Honestly, I kinda hate the idea of a browser being able to access hardware devices.
phx
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Nord doesn't support incoming NAT ports. Neither did Mullvad anymore for that matter. Does Proton?
They weren't considered a monopoly for including IE, they were considered a monopoly for very much being the dominant OS and then were abusing said monopoly to block competing products or standards.
And? For anyone who actually wants another app store, that's not exactly a high bar of technical know-how. In fact, for the most part it's the way stuff works on other platforms as well (provided you even have the option of choosing on those).
If you want to install Steam on Windows you need to download it, click through, and run the installer.
Linux may have snap etc, but to add unofficial software channels you need to manually edit things.
Apple straight out says "nope" on iOS unless you jailbreak.
Yeah, AI generated images reflect various biases from training data
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Who engages in activity X the most
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And photographs themselves
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And posts those photographs online
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And labels them in a way that an AI might put correlate them
If most champaigne pictures are taken with selfie making white girls and eating waffles are black families (something I actually ran across earlier on), that's going to be the bias in the AI images as well
That was my thought on it as well. AI actually does a pretty good job of these things, but the face in this picture actually feels like a poor cut/paste job and doesn't match the lighting etc
Honestly, I doubt this was even AI. I know it's he buzzword of the month but it's just as easy for some asshole to do with Photoshop
Uh... where are the headlights on that thing?
Yeah I can see that. Amazon shows up as a top result for nearly anything that's a product, regardless of whether it's a product they actually carry.
Sometimes clicking through leads to a competing product - often with a name more random than found in an Ikea catalogue - or sometimes just completely unrelated shyte.
SEO at least at one point was honest work. It generally involved ensuring that websites had a Google-friendly design and appropriate metadata so that it could be found via the right keywords. For example, for a place that made beer and wine in RandomVille and gives "wine tours", you might have keywords including:
Beer brewer brewing randomville Arizoba distillery tourism hops wine tour vineyard drinking alcohol
For sites that had db-driven or forum-style content, it meant going from URI's like
randomcatforum.com?cat=1&sub=22&post=9987
To something more like:
Randomcatforum.com/1-breeding/22-crossbreeds/9987-can_I_breed_my_maine_coon_with_a_skunk
This overall led to more legible search results when looking through one's history as well.
At some point, it also helped push the adoption of SSL as a preferred protocol
Unfortunately, over time "SEO" has become less about making site results optimized and more about gaming search engines, either to gain clicks and ad impressions but also for spammy or scammy sites
There was also an article recently about them preventing people from unlocking the phone without submitting a request with personal information etc