they did the right thing (banning a dangerous platform such as Roblox) for the wrong reason (censorship).

I have a TTY-themed i3 rice, I use Ly because it has the same look and feel as a terminal, but looks slightly better.

https://github.com/Jotalea/i3-dots

I can't read the article since the server returns a 404 (not found). I'm guessing it was too much of a hot take that it had to be removed.

actually, I do want them to read my auto subscribed newsletter slop for random services that I register to. I do want them to use that messy, unorganized, faulty or maybe even useless data to train their AI models.

I believe every AI company does this. we have proof that Google does, that Antropic does too.

and I have my own experience with OpenAI, where their chatbot referenced one of my computers having certain specs, but I mentioned those in a different log, and that information was never added to the memory.

https://chatgpt.com/share/691c6987-a90c-8000-b02f-5cddb01d01...

This is an advertised feature of ChatGPT, and you can switch it off if you want. https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11146739-how-does-refere...

Does the switch work though?

it just got fixed

well, at least it worked for me and I could read the post.

also: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7

Isn't that what it's meant to be?

to be honest, both the old web-based and the previous native apps were equally bad. I don't have too many memories of the old web-based app, but I remember perfectly fine that performing a simple contact search on a quite powerful laptop (Ryzen 7 3700U, 12GB RAM) took 5 entire seconds to type 1 letter, and it made the laptop feel like it was running on an Intel Pentium.

meanwhile, the web-based version in the browser was nearly instant.

I should try the new web-based app to perform benchmarks, but I think I'll just keep using the browser.

I'll also mention, the "whatsapp web" website is extremely resource intensive, and in my laptop it makes the CPU usage ramp up to 100% very often, and using WhatsApp while having any other programs or even browser tabs open becomes unbelievably annoying. the desktop takes 700MB, the web browser takes 400MB, and WhatsApp web takes at least 1GB alone. this is on Arch Linux, with 4GB of DDR4 RAM.

I am not a parent, but I have a little brother whose technology is partially controlled by me. I control what apps can he install, what games can he play, what ads can he see (almost none), and leave the rest to our parents.

he recently got a "new" PC. it's quite old, it has an Intel Celeron E1200, 2GB DDR3, 300GB HDD, no wifi (ethernet-only), and still runs Vista.

I've been doing my research and found out that I could install a lightweight Linux distro like Arch Linux, with a lightweight window manager like i3 or dwm, and maybe run a few games he likes (Minecraft, some NES/SNES/GameBoy games; I have low expectations from this computer), and a basic web browser.

this reminds me of Adolf Hitler Unnona [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler_Uunona