Absolute madness is the best kind of madness!

Ente is trying to be an end to end encrypted version of GooglePhotos.

Even if I agreed it was a mistake, I’d have a hard time placing it in the top 500.

According to the article, like most companies, it’s the people that are the most expensive part at $19M.

It’s a separate thread for each user or group you have. These bots come in as a new contact and thread. So no. Never in the middle of a preexisting conversation. I got one once, 2-3 years ago now. It was immediately apparent like this one. I just reported and blocked them.

How exactly would it deter competition more than Google owning it?
I can’t see how those dots are connected.

I suppose that depends on what you mean by “shit”. They’re the same displays as in retail units. Maybe a generation older. But that’s it. Samsung doesn’t have special lines making different screens for a niche market like this. LG even has OLED Signage Displays.

Most still have the computer built in. But the software is complety different. They have some different features that would make sense for an always on screen in a shop, office, or airport. You can load up a thumb drive with images for the screen to rotate through. Upload new images through WiFi or Ethernet. Use that same network connection to setup, synchronize, and controll dozens of screens, making a video wall. Pretty cool stuff really.

Just none of the spyware. Since there is no individual or household to tie the data to, that part becomes pretty useless.

They’re called Signage Displays.
Most major names you know make them.
They do cost more, but not prohibitively so.

API index access is an important difference.
If it was only that, without public facing ad driven search, I’d be more impressed.

Maybe if you removed the adds, and severely rate limited your own public facing search, so it’s more of a demo than an actual service. This would force you to solely make money off the API access, without directly competing against those customers.

That would be an honest buisness model. One that doesn’t turn users into eyeballs for advertising. Which seems to me, to be the most insidious problem of the modern internet.

For all their talk of doing things different with their own index and rankings. Mojeek is following exactly what Google did. It’s still an ad based business model that makes users into products to be sold to advertisers. They’re good now, while still trying to build market share. But once their investors get hungry, the enshitification will commence.

Sounds like you buy a lot of weed.

Of course it is!

They’re not promising they won’t be hacked again.
They’re only promising they’ll try not to be. Which is promising practically nothing.

You’re basically describing the “Reader View” that most browsers have already. Then trying to force it through a more limited standard.

There are some current attempts a making new browser engines. Servo and Ladybird are two I know of.

The only way is a data only SIM card.
It won’t have a phone number for anyone to call or text.
Of course you can’t make calls or texts either. You have to setup some kind of SIP service if you need to.

comes with their school districts’ decision to install AI-powered monitoring software such as Gaggle and GoGuardian on students’ school-issued machines and accounts.

That’s kind of standard practice on any company issued devices I’ve ever used.
Unless they’re being given for the kids to own. If they have to give them back at the end of the year, then they don’t belong to the kids.

Hypocritical for sure.
Not really unexpected, so not ironic.

they say giving their biometric data to an unaccountable company crosses a line.

The company is unaccountable‽
That’s some projection.

Not really. One can be dealt with if needs be, since they’re US companies. The other can’t because it’s the Chinese government.

Nobody cares because they are US companies.