If this would have surprised no one they wouldn’t have done it and just ate the cost of office spaec. No, there’s people out there who still think company loyalty is a thing and that fostering a “company culture” is actually viable.

I feel like their marketing needs a rewrite, everyone vaguely knew the LHC was to identify the Higgs Boson, what’s this one for, gravitons?

Oh God do I even want to know what they’ve trained for their AI image generator? Will it ironically be the only one that can show mixed race couples?

It’s funny to me that someone now has to say in an Apple boardroom every so often:

“So how do we make sure this isn’t too successful in the EU?”

Am I allowed to think it’s weird the entire open source community can’t compete with SMB?

Test out reading mode in other Chronium browsers, for me that does the job

Essentially someone posing as some sort of AI company sold DPD ChatGPT with some starting instructions, probably for at least 5 figures.

I’m sure if you poke around some freelancer website you too could spend an hour downloading a model and packaging it up for a company with a hundred million dollar market cap who wants to save $50,000 on outsourcing.

I’d forgotten about that, I remembered their initial pitch was “It’s your second phone so you don’t have to take your first phone out of your pocket all of the time.”

You’ve solved inflation!

Tim Cook will announce his retirement within 5 years. He kicked out the Vision Pro before it was ready so that he would leave a legacy device people would associate with him. He’ll wait for 3 or 4 iterations then walk.

That would require someone at Google caring about Android. Apart from the amazing team working to modulate the OS, nobody likes working with Android. Look at 14, it’s a code clean up with one feature stolen from iOS (lock screen customisation) which was much better and more interesting back before Lolipop. No master plan, no building up to something. No wonder they can promise 7 years of support for the Pixel 8, there’s nothing in the pipeline.

But it’s not just Android, Google have reached a point where they don’t know what to do about anything. ChatGPT snuck up on them. Rust has decimated any chance of Kotlin being widely adopted. Europe is getting more aggressive about controlling how they operate. Ad money isn’t bringing in what it once did. Any attempts at trying to corner the cookie market are hated. It why we’re seeing the ad block stuff on YouTube and another round of the Google Graveyard, they be running out of money and have no idea how to bring in new revenue.

While I’ve seen these before, I find this hard to believe this isn’t a screenshot from The Witness (2016).

Yeah very similar to Matrix or the good days of Trillian

Check out Beeper https://beeper.com/

*except nearly the entirety of India, but who cares about a country with nearly a billion customers

techmeme.com is a great aggregator

Have a look at Beeper, essentially an app which connects to the web version of Whatsapp, unfortunately does not support calls but for chats and group chats should cover everything.

http://beeper.com/download

In terms of a light version, it’s unlikely. They’re playing to their biggest markets of India and Europe, where these features are well used (I’ve seen a lot of statuses used for “Good Morning messages”, and business announcing discounts or news.)

I dislike stories, but I have a very small social circle, none of which think waking up or buying a pretty looking cocktail as an achievement worth sharing publicly.

I’m a little shocked it’s not a Watchy with a custom app on it

I doubt that’s actually the reason. This seems to line up with the roll out of end to end encrypted calls through Messenger, at the same time calling is being depreciated on the Facebook Portal device. My guess is either the library is too big or they don’t have the staff working on the Lite projects like they used to. Bulk of the target audience for Messenger Lite would probably be using WhatsApp.

But the team may have been gutted with all the Metaverse obsession followed by the AI obsession.

The second one is a legally mandatory prompt regarding accepting cookies