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Took 2 seconds to startpage* this: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-business-model/ *screw Google and their AI search

I'd add preventing text selection, right-clicking or pasting from the clipboard to the list. I hate when websites do that.

Hopefully not by using another AI bot... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

What irritates me most about all these unwanted "innovations" is that they always make them opt-out. "If it's opt-in, nobody's gonna use it - and it's such a flawless feature, we s…

I understand getting triggered by em dashes in a comment section - nobody uses them like that, right? But in an editorial piece? That's where you expect to see them. At least that'…

Why? Because companies like Apple don't want to lose additional revenue they earn by forcing everyone to use their App Store. That's why we have stories like this one: https://tech…

Similar concerns were raised regarding the energy used to mine cryptocurrencies. It's basically wasted energy - no doubt about that. But this is different. Crypto's potential has b…

Option C doesn't mention the Windows 11 LTSC version, which allegedly works on machines that don't support the regular W11, and it doesn't have most of the bloat. It is an enterpri…

The telescope's result seems poor, especially considering its price tag and limited usability. Perhaps it's the image compression/post-production issue, but you can get much better…

RSS feeds can drown you in quality content you're not interested in 75% of the time. Social Media can drown you in content that seems interesting, but is worthless 75% of the time.…

In the meantime, Spotify still cannot handle two different artists using the same name. It's almost 2026, and they still haven't fixed the issue with recommending songs from irrele…

I think for such a trivial task as submitting a form with some data (such as CC info), JS was never required to begin with.

I wish I were creative enough to hold a natural conversation with an imaginary caller for more than 15 seconds, without feeling more awkward than I did in the actual situation I wa…

> One major question mark is the total number of queries that Gemini gets each day, which would allow estimates of the AI tool’s total energy demand. Yeah, I was more interested in…

Most likely a network thing. Changing browsers will not help. Changing a network might. If you have a dynamically allocated IP, just restart the router. Or try connecting using you…