“Sticker Shock” Bro, it’s not sticker shock when I have to literally stop eating entire classes of food because they’re simply too expensive. I’m not like “wow, eggs are $8 a dozen”, I’m like “guess no eggs, huh?”

Journalists are the most neolib softpeddlers I’ve ever seen.

I’d love to jump on this, and probably will when/if I can afford to.

For perspective, the one they’re proposing to build in southern NM has an estimated pollution output larger than the entire El Paso region. https://www.riograndesierraclub.org/project-jupiter/

Your choices are basically FF spinoffs (waterfox, librewolf, etc), Chrome spinoffs, straight up AI browsers, crypto browsers, and a couple that are a sort of mix/match of the above.

The web is cooked.

I’ve added the link below the quote, which may help in the future.

I like that take.

https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/12/disney-says-google-ai-infringes-copyright-on-a-massive-scale/

I wonder if this being right on the heels is related to that.

I’d love that to be the outcome, tbh.

I appreciate the suggestion. It quite literally hadn’t even occurred to me, so I’ll be sure to do that for future posts intended for wide audiences.

Oh that’s wild! On fedia there definitely is, as in attached screenshot. I guess they decided that since nobody on reddit ever read the articles anyhow, why implement it :D

I posted the link to Ars, a pretty solid tech news source, but thank you for the direct link to Open AI’s announcement as well. The more sources the merrier!

Pretty much. In effect, they just paid 1 billion dollars to shovel their IP into the public domain woodchipper.