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OK, and how is that different from the other chats?

You do know that at least Signal and Matrix use pretty much the same crypto, right?

And Matrix can be self-hosted, so I don't need to worry about what they can see anyway.
On this point alone Matrix appears more secure than Signal...

And Threema is Switzerland-based, so by default it's more trustful than a USA-based company.

Signal is the most secure

[citation needed]

Yes.

It also gets some free publicity by claiming to be federated/decentralized without the user having to make any actual choices in regards to a server (because there isn't really any choice).

the alternative is around the same price

You know that's not true.

There are stupidly expensive Android flagships, but there are also a lot of phones for a fraction of the price.

It seems pretty easy to break, unfortunately.

Or it just time outs on longer articles.

It'd be funny if the other companies caught in the crossfire now sued those LaLiga assholes for blocking their services.

How about both?

I'd expect the design to take into account this kind of issue, they're only one of the most valuable companies in the world, surely they can afford some QA.

Until the GPU cooks itself anyway, because nvidia can't admit their new power connector was a mistake.

This sounds like FUD. Do you have a source for that?

Before that, they claimed they were simply too insignificant to even be eligible for VAT.

How is this FUD when you just said they admitted to it?

Exemptions vary by country, but often they only apply to small businesses.
Often there's no right to any exemptions anyway if your company isn't headquartered in the country (and Kagi is from USA).

Either way you only have to pay VAT on transactions made after you go over the limit, while Kagi admitted they have to settle unpaid taxes.
This situation can only happen if they didn't pay the taxes they already legally owed.

See: https://kagifeedback.org/d/3592-march-19th-2024-introducing-sales-taxes

Kagi will have to retroactively pay for all sales tax/VAT that we did not collect in the last almost two years. We have chosen to absorb this on behalf of our customers.

They tried to make themselves look like the good guys, while in reality they just paid back their overdue taxes they were required to collect all this time.

Not knowing the tax rules is not an excuse.
If they wanna do business internationally they can afford to hire an accountant.

Information on this is extremely intransparent however, so this might be wrong.

It's not "extremely intransparent", it's just a little complicated.
And accountants are really cheap for small businesses.

I also liked the part where they decided they don't need to pay the VAT.

I thought coups are generally illegal and involve a military action.

This just looks like a legally elected politician doing exactly what he promised.
It may not be good things, but none of that was unexpected.

I don't think being open matters here, it's the part where it's developed by big bad China.

All of these threats apply to other LLMs as well.

Calling that Hitman bullshit "confusing" is way too charitable.

Not too long ago Steam listed something called "Hitman 3" (they changed it now).
Imagine my surprise when it turned out to include only the game launcher, without any actual content that could be reasonably called "Hitman 3". If you tried to start a mission they redirected you to buy it first...

Thank god for the refunds...

I was in a similar situation, I just told them I'm cancelling the account when they added the extra charge for extra users, and they're free to make their own account if they want.

There was a bit of complaining, but it turns out no one missed Netflix enough to come back.

Hopefully it's not an actual regression in the latest version, because that'd be terrible.

Let's not. I'm not particularly interested in getting baited into a silly Internet argument.

I recommend you look up the definition of "discrimination" in a dictionary, tho.

Well, let's wait and see until the actual release.

The first part of the remake was not exactly a great port (not on the release day anyway).

You don't have to be an asshole, you know.

Why is it your default assumption that everyone who disagrees with you is a middle aged white man?
And why do you act as if calling someone that is an insult?

I don't think she knows what "generic" means, or maybe everyone I know in real life is very unique...

It really doesn't. Since a few years it's basically plug and play.