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@jalcine @thelinuxEXP side loading and promoting the use of alt stores is a huge feature in the current zeitgeist of locked down app stores. I really wish we could get some more positive press about how being able to choose your own stores and get apps from anywhere and have it be safe because of sandboxing is a good thing!

By the way, we've got new docs up on how to use the #IPFS protocol handlers in #Agregore which you can check out here: https://agregore.mauve.moe/docs/ipfs-protocol-handlers

All you need to get started is to install Agregore and open up the Dev Tools.

OMG.

1. Google has some bad summarization telling people that throwing batteries into the ocean is good.
2. News articles were written about this.
3. Bing's summarization interprets these articles as advice to ... throw batteries in the ocean!

🤦

(To clarify: this is classic Bing, not ChatGPT Bing.)

(Also note not everyone gets this result. Other queries that might work: "is throwing a battery in the ocean beneficial", "is throwing a battery in the ocean useful" without quotes)

This Google Meet could have been a Zoom Call that could have been the sound of 2 leaves colliding in a stream.

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Google's Bard demo shows it confidently giving you an incorrect answer to a question, right there in the product announcement.

My daughter is working on an assignment about the benefits and drawbacks of automation right now. She's having a hard time finding reliable sources on the internet.

This is all just great.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-ai-chatbot-bard-offers-inaccurate-information-company-ad-2023-02-08/

Personally, I wish that the "code red" response that ChatGPT inspired at Google wasn't to launch a dozen AI products that their red teams and AI ethicists have warned them not to release, but to combat the tsunami of AI-generated SEO spam bullshit that's in the process of destroying their core product. Instead, they're blissfully launching new free tools to generate even more of it.

Think on the bright side: if everything is as bad as you think it is with software monopolies making bad decisions, then conditions are prime for someone (you? me?) to go and eat their lunch. A year ago I would have cringed at this sentiment for being hopelessly naive, but in the mean time some ill advised layoffs and a number of baffling strategic decisions brought springtime to the federated web.

Google is *not* the great library of Alexandria, and it is not too big to fail.

a carpet is a ruglike