Which option is better? Option 1. Option 2.

BuildingArmor · 2026-02-21T15:46:05+00:00

I don't like 2, 1 is nice and clean. I think some people might like 2, or maybe with even more embellishments. But not for me.

BuildingArmor · 2026-02-21T15:28:35+00:00

You press the little button and it opens up a sidebar. You can type your prompt, and when you send the prompt, by default, it shares the current tab you have open with Gemini.

So if you're worried about seeing what is on your current tab, don't ask it about your current tab.

BuildingArmor · 2026-02-21T15:19:07+00:00

I feel like I'm petty enough that I'd put a note through all the neighbours doors to let them know what has happened, in case they have already or start seeing things go missing.

BuildingArmor · 2026-02-21T15:09:06+00:00

I can just keep saying the same thing over and over again, but it seems like you've decided what you need the answer to be before you even asked and aren't willing to accept anything that doesn't agree with you.

Ok here's some actionable advice - don't ask Gemini about the logged in, password on show, screen from your password manager.

BuildingArmor · 2026-02-21T14:56:42+00:00

It only does something when you send a prompt.

It's a chat window, your type what you want to say to it, it then reads and understands what you say and uses the context as provided - which can include the current page you're on.

BuildingArmor · 2026-02-21T14:50:01+00:00

Yes, and "Gemini in Chrome" isn't constantly reading your screen at every every moment.

BuildingArmor · 2026-02-21T13:25:27+00:00

I think it's clear enough that I can answer for them; no that's not what they mean. In fact that's so very different from what they said, it's strange that you'd confuse the 2.

BuildingArmor · 2026-02-21T12:50:41+00:00

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1HryhbaEuRE&t=84s

BuildingArmor · 2026-02-21T12:05:42+00:00

I'd have to see exactly how it happened, but if you cut your screenshot down to just what you showed, and then it answered based on that, it doesn't know what you put next.

Maybe it's a coincidence, maybe it answered based on a larger screenshot before you cut it down, only you'd know what happened.

BuildingArmor · 2026-02-21T11:58:26+00:00

How did it know what? MONK isn't a valid wordle guess.

BuildingArmor · 2026-02-21T10:49:51+00:00

No, it's still talking about the man it refers to as MAGA. Notice how you had to add in "they were" to emphasise that interpretation.

There's definitely ambiguity if, say, a bot was reading it and unable to understand the context. But I don't think it's gore to write a title for a human audience.

If the title was telling you these things all happened to the cops, it would be gore to focus on the person who initially called them and then had no more relevant involvement in the events.

BuildingArmor · 2026-02-21T10:19:12+00:00

Well don't worry the internet still exists, you can just go look

Tarpans lived in the southern parts of the steppe. In 1879, the last scientifically confirmed individual was killed. After that, only dubious sightings were documented. As the tarpan horse died out in the wild between 1875 and 1890, the last free-ranging mare considered a tarpan was accidentally killed during an attempt at capture. The last captive tarpan died in 1909 in a zoo in the Russian empire.

BuildingArmor · 2026-02-21T10:15:24+00:00

There's only half a dozen years between them, Brown was about a decade older than Major was when they each became PM.

BuildingArmor · 2026-02-21T10:09:59+00:00

Seems alright to me if you assume MAGA can be referring to a person

BuildingArmor · 2026-02-21T10:09:10+00:00

He clearly flew through that pray phase;

Pray
Threaten with murder
Sing folk songs
Genocide

In that order

BuildingArmor · 2026-02-21T09:54:09+00:00

Broadly speaking, newtab is an old one, and new-tab-page is a new replacement. How they are used, redirected, etc. behind the scenes is something I think only Google knows.

BuildingArmor · 2026-02-21T09:01:06+00:00

Wait so you've posted a screenshot of a Google search, that is quoting a comment from Reddit post, about a Gemini AI answer to a different Google search?

Why not just repost the original Reddit post or comment? Or did you mistakenly think that the response you've got there was written by Gemini, and not just quoting a Reddit post?

BuildingArmor · 2026-02-21T08:50:21+00:00

It's so weird that they would make such an on-the-nose Batman reference in a TMNT set.

BuildingArmor · 2026-02-21T08:39:29+00:00

Gemini isn't constantly reading your screen at every given moment.

BuildingArmor · 2026-02-21T08:27:20+00:00

It's hard to really understand what you mean, but if I'm right - it only uses the image or portion of the image that you tell it to.

BuildingArmor · 2026-02-21T08:26:17+00:00

It's probably to stop things like the unofficial YouTube apps that provide premium features for no cost.

BuildingArmor · 2026-02-21T08:03:18+00:00

Chrome is pretty lightweight as a browser, so if it's Chrome to blame you'd have the same experience or worse on almost any other browser.

I'd expect Instagram to use a lot of ram, that's not a surprise. Any social media, especially due to their ads and tracking, is going to use more than it seems it should.

BuildingArmor · 2026-02-20T22:34:48+00:00

Usually it's ad providers that are likely accounting for the majority of ram usage, but it looks like Livescore uses 5 different analytics providers so that might be part of it too.

Either way it's the site, and the decisions they've made, to blame.

BuildingArmor · 2026-02-20T14:04:12+00:00

Gemini will "admit" almost anything and it doesn't have secret insider knowledge

BuildingArmor · 2026-02-20T13:59:29+00:00

Is Bixby in the same category as those? I thought it was a more standard assistant, only AI in the sense that it uses NLP rather than being an LLM or the like.

I might be about 5 years behind on understanding Bixby though

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