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They really want to be WeChat

Speech to text is one thing. Actually understanding all the intricate details and variations of language is incredibly difficult. It’s good enough for some stuff, but I’ve yet to see a system a system that’s reliable enough for day to day use, especially in a car.

Scenarios like this happens way too often:

“Set alarm for fifteen minutes”

“Ok, setting alarm fifty minutes from now”

“No! FIFTEEN minutes”

“I’m sorry, I don’t understand what you mean”

“Remove old alarm and set it to fifteen minutes instead”

“Playing song on Spotify…”

Realtime non-cloud voice control is still unreliable. Gonna be a while before that can replace physical buttons.

Doom was “real” 3D in the sense that it displayed proper 3D environments with textures and all. You could go forward and backwards, left and right, and up and down of stairs/elevators. That’s all 3 dimensions.

The player might have technically been confined to a 2D plane, but I would say it’s 3D graphics.

But games with proper 3D movement came much earlier. One example is Elite from 1984, which allowed space flight with full 6 degrees of freedom.

Another example earlier than Quake worthy a mention is Descent from 1995.

They can probably find loop holes, like saying they do support many alternative browsers like Edge, Safari, Opera, Vivaldi, Brave, etc. . They just don’t want “insecure” and “outdated” browsers that support terrible stuff like ad blocking, but they can agree to support Firefox if Mozilla takes action to prevent “insecure” extensions like ad blocking.

In what way are they sacrificing their monopoly? There’s no viable alternative to n YouTube.

They also restricted IE6 when it was far more dominant than Firefox is today (and when YouTube was far less dominant), so it’s not completely unheard of.

This is Google’s strategy. Haven’t you followed the manifest V3 debacle? They want to end ad blocking once and for all. Their entire business model is to sell ads. They want to turn that ad blocking crooks into sweet new ad revenue. Maybe even subscription revenue.

Firefox is like 3% of all internet browsing. Probably even less on YouTube. They can sacrifice a little bit.

They will probably block “non-certified” browsers soon enough.

I think they’re in a better position than Microsoft when they tried to make ActiveX and Silverlight a thing. They own the two most visited websites. On top of that, they own the most used web browser and the most used operating system (judged by web use).

Don’t worry. They will find ways to force you using their products.

Do you think they’re keeping the customer deposits?

It’s mostly convenience. Most people buying cryptocurrency don’t really care about the decentralization aspect. They’re just in it for the quick buck.

I hate you might be right.

Bitcoin already had a bad rep since Mt. Gox.

$4 billion in fines? Let’s see how liquid Binance really is.

It was quite the Wild West with early browsers. Different browsers could interpret the same site in different ways. Some browser added their own functionality as they wished. There were no strict standards. Web developers didn’t exactly follow the W3C standards either. And then you could always do it in a Flash or Java applet if browsers didn’t support what you wanted.

This was also the time with the most diverse set of browsers. Today the web standards are much more formalized and more strictly followed, and ironically this is also the time where almost everybody use different flavors of Chrome.

It’s more like the entire internet that has gotten worse