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You can set automated backups on takeout.google.com for everything in your Google account but I'm not sure if it includes the maps stuff since they did e2ee

Has a clone of a social media site ever replaced an original? The closest I can think of is Tiktok being kinda similar to Vine but that feels like a stretch. I don't think Bluesky …

I wonder if AI being really useful when it comes to programming caused some to miscalculate its usefulness in general.

Good for Durant, I guess, but spending that much on it kind of removes some of the charm of the project in my eyes.

The tech side of this is really cool but I'd also like to read more about the non-tech stuff. I wonder if the sympathetic Dutch flight attendant is still alive or the guys who actu…

I don't use Chrome much but I've been using uBlock Origin Lite when I do for a couple of months and I'd recommend it. I don't watch YouTube on Chrome so I can't comment on how good…

I've been thinking a lot lately about why I don't like AI and ultimately I think it's because of its tone. I don't know why OpenAI made ChatGPT so wordy and almost unctuous. I've r…

You used to be able to watch every episode of The Daily Show on the Comedy Central website. They also made the close captions of each episode indexable by search engines so you cou…

> Microsoft used LLMs to write millions of short stories and textbooks in which one thing builds on another. The result of training on this text, Bubeck says, is a model that fits …