Analytics like what?! Sentry? See, i'm the first one to waste 15+ hours of my own time claude vibing some barely working analytics in order to save 15 dollars for not paying a proven solution to professionals who really understand that problem domain - but we all agree how dumb this is. But if i really can vibe code that analytics in 5 minutes, that thing was never a proven SaaS business in the first place and my use case with certainty a toy app with zero users..

Anki had always the problem of being difficult to figure out how to use it effectively for learning. It's like C++. A million ways to shoot yourself in the foot if you use it wrong.

If this is true, i will cancel my subscription. I'm using tailscale and certainly won't use a service that wants to dictate me how to use my device.

Just cancel it.

Soundcloud these days is nothing but a spambot filled website that have ripped countless users’ tracks and scam to earn fake followers, which the platform doesn’t block these bot but instead shallow banning proper users. The support is also nonexistent and my support ticket hasn’t being been responded for more than an year.

I ended up trashed my account because I got shadow banned for no reason while they keep on stripping off basic features. Some of the users in my community also faced the similar stories.

Unless there is an irreplaceable feature in SoundCloud you rely on, I see no reason to use it.

If you're using tailscale it's a true VPN, not a proxy, and it won't have any impact on you. If you're using the Mullvad add-on that's a different situation.

notebooklm is heavily biased to only use the sources i added and frame every task around them - even if it is nonsensical - so it is not that useful for novel research. it also tends to hallucinate when lots of data is involved.

that explains why their ios gemini app is so ridiculously bad. in private they probably use iphones and just chatgpt instead.

Interesting. When i asked Gemini 3 Pro to generate a Infographic from my personal accounting sheet, it first failed to generate anything except a black background, then it generated something where it mixed different languages in a non-sensical way, with obvious typos and irrelevant information grouping. It's certainly a leap forward in OCR, rendering classic OCR useless.

That's more of an issue with Nano Banana Pro than with Gemini 3 Pro.

What's the difference? I thought the vision ai component of gemini 3 is called nano banana?

That’s about generating images, the other side is about understanding images.

i assumed nano banana was just a tool that gemini 3 used though i don't know

Gemini 3 Pro's text encoder powers Nano Banana Pro, but it has its own image decoding model that decodes the generated image tokens into an actual image, which appears to be the more pertinent issue in this case.

That's weird, from my own tests Nano banana pro has no problem generating complex infographics with legible text.

Is "A New AI Winter Is Coming" the new "The Year of Linux Desktop"?

No, the new "Year of the Linux Desktop" is "This Year Software Engineers Won't Exist Any More Because Of LLMs". Very obviously.

what's their business model now?

remaining ad-less isn't a competitive advantage for google.. advertisers want the use the best medium available to reach customers and clearly ai chatbots are better suited for that than the old web of google search. openai has reached the critical user base where they could easily replace google for advertisers.

> clearly ai chatbots are better suited for that than the old web of google search

Why is this clearly the case?

if you think about it, the current advertising paradigm infers things about you, from cookies and trackers, from data brokers etc (to show you “relevant” ads.

and things you “like” or “follow” or comment on , or maybe even just making guesses at your race, job, income, sexual orientation, politics etc based on who youre “friends” with.

all of thats on the decline: social media engagement on legacy platforms is down, people are blocking cookies and or javascript. california is making an opt out tool for data brokers (and its going live in a month or two)

people have hours long conversations with chatgpt about things like what theyre working on. so it might know your job, talents, skills. things planning (aspirations) , things you asked it how to cook, or whats wrong with them medically. or maybe theyve dished to it about other personal stuff they thought was 100% in confidence up until now.

then now that its “private”, advertisers cant get backlash for showing ads next to controversial content, or people who are “supposed to be cancelled”. it removes a pressure point for accidentally (or deliberately) displaying their content somewhere its inappropriate or problematic for the brand— by hiding the interaction (and ads) in a “private” chat—

just for starters.

were at a point where publishers are nagging about our popup blockers and having hissy fits or refusing to load the page until their ads are whitelisted. so you know enough people are doing it to impact peoples business models now.

ill personly disable JS altogether for sites that do that but a lot of people just wont return.

its a dying media the way it exists.

so now all these ad providers (meta, google, twitter) are in on AI . and here comes openAI for all three of their lunches.

this just opened my eyes to what is at stake here and why its all being shoved down everyones throats. sure i use them, but i also have local models installed id drop them in an instant for if my chats were used to show me ads.

then just wait for ANY of these two entities to merge and overwhelm your social media feed with the next twenty years of ads full of junk the “AI” learned about you.

The people who use chatGPT or Claude are replacing Google searches with chat conversations. Google already has most of what you're talking about from queries, so they don't need to infer much.

These companies are in on AI because there was a rush to produce the first GAI, which would be immensely valuable. I think we'll see it shortly after the first fully self driving car.

what happened after the pilgrims were helped by those nice people?

I won't get into it, but it's not difficult to figure out.

> "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."

- Mark Twain