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I do believe that’s the chrome-only horseshit that Proton uses for their local LLM, and reputedly it’s very slow and fairly unreliable

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chrome-only

The whole concept of responsive really died in the arse with the onset of the full stack web developer.

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the web platform is great!

  • your apps run everywhere (that a modern version of chrome runs)
  • every API is pointlessly terrible because your app is simultaneously a document and an Angular monstrosity
  • progressive enhancement! (is dead and they’re Weekend at Bernie’s-ing the body around knowing most web developers won’t notice)
  • it’s an open platform! (controlled almost entirely by Google, with Apple’s only role being to slow down the terrible fucking ideas coming out of the standards process, and all other parties being effectively Google mouthpieces)
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Did you ever see that A16z funded startup that was making a web browser that streamed the web for an intermediary server? It was fucken wild

Edit, I guess it was yc funded? https://jacobhrussell.com/blog/mighty

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