware, like a version of their TPUs, the story could change, especially if they don't try to keep it locked within their ecosystem. Local AI is the future.


Is there any other African country that’s not this beholden to China?


Eswatini (fka Swaziland) is the only African country that officially recognizes Taiwan. But it's also a tiny little place fully surrounded by South Africa.


Eswatini is also an absolute monarchy which bans the formation of political parties, does not allow women to own property, and has the highest rate of HIV/AIDS infection of any country in the world. So, probably not a great place to hold a conference.


It's not though, is it? That's Lesotho, Eswatini borders Mozambique.


You are correct (source: I was a volunteer in Lesotho many moons ago).


Who cares what flag capital operates under if you're fucked either way?


Mauritius for one.


Is there any other country that’s not this beholden to China? Welcome to 2026.


Not. You don’t need to pay $100 to upload your app to an iPhone, even with XCode for iOS 26


Technically not but the devil is in the details. Having to reinstall the app every 7 days and a limit of one app doesn’t even pass the bare minimum.

Jolla has a prelaunch campaign, decent phones for 200€. I might just as well grab one. Sick of having a phone which is more expensive than my laptop but I can barely use.


The limit is 3 apps AFAIK


Imagine Windows limited you to three apps. How is this acceptable?


Imagine Windows was free.


Wait, I can download and run iOS on my own hardware? Not that I have tried, but I always thought Apples whole schtick was you were only allowed to run their software on their latest X revisions of their hardware?


Imagine if you paid for Windows and didn’t get adverts.


Well Claude was named after Shannon


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