*losing trillions

And my wallet is thought to contain a billion dollars, so long as I don't open it.

Seriously "thought to be" is such a baseless statement. Thought to be by whom? And on what basis?

It’s thought to be because it’s a private company but it’s very well cited.

You probably shouldn't believe leaks when a company has a financial incentive to appear profitable (particularly when attempting to IPO).

If they were cash flow positive they would tell it to everyone, be sure of that.

Anthropic is currently in an IPO quiet period and cannot publish such information.

Billions of long-term users for the most important technology in human history isn't a premise of fake cash in a circular economy.

You might as well pretend there's no money in search or social media.

1999. That Google, it has no serious business model, it'll never make real money. Hello GoTo.

2006. That Facebook, it has no serious business model, it'll never make real money.

One more: 2020. That Uber, I could clone an MVP and kill them over the weekend if I really wanted to. That's a side project at best. They're bleeding to death anyway, losing money hand over fist, they'll never make it. They have no moat at all.

Was google already selling ads in 1999 ? Because before that, NO, they did not have a viable long term economic model.

Funny thing is, they stated their reason for existence was because ad-based revenue models would corrupt search quality. Funny that!

Same as our OpenAI friends, who founded a non-profit because one company (Google) holding AGI would be dangerous for humanity. Turns out it's only dangerous when it's somebody else's company. When it's yours, it changes things slightly.

Eh. You’d have to clarify that. Google get started because other search engines at the time sucked. I had a soft spot for Ask Jeeves, but it was clear Google was better.

Advertising is the monetizing strategy from early on. AdWords came to be in 2000. Nothing fuzzy about that.

I don't get it... it looks flat to me?

I can't help you with that

Is anything really "free"?

XMPP always seemed great, buy I have yet to find a client that can replace Telegram's client on both desktop and mobile.

I use 'Conversations' (from F-Droid) on my Android and self-hosted 'XMPP Web' on my PC https://github.com/nioc/xmpp-web This combination covers 99% of my needs.

It still doesn't actually display a window my end until I press a keyboard key or move the mouse. So very often I sit and wait for it to open, only to realize I have to press a random key for it to unhide.

Terrible Linux support.

That's something I've never encountered on Linux/KDE/Wayland/Flatpak across Debian Trixie, Arch, and Fedora. Might be worth nuking your local Zed files and trying again.

I downloaded the Radicle desktop client yesterday, entered my new username and password and... nothing happened. Tried restarting the app and do it again, but I never got past the account creation/login screen. So my Radicle adventure ended there.

Try the getting started guide: https://radicle.network/guides/getting-started

Radicle uses a key for your identity. There is no username. You can self-assign an alias for a more human recognisable name.

I just run Gemma4 12B MLX via Ollama and it's been doing fantastic work!

Is Gemma 4 E2B actually "usable"? I've been running Gemma 4 12B and it handles everything very well! But the second I've moved down to E4B it's been unable to perform the simplest of tasks. So I can't even imagine how E2B would do... Or am I doing something wrong?

I want to use Thunderbird, but it's so... weird. And why can it not be minimized to tray? Am I supposed to sit and keep the Thunderbird window open at all times?

It's funny you should say that, because the next release apparently directly addresses this. Including startup to tray. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/close-tray-starting-154

Wow, finally! Thanks for sharing.

Why is that even something an app would support? The desktop should handle that.

https://blitzmax.org is always going to be my preferred BASIC.