AI startup Perplexity has offered Google $34.5 billion to buy the Chrome browser. The price might be below evaluation, but the company may be forced to sell the browser at the request of U.S. authorities as part of a case in which it was found guilty of being a monopoly.

https://x.com/80Level/status/1955488788861555082

Might as well be wanting all that juicy personal information from which to mine not only for profit but also for sending a SWAT team through the door without a court order and a search warrant. Or, sending a Hellfire missile through a window of a house somewhere in Pakistan.

America needs to improve our educational system

What also infuriates me is some of the supposedly educated people are also for that garbage regime, either blindly supporting it for confirming their fascist beliefs, or because they see it as an opportunity to make money from misery.

That includes the techbros. And CEOs of MLMs.

Fucking cunt bastard and his brain worms. Absolutely nothing redeeming.

Because some are artisans and see that their work is being pillaged for AI “training”.

I refuse ever touching an AI-driven app or feature, having seen too much slop.

I’d rather call myself a rejectionist than something called fancy.

Javlar!

Stuff like medical record portals, financial websites for my companies retirement plan. Stuff I have little choice about. And most fail silently.

I recall how South Korea literally painted itself into a corner for becoming too dependent on Internet Explorer after years of using it with a security implementation based entirely on ActiveX.

I’m currently using a user-agent switcher plugin. Allows me to spoof servers into believing I’m running a different browser.